THE GUATEMALA BUILDING.—Built in the Spanish style and tastefully though not profusely decorated, the Guatemala Building presented a most attractive frontage from its site at the east end of the North Pond. The edifice was one hundred and eleven feet square, and two stories in height, and the corners were embellished by graceful towers twenty-three feet in diameter. The entire height of the towers was sixty-five feet, and in two of them were staircases giving access to the roof which formed a terrace about a great central court. This court in the center of the building was a feature which indicated especially its Spanish style and which proved a delightful conception in itself a pretty thing, and enabling ventilation and coolness to the rooms during all the summer. In the court’s center was a fountain in which water tumbled over a great rock and which was so surrounded as to make both a charming retreat and pleasing interior view. The building held the customary offices, and in other rooms were displays of Guatemalan products and some most interesting historical relics, particularly of the ancient Quitche nation, that strange race existing before Columbus and of which the language is still known. Among the exhibits were beautifully carved wooden pillars taken from a discovered Quitche temple. Even the work of famous Hindu artists would scarcely excel that upon those pillars. A display of brilliant-plumaged birds gave light and variety to the exhibits.

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