. The street railway review . KLKCTRICITY BIMLDING AT THE PRESENT TIME. entirely completed, except for the groups of statuary which willsurmount the corner towers and the balconies over the main andside entrances. This building is one of the most attractive at theExposition, and has a place in the main picture which surroundsthe Grand Basin and fronts on the cascades. The Transportation Hnilding is now about ,^o per cent main approach is illustrated in the special view taken on the Building. To the left of the Klcctricity Building, in the the Manufactures Building.
. The street railway review . KLKCTRICITY BIMLDING AT THE PRESENT TIME. entirely completed, except for the groups of statuary which willsurmount the corner towers and the balconies over the main andside entrances. This building is one of the most attractive at theExposition, and has a place in the main picture which surroundsthe Grand Basin and fronts on the cascades. The Transportation Hnilding is now about ,^o per cent main approach is illustrated in the special view taken on the Building. To the left of the Klcctricity Building, in the the Manufactures Building. Ihe foreground lo the left of thepanoramic view is occupied by the central portion, now building,of the Transportation Building, while back of the Transporta-tion Building are the towers of the Varied Industries Ihc extreme left of tlie \aried Industries Building is one of thehrc-enginc houses wliiob ilni the grounds at many points. In the. BUILDING—AUG. I. 19f>3. lirst of August. It is a building linely proportioned for the serviceit is to render and possesses dignity in outline. The Hall of Congresses, in which the International ElectricalCongress will be held, is a fine large stone building on the Expo-sition grounds and contains halls amply large to accommodate theInternational Electrical Congress and the affiliated national electricalassociations. foreground, at the txlnnie left, is shown the skeleton work of thelarge fire-proof boiler plant which is being erected to house thesteam generators for all of the power to be developed on thegrounds. Above the boiler-house on the hill, at the right, stands an orna-mental building which hounds the western extremity of the colon-nade surmounting Cascade Hill. Just at the right of the main AiG. 20. 1903.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 441 towers of the Machinery RiiilJing can be seen the GovernnuntRnilding on a hill in the far distance. It stands at the extremee
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