You remember that at Paris but three of the buildings were open in the
evening. Here every one of the great halls is open and aglow with light.
In all but the Fine Arts, the Administration, and the Woman's Building
arc lights are employed. In Machinery Hall there are six hundred; in
Agricultural Hall, six hundred; in the Electric Building, four hundred;
in the Mines and Mining Building, four hundred; in the Transportation
Building, four hundred and fifty; in Horticultural Hall, four hundred;
in the Forestry Building, one hundred and fifty; and in the Great Palace
of the Liberal Arts, two thousand. Twelve thousand incandescent lamps
light the Fine Arts Building; ten thousand more are ablaze in the
Administration Building; and in the Woman's Building there are one
hundred and eighty arc lights and twenty-seven hundred incandescent
lamps. When at length you approach the Grand Avenue the scene becomes
more and more beautiful. Every window and archway of the great edifices
here are sending out broad columns of light, illuminated fountains are
throwing aloft their brilliant-hued waters, groups of white statuary
stand out in bold and striking outline against the black shadows, and
the golden ornaments of the entrances to the several mammoth piles
facing the Grand Canal flash and glitter in the flood of dazzling
effulgence.
