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| SOUTH DAKOTA'S BUILDING - The visitor who went
to the Fair by the Cottage Grove Avenue cable, on the South Park
line, entered the park at Fifty-seventh street - that is, about
fifty-seven blocks south of Chicago Court House. After crossing the
bridge over the little pond, he found himself on the principal avenue
of commonwealths, all confronting the Art
Palace, which stretched
across the park; but on his right, facing an avenue that came north
from the Woman's Building, he saw first the
house of South Dakata, a
large structure sixty feet wide and one hundred feet deep. This
building was covered with Yankton cement, in imitation of cut stone,
and nearly all the materials entering into the structure were brought
to Chicago from beyond the Missouri. The architect was W. L. Dow, of
Sioux Falls, and the contractors, carpenters, and even the laborers,
were South Dakota men so far as such could be induced to work on the
edifice. The State's display of her resources was diversified with
collections of fossils taken from the bed of the Cheyenne River.
There were large blocks of coal, cases of minerals, profuse
arrangements of grains, grasses, fruits, pottery, clays and
photographs of natural scenery. The educational interests were shown
to be active and enthusiastic, and the live stock men made a
creditable and successful effort to prove that the dairy, sheep and
cattle products of their region have not been over-estimated by
eastern visitors. |
