. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. lted ceilingsare covered solid with gold. The ceiling panelsare painted in a greenish-yellow, enriched withstencil work. The deeply recessed background ofthe end arches and arched galleries is in a dullblue, giving them apparently immense depth anddistance. The end walls of the Grand Hall arepierced with an arch of forty feet span. Thesweep over the arch, between a rich quirk beadin solid gold and the ceiling angle, is decoratedwith low relief tracery emerging from female fig-ures with, torches in their uplifted hands. In thisHall is a wrough
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. lted ceilingsare covered solid with gold. The ceiling panelsare painted in a greenish-yellow, enriched withstencil work. The deeply recessed background ofthe end arches and arched galleries is in a dullblue, giving them apparently immense depth anddistance. The end walls of the Grand Hall arepierced with an arch of forty feet span. Thesweep over the arch, between a rich quirk beadin solid gold and the ceiling angle, is decoratedwith low relief tracery emerging from female fig-ures with, torches in their uplifted hands. In thisHall is a wrought iron electrolier of twenty footspread, with three hundred and fifty lamps. Itis believed to be the largest chandelier in thiscountry. The corridor leading from the Grand Hall tothe Dining Hall is interesting for its ceiling, whichhas the Gothic fan tracerv, of the Tudor period, thefans terminating in pendants containing the elec-tric lights. It is handled in strong colors. Thispassageway is called the Gothic Corridor. I>iVl 1 A SAIXT LOUIS 41. Tower Group, Union Station. 42 SAIXT LOUIS All parts of the world contributed to the fittingup of this great building. The mosaic floor of theladies waiting room is of Belgian interlocking floor tile in the Grand Hall anddining room came from England. The plain floortile used in the basement and the enameled tilewainscot in the ladies room was furnished byGermany. There is Numidian marble from Africa,Sienna and white marbles from Italy. The beau-tiful green marble called Vert Campagne comesfrom France. Alps green marble from Switzer-land, is in the Gothic Corridor. Marbles fromGeorgia, Tennessee and Vermont are also used,the jet-black marble in the dining room being fromNew York. Mr. Porter White, of Saint Louis,executed the relief work in plaster from modelsby Mr. William Bailey, of this city, and Mr. Ro-bert Bringhurst, sculptor, of Saint Louis, mod-eled the figures for this building, Messrs Davis &Chambers, of Sain
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