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front view of the red granite Administration Building and a rear view of the Anthropology Building and of the Jefferson Guards barracks.

The Administration Buildings of the Exposition are fire-proof, permanent, red granite

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structures, erected by Washington University for its own use, and leased by the Exposition. They number eleven and their total cost approaches $1,500,000. The architects are Cope & Stewardson, of Philadelphia. The style of architecture of all the buildings is the Tudor-Gothic, which is seen to great advantage in the college buildings at Oxford and Cambridge, England. A monumental approach of much beauty leads to the AdminGUIDE TO THE EXPOSITION CONTINUED ON PAGE XIV.

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istration Building, terminating at a tower, which occupies the center of the structure, and is accentuated by four battlemented octagon turrets. On the ground floor of this tower is one of the finest stone groined arches in the United States. Its size is 30x25 feet, and it is made entirely of Bedford cut stone, carried on elaborately moulded ribs with grotesque bosses at the rib intersections.

Two of these permanent buildings are used as pseudo-exhibit structures. The gymnasium of the university, situated close to a one-third mile track, is used for physical culture exhibits and for dressing rooms for the athletes who compete in the Olympian games and other athletic competitions. Another of the buildings is used for the anthropological exhibits. The fine university rooms supply living apartments for the representatives of strange races brought to the Exposition. Still others of these buildings furnish barracks for Jefferson Guards, and two dormitory buildings are used for entertaining the thousand-and-one guests of whom the Exposition must take care. Another of these buildings supplies four halls in which international congresses are to be held and a great cabinet room in which the presents sent to Queen Victoria on the occasion of her jubilee are exhibited.

As the visitor passes through the Administration District he sees under the lee of the Anthropology Building the outdoor forestry display, showing the accepted methods of tree planting. A moment later he sees across a considerable strip of territory the Alaska Building, with its totem poles, and the university dormitories used for enter

tainment.

The visitor has now reached the western fence of the Fair Grounds. Here is located the Athletic Field, on which the Olympian games are held. The Intramural road passes entirely around the great one-third mile athletic field and runs close to the Gymnasium or Physical Culture Building.

Leaving this attractive locality the visitor passes alongside of the Exposition nurseries and green-houses in which the flowers and shrubs used in the Exposition landscape work are forced and nurtured. A long sweep of straight track brings him to the Palace of the Refrigerating Arts, in which are located ice-making machines, with a capacity of 300 tons of refrigeration per day. The structure is 320x210 feet and was designed by E. L. Masqueray, Chief of Design of the Exposition. Close by is a cold storage warehouse with a capacity of 400,000 cubic feet.

Rounding a reverse curve, the visitor next sees to his left the Indian exhibit made by the United States Government, showing the Indians as nearly as possible in their aboriginal state. This, the Department of the Interior has declared, is to be the last exhibit of Indians in this condition to be made by the Government, the entire effort of the Department being to draw the Indian out of this uncivilized state. The visitor passes on three sides of this Indian exhibit and enters the heart of one of the most interesting sections of the Fair.

To his left is the giant map, covering five acres, made by the United States Department of Agriculture, which shows the outlines of the United States and of the States that compose it. In each State reservation are the plants economically produced within that State. Those of the plants which do not grow naturally in the latitude of St. Louis are forced under glass. This map is situated on a side hill, and a good view of it may be obtained from the Intramural.

To the right of the visitor at this point is the great Philippine display, installed at a cost of almost a million dollars, at the joint expense of the United States Government and the Exposition Company. The Intramural track runs close to the shore of a body of water, shaped roughly like an arrow head, to which the name of "Laguna de Baie" has been given. This body of water, which skirts the Philippine Reservation on two sides, is crossed by two bamboo bridges. of Filipino construction, and by a stone bridge imitated in staff, which reproduces the bridge which carries the visitor across the Pasig River into Manila. The Philippine display covers forty acres of rolling land. It shows the crude GUIDE TO THE EXPOSITION CONTINUED ON PAGE XVI.

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and the cultivated in the Philippines. Lake dwellers live in huts built in the water and supported on bamboo poles. All this material was sent by United States transport from the Philippines. The reservation contains a reproduction of the Government Square in Manila. Around this square are four fine buildings which are used for the Administration Building of the Philippine Commission, the Education exhibit, the Ethnology exhibit, and the Mines, Fisheries and Horticulture exhibits of the Philippine Islands. The Philippine Reservation contains about twenty big buildings and shows a relief map of the Philippines 120 feet long.

As the visitor on the Intramural passes the Philippine Reservation, he sees looming up on a hill that rises some 65 feet above him to his right, the Palace of Agriculture, the largest of the Fair's exhibit buildings.

The Palace of Agriculture covers an area of 500x1,600 feet or 18.4 acres; its cost was $529,940. The structure was designed by the architects of the Division of Works. Its great size compelled the concentration of the ornament at the entrances. Massive piers relieve the facades and color is used on the outside. The building supplies the largest and longest vista in the Exposition, a space 105x1,600 feet, entirely clear of columns. In front of the Palace of Agriculture is the great floral clock, the 50-foot metal hands of which move over a dial in which the hours are marked by flowers which open and reach their brightest at the hour they indicate on the dial. This clock occupies the upper portion of the steep incline which the Palace of Agriculture crowns.

Close to the line of the Intramural at the bottom of Agriculture Hill, the visitor sees to his right the Canada Building and the Ceylon National Pavilion.

To the visitor's left, after he passes the Philippine Reservation, there appear in order an outdoor exhibit of an irrigation system, such as reclaims the western prairies for the farmer, and a distillery exhibit, which shows the manufacture of spirits and liquors under the best conditions. Beyond these buildings the view of the visitor is closed by the Palace of Forestry, Fish and Game.

The Palace of Forestry, Fish and Game covers an area 300x600 feet or 4.1 acres. Its cost is $171,000; it was designed by the designers of the Division of Works. It shows

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the decorative availability of the farm-house gable. Its outside shows color in decoration. To the visitor's left again there appears, after he has passed the Palace of Forestry, Fish and Game, the India Pavilion erected by the tea growers of India. This is a reproduction of the fine tomb of Etmad Dowlah at Agra, India. Beyond this is the Garden of Versailles and the Grand Trianon, which constitutes the National Pavilion of France. If, while the cars are passing the French Pavilion, the visitor looks to the right, he sees the Lake of the Life Savers, on which twice a day an expert crew of life savers from the Atlantic Coast gives exhibitions of how men are saved from ships in distress by the life line, the breeches buoy and the life boat. Here the United States Government has erected an $8,000 life saving station, a close reproduction of the stations which protect dangerous points along the Atlantic Coast.

At the Lake of the Life Savers the Intramural road makes a right-angled turn to follow along Skinker Road, the historic St. Louis thoroughfare named after Col. Tom Skinker, whose palatial country home formerly crowned the hills where now stands the Palace of Agriculture. The avenue of fine oaks and hickories which formerly led to his home still gives shade to Exposition visitors. The Intramural runs along Skinker Road for a distance of half a mile, climbing a 5 per cent. grade to the upper plateau of the Exposition. This elevation the Intramural holds until it descends about three miles distant at the Missouri Building.

Directly at the turn of the Intramural around the life saving station stands the Great Ferris Observation Wheel which was one of the principal attractions at the Columbian Exposition. This wheel was wrecked at Chicago and re-erected at St. Louis. This wheel stands on low ground close to Skinker Road.

If the visitor, at the turn of the Intramural Road, looks back. he sees the great Boiler House of the Exposition, a steel and concrete structure which produces steam sufficient GUIDE TO THE EXPOSITION CONTINUED ON PAGE XVIII.

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