Julius Rosenwald will have to donate another million dollars for the industrial museum to be built on the site of the old Fine Arts building in Jackson Park, here.
This was revealed at a meeting of South Park Board members and representatives of the Rosenwald Industrial Museum Corporation. The cost of rehabilitating the old building will be $6,000,000 instead of $5,000,000, the amounted voted recently for the work, it was disclosed.
Under his agreement with the park board, Mr. Rosenwald is to make up any deficit in the building work. He has already given $3,000,000 for the exhibits.
Two well known civil engineers have been added to the staff of the Museum of Industry and Science, founded by Julius Rosenwald, it was announced. They are O. H. Ammann, designer and builder of the new Hudson River suspension bridge, and Dr. Gustav Lindenthal, creator of the Hellgate bridge.
They are the first of a group of scientists and engineers which is being recruited to develop the exhibit in civil engineering and public works.
The bridge display will be the most complete in the world, the museum official stated. Exact models of bridges from ancient times to now will be on exhibition. Among the historic structures to be shown in miniature are an Italian truss bridge of 1560, built by Palladio and Leonardo di Vinci; a truss bridge over the Rhine, erected in Germany in 1750, with a span of 360 feet built entirely of wood; the Sciotoville bridge over the Ohio River, built in 1915; and the famous Brooklyn bridge and others of modern times.
One of the outstanding features will be replica of the Panama canal. The Welland canal will also be shown. The aim is to present graphically every phase of public works and highway and water transportation and communication.
Museum officials also stated that the exhibits would be on view for visitors and students, and that classes would be conducted in science and industry much the same as art classes are now conducted at the Art institute.
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