The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . TRADTTION. open to the top of the interior of the domeis octagonal in shape, thefirst story being com-posed of eight enormousarched openings. Abovethe arches is a frieze, 27feet in width, the panelsfilled with tablets, borneby figures carved in interior of the domerises 200 feet from thefloor, and at the top anopening 50 feet squareadmits a flood of under side of thedome is enriched with 84 ADMINISTRATION. panels filled with sculpture and Immense paintings, representingthe arts and sciences. A mosaic floor is und^r
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . TRADTTION. open to the top of the interior of the domeis octagonal in shape, thefirst story being com-posed of eight enormousarched openings. Abovethe arches is a frieze, 27feet in width, the panelsfilled with tablets, borneby figures carved in interior of the domerises 200 feet from thefloor, and at the top anopening 50 feet squareadmits a flood of under side of thedome is enriched with 84 ADMINISTRATION. panels filled with sculpture and Immense paintings, representingthe arts and sciences. A mosaic floor is und^r foot, and settees,scattered around for the resting-place of any one who may desire,help to make the place one of the favorite resorts of the SCIENCE, ADMINISTRATION Buii^DiNG. {Kavt Bitter.^ The great arched doors are always open, and a constant streamof humanity flows from pavilion to pavilion, and from arch taarch under the rotunda. No other building on the grounds displays such a wealth of elab-orate decoration. The edifice was constructed largely for showand architectural beauty, and the sculptural beauties of it are aconstant delight. The groups were designed and executed byKarl Bitter, the able sculptor of New York. The decorations con-sist of twenty-eight groups of statuary and a number of single fig-ures and relievos. Bas-reliefs of large size are especially used foradorning the interior of the dome. The most remarkable are ADMINISTRATION. «5 those groups which are placed at the side of the entrances. Theyare each thirty-four feet high, and represent the four elements,*Earth, Water, Air and Fire. At the one side of the en-trance is seen the element in its natural unsubdued condition, andat the other it is represen
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