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| A CHARMING WATER VIEW - If we consider the
diversity of beautiful and novel architecture, it is possible that we
shall consider this view, from the Woman's
Building, to have been the most pleasing offered among the many
vistas of the Fair. The four chief edifices are the main pavilion of
the Fisheries, the Cafe de la Marine, the Swedish Building and the Brazilian Building, beginning at the right.
None of these structures could have been spared from the park, and
few visitors looked on the details of the Fisheries, Swedish and
Brazilian Buildings without renewed expressions of interest and
surprise. We see only a portion of the remarkable architectural
invention of Henry Ives Cobb on the right,
for the east and west pavilions of his
Fisheries are out of the lines of vision, and they added
intrinsically to the value of his spectacle. The spires of the Cafe
accentuated the region, and visitors who were determined to know what
country the building belonged to, often made peace by eating dinner
there in the name of all nations. The Swedish Building was
triangular in form, and built entirely of wood. It was on this
account tabooed by the insurance men, who thought staff a less
inflammable substance, and it was entirely closed during the last
weeks of the Fair. It boasted the most remarkable architecture in
the park, and was made in Sweden on eclectic ideas. The Brazilian
Building was magnificent and hospitable. |
