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

Page 37 – THE KRUPP GUN

KRUPP GUN EXHIBIT AND LEATHER AND SHOE TRADES BUILDING.—The building in which was the famous Krupp Gun exhibit and that devoted to the Leather and Shoe Trade displays were situated together on the lake front, in the southeastern part of the Exposition grounds, and both appear in the above Illustration. The big gun shown in the Krupp exhibit, the largest in the world, weighs one hundred and twenty-two tons, is forty-eight feet long and throws a ball weighing two thousand three hundred pounds a distance of six miles. This monster was the chief show-piece, but there were numerous other large guns, intended for naval use or coast defense, and armor-plates illustrative of what could be produced to resist their power. It is said that to produce the exhibit in the United States cost Herr Krupp not less than $500,000, and that the display was made by him at the special request of the Emperor.
The Leather and Shoe Trade exhibits occupied a building five hundred and seventy-five feet in length by one hundred and fifty feet in width, the flooring space of which was increased by extensive galleries. The structure, which was entirely of wood, was lighted by five hundred and twenty windows and skylights. There were remarkable displays not only of leather boots and shoes, and the allied trades, but there was also an extensive showing of curios, such as the foot- ear of all nations and queer sorts of leather. The second floor was devoted almost entirely to machinery. A model shoe factory in operation was one of the features.

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