Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — EXPOSITION FIGURES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EXPOSITION FIGURES.

SOM£ ASTONISHING FACTS ABOUT THE PAN-AMERICAN.' Nia.ga.ra Falls Will Supply Power, and Over 300,000 Electric Lights Will Be Used in the Illvmina.tion of the Tower and Courts.

Forty million people live within a night’s ride of Buffalo. It is expected that a large proportion of these will visit the Pan-American Exposition at some time during its progress. Many will visit it five, ten, or twenty or more times. Niagara Falls will prove a great magnet in drawing visitors to the Exposition. Altogether it is fair to expect that the attendance at this first Exposition of all the Americas will be the largest in the history of Expositions in either the New World or the Old. Ten million dollars represents approximately the cost of the Exposition, exclusive of exhibits. The authorized capital stock of the Exposition is $2,500>800. The authorized bond issue is $2,500,000. The government appropriation is $500,000. The cost of the Midway Is $3,000,000. The New York state appropriation is $300,000, and in connection with the Nerw York building about SIOO,OOO will be expended by the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Historical Society. The appropriation from states and foreign countries together with the cost of buildings- to be erected on the Exposition grounds by the City of Buffalo and by private citizens will

bring the total cost of the Exposition up to fully $10,000,000. The area of the Exposition site is 350 acres. This includes 133 acres of park lands and lakes in Delaware Park, one of the most beautiful parks in the world. The plot is a mile and a quarter from north to south and half a mile from east to west. Three hundred thousand incandescent lamps will be used in achieving the grand illumination about the Court of Fountains, Electric Tower, Esplanade and Plaza. Four hundred miles of wire will be used in the installation of the lamps for this illumination. Two hundred and fifty tons will be about the weight of this quantity of wire. Ninety-four. large-sized searchlights will be placed under the water of the basin of the Court of Fountains to cast colored! lights on the fountains and cascades and heighten the beauty of the electric and hydraulic effects. One ml’.lion, three hundred and ninety thousand square feet is the approximate area cf the courts to be illuminated. This is two and one-half times the area oi the courts’ at the World’s Fair, twice the area of those at the Paris Exposition, and three times those of the Trans Mississippi Exposition at Omaha.

Two thousand Incandescent lamps will be used in the illumination of one feature of the Midway alone—the Thompson Aerio-Cycle. As many and perhaps more will be used in illuminating the Streets of Mexico. Other Midway structures will also be profusely illuminated and the lights thus used are all additional to the 300,000 required for the Illumination about the courts of the Exposition. Thirty-five thousand gallons of water per minute will be required for the fountain display of the Exposition, which will be the most elaborate of any ever undertaken for a similar purpose. Fifty feet will be the height of some of the jets in the Court of Fountains. The jets will be electrically illuminated at night. Seventy feet is the height of the cascade falling from the front of the Electric Tower into the basin below. Five hundred and sixty-five by two hundred and twenty-five are the dimensions of the basin of the Court of Fountains, which equals 98,872 square feet. . Five thousand horse power of electricity will be delivered in Buffalo from

the plant of the Niagara Falls Power Company at Niagara Falls, for use in illuminating the buildings and grounds of the Pan-American Exposition and turning the wheels for operating machinery. 5,000 horse power will also be generated on the grounds. The service arranged for contemplates the utilization of the water power of Niagara, the use of gasoline for motive power, of gas both under 'boilers, producing steam, and in gas engines, producing energy; thus giving the Pan-Ameri-can the greatest variety of sources of power ever enjoyed by any Exposition. Twenty-six million, five hundred and seventy thousand feet of lumber has thus far been used in the construction of the Exposition. ® Seventeen million, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand square feet is the amount of surface covered with staff. One hundred and fifty thousand cubic yards represents the approximate amounj/of eweewation done. Six million, two, hundred and fortytwo thousand is the weight of the steel and iron used, including bolts and washers. One hundred and twenty-five original sculptured groups will be used in the adornment of the courts, fountains, buildings and grounds generally. This is the work of the most famous sculp-

tors of Pan-America, and will cost about half a million dollars, being the grandest collection of decorative Exposition sculpture ever assembled. Two hundred thousand hardy perennials have been planted for the purpose of beautifying the grounds next summer, and the great floral display will include over 500 beds of popular flowers, with rare tropical plants and aquatic plants in the Courts, Mirror Lakes, Grand Canal and Lagoons. Fifteen thousand dollars is the cost of the great organ for the Temple of Music being built by Emmons Howard. ; Six thousand animals are to be accommodated in buildings for live stock displays. Twelve thousand is the seating capacity in the Stadium, the great arena for athletic sports. Twenty large buildings will house the exhibits from all the Americas, and besides these there will be many smaller ones in the Court of State and Foreign Buildings, on the Midway and in other parts of the grounds. Six hundred feet is the length of the main United States Government building. Connected with the main build-

ing by colonnades are two other buildings each 150 feet square. Five hundred by three hundred and fifty feet are the dimensions of the Machinery and Transportation building. The Manufactures and Liberal Arts building is of corresponding size. Five hundred by one hundred and fifty feet are the measurements of the Electricity building, and the Agriculbuilding corresponds to it in size. Three hundred and ninety-one feet is the distance from the base of the Electric Tower to the top of the figure surmounting it, representing the Goddess of Light. Two hundred and thirty-six feet is the height of the Horticulture building, which is 220 feet square. EDWARD HALE BRUSH. An Unexampled Treat. The Niagara Frontier will be the most interesting place in the world next summer, and the whole world should journey there. The unexampled treat awaiting visitors includes the most beautiful spectacle in the history of Expositions-, at Buffalo; the grandest natural scenery and the greatest power development in the world, at Niagara. The Pan-American Exposition and the wonders of Niagara are less than twenty miles apart, and the fast trains cover the distance in about half an hour.

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