THE MACHINERY HALL.
Next across the canal from the Agricultural Building stands the Machinery flail. The two are connected by a collonade, which affords all extensive view nearly a mile in length down the canal. This building is looted
by three arched trusses, presenting the appearance in its interior of three iron railroad trainhouses joined together, Indeed, the roof is made in three distinct parts, with the intention of taking them down and selling them for trainhouses, after
their usefulness as an Exposition building is past. Around the foul sides of the interior extends a gallery fifty Let wide. Down each of the long raves runs an elevated traveling crane from end to end of the building, moving platforms which
make a complete circuit of the building, whereon visitors may sit and view the exhibit without exertion.
The power for moving the vast amount of machinery oil exhibition is supplied from a power-house outside the building. The Machinery Hall is a large structure, and Owing to the necessity for strength, its cost is
beyond that of any of the Exposition buildings except that devoted to the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts. Its ornamentations are chiefly on the side facing the grand court, where the Spanish renaissance style asserts itself, and with the
collonade surrounding the canal, the fountain and obelisk rising front the water, and the gondolier's presence follows out tile Spanish-Venetian plan of the Columbian Exposition. (See view looking south over the lagoon.)
