Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — THE PAN-AMERICAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE PAN-AMERICAN.

A GLANCE AT THE GREAT ENTERPRISE AND ITS PURPOSES. True Picture of Nineteenth Century Development Arranged In n Setting of Cnaurpaaeed Beauty and Splendor at Pan-American Exposition. If one may Judge by the presence of thousands of workmen at the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition and the wonderful progress they have made during the last few months, the Exposition will be opened in a condition of completeness upon the Ist of May next For the benefit of those who, for any reason, have not been Informed concerning the plans and purposes of this vast enterprise I will state that the Exposition grounds are In the northern part of the city of Buffalo and have an area of 350 acres. Buffalo, with Its 400,000 population. Is preparing the most artistic creation ever produced for the purposes of an exposition. The completed work will cost probably $lO,000,000, exclusive of exhibits. The landscape upon which the buildings stand Includes a part of one of the most beautiful parks in Buffalo or. In

P HALL OK MteC. fact, lu tbe world. '%e Exposition will tbns have tbe setting of trees, i lawns and water feature# which have Nx»st the city of Buffalo millions of dolThe main Exposition buildings are some 20 or more itfnumber and are arranged about a system of beautiful courts some 33 acres in extent. The arrangement is such Iks to permit the most exquisite decorative effects that the best trained arthgre of the world may be able to prodture. Space will permit only an enumeration of the principal buildings. These are: The ElMtric Tower. 375 feet high, which Isßo be the centerpiece of most brlUTant and novel electric Illumination ever conceived; the Propylae, or architectural screen, at the northern encLof the grounds; the Sta- j dium, for spiting and athletic events; the AgricuitWe building. Manufactures and Liberal ptrts building. Ethnology building, the Government group of three great buildings, the Midway restaurant bulldMig, Electricity building, the Mach inerynnd Transportation buildings and Rnilpond Station, the Temple of Music, Gqyihic Arts. Horticulture, Mine 6, Fordpry, Dairy, Ordnance, Service buildings, the Albright Gallery of Art, costing $400,000; the New Ydrk State building, costing -'"5175,000, besides the state and foreign buildings ajtd numerous other struc tures of beiutiful and Interesting design for a vipety of purposes. Tbe Midwipy at the Pan-Americau Exposition ifione will cost more than some large expositions. It is estimated the eost.of the Midway will be about $3,000,000, Its it will have more than a mile of closely built with the most plctunKque structures conceivable and willlontain between 30 and 40 entertainment features of most novel and Interesting character. The purposes of the Exposition are not merely to give the people a most magnificent and attractive entertainment, but ft will furnish the opportunity for one to Inform himself i upon tbe jmpgress of the nineteenth | century, w Exposition is held for the purpos®f celebrating the achievements of tie western world during a century of fn paralleled progress. It is distinctly f western world affair, all the governments of the western hemisphere having been Invited to participate In all! departments. Official responses bafwbeen every Important state apd dependency of the are preparing repiteSented by ,U)OEt creditable exnafca .Tbe exbib.:s are cl#Bfed in the folflowing divisl ms: Electnjw and elecprical appliances; fine atm painting, wmlpture and decoration; Jppblc arts, IppOgrnpby, lithography, stSl and copier plate printing, photo Piechan leal Processes, drawing, engmvlng and Bookbinding; lil>eral artsMeducatlon, ■Bgineering, public work|®construcmusic sp drama, pmltation and hygiene; ptlmology, llrcbaeology, progress of M>or and invjWJtion, Isolated and costive exagriculture, agricult®! ImpieSwOts; machinery and jßppilnnces. Itoofii and tbelr accessogpß. borticul§SStf viticulture, ngrlciwi'e for-siry |tnd forest products, JBh, .fisheries, lllsfyj. products and appSnus for flabJ&bT mines and metallußy, machinery, manufactures, transpiration, railways, vessels, ordnance, exWhits from the Walwalian Islands, porto Ulco, Guana Tutuila and tbe Tbe ExposlOfm has the Indorsement' Opt only of fhO state of New York, qgeb appropriated $300,000, but of the SSiSc . ••• ■£

td $500,000 for the purpose of being suitably represented upon this .great occasion. The Exposition will* continue six months and will furnish an opportunity such as rarely comes for the public to take note, glance, of the wonderful progress o»he western world, it will be like ij&reat university, at which the yopfe and old will become fbr the time being students of western civilization. About 12,000 people have subscribed to the stock Of the Exposition, and it Is a public enterprise in the broadest sense of the term, the aim being to produce a magnificent spectacle to delight the artistic sense of all who attend and to present through the medium of an army of enterprising exhibitors a true picture of nineteenth century developemnt. John G. Milburn, an eminent lawyer of Buffalo, is president, and the director general is William I. Buchanan, who was director of the departments of agriculture, live stock and forestry at the World’s Colombian Exposition at Chicago and afterward for six years United States minister to the Argentine Republic.

MARK BENNITT.