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| PENNSYLVANIA'S PAVILION IN AGRICULTURAL HALL -
Many of the commonwealths - particularly Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio and the Northwestern States - vied with
each other in the erection of original, typical and attractive
pavilions in the Agricultural Building, and the picture represents
the much-admired structure or inclosure of the Keystone State. In
all things pertaining to the Exposition, Pennsylvania, especially
through her chief city of Philadelphia, was magnanimous and
exemplary. Having given the Centennial Exposition, the state was not
envious of Illinois; having sacrificed and labored in a similar
cause, Philadelphia sympathized with Chicago, a fellow-feeling making
her wondrous kind. Everything that Pennsylvania undertook was thus
supported with bountiful purse, and offered with such a grace as made
the gift thrice welcome. Thus, this pavilion was the cynosure of
neighboring eyes in the purview of Chief Buchanan. One might admire
the skill of the builder in dealing so profusely with Pennsylvanian
insignia and working them out in cereals, keeping agriculture rather
than architecture in view; or he might enter and behold the Liberty
Bell, cast in an amalgam of cereals; or, yet again, study the
grain-dials that represented the sun. The agricultural products of
Pennsylvania were here lavishly displayed, nor were they less
eloquently praised by the sons of William Penn, who wisely held that
they advanced their State and nation when they abetted the civic
ambition of Chicago, and flattered the pride of the West. |
