Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — COURT OF HONOR AT ST. LOUIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COURT OF HONOR AT ST. LOUIS.

The general ground plans and perspective views of the buildings of the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition are on exhibition. They are the designs of the most celebrated architects of the country, and their setting among the forest trees on the Forest Park world’s fair site makes a dazzling picture. The working plans for these buildings, which will cost about 18,000,000, are now being prepared, and contracts for their construction will be let about Dec. 1. Other building Plans are to follow. About $4,000,000 will be expended on the grounds in the next six months. Contracts for this work will be let next month. Supervising architect J. Knox Taylor of the United States Treasury Department has made plans for the government building and they have been approved by the government board. The building will be 600 feet long, about 160 feet wide and contain about 100,600 square feet of floor space, without interior columns, the roof being supported on steel trusses. Its construction, Mr. Taylor says, will require about one year, and therefore

will be begun as soon as the finishing touches can be given the plfins. In addition to the money to be spent on the world’s fair grounds and buildings at once, by a vote of 48,000 to 9,000 amendments have been adopted authorizing the municipal government to expend before the opening of the world’s fair about $6,000,000 in building sewers, constructing streets and in beautifying the city generally for the reception of its guestß during the fair. -FacsimUa Documents Are In. Chairman Chouteau of the history coinmittee has received from New Orleans facsimile copies of all the principal documents relating to the transfer of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States. The collection is said to be accurate in every detail and is one of only eight sets in existence. It has been announced that the great agricultural building, the largest single building in the world, covering about thirty-one acres, will be located outside the Forest Park site, in order to leave room therein for the various other buildings needed, besides those of the great central exposition plc-

ture. The site chosen is across the Skinker road south of the Washington University buildings. Religious'exhibit by all denominations, in a special building erected for the purpose, ar& to be among the attractive features of the world’s fair. The controlling bodies of the several denominations have been invited to send their suggestions as to the plan of the building and also nominations of directors to have charge of their exhibits to the world's fair officials. The railroad and other transportation companies are keeping tab on the progress of world's fair matters. A belt line will be built connecting all tracks with the chief entrance to the exposition grounds, near which will be erected a huge station, with abundant trackage. Union station will be relieved of congestion during the world’s fair by other stations for local trains. One of these relieving stations will be at the west end of Bads Bridge, provided with elevators to transfer passengers between cars on the surface tracks on the bridge tracks and on the elevated road on the levee.

PLAN OF THE COURT OF HONOR WITH PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS.