The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-21
ECHOES OF THE
WORLDS FAIR.
Board of Control Selected-Heads
of Two Bureaus Chosen.
Boot ard Shoe Men Erect Their Own Building
Water Palace-Balloon Transportation.
Living Ch.ss-Board
Correspondence OF THE CALL.

EyHICAGO. Dec. II, 1S9O.-The past has
fsS;Sg been an anxious and lively week in
@S Worlds Fair circles. The appoint.
ment of the Board of Reference and Con.
troll and the waiting of the Presidents
proclamation have been the main topics.
President Palmer has appointed the fol.
lowing members TO represent the National
Commission on the Board of Control:
L. W. Palmer, Michigan; j. A. Mckenzie,
Kentucky; Z. B. Martindale, Indiana; Will
lam Lindsay, Kentucky; NJ. III. de Young,
California; Thomas NJ. Waller, Connecti-
cut; George w. V. Massey. Delaware; j.
W. St. Clair, West Virginia.
These gentlemen will represent the COM
mission and have absolute control when that
body is not in session. Their business will
almost necessitate their residence here.
President Gage of the Directory has made
his appointments also. They are as follows:
Lyman j. Gage, Thomas B. Bryan, Ferdi-
nand w. Peck, Edwin Walker, Z. L. Jeffery
Potter Palmer, +. S. Winston and D. G.
Cregier.
These sixteen members, eight from each
body, will practically guide and control the
exposition, and settle all differences be-
tween the local Directory and National
Commission. Director-General Davis has
appointed chiefs of two bureaus. w. j.
Buchanan Of Sioux City. Iowa, is placed at
the head Of the Department of Agriculture.
He is Commissioner from Iowa, and has
achieved prominence chiefly from his con-
necton with the Sioux City Corn Palace. of
which he was one of the originators. Major
Nj. 7. Handy Of Washington is Chief of the
Publicity ana Promotion Bureau. He
served in the Confederate army under Gen.
eral Lee, has been largely enga ged on
periodicals, ard was COMMISSIONER from
Virginia at the Centennial.
Joseph Hirst Of Florida is to be Secretary
of Installation. He is a practical engineer,
an electrical expert, and took a prominent
part in the mechanical arrangements of the
Centennial, New Orleans and Atlanta expo
sitions.
Thus the machinery of the great fair is
being perfected by degrees.
A board of architects. consisting Of five,
Wall select from plans submitted designs for
the main building. This arrange ment will
delay the plans for the present.
The coming report to Congress Of the
Congressional Committee is causing some
uneasiness. 1t Is believed that the appoint
ment of so large body of Lady Managers
will be criticized and that it will also CEN
buIc tDG dlOWIHS bi6h W tilC oll-
cials. 1t is also believed 1t will recommend
legislation to protect Government funds and
10 guard against any conflict between the
National Commission and the local Direc-
tory in the future.
STATE APPROPRIATIONS.
The meeting of the citizens of North Da-
kOta The 9Th inst. WIS grand success. Six
Vice-Presdents and Director from each
ccanty were chosen TO urge liberal appro-
priation by that State. The State Board of
Agriculture of illinois met In Chicago the
past week and held quiet conference with
the officials on the subject of Illinois ex-
hibit at the fair. The. object was to deter
mine the extent of the exhibit, space required
and the appropriation to be asked from the
Legislature. As Illinois has the honor of
having tile fair within her limits she does
not propose to be outdone in line of exhibits
by her national competitors or sister States.
We here give few figures OH the appro-
priations that were made by some Of the