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with overhanging eaves which are re- The total cost of the Exposition, exclu-
minders of those picturesque mission sive of exhibits, is now estimated at $10,-
buildings that tell of Spanish occupancy 000,000. Of this amount about $3,000,000
of California and Mexico. Or one falls to will be expended upon the Midway. The
admiring the colonnades and pavilions, sum for the Midway is more than the total
the loggias, domes and lanterns, with their cost of some very pretentious expositions,
elaborate sculptural adornments, and the. so that by comparison one may gain a very
grilled windows with their richly moulded fair idea of the work which Buffalo is carry-
frames. All these features of the Exposi- ing rapidly to completion. A beautiful
tion architecture, speaking of Moor and landscape comprising 350 acres, half a mile
Spaniard and the fantastic ideas which wide and a mile and a quarter long, is de-
they originated, and artists and architects voted to this wonderful enterprise.
of later generations perpetuated, greet the
delighted vision now that the Exposition
Harrison 6L Taft.
structures are nearing completion. Sure- TWO WELL-KNOWN PIPE ORGAN MEN COMBINE
ly, one thinks, this will be the great fea-
FORCES UNDER THE ABOVE TITLE A
ture of the Pan-American over which the
FIRM WITH NOTABLE ANCESTRY.
millions who come here next summer will
An important move was consummated
rave.
Unrivalled Beauty.
this week whereby Frank Taft joins forces
But then you look at those beautiful with Lewis C. Harrison, the well-known
IT WILL BE POSSESSED BY THE BUILDINGS OF
towers
of the Machinery and Transporta- organ builder of Bloomfield, N. J. The
THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION THE
tion
Building,
which Director of Color firm title will be Harrison & Taft. The
MACHINERY BUILDING HAS NOW RE-
Turner has succeeded so well in painting, union of two such experts in the pipe organ
CEIVED ITS EXQUISITE COLORING.
or the pavilions of the same building field should be productive of splendid
Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1900.
results.
There is a pretty story in Grecian myth-
This concern can date its origin back to
ology of how young Paris, who afterward
1824,
when that pioneer organ builder, the
eloped with the far-famed Helen of Troy,
late
Henry
Erben began business in New
was once confronted with a most perplex-
York
City,
for
Lewis C. Harrison of this
ing proposition. He was forced to de-
firm
grew
up
with
the business, acquiring a
cide which of three handsome goddesses,
thorough
knowledge
of every branch of
Venus, Minerva or Juno, was the most
organ
construction
until
he became the
beautiful. Of course in awarding the
practical
and
efficient
superintendent
of
prize for beauty, the apple of discord, to
the
Erben
concern,
succeeding
in
due
time
the Goddess of Love, he incurred the eter-
to the business. The factory formerly
nal enmity of the two other fair divinities.
located in West Twenty-eighth street, this
MACHINERY AND TRANSPORTATION. •
But the task which Paris had was tri-
city, was moved to Bloomfield, N. J.,
fling compared with that of deciding where the color has been laid on with
where Mr. Harrison has been turning out
which of the many beautiful features of a richness and beauty that it is simply im-
pipe
organs along those up to-date lines
the Pan-American Exposition is most to possible to describe, and you say that if
which won for the Erben organs of years
the
whole
Exposition
is
to
be
like
this,
be admired. One feels the difficulty of
agone, a reputation that extended even to
making such a decision now that the radiant in all the colors of the rainbow,
this, indeed, will be the feature which will foreign countries.
Of Frank Taft's capabilities as a concert
make it the most beautiful the eye of man
ever gazed upon. Then next you go en- organist and builder little need be said.
thusiastic over the sculpture, the begin- Few men are as well equipped or more in
nings of which are now in evidence, or the touch with pipe organ development and
landscape effects, which are in a most re- needs than this popular gentleman. In
markable state of advancement consider- the Hymnolia which he has been exploit-
ing that a winter is yet to intervene, and ing, and will continue to exploit, are em-
so it goes and you are fairly bewildered by bodied many of his ideas as applied to re-
the beauty you see around you already, quirements in the small pipe organ field.
though the opening of the gates is yet six With the greater opportunities which he
months away, and the finishing touches will possess in his new sphere of activity
will add many times to the impression to we can look for some innovations and im-
provements which will enable the firm of
be obtained from the tout ensemble.
The Bureau of Publicity of the Pan- Harrison & Taft to win a wide measure of
American Exposition has just issued a very recognition.
PROPYL^EA.
The factory quarters which this com-
complete booklet descriptive of the enter-
buildings are reaching a stage of com- prise to be held at Buffalo next year. The pany occupy in Bloomfield, N. J., are
pletion and their architecture, their color, booklet contains forty-eight pages with 121 spacious and well equipped for the manu-
and their landscape setting all present titles and eighty-two illustrations. The facture of pipe organs. In addition to the
building where, from the best of metal
features that excite enthusiastic admira-
and seasoned lumber, that creation of
tion. One feels the difficulty now that
beauty and utility—the pipe organ—takes
the framework of the principal buildings
on form and reality, there is another large
has been covered with staff and the staff
building 50x30 feet and 50 feet high,
itself is receiving the varied tints and
where the largest organ can be put to-
brilliant hues which together with the
gether and tested as though it stood in its
architecture are to distinguish in outward
MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS.
final position in church or hall.
appearance this exposition of all the
Americas from any that has preceded it, publicity up to the present time has been
The control of the Hymnolia at retail
and which will mark the beginning of a piecemeal, bringing out the various fea- will continue as in the past in charge of
new era in Exposition building.
tures as they have developed, but an ex- Chickering & Sons. Meanwhile the larger
First one grows enthusiastic over the amination of this booklet gives to the facilities at Bloomfield will enable Harri-
graceful towers and minarets, outlined reader a very comprehensive idea of the son & Taft to supply all demands with
despatch.
against the sky, and the arcaded facades splendid character of the Exposition.