Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — FOOD FOR VISITORS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOOD FOR VISITORS.

HOW IT WILL BE KEPT AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. A Big Cold Storage Warehouse on the ’Exposition Grounds—lnterior Arrangements of the Place—Where 100 Cream Will Be Made. The Week at Jackson Park. Chicago correspondence; Directly south of the Transportation Building annex and close to the Btony Island avenue boundary of the Fair grounds stands a spacious five-story building covering an area of 130 by 25a feet deep. It la solidly -built and with ornaments, It forms tbe -cold-storage

and Ice-making plant of the Exposition, and will be a very necessary adjunct during the hot summer months of the great show. There will be numerous restaurants, cases, ice-cream and softdrink stands on the grounds, and these places will depend on the cOld-storage warehouse for the preservation of their edibles. In it will be stored the tons of

meat,, vegetables, butter and eggs used. In it also will be manufactured ice-cream by the hogshead and Ice by-the ton. The whole apparatus will be so arranged that visitors may freely circulate through the building and see just how the various methods of loe production are carried on. One will pass through a higharched and many-columned doorway

Into a circular gallery looking down upon a 0110-horse power steam plant—the only steam plant on’ the grounds. It will furnish the power for the large elevators placed In each end of the building, for the ice-hoist-ing apparatus and the dynamos for the arc and incandescent" lights. A door leading to the ice-machines opens to the left. Here may be seen the full workings of an ice-plant with a capacity of 105 tons a day. On the opposite side of the building are the storage-rooms. Provision will be made for the storage of 3,000 tons of Ice. The walls separating the rooms are what are technically known as “insulated." They are composed of alternate layers of heavy paper and cleated boards, with a double air space intervening. Around each room run the colls of pipe by means of which the rooms are cooled. Each room is supplied with an automatically acting thermostat, which keeps up a thorough ventilation and preserves a uniform temperature of any degree re-

quired. In the rooms practical tests will be made with a view erf ascertaining what the proper temperatures are for the storage of different kinds of produce. On the fifth floor will be placed ■ihe ice-cream plant, where all the icejream used on the grounds will be manufactured. The freezers will be immense concerns, operated by steam and cooled by ammonia vapors. The roof will be surrounded by a heavy balustrade, inclosing a promenade, and at each corner will be placed a tower 100 feet high. The Illinois Building. The work of construction on the Illinois building is complete, and the closely following decorators will soon have finished their task. The building presents a very handsome appearance both within and without. The main floor is once more strewn with shavings and bits of wood left by

the several score of carpenters whs have moved in to begin the work of erecting pavilions. The State Agricultural Department has opened up offices in the bonding cloee to where its pavilion is being erected and a large pile of samples from the forestry division await the completion of a set of shelves before their complete installation. Each variety of wood is to he shown, with the bark covering one side. The other side will he out and planed In such a way as to show the longitudinal, cross and oblique sections. In the south end of the building. In what will be used as the kindergarten, may be found a rosy-cheeked Wisconsin girl absorbed In a creation entirely her own, which she calls the “Genius” The fair sculptor is Miss Nellie Farnsworth Mohrs, whose peculiar talent was fortunately brought to the recognition of the State Bair Commission, who immediately gave the Oshkosh maiden her flret order. Her figure stands in repose, lightly leaning on a mass of rock symbolizing firm foundation. The figure affectionately rests her left arm on the neck of an eagle perched on the rock, and from under the protecting outSDroad wing, gazes upward with a trustful air. The right hand gatheis up the folds of an American flag. The Japanese Exhibit. The Japs have begun work on their pavilion in the Liberal Arts Building. The structure now being unpaoked in sections promises to be a very neat and handsome affair. It is constructed of hand-carved native hardwoods, with metal ornaments in the way of figured nail-heads, chairs And a bPonze 4 linage of the sacred phcenix. On the wooded island their ho-o-den begins to assume the palatial aspect intended. Over at the Horticultural Building the Japanese gardeners are putting in a stone well top near their rustic bridge. The well-casing used Is from one of the oldest Japanese wells, and shows the primitive method there of drawing water. The stone used Is a 6ort of red sandstone, neatly- mortised together at the four corners.

THE JAPANESE WELL.

THE ILLINOIS STATE BUILDING.

MONSTER TRUCK WAGON AT THE GROUNDS.

THE COLD STORAGE BUILDING.