ENTRANCE TO FISHERIES ARCADE.—The Fisheries Building, because of the peculiar form of the site to which it was relegated, consisted of a rectangular central structure connected by curved arcades with circular pavilions on either side. The view here given is that of an entrance to one of the connecting arcades, and affords an excellent idea of the graceful and novel decoration resorted to in this structure, together with an example of mechanical duty performed too well. The columns of the structure were decorated, as befitted its uses, with all sorts of water creatures, arranged in quaint devices, and the architect in his drawings indicated this, though not in every instance covering the entire. column, supposing that the work indicated would be fully carried out. The mechanic, however, stuck to the letter of the pictured text and put a newt or frog or lizard on a column only where it was distinctly indicated. Of course this was something to be easily remedied, but the illustration shows certain columns as so unfinished. The arcades, wide corridors open at the sides, made a delightful highway from one part of the building to another, and, spacious as they were, proved none too much so for the great throngs which visited the Fisheries, where: the strange marine inhabitants disporting in water, brought from the Atlantic, afforded a spectacle which made the building one of the most popular upon the grounds. The sea creatures., though, were not the only animate attraction, the great exhibit of lake and river fish drawing both the sportsman and the economists, and affording object lessons of decided value.

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