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Buildings,  and  Transportation  given  the  credit  of  being  the  only 
one  that  was  not  of  regulation  white  color.  Will  pardon  all  such 
shortsightedness  from  its  situation  and  feel  sure  that  had  it  been  in 
any  other  location  of  the  grounds  much  less  difficulty  and  embar- 
rassment would  have  been  experienced  in  finding  it  than  was  the 
lady's  lot,  for  instance,  who  was  sure  the  "  Lagoon "  was  in  the 
Liberal  Arts  Building. 
And  at  same  time  its  pristine  grandeur  would  have  shown  out 
nobly  towards  the  Roman  and  Castilian  architecture,  so  greatly 
admired  by  every  one,  in  the  other  buildings. 
But  that  is  not  the  "  pith  "  of  the  argument,  you  say  ?  Well,  then, 
will  let  you  have  the  "  wood  "  and  make  what  you  can  out  of  it.  On 
entering  the  hall  the  eye  was  startled  by  the  vast  accumulation  of  tim- 
ber representing  all  stages  of  growth,  as  well  as  of  manufacture. 
Then  from  gazing  on  the  monster  Redwoods  of  California  our  eyes 
fall  on  the  top  of  the  little  rustic  bower  from  Connecticut,  where  we 
behold  the  only  genuine  nutmegs  grown  in  the  State,  that  are  worth 
speaking  about.  It  was  very  pleasing,  indeed,  to  find  this  old-time 
industry  revived  and  good  sized  and  scented  specimens  swinging 
aloft  in  this  first  temple  of  World's  Forestry. 
May  we  not  ask  whether  they  did  not  utilize  some  of  the  motive 
force  of  the  great  Ferris  Wheel  to  assist  in  turning  out  some  of 
these  quaint  necessities  (?)  of  the  kitchen  ? 
These,  no  doubt,  assisted  those  heavy  bills  of  fare  in  producing 
indigestion  at  the  Exposition,  and  venture  to  say  were  the  direct 
cause  in  the  Ostrich  Farm  of  Gail  Hamilton's  discomfiture  and  her 
sudden  stampede  down  the  Midway,  after  some  Yankee.  But  even 
here  Ostrich  alacrity  was  no  equal  for  Yankee  tact. 
Charity  begins  at  home,  and  Pennsylvania,  in  order  to  show  her 
sweet  character  to  sister  States  and  visitors,  bestows  a  Sugar  Maple 
section  on  the  mundasylvatic  group  in  the  centre  of  the  building. 
Around  the  Lake  front  colonnade  we  furnished  the  following  nine 
trees  as  pillars  in  the  triple  arrangement  to  support  the  roof,  namely  : 
American  Linden  (Tilia  Americana),  Sugar  Maple  (Acer  Sacchari- 
numj,  Black  Cherry  (Prunus  Serotina),  Green  Ash  (Fraxinus  viridis), 
Sweet  Birch  (Betula  Lnta),  Chestnut  (Castanea  dentata),  Ameri- 
can Beech  (Fagus  ferruginea),  Eastern  Hemlock  (Tsuga  Canadensis), 
and  White  Pine  (Pinus  Strobus). 
The  general  exhibit,  to  say  the  least,  was  small  when  we  consider 
