. Annals of Iowa . ve in measuring the vastexpanse. The interior is surrounded by wide and spacious galleries,twenty-three feet high, which are reached by twenty elevators hav-ing the most approved safety appliances, and by convenient stair-ways. The machinery department occupies a space of 1,378 feet long by300 feetwide, within the main building, and has an extension addedin iron 350 feet long and 130 feet wide for heavy machinery,described under the heading of Factories and Mills. From the galler-ies overlooking more than two miles of shafting can be seen drivingevery known character of mach
. Annals of Iowa . ve in measuring the vastexpanse. The interior is surrounded by wide and spacious galleries,twenty-three feet high, which are reached by twenty elevators hav-ing the most approved safety appliances, and by convenient stair-ways. The machinery department occupies a space of 1,378 feet long by300 feetwide, within the main building, and has an extension addedin iron 350 feet long and 130 feet wide for heavy machinery,described under the heading of Factories and Mills. From the galler-ies overlooking more than two miles of shafting can be seen drivingevery known character of machinery. Music Hall, with a seating capacity, in commodious chairs, for11,000 people, a platform capacity for 600 musicians and a mammothorgan built to order for the Exposition occupies the centre of theinterior. The main building will contain general exhibits. It is situated (aswill be seen by the park plan published herewith) about in the cen-tre of the grounds. IIS ANNALS OF IOWA. UNITED BTATB8 and BTATB This Building is 885 feel long by 505 feet wide. K is one of thelargest exposition buildings ever erected. At the time of the adoptionof the plans-it was supposed, that the Main Building, having thelargest capacity of any building heretofore erected, in conjunctionwith the Horticultural Hall and such minor outside bulildings aswere necessary, would afford ample space and accomodation for allexhibits; but the interest in the Worlds Exposition had In-conic sowide-spread and the inquiries and applications tor space became sonumerous, that the necessity tor additional accommodation becameimperative, and the management determined upon the erection ofthis magnificent structure specially for the United States and SlateExhibits, The government exhibition will be complete—of itself,almost a mammoth exhibition. Each department will have its dis-tinctive exhibit. The Department of State showing samples of cot-ton, wool, and cosmos fibres, and of the fabrics made from them, f
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