West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-12-04
WORLDS EXPOSITION.
An Active Week Among the
Officials.
THE SITE FINALLY SETTLED.
Mrs. Potter Palmer Elected President
Of the Lady Managers.
CALIFORNIA; BIG TREE.
Iowa Making Preparations.
CHICAGO COLUMBIAN TUNNEL.
CALIFORNIA; BIG TREE.
CHICAGO COLUMBIAN TUNNEL.
CnIcAeo. Nov. 90. 1890.

CHICAGO, Nov. &c, 1890.
From our own Correspondent.
The past week has been stormy
one in the Worlds Fair circles.
There has been n general shaking MP
in all its departments. As result,
the members have been aroused to
renewed activity, harmony has been
secured between the local Directory
and the National Commission, and
q clear understanding arrived at
between the different Committees
rs to their work, authority and re-
lation with one another. This was
indispensable to tho success of the
Exposition. Henceforth the wheels
within the wheels will roll smoothly
and collisions will seldom, if ever.
occur.
The site has been finally and hap.
PLY settled. With general appro-
val the great body of the Exposition
is to be located ut Jackson Park.
The Art Building, Decorative Art
Building (for goods known in the
Classification rs Department ~,
Music Hall, Electrical Display, Wa
ter Palace and Steel Tower will be
placed OF the Lake Front. All the
other great buildings will be placed
on jackson Park and the Midway
! Plaisancc, which joins Jackson and
Washington Parks. The latter Park
"iii -.1..y g,seryed for the over
How and for military encampmcnls
and displays. The Agricultural and
Live Stock Exhibitions will occupy,
in the choicest location, owes eighty
acres Of high and dry land in Jack
sou ParH. adjacent to the main
brild'r2- of Tho Esncsi.ion.
The entire apportionment Of the
grounds has been made by the Di.
rectory, and rs soon as it is amend
cd and accepted by the National
Body we will give it in our letter.
The twelve Departments of the
Exposition, as revised, now stands
as follows, and arc again divided
into 173 groups and 919 classes:
A-Agriculture Food and It's
Accessories; Fores, Producte, For
estry; Machinery and Appliances.
B-Viticulture, Horticulture,
Horticulture.
Give Stock; Domestic and
Wild Animals.
D-Fish, Fisheries, Fish Pro.
ducts, and Apparatus of Fishing.
E-Mines, timing, and Metal
lurgy.
F-Machinery.
G--Transportation Railways.
Vessels, Vehicles.
H-Manufactures.
J-Electricity and Electrical Ap-
pliance.
Kline Arts Pictorial, Plastic
and Decorative.
L--Liberal Arts: Education. En-
gineering, Public Works, Architec-
ture, Music and the Drama.
M-Ethnology, Archaeology: Pro-
| gress Of Labor and Invention, Iso-
lated and Collective Exhibits.
Under Department A there arc 20
groups and 12l classes; Department
I b, 8 groups and 43 classes; Depart
ment g, 10 groups and ~ classes:
Department D, groups and 81
classesj Department y. 27 groups
and l41 classes; Department r, 2I
groups and 75 classes; Department
| q. groups and a classes; Depart
ment II, 20 groups and 1S2 classes.
/ Department j, i6 groups and a.
classes; Department < II groups
and 20 classes; Department r, -
groups and nc classes; Department
1 VI, l8 groups and - classes.
/ The latter includes ''isolativc and
collective" exhibits and "portraits.
busts. and statues Of great iuvon-
tors and Others who hayc contribu
ted largely to tho progress Of civili.
zation, and no classes are given