St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-23
The BEST one YET.
Manager Regain Tells What
the Exposition Of 1890
Will Be.
Fanny Davenport's Libel Case
Affords Considera BILE
Amusement.
The Grand Jury Fails to Find
Bills Against Buehan
and Gallagher.
The Homeopaths Wind Up
Their Convention--The
City in General.

Maj. w. N. Regain. the general man
ager of the Minneapolis industrial eX-
position, has returned from his Eastern
trip highly eIated at his success i'll Sc
curing novelties for the coming big
show. When Manager Regan reached
New York city he found representatives
from the st. Louis, Milwaukee, San
Francisco and Elmira eXpositions al
ready on the ground, and making
strenuous efforts to secure the great
Edison display that was such a
marked feature of the Paris exposition
after working hard for several days and
nights the display was secured for Min
neapolis. much to the delight of the
Flour City'S representative and some
what to the discontinue of the other
cities that were after it. Manager Regain
met 1.-THE wizard" Edison in his labOra-
tory. Edison was just eating his break
fast, and it was very frugal meal
SiSting OF coffee and rolls and something
in a bowl resembling hash. He had
often heard of Minneapolis and her eX
position, and told Manager Reagan that
he could assure the people of the North
west that the display made by his
several companies would far surpass
the one which created so much wonder
in the old world. In fact the wizard
promised that number of his new in
ventionS would be first shown to the
public at the Minneapolis exposition.
One thing which made Manager
Regain hustle was the fact that there
are several Edison companies, each
owning and controlling certain patents
and articles which go to make up the
immense exhibit. They are the Thomas
A. Edison company, the Edison Lamp
company, the Edison Toy Manufacture
ing company, the North American
Photograph company, the Bell Tele-
phone company, and the West
ern Union Telegraph company.
arrangements it caused considerable
hard work to get the consent of every
body. The exhibit will consist of the
most elaborate decorations in the way
of electric lighting ever attempted.
Some $500 different colored incandes-
cent lights will be arranged in festoons.
and these will be interviewer with
smilaX. making a picture simply in
describable. Lewis Steringer, the en-
gineer and expert for Edison, will be in
Minneapolis early next week and with
Manager Regain will go over the build
ing and prepare the plans for the great
est electrical exhibition ever made by
Edison. Up through the light well,
reaching from the first floor will be
an immense column of vari-cOlOred
lights sixty feet in height. The space
on the second floor between the light
we'll and the art gallery will be given
up to the different inventions of Edison.
There will be lOng-distance telephones,
with which conversation can be
ipn N En1,lyc
OAK, Bismarck, Sioux Falls and other
points. Then there Will be cloud talk
ing" telephones, which will be con-
nected with some theater in Mime
apolis or st. Paul and by means of
which one hundred or more visitors to
the exposition can hear everything said
upon the stage. The monographs will
be another feature. This department
will be under the direction of MI. Wan
geman, who had charge of this branch
of the exhibit in Paris, and who, upon
special invitation. explained its work
ings to the ear, Emperor William, and
other crowned heads of Europe. Mr..
Wangeman will bring with him several
hundred photograph cylinders which
have been used by some OF the most
notable people in the world, and they
will be placed in the machine and the
sentences inscribed faithfully repeated.
The entire exhibit will require three
cars to carry it, and will be under the
general supervision of Edwin w. Ham
mer, who had charge of the Paris exhibit.
1t is also expected that the Edison Elec-
trio Light association. which is made up
of the electric light companies bearing
EdiSOn's name and located iii the differ
ent cities, will hold its convention in
MINNEAPOLIS during the exposition, and
this will probably bring the wizard of
Menlo Park to Minneapolis.
While away Manager Regain secured
a number of Aquatic plants, prominent
among which will be the Victoria Regia
with its great leaves from twenty-five to
fifty feet in diameter and the flowers
from eighteen to thirty inches across.
To make this garden success it will be
necessary to run steam pipes through
the pond and to keep the water at an
even temperature. Two of the most
celebrated magicians and jugglers.
Yan1 Hoe and Omene, have
also been secured. Their expert
feats with the sword are said
to be truly wonderful. While
in Providence Manager Regain attended
a combination concert given by the
Reeves and the Gilmore bands. and Mr..
Regain says he could notice no difference
in the music or in the appreciation by
the audience, both bands doing excel
lent work. Mr.. Regain hopes to be able
to exchange bands with the St. Louis
exhibition for week. Both leaders are
heartily in favor of such a scheme, and
Mr.. Regain feels confident that it can be
carried out.