Passaic City record., 1891-09-19
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

THE Worlds Fair power plant will be OF
24,000 horse power, and will require the
services of $50 engineers, firemen and at
tendants.
Mrs. SUSAN GALE Cook, of Tennessee, is
now Permanent Secretary OF the Board or
Lady Managers, having been elected at the
September meeting
THE London Chronicle says that the Prince
of Wales has all but decided to go to Chi
cago to attend the Exposition, and that ne Is
likely to be accompanied by Emperor VIII
liam of Germany.
IT is now estimated that nearly SIS. 900, 600
will be spent upon the Worlds Fair oy tne
Exposition Company alone. This sum does
not include what will be expended by the
United States and other nations, the States
of the Union, cities, industries, and private
enterprises.
THE National Association Of Canned Food
Packers has applied for space to exhibit its
products at the Fair The association in its
Jurisdiction covers the packing interests OF
twenty States There are in the country
about 1000 canning concerns, consuming tne
product of 1000, 900 acres of land and giving
direct employment to million people.
A COMMITTEE of live stock experts has
apportioned the cash premiums to be
awarded in the Exposition Live Stock Ds-
partment amounting to $3.50, 600, as follows:
For horses, $50, 600; cattle, $50, 600; SWINE,
5000; poultry and pet stock, 1000;
dogs, $4,000. This leaves contingent fund
of $40, 600, which Chief Buchanan says should
be held for special breed of animals that may
have been overlooked.
The Exposition Directors have appropri-
ated $50, 900 for the expense OF reproducing
at the Exposition the Convent Of La Riba-
da, Palos, Spain, where Columbus lived
while perfecting his plans for his voyage oil
discovery. The building will be used for
housing an extensive collection of Columbus
relics, and its ancient appearance, it Is be-
lieved, will afford pleasing contrast to that
of the magnificent palaces by which IL Will
be surrounded.
MEXICO, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicara-
qua, Costa Rica, Columbia. Ecuador, Peru,
Chile, and Brazil will erect special buildings;
Mexico will produce at jackson Park one OF
the ancient Aztec temples. Guatemala will
erect at cost of $4,000 building on the
model of one of the palaces of the ruined city
Antigua. The building of Colombia will be
the capitol of that republic in miniature
Ecuador has already given orders for the
removal to Chicago of the reproduction OF
the Incas's Temple of the Sun" that orna-
mented the grounds of the Paris Exposition.
PLANS have been completed for the Live
Stock Assembly Hall at the Exposition.
This building will stand just south of the
colonnade connecting Agricultural and
Machinery Buildings. 1t will In form re
semble the letter T, one portion being 500
feet long and the other 200 feet. On the first
floor will be office room for cattle and horse
associations, dog and pet stock associations.
and all remaining livestock organizations.
On the second floor will be an assembly hall
172 feet long and seventy-four feet wide.
Here the farmers will be given chance to
hold their assemblies. Special rooms are
provided for the Farmers Alliance, the
National Grange, and other similar associa-
tions. The entire structure has been SO
planned as to give the farmers and livestock
men generally all they could ask in the way
of Accommodations Chief of Construction
Burnham has been instructed by the Com
mittee op Grounds and Buildings to perfect
working rawlings and ask for contracts.