House and Garden 
By C. A. Heber INDIAN TERRITORY Figures of the Colonnade of States 
MISSOURI By A. Stirling Calder 
What was accomplished 
at Chicago is a part of his¬ 
tory. What is being done at 
St. Louis is still largely a 
matter of anticipation. For 
until the work so elaborately 
planned and diligently ex¬ 
ecuted has been viewed in 
its entirety no final judg¬ 
ment can be passed upon it. 
In the first place, however, 
it must be said, without dis¬ 
paragement of the Chicago 
fair, that the general scheme 
of sculptural decoration at 
the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition is on a more 
magnificent scale. There is 
twice as much ground avail¬ 
able at St. Louis for build¬ 
ing, garden and park pur¬ 
poses as there was at Chi¬ 
cago. There are more and 
larger “palaces.” The ap¬ 
propriations and expendi¬ 
tures have exceeded by far 
those for the Columbian 
Exposition. To be sure, 
there is no lake front with 
its expanse of water, but on 
the other hand the St. Louis 
park offered a large tract of 
fine woodland as a starting 
point, and in the north¬ 
eastern portion of the 
grounds there rises a high 
plateau from which is to be 
had a commanding view of 
the principal buildings and 
avenues. 
On this eminence stands 
the Hall of Festivals, two 
hundred and fifty feet high, 
the central feature of the ex¬ 
position plan. On either 
side, extending seven hun¬ 
dred and fifty feet each way, 
the Colonnade of States 
stretches in graceful curves, 
which terminate in pavilions 
similar in treatment to the 
Hall of Festivals. Behind 
the Hall of Festivals, on 
the same plateau, but on a 
ORIENTAL ART 
By Henry Linder 
209 
