intricacy of the Exposition with its towers and fountains. The Court itself
was "festive and elegant, almost too rich." (Todd 2 290). It was one of the
most popular parts, and bands played there daily (Todd 2 292). At one end was
the Altar Tower, which stood 219 feet tall (Todd 2 290). Successive altars in
the Tower showed the history of man from the "primitive savage to the modern
spirit." (Todd 2 290). The two columns on the sides of the Altar Tower
symbolized Earth and Air, and eight paintings exhibited the elements of
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (Todd 2 290). The Fire painting held a Greek
warrior defending himself from the "fiery breath of a vicious reptile", and
the Water art had Father Neptune blowing out air, accompanied by
dolphins(Nevhavs 34). At the center of the Court of Abundance stood the Fountain of the Earth (Todd 2 291). A half-emerged globe sat in the center of the fountain, circled by statues of monsters, reptiles, and men (Todd 2 291). The pedestal above it had ten figures on it, suggesting the "dawn of life, and the fullness and end
of existence." (Todd 2 291). Just below the pedestal was a figure of a drowning man, which represented Destiny giving life and taking it away interchangeably (Todd 2 291). At night, the illumination gave the court "a witch-like beauty", and it became "a savage place, as holy and enchanted as e'er beneath a waning moon
was haunted, by woman wailing for her demon lover." (Todd 2 292).