Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . re pressed into cakes and burned under the sewage system is on a scale sufficiently large for a city of600,000 population, and it will constitute an exhibit in itself. Staff.—A composition of plaster,cement, and hemp, or similarfiber. All the Exposition buildings, and many of the State build-ings, will be covered with staff. It is lighter than wood, is fire-proof, waterproof, and, if kept painted, will last many architectural and sculptural designs in the cove
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . re pressed into cakes and burned under the sewage system is on a scale sufficiently large for a city of600,000 population, and it will constitute an exhibit in itself. Staff.—A composition of plaster,cement, and hemp, or similarfiber. All the Exposition buildings, and many of the State build-ings, will be covered with staff. It is lighter than wood, is fire-proof, waterproof, and, if kept painted, will last many architectural and sculptural designs in the covering of thebuildings are first modeled in clay, from which model molds aremade, and the staff covering is then cast very much as iron iscast. Staff has been used for more than one hundred years as acovering for buildings, notably in South America. The amountof this work on the main Exposition buildings is equal to thecovering of one wall of a four-story building fifteen miles long. Stock Exhibit.—In the extreme south part of the buildings provided are sheds, covering forty acres; a pavilion,. (213) 214 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 280 by 440 feet, containing a show ring and amphitheater forspectators; and three buildings for special animals and ,each building being 65 by 200 feet. The total cost of the build-ings for live-stock is $335,000. Statuary.—Throughout the grounds and buildings there areforty-eight sculptural groups, and 103 distinct figures, all of heroicsize, and the work of the sculptors Daniel C. French, Rohl-Smith,Martiny, Bitter, John Boyle, Larado Taft, Robert Kraus, M. , and Miss Rideout. These figures and groups areplaced as follows: Franklin, in Electricity Building. Repub-lic, in the b isin. Horticulture Building, ten figures. Trans-portation Building, sixteen figures and eight groups. Administra-tion Building, thirty-six figures and twenty groups. MachineryHall, fifteen figures. (These are duplicated several times.)Agriculture B
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