Chicago.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 20 October 1891, Page 3

Chicago.

♦ ! BUILDING THE FAIR. I It takes a fence six miles long to enclose the World's Fair buildings. All these structures are to ba of extraordinary dimensions, but the largest of them, on which the foundation work has just been commenced, will be something stupendous. It is the Hall of Manufactures and Liberal Arts. The site for the vast building is a broad, highly situated plateau overlooking the lake. A railroad track runs through its centre, and on each side vise tremendous piles of lumber, iron and all sorts of construction material, The exposition site has undergone a wonderful change sinoe last spring. Then it was a soft marshy ground shelving in irregular stretches to the water line. Now it is a firm level, a smooth sandy surface upon a clay subsoil. A perfect and admirably im proved building site. The hundreds of visitors who view the grounds cannot immediately appreciate the immense difficulties that have been overcome and the great labour involved in the earthwork accomplished on this lake shore site. It is now a level surface to the line of the lake, a surface a mile and a half in length and, at its southern extremity, nearly a mile in width. This has been created, graded and levelled by constantly employing a small army of men and now, within the six miles of fence that surrounds it, the work of constructing the great buildings is being pushed on with ceaseless activity. The big buildings are beginning to rise. Already some of the principal structures are not only in evidence, but prMfpg?s on them is marked day to dayr^ Looking northwest from the adminstration building the visitors sees the Womans' Building, already so far advanced that it looms up imposingly against its background of park trees. Hundreds of men are engaged on every possible uort of construction work, Laying water-mains, electxiclight plant, modeling 1 fov the exterior

decorative work, and developing landscape effects around the ornai mental waters. busy place indeed is the iM ■' and soon it will be exposition grotm*., ' " f ov the as Ijii y by night as by w»j elertrid lighting necessary for night construction has just been arranged fur.