PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS

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BIRD’S-EYE VIEW LOOKING SOUTH.—It is difficult to determine what first attracts attention in this picture—the mirror surfaces of water, the cluster of state buildings, or the distant but easily recognized outlines of the great Exposition buildings. Certain it is that Nature, in all her loveliness, never appeared more at her best or appealed more bewitchingly than she does in these two sequestered sheets of water. The crowded roofs only make us feel that these leafy nooks were forgotten in the hurry and Dame Nature given a chance to show what she could do unaided. Thousands looking down that glen were refreshed with the bit of peaceful quiet amid the ceaseless, nervous activity and manufactured effects everywhere about. The lofty flag pole, two hundred and fifteen feet high, one of Washington’s giants of fir, proudly floats the Stars and Stripes as if conscious that on this parade ground of the Nation the great states and commonwealths were out for inspection drill. Directly in front of Washington rises the square tower of the Michigan State House and a little further south, Indiana’s, of somewhat similar pattern. The big dome of Illinois is the most striking object in the center of the picture. The outer row of State buildings commences at the south with the quaint and characteristic one of California — an old Spanish Mission. Its tile-covered dome, an inverted bowl in shape, is easily distinguishable. Next appear the twin towers of Colorado, and in succession the homes of Washington, South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Kansas.

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