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At the south side of the Agricultural Building is
another. vast structure, devoted principally to a
Live Stock and Agricultural Assembly Hall. This
is the common meetiug-point for all persons inter-
ested in live stock and agricultural pursuits. This
building contains a fine lecture-room, with a seating
capacity of about 1,500, in which lectures are
delivered and conferences held on topics connected
with live stock, agriculture, and allied industries. |

The Forestry Building stands near the Agricul-
tural Building, and is the most unique of all the
Exhibition structures. Its ground area is 208 by
528 feet. On all four sides is a veranda, the roof
of which is supported by a colonnade, each column
of which consists of three tree-trunks, each 25 feet
long. These trunks are in their natural state,
with the bark undisturbed. They were contributed

by the different States and -Territories of the’

Union, and by various foreign countries, - each
furnishing specimens of its most characteristic
trees. The walls of the building are covered
with slabs of logs with the bark removed. The
roof is thatched with bark. Within, the build-
ing is finished in a great variety of woods, so treated
as to show, to the best advantage, their graining,
their colors, their susceptibility to polish, etc. It
contains a wonderful exhibition of forest products
in general, doubtless thé most complete ever seen
in the world, including logs and sections of trees,
worked lumber in the form of beams, planks, shin-
gles, etc., dye-woods and barks, mosses, gums,
resins, vegetable ivory, rattan, willow-ware, and
wooden-ware generally, etc. There is also a large
exhibit of saw-mill and wood-working machinery,
including four complete saw-mills in an annex at-
tached to the Forestry Building.

Close by the Forestry Building is the Dairy Build-
ing, which contains not only a complete exhibit of
dairy products, but also a dairy school, in connec-
tion with which are conducted a series of tests for
determining the relative merits of different breeds
of dairy cattle as producers of milk and butter.
This structure stands near the lake shore and is 100
by 200 feet in area, and two stories high. On the
first floor, besides office headquarters, there is alarge
room devoted to exhibits of butter, and further
back an operating room, in which a model dairy will
_be conducted. On two sides of this room are seats
for 400 spectators to witness the operations of the

THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION,

model dairy, Ina gallery about this rcom are the
exhibits of cheese. dig
The Horticultural Building stands immediately

south of the entrance to Jackson Park from the
Midway Plaisance, facing on the lagoon. Between
it and the lagoon is a terrace devoted to out-door
exhibits of flowers and plants, including large tanks
for various liliesand other aquatic plants. The
building is 998 feet long and 250 feet wide, con-~
sisting of a central pavilion with two end pavilions,
each of the latter connected with the central one
by front and rear curtains, forming two interior
courts, each 88 by 270 feet. These courts are
planted with ornamental shrubs and flowers. Over
the central pavilion rises a glass dome 187 feet in
diameter, and 113 feet high, under which are exhi-
bited the tallest palms and tree ferns that can be

 

GEN. THOMAS W. PALMER,
PRESIDENT NATIONAL COMMISSION, WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSIT-ON,

procured. This building is devoted to the exhi-
bition of flowers, plants, vines, seeds, horticultural
implements, and all allied objects and industries.

The enormous mining industries of America,
apart from those of the rest of the world, would call
for much space for their proper accommodation.
The Hall of Mines and Mining stands at the south-
ern extremity of the western lagoon, and is 700 feet
long by 350 wide. Its architecture is early Italian
renaissance. Within it consists of a single story
surrounded by galleries 60 feet wide. There is thus
a huge interior space 630 feet long and 230 feet wide,
with an extreme height of roo feet at the.centre and
4o feet at the sides, It is spanned bya steel canti-
lever roof, abundantly lighted with glass.