Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — THE EXHIBITION BUILDINGS. [ARTICLE]

THE EXHIBITION BUILDINGS.

The Main Building. A main building, writes a correspondent, covering thirty-three acres of ground, and with over six miles of aisles practically filled—in some parts overcrowded—with the best fruits of every industry, the greatest triumphs of mechanical skill, the products and treasures of every nation, and with everything that is illustrative of latter-day progress. Here you have the powers of steam and electricity shown at their most perfect development. Government and States’ Building. Then you have a Government and States’ Building, also of enormous size, and with its world of exhibits in perfect order. Here you learn of the many kings that rule the nation. In one section Cotton is King, in another Corn is King, in another Lumber is King, in another Coal is King, and so on. All the riches of A'merica—whether dug out of her inexhaustible mines, or reaped from her fertile lands, or cut from her boundless forests, or gathered from her bounteous gardens, or drawn from her teeming lakes—are represented here in myriad groupings of artistic taste and beauty. Every State and Terr tory shows the dowry bestowed on her by Nature. In the center of all stands the National Government, represented in every department relating to the ruling and administration of the affairs of the nation. What Is Not Beady. That is what is ready for the visitor—sufficient fully to repay a visit. As to what is not readv, it is not necessary to say much. The Art Hall is not ready, nor the Mexican buildings, nor the Public Comfort structure, nor half a dozen others that have been advertised. But they are all well under way, and will be completed for exhibition within a very short space of time. The Art Hall will be the first of these to be in running order. The others don’t matter much.