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Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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Arts Palace.

The base of the fountain shows a procession of beasts - the bear, the
cynocephalus ape, the lion.

Upholding Beauty and the Beast are fauns and satyrs, playing on their
pipes.

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Walk down the colonnades and take note of the coupled smoked ivory
pilasters on the pink ground.

A fawn-colored ceiling has suspended from it Italian bronze lanterns -
the bronze suggestive of the color of the blue eucalyptus. At night
these lanterns glow with color.

In front of the Court of Flowers is "The American Pioneer," a fine
meaningful equestrian figure, by Solon Borglum of Ogden, Utah.

I am taking the liberty of quoting Secretary Lane's inspiring words
given at the opening of the Exposition - a fine retrospect that we must
not lose sight of when we look upon the determined woodsman of the early
American life:

As I went through these grounds yesterday, I looked for some symbol that
would tell me the true significance of this moment, I saw that the
sculptor had carved prophets, priests and kings; he had carved the
conquerors of the earth, the birds in the air and the fish in the sea.
He had gone into legend and history for his symbols, but in none of
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