THE STATUE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.— It was a natural idea and an appropriate one that the heroic statue of Benjamin Franklin should be the most conspicuous object in the main entrance to the Electricity Building. It was the first time in the history of expositions that a building had been devoted to a display of electrical inventions, and it seemed but right and proper that its approach should be overlooked by the statue of the great man who is associated in the popular mind quite as much with electrical discovery as by his great exploits in statesmanship during the trying times of the Revolution. The statue was a good one. Upon the massive, yet graceful pedestal, stood the statue of the Philosopher, his right hand holding the kite and key with which he drew the lightning from the clouds, his head thrown back, his face turned upward, and his left arm extended forward, the hand and the fingers extended in a groping, grasping way, as if he were seeking, uncertain but still assured, for what he knew certainly existed, but, as yet, did not quite know how to reach. It was fortunate that this great statue, one of the best among many which were good, occupied the position it did. Standing at the southern entrance of the Electricity Building, it was in constant view of the masses who assembled in Court of Honor, just east of the Administration Building, on any occasion of importance.