Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — THE EXHIBITION BUILDINGS. [ARTICLE]

THE EXHIBITION BUILDINGS.

The Main Building. A main building, writes a corresrondent, 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-lay 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’ Budding, also of enormous sire, and with its world of exhibits in perfect order. He e you learn of the many kin.'s that rule the nation. Id 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 America —whether Ung ont of her inexhaustible u ines. or reaped from heries tile lands, or cut from her boundless forests, or gathered from her bounteous gardens, orvdrawn from her teeming lakes—are represented here in myriad groupings of artistic taste and beanty. Every. State and Terr tory shows the dowry bestowed on her by Nature. In the center of all stands the National Government, renresemed in every department relating to the ruling and administration of the affairs of the nation. What Is Not Ready. , That is what is ready for the visitor—suffie'ent fully to repay a visit. • As to what is not ready, it is not necessary to say much. The Art Hall is not ready, nor the M xican buildings, nor the Public c omiort strue, are, nor half a dozen oth ers that have been advertie.d. Rut they are all well under way, and. will be dbmpletid for exhibition wjthin a very short space of time. The Art Halt will be the first of three to be in running order. The others don’t matter much.