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

EAGLES AT THE EXPOSITION.

Remarkable Decoration For Ethnology Building at Buffalo. The building devoted to the Departments of Ethnology and Archaeology at the Pan-American Exposition, which is now approaching completion, will have some remarkable sculptural decorations. Among them will be gigantic figures of eagles and lions, which will be placed upon eight of tbe 1G panels

of the domes. These sculptures In staff will be conspicuous features of tbe arcbitecture of this beautiful building. Models In clay are first made of the figures, and from them reproductions In staff are cast. Tbe model of tbe eagle has just been completed. It is of colossal size. In the model nearly 10,000 pounds of clay have been used, and each bird, when cast in sttifT, will weigh fully two tons. The sculptured eagle will measure nearly 10 feet lu height.

SERVICE BUILDING.