WEST MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE MANUFACTURES BUILDING.—Columbia Avenue, the great thoroughfare which extended north and south through the Manufactures Building, was crossed at the center by a similar broad way, and. this interior street where it terminated at the west afforded exit upon a particularly beautiful scene. Across the North Canal and at the entrance to the East Lagoon a bridge extended, over which passed and repassed the throng between the Manufactures and the group of large structures west of it. Close at hand to the north lay the Wooded Island, and to the south, over the canal, could be seen the Columbian Fountain and the Obelisk and Colonnade. In either direction the view was not only charming but one of the most extended on the ground, and it is not surprising that the bridge was a favorite stopping place for a moment for those who had learned where were the chief points of vantage for studying picturesque scenes. The illustration affords an opportunity for close observation of the architecture of the largest building in the world, a pleasant study, though all details seemed in a measure dwarfed by the structure’s tremendous length and height. The people passing over the bridge and along in front of the building appear too small to enable even a relatively accurate relative estimate of dimensions. A scale longer than a man was necessary in guessing at lengths and breadths and heights, when among the Exposition’s wonders.
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