. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . of the Indian Bureau exhibit. Here the Xavajosare weaving blankets, the Zunis, dwelling in what they call ahogan, are making pottery, while the Piutes are fashioningwater-bottles out of rushes. Machinery Hall, which you next visit, presents but a poorprospect from the south, and so you approach it by way of theGrand Avenue, crossing the bridge between it and Machiner>^ lOO Hall, and getting an excellent prospective from its northeastcorner. Though lacking the boldness that makes of the Ad-ministration Building the architectural chef-doei
. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . of the Indian Bureau exhibit. Here the Xavajosare weaving blankets, the Zunis, dwelling in what they call ahogan, are making pottery, while the Piutes are fashioningwater-bottles out of rushes. Machinery Hall, which you next visit, presents but a poorprospect from the south, and so you approach it by way of theGrand Avenue, crossing the bridge between it and Machiner>^ lOO Hall, and getting an excellent prospective from its northeastcorner. Though lacking the boldness that makes of the Ad-ministration Building the architectural chef-doeiivre of the Ex-position, this edifice impresses you as more artistically pleasingthan either its gigantic neighbor devoted to manufactures andthe liberal arts, or its equal-sized sister across the lagoon de-voted to agriculture. In its details it suggests sunny Seville,though the general character of the architecture, like that ofthe other buildings fronting on the Grand Avenue, is thoroughlyclassic. Composed of three long arch-roofed compartments,. MACHINERY HALL. similar to train-sheds—the idea being to dispose of them atthe close of the Exposition for that purpose—the ornamenta-tion is devoted entirely to the exterior, which is rich withcolumns and arches opening to an inner arcade, domed andturreted corner pavilions and statue-adorned towers rising fromeither side of the imposing porticos that form the main en-trances. Here yoi4 see machinery of all kinds in motion. There aremotors for the generation and apparatus for the transmission of lOI power ; hydraulic and pneumatic devices ; tire-engines and tire-ladders ; machines for working metals and machines for workingstone : machines for twisting silk and machines for weaving fab-rics ; type-setting machines and printing presses ; paper-makingmachinerv ; wood-workino- machinerv : o:lass-cuttino: machinery ;pumps, elevators, and a thousand and one odd patented arrange-ments that you have never seen before nor ever so much
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