[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER XIV 12/24
The buildin' covers about fourteen acres--I wonder what Sister Bobbett would say to that, the walls are thirty feet high, the lower twelve feet, air tight, the upper eighteen feet lattice work. Part on't is a sort of a harbor for their air-ships to light in.
They say they need a still harbor away from boisterous winds jest as much as water ships do.
This is the first Air-Ship harbor ever built.
Josiah said it wuz the humbliest buildin' on the Fair ground, and it wuzn't a beauty so fur as architecture goes. But I sez, "Handsome is as handsome duz! I don't spoze," sez I, "that Noah's Ark wuz a beauty, but he started a new world with it, and I believe this buildin' holds the great hope and promise of the future in the way of transportation, and it looks good to me." It stands between Physical Culture Hall and the Hall of Lady Managers.
I wuz glad it wuz where wimmen could keep an eye on 'em and keep 'em from bein' run on.
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