Boone County Recorder . 8S0x430 feet and having a dome 120 feet indiameter and »0 feet high. It will beconstructed of stone, iron and glass,classic in stylo, cover four acres andcost In it will be a very com-plete exhibit from the several federaldepartments, etc.—war, treasury, agri-culture, interior, post office, navy,Smithsonian institution and nationalmuseum. On the lake shore east of itsbuilding and in part in the interveningspace, the government will have a gunbattery, life-saving station completewith apparatus, a lighthouse, war bal-loons, and a full size model of a 53,000,-000
Boone County Recorder . 8S0x430 feet and having a dome 120 feet indiameter and »0 feet high. It will beconstructed of stone, iron and glass,classic in stylo, cover four acres andcost In it will be a very com-plete exhibit from the several federaldepartments, etc.—war, treasury, agri-culture, interior, post office, navy,Smithsonian institution and nationalmuseum. On the lake shore east of itsbuilding and in part in the interveningspace, the government will have a gunbattery, life-saving station completewith apparatus, a lighthouse, war bal-loons, and a full size model of a 53,000,-000 battleship of the first class. Thiswill be constructed on piling alongsidea pier, being thus surrounded by waterand apparently moored at a ship will be built of brick andcoated with cement. It will be 348 feetlong, 69 feet wide amidships, andwill have all the fittings and apparatus that belong to the mostapproved war vessel* such as guns,turrets, torpedo , torpedo nets booms, boats, anchors, military. his first glimpse of Jackson andWashington parks and the mag-nificent array presented, by the•xposltion buildings. Beautiful aswas the site—the Champs deMara-land its approaches, and capti-vating to the admiration as Were thegraceful and imposing edifices at theParis expositions of 1878 and 1889, itis belifiieillhftljthey will be surpassedby those of the Columbian Chicago site is four times as largeand has a frontage of two miles onlake Michigan, the second largest bodyof fresh water on the globe. Thebuildings will cover twice the area andcost twice as much as did those inParis in 1889. Alone they will costnearly fifty per cent, more than thetotal expense attending the Pari* best architects in this country haveprepared the plans for the severalbuildings, and the structures they havedesigned will—exhibit the highestachievements of American architecture. A MAGNIFICENT SITE. More than 84,000,000, exclusive ofthe cost of the land, has b
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