The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . s is impressed as he lingers withinthese walls. The buildinof is constructed like the others of theExposition, except as to its finishings. The roof is of old-fashioned LA RABIDA CONVENT. 473 tiling, the floors of cement and brick, and the walls of plaster. Eventhe effect of age has been imitated, and the result is astonishing toone who is told that the building is but a product of thje last yearswork. Guards are ever present to protect the valuable treasuresfrom the touch of any vandal hand, and the fire protection is thatof unceasinof vigilan
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . s is impressed as he lingers withinthese walls. The buildinof is constructed like the others of theExposition, except as to its finishings. The roof is of old-fashioned LA RABIDA CONVENT. 473 tiling, the floors of cement and brick, and the walls of plaster. Eventhe effect of age has been imitated, and the result is astonishing toone who is told that the building is but a product of thje last yearswork. Guards are ever present to protect the valuable treasuresfrom the touch of any vandal hand, and the fire protection is thatof unceasinof vigilance, for no risk must be taken with these rar-ities, which no money can duplicate, and each of which is unique. It will be interesting here to glance at the more notable of thethings thus treasured, though it will be impossible to describe morethan a few of them. This reproduction of the Convent of Santa Maria de La Rabida(St. Mary of the Frontier) cost the Exposition Company ^50,000,but the treasures w^hich it contains are priceless. The idea of. CONVENT OP RABIDA. constructing this edifice, and of collecting in it the relics of Colum-bus, was the thought of William Eleroy Curtis, of the Bureau ofAmerican Republics, who traversed the whole of Europe searchingfor traces of the great Genoese Admiral, and procuring relics, maps,etc., for exhibition here. He is probably the best authority on thiscontinent concerning everything connected with Columbus. has written entertainingly of the Convent and its site. Hetells us that it is located a few miles north of Cadiz, on the Atlanticcoast of Spain, about half way between the Straits of Gibraltar andthe boundary of Portugal, on the summit of a low headland between 474 LA RABIDA CONVENT.
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