Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-04-03
Moro About the Worlds Fair.
TENNYSON MAY WRITE THE OPENING
TRIBUTE.

rENNYSoN MAY WRITE THE OPENING
TRIBUTE.
The Worlds Congress Auxiliary, or
Congress Of Thinkers, which will he
held in connection with the Column
biam Exposition, promises to bca most
notable success. The purpose Is tol
call together at appointed times dur
ing the Fair, men of profound learn
ing from all parts of the world, in Il
series uf conventions for the consider
alton and discussion of questions OF
science, education, peace, religion, art,
music, finance, literature, economics,
immigration, Justice. etc
Ia response to Il prospectus and in-
letters have been received from men
distinguished in various branches OF
learning. warmly approving the idea,
promising cooperation and accepting
meml crshipin the proposed Congress.
such letters have been received from
Secretary Blaine, John q. Whittier,
President Angel of Michigan Univer-
sity, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Judge
Thomas NJ. Cooley, President Elliot OF
Harvard. Cardinal Gibbons, Edward
Everett Yale, DIR. McCosh of Princeton.
Bishop Spalding, Professor Francis
Wayland and ID. W. Whitney of Yale,
and many others equally distinguished.
An invitation was sent to Lord
Tcnnyson, together with request
that he would write song to be sung
at the opening of the Exposition. In
reply, the following letter has been
received:
FARISGToS, FREsHwATER, ISLE OF WIGHT.
SRI accept your offer of an honorary mem
bcrship, not without gratitude. But MS for
.oug-I am an old man. virging on eighty-t@o.
and cannot promise. Yours truly.
March. VI. TENNYsoN.
II is inferred from the poets words,
that Notwithstanding his great age, he
hopes to be able to compose the song as
requested. 1t is unnecessary to say
that it is hoped he will find himself
equal to the task.
RELICS OF THE GREAT FIRE.
When excavations were made recent
~ for the foundation of the twenty
story Masonic Temple, which is rapid
ly going up at the corner Of State and
Randolph streets in Chicago, an
eighteen ton mass of iron, copper aud
other metals was discovered. A whole
sale hardware store stood on the lot at
the time -of the great conhagration of
1871, and i.is mass of iron represents
| a portion OF the stock which was melt
ed 10y the intense heat and precipitat
eel into the sub-basement. 1t will be
exhibited Mt the Worlds Columbian
Exposition by ID. A. Stout.
The Copper Queen Company, at Bis
bee, A. T., will exhibit at the fair a
mammoth specimen OF ore from their
mines. The work of chiseling the
piece out has been going OH for some
time, and great care is being taken in
its extraction. 1t is estimated that
when ready for shipment it will weigh
five tons and will be in the shape OF a
brick. The specimen is from the big
slope from which such beautiful speci-
mems have been taken, and will con-
tain about every known character of
copper formations and colorings. 1t
will, without doubt, be the most at
tractive specimen on exhibition.
STATE FAIRS TO BE OMITTED IN 1893.
The proposition has been made and
received favorably, that all State agri-
cultural and stock fairs be omitted in
1893, and that instead the several
States bend their energies toward max
ing as excellent exhibition in these
lines rs possible at the Worlds Fair,
and that each be given a special day
for n public and particular display of it.
II is hoped that the State agricultural
societies will endorse this plan. Can
ada, too, shows an inc c'ination to be in
cluded in this arrangement. John
Dryden of the Dominion Cabinet, and
Henry Wade, secretary of the agricul-
tural and art association, have declared
their intention to ask the directory to
designate Canada day, and they say
they will do their utmost to secure
such an exhibit "a will make the day a
notable one.
IA GRIP. L NJ EEsrECTER OF PERSONS.
The Worlds Fair officials who have
been on the sick list are recovering.
Director General Davis and President
Palmer, both of whom have been laid
up with n severe attack of the grip,
have gone to Florida for few weeks
in the hope of more speedy recupera
ton. ViceChairman Mckenzie, too,
has been quite i'll, and has gone to his
home in Kentucky, not expecting to
be able to resume his duties for some
weeks. Arrangements have been
made whereby the exposition work
will not be seriously delayed by the alb
sence of these officials.
| ILLINOIS WILL LEAD.
Now that the protracted Senatorial
struggle in the Illinois legislature is
over, the question of an appropriation
for the States exhibit at the Worlds
Fair will be taken up and disposed of
as speedily as possible. As the fair is
to be held at its metropolis, Illinois
feels called upon to set the example