. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . - Plaisance, have also been utilized to a greater or less ex-tent, and you realize how much more stupendous it must bethan the Paris Exposition of 18S9, which, with the Champ de. MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING. Mars, the Trocadero, the Esplanade des Invalides, and thequays, took in but one hundred and seventy-three acres in remember, too, that the principal buildings here cover onehundred and fifty acres, while those at Paris covered but fifty-fivt, and you are consequently prepared, in a measure, for thespectacle which rise
. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . - Plaisance, have also been utilized to a greater or less ex-tent, and you realize how much more stupendous it must bethan the Paris Exposition of 18S9, which, with the Champ de. MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING. Mars, the Trocadero, the Esplanade des Invalides, and thequays, took in but one hundred and seventy-three acres in remember, too, that the principal buildings here cover onehundred and fifty acres, while those at Paris covered but fifty-fivt, and you are consequently prepared, in a measure, for thespectacle which rises up before you as you look across thecrystal surface of the breakwater-protected harbor, with its manyand varied craft, to the gracefully curving shore line and themagnificent group of buildings beyond. 89 To your right, and bv far the most conspicuous object fromthe lake, is the lon^-, hio-h. vet thorouo-hlv symmetrical structureof the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, its extraordinarylength broken midway by a lofty arched entrance between elabo-rately ornamented piers and surmounted by bright-hued bannersthat seem, so high are they, to be fluttering among the clouds,while higher still abo\e it all rises the domed r
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