The morning call., 1890-10-06
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Commissioners aud Directors as
Busy as Bees.
Special to The MORNING CALL

CHICAGO, Oct l. Another week has
passed aud still the good work goes ON.
Around the headquarters of the Exposition
all is life and activity. Commissioners and
Directors alike are as busy as bees. There
is no room there for drones. The greatest
unanimity exists; all ara working for one
common end-to make the fair the greatest
of all expositions Judging from the ex-
tent of the work done in the last ten days
and the scope of the plans, it certainly will
be. 1t is hard for those at distance to COM
prehend the great difficulties that are met in
mpletng the plans for such vast under
taking.
We're it possible to do so, sympathy and
admiration would take the place OF critic
ism and Impotence. Rome was not built in
day. Practically there is no precedence
for a guide. In the words of President
Palmer, 1.-The Columbian Exposition is
going to be grander than those of Paris,
London, Vienna and the Centennial COM
bined." This gives US an idea OF the ex-
tenSivenesS of the plans and the field of
labor there is in marshaliDg all the depart
ments and exhibits into order. The Paris
Exposition Will be an ordinary State Fair
compared to it.
President Palmer has at last appointed the
Board OF Lady Managers. Three from what
is known as the Isabella Association and
four from the W0man's Auxiliary. The ap-
pointments were unsatiSfa Glory TO the la
dies. That is to those not appointed. They
all wanted to be included in that three"
and -four" Here tiouble begins that wont
end with the fair"
The Classification Committee of the Ma
tional Commissioners are still in session.
They have already decided to divide the eX-
hibits into thirteen departments, known as
Department A and so on to NJ Each
visions 1iViSlDus intO spptiDuS and
marked by numerals. Each depart
ment will occupy building by itself,
each division in rooms OF the building,
and each section III some portion Of the
room.
As part of the chronological display, it is pro-
posed to erect models of the earthworks and
mounds of the central portion of our coun-
try, beginning with the great Mound
Cahnkia in Illinois, which Is 600 feet long,
and the great Serpent Mount of Ohio, which
is 14G0 feet long. The singular mounds of
immense size, representing men and various
animals which are still intact in Wisconsin
and Minnesota would be represented. The
OBJECTS found in these upon the ancient viii
lage sites and cemeteries, illustrating the arts
OF the ancient peoples, their implements
and ornaments of stone, copper, silver,
meteOrc, iron, shell, CLAY, also the woven
and braided clothes and baskets, will be
show II to the fullest extent possible, so that
the objects, the arts, customs and mode OF
can be compared with one another and
those of later times, and the distributions,
mlgrations and connections of the various
peoples of the past and present be shown.
1t is also proposed to lay out a street of
London, and on il place the Boar 'S-head
Tavern at Eastcheap, Peter Pindar's house
and other historic buildings; also a street
from Damascus, perhaps Straight street, on
which is the house of Simon. the tanner
To be like Straight street it would
have to be very crooked, but the idea
is to introduce on it the things we
read about in the Bible, which have an in
terrst for people all over the world. On a
street from Jerusalem would be placed the
original house of Pontius PLATE, which is
said to be still preserved at Seville. Follow
cipal scenes from 1.-The Arabian Nights"
Then a street from Pompeii, with the
houses of Sallust, Glaucus, DiOmed and
Pauza. Also the pyramid of CheopS, over
400 feet his b, with the tomb of Pharoah in
side and the SarcUphsgus. In this apart
ment would be the homes Of Shakespeare,
Burns, and Mary. Queen OF Scots depart
mentS at Hollywood. Last but not least, in
the choicest location of all, will be placed
model OF WdsDiDgton's tomb at Mount
Vernon
The Paris-Chicago Panorama Company
are making preparations to exhibit an his
tOrical panorama, from the landing of Co
lumouS down tn the present time. A large
corps of eminent artists are now engaged on
the sketches. w. G. Douglass of Baltimore
wishes to make a missionary exhibit. He
contends that missionary exhibit of all de-
nominations would be an attractive feature
of the fair. We do not doubt it if the mis-
slonaries would agree to be eaten by the
cannl balls, even without pepper and salt
President Palmer wants to bring villages
from different parts Of the world-Sorcerers
and Nautsch girls from India and Arabs
from the deserts. He would have cheese
and butter makers from Holland, Vosquers
from Pampas. IBcas from Peru, Tyrolean
singers from Tyrol and dancing boys and
girls from Spain. He also wants street
from Venice, with room to float the ancient
triremes OF the Mediterranean and erect the
Colossus of Rhodes.
BY considering for moment the innum-
cradle features and kind of displays we get
faint idea of what the magnitude of the
exposition is going TO be and the immensely
Of the scheme and plan.
On account of the delay of the Committee
on Buildings and Grounds, we cannot de-
scribe the national buildings in this letter.
The different committees are now in ses-
sion, adopting plans, allolting space and de-
Gliding on building designs. and their decis-
ions are anXiOusly awaited. JBC