CHAPTER IV.

CANADA AND NEW SOUTH WALES.

The Provinces of Ontario and Quebec Handsomely Represented— Native Canadian Shrubbery Abundant—
Highly Polished Canadian Woods — Various Commercial, Scientific, Agricultural and Educational
Articles Shown— The Classical Pavilion of New South Wales— A Credit to that Far-Off
Country.

TANDING upon a site of nearly 6,000 square feet is the
Candian Pavilion, only a short distance from the United
States Battleship, opposite Victoria House. The view
from the " look-out" on the tower of the pavilion is perfect.
It extends on one side to where the restless waters of the
great lake seem to kiss the distant horizon; and on the
other side takes in the magnificent pier, the architecturally
beautiful Peristyle and Music Hall, with glimpses of the
historic Convent of La Rabida, the great Manufactures
Building, the United States Government Building, the
Fisheries Building, and many of the fine and expensive
edifices erected by foreign nations. The pavilion has three
entrances: a main or front entrance, facing the southeast, and two
end entrances on the east and west, respectively. The front entrance is through
the tower, and has three doorways. Opposite this main entrance is the grand
stairway, beneath and in the rear of which are numerous lavatories. In the entrance
hall are located the postoffice, the telephone office and an intelligence office. In
the latter are kept registers giving all possible information to visiting Canadians
as to lodgings, board, the whereabouts of friends in Chicago, and other information
that may be useful to Canadian visitors. Off the entrance hall is 'the reception
room. Over five hundred Canadian newspapers are on file here. To the left of
the main entrance are two handsome offices for the Dominion Commission, while
the other four offices on this floor are occupied by the commissioners from the
provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

On the first floor are two more offices for the Dominion Commission, four
for commissioners from different provinces of Canada, a committee room and a
large parlor for the use of the whole staff.

On the second floor are the tower room and the smoking room, and in the
attic above is the dormitory for the guardian of the pavilion.

As the sum appropriated for the erection of the pavilion was limited, a plain
style of architecture had to be adopted. Running around all sides of the building
is a veranda ten feet wide, with a balcony above of the same width. The balcony

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Is supported by twenty-eight Tuscan columns. The walls at the eaves of the roof
are finished with a bold dental cornice. The pavilion is covered with a low pitched
roof, partly hidden by a wall. The tower, as it issues through the roof is circular,
and is divided into twelve panels; beneath these are detached pilasters. The walls
are finished with a dental cornice, over which is an open balustrade. Over this is
the "lookout," whence rises the flagpole, from which, from sunset to sunrise, proudly
floats the Canadian flag.

The walls and ceilings are finished with native Canadian woods, highly pol-
ished and showing the natural grain. Each province of Canada has furnished the
native woods required to finish its individual rooms. Around the pavilion is a neat
plot of ground covered
with green turf, dotted
here and there with
native Canadian shrub-
bery and conveniently
and artistically divided
with serpentine road-
ways and walks. This
building, with its fur-
nishings and surround-
ings cost over $30,000.
Various commercial,
agricultural, scientific
and educational articles
are shown in the several
departments from the
provincial governments
of Ontario, Quebec,
Ottawa, British Col-
umbia, Manitoba, Hali-
fax, New Brunswick,
Prince Edward Island,
Northwest Territories.

The New South Wales Building is classical in design and ornamentation.
It covers an area of 4,320 square feet, being 60x60 feet in exterior dimensions, with
a portico 12 feet wide extending across the front. There is a flight of three steps
leading to this portico and extending across the front and ends of the same. The
roof of this portico is supported by six Doric columns, two feet and six inches in
diameter, and twenty feet high, with a cornice, frieze and balustrade extending
round the entire building. At each of the corners is a large Doric pilaster corres-
ponding to the columns of the portico. The entrance is in the center of the portico
front. All openings have molded architraves and cornices, and each window has a
pair of molded modillions under it. The exterior of the building is staff. The cen-
tral portion is occupied by a hall, thirty feet in width, and extending the entire

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depth of the building. In the center is a polygonal dome thirty feet in diameter,
the top being forty feet from the floor. This dome adds to the effect, light and
ventilation of the whole, and is covered on the interior with ornamental staff.
Arranged on three sides of the main hall are the various offices of the legation,
eight in number.

QUAKER CITY GRINDING MILL— A. W. STRAUB & CO., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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