Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1893 — THE WORLD’S FAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WORLD’S FAIR.

A Notable Picture Exhibits— A Good Point of View—Notes. Holland’s exhibit in the Art Palace of the Exposition has been described' as tranquil, and, at the risk of being accused of want of originality, every writer must use. that word in connection with it, as none other suits it half so well, After the fierce, strong lights of Russia, the quafntness of Japan, the gorgeous coloring of Spain, to step into Holland is indeed to rest the eye. At first glanee the neutral, almost tame, but as one lingers, and linger everyone does, the grays and browns, the yellow shades, and the blacks and whites, grow upon one, and some tiny gem is found to possess intense- fascination, while some of the larger pictures hold one entranced; Joy of Israel’s “Alone in the World” is not only the masterpiece of the Holland exhibit, but it has been pronounced the masterpiece of the Exposition, and yet it is such a common story that it tells. Only a dead woman lying on her couch, the poor pale hands crossed in the only idle moments they have ever known, and by her side the man who loved her and who in losing her lost all. He does not look out at you with wild despair,, but sits with hands upon his knees and eyes which look into a future desolate and drear, but not long', for the couple whom death alone could part havO passed down the valley of life together, and the death angel must soon summon him as Well as her. One hardly notices a detail of the interior, hardly the dead woman; everything centers on J

him in his first hours of loneliness. For several years the wise men of the Smithsonian and of the National Museum at Washington have been manufacturing groups of Indians in wax to represent various tribes of aborigines. With great fidelity in detail of dress, utensils ,and surroundings these Indians should be of scientific and popular interest.

But the average visitor drifts by the dummies at a strolling gait and goes down to the corner of the White City to spend half an hour with the boys and girls from Albuquerque, Lawrence, Carlisle, Hampton and other schools. These Indian pupils peg shoes, run sewing machines, cut clothing, make harness and do house work. The building is full of people all day, and the questions the visitors ask would wear out any patience but that of an Indian. The bqys and girls are brought here primarily for the good it will do them, ahd secondarily to give the great American public an idea of the uses to which the public money is put in Indian education. The Indian school has turned out to be one of the most attractive features of the Government exhibit, deserving a place with Capt. Taussig’s big wax- ship, the Fish Commissioners’ aquariums and the marines’ camp. As between live Indians civilized and wax Indians in blankets the Fail- visitors prefer the former. A OOOD POINT OF VIEW. New York Post. About 6 o’clock in the afternoon the top of the Manufacturers’ Building is a delightful point from which

to view the grounds. Here, 268

feet above the surface, Is a prom- : enade hundreds of feet in length. Benches line its sides, and coo! breezes blow over it from the lake. From here one sees the city of Pull-• man to the south, and on clear days, I it is said, St. Joseph, about sixty miles distant; in the adjoining State I of Michigan, The grounds below I are indeed charming. One looks upon the whole system of lagoons I and canals spanned by their many | bridges. The buildings themselves i from this hight and in the twilight i are softened in color and dimin- [ ished in size. The roof promenade iat sunset is a happy change from the struggling, heated crowd. Royal Cortissoz, art critic of the New York Tribune, will contribute to the July Century an article on “Color in the Court of Honor at the Fair. ” The illustrations include engravings of the decorations of the grineipal domes in the Manufactures building. To make these pictures, cameras were set on the floor pointing directly upward. From photographs so’ obtained enlargements were made which the artists touched up, as the effect of Imht -and shade had not been properly reproduced at such a distance. From these touched-up enlargements, the Century’s illustrations were engraved. The decorations of the domes are by Blashfield. Beckwith, Kenyon Cox, Alden Weir, Shirlaw, Simmons, Robert Reid, and Reinhart. HOW PEOPLE WASTE ENERGY. Chicago Record. ■— . Every hour one may see plenty of people who have worn themselves out in the attempt to cover 600 acres in a day. Only yesterday the visitors

who went to wax'd the plaisance noticed an old gentleman on the steps of a little square building where chemicals are exhibited. He had picked out a quiet corner at the top of the steps and gone to sleep with his head on a gripsack. In order that his rest might be comfortable, he had removed his shoes. The people who gathered around him giggled noticed that he Wore blue woolen socks with white toes. He was a sound sleeper, too, for he made a noise like the exhaust of a steam pump. A Columbian guard was going to rout him up, but a man interposed and said: “Let him sleep. He isn’t doing any harm.” So he remained there nearly two hours and many persons envied him the nap. For people who are fagged out the lake shore is a refreshing place. Men, women and children sit on the stone slope, so near the paved beach that the eager waves sprinkle their shoes. There nevei’ was a day so dead and sultry but some breath of cool air came in over the choppy waves. Thursday, when the crowd reached overflow proportions, they sat so thickly along the beach that they seemed to make a seawall. The children threw shells and pebbles into the water, or followed each receding wave only to scamper back to get away from the curling breaker which took its place. It is not an

empty view toward Michigan, for some steamboat is always splashing toward the pier.

notes. The fountains throw streams 150 feet in the air. The monthly pay-roll of the department employes when the Fair opened was 1225,000. Fifty-two boilers in a row, each of different manufacture, constitute a bank of power, 600 feet front, the greatest in the world. Twenty gondolas manned by Venetian gondoliers, four state barges, forty-five electric hunches, twenty steam launches and six steamboats navigate the interior Waters of the Fair.

PERSPECTIVE OF PALACES —LOOKING TOWARD ADMINISTRATION BUILDING FROM THE WOODEN ISLAND.

DAHOMEY DRUM SERGEANT.

THIS COMES FROM ST. LOUIS.

CORNER OF GERMAN ART SECTION.