The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . ofBrazil, are the handsome German buildings. The larger building isappropriated especially to the use of the German Commissioners ; thetwo smaller ones are devoted chiefly to the exhibition of wines andchemicals. France is represented by three small structures,—one for the generaluse of the French Commission, another for the special display of bronzes,and the third for another art-manufacture for which France is becomi
The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . ofBrazil, are the handsome German buildings. The larger building isappropriated especially to the use of the German Commissioners ; thetwo smaller ones are devoted chiefly to the exhibition of wines andchemicals. France is represented by three small structures,—one for the generaluse of the French Commission, another for the special display of bronzes,and the third for another art-manufacture for which France is becomingeminent,—stained glass. This overflowing from her great and closely-occupied area in Memorial Hall, hard by, indicates the wealth of Francein art. She is largely represented, moreover, in another outlying pro-vince of the same domain,—photography. Photographic Hall, an offshoot from Memorial Hall, and lying betweenit and the Main Building, is quite a solid structure, 258 feet by 107, with19,000 feet of wall space. CHURCHES. 41 It is not remarkable in this age that the most ambitious effort of mon-umental art upon the Exposition grounds should have taken the shape. GERMAN BUILDING. of a fountain. The erection is due to the energy and public spirit ofthe Catholic Total Abstinence Union. The site chosen is at the extremewestern end of Machinery Hall. It looks along Fountain Avenue tothe Horticultural Building. Mated thus with that fine building, itbecomes a permanent feature of the Park. Other fountains are scatteredthrough the grounds, but they are of comparatively modest proportions. Another contribution in the cause of art is the statue, in bronze, ofDr. Witherspoon, the only clerical Signer, which stands on the east sideof the grounds. We have now briefly described the most important buildings whichstand out prominently in the midst of a host of structures of infinitevariety of size, shape, and purpose, among which restaurants of variousnationalities are especially not
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