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 building designed for foreign countries, are ready and shipment of exhibits to them has begun. A fifth building will be under roof by the first of the month. Altogether six exposition buildings are practically finished and are awaiting final touches. The Mines and Metallurgy, the Festival Hall and Auditorium, the Machinery, Electricity, and Transportation, and the Oregon building are rising from their foundations. The Agricultural building was ready for the storage of exhibits the first of November. The building is the largest on the grounds, next to the main exhibition building of the Government.

“Sufficient order may be discerned in the chaos of external arrangements to grasp the keynote of the Centennial. General admission gates will be through the long, semi-circular peristyle of a double row of Ionic columns, at Twenty-sixth and Upshur streets. This point is about eighteen minutes from the business section and leading down-town hotels. Four double-tracked car-line routes loop the loop before the gates. Entering through the