The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

thusiasm which assures a splendid exhibit
from that country.
A New YORK company that manufactures
self-winding clocks has offered to furnish free
of cost all the time.pieces that will be needed
in the building during the Fair.
TURKEY has appointed as Worlds Falr
Commissioners D. Jemel Efendi, Agrleul'
tural Inspector at Broussa, and Pangirl bey,
Sub-Director Of the Foreign Press Bureau.
THE First infantry Regime Mt, National
Guard of California, has decided to attend
rated aplan for providing for the expenses OF
the trip.
TIE National Association Of Woolen Man.
ufacturers and the American Pottery Asso-
citation have each decided to make an exhibit
at the Exposition such as has never before
been seen in this country.
IVAN MALAKoFF, st. Petersburg capl-
talist, wants to reproduce at the Exposition
street scene from Mini Novgorod, the
celebrated place where expositions have
been held for 800 years. He agrees to spend
$3.50 900 upon the reproduction.
The magnitude Of the building operations
now going on at jackson Park can be sur.
missed from the fact that an average OF from
thirty five to forty car loads OF construc'
tion material arrives daily. The Expo,
sition buildings are rising with wonderful
| rapidity.
A COMPANY has applied for space to erect
a building in the form Of an iceberg in which
to make polar exhibit. A group Of Esqui.
maux, with reindeer. furs and all the para.
phernaiia of inhabitants OF the polar re-
gions will be installed in the building If the
concession is granted.
BETWEEN $40 and $50 men are employed
in, fho fea
Exposition site. 1t is the intention to make
the grounds exceedingly beautiful by walks,
drives, lawns, terraces, fountains, shruobery
and flowers. Several hundred thousand
dollars are to be expended for this purpose.
THE Ways and Means Committee has
granted W. l.. Libby & Son Company OF
Toledo, Ohio, a concession for the operation
of big cuu-glass factory. The company
will invest between $50 900 and SIS. 900 on its
plant, which will be located at Fifty-ninthl
street, in the Midway Plaisance, on plat OF
land 150 by $50 feet.
c. W. WYNKoop has been sent out by a
London syndicate to find the gold mines IN
the biblical lands of Ophir, where King Sol
omon and the Queen Of Sheba got their
riches. He will report to Chief Skif the re-
suit Of his Investigations, and promises to
furnish some interesting matter Tor the
mines and mining department.
The Exposition Directory has called upon
the Comptroller Of the city of Chicago to
sell 81, ,O0O,O 600 of the 5000, 900 Of bonds
which the city voted in aid OF the Expo
sition. The proceeds, which it Is desired
shall be realized within ninety days, Is to DO
applied mainly to paying the enormous e1-
penses Of the construction OF the build
ings.
TIE women of Illinois. who have the
spending Of $50, 900 Of the $500. 900 which the
State appropriated for its representation at
the Exposition, have been granted, for their
exclusive use. one.tenth Of the space in the
Illinois Building, which, altogether. Is some
thing more than an acre and q half. Ine
women will make separate exnloit
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. the civil service
champion, wants to have an american
Sportsman,s Exhibit" made at the Expo
ation. In explanation Of his idea he says:
II want an exhibit Of every weapon and
utensil used in hunting, fishing aud trap
ping since the discovery Of the country down
to the present day. We have the greatest
hunting country on earth"
OSp of the unique features Of the Mexican
exhibit at the Fair will be the celebrated
Pandure family, consisting Of five persons,
who are probably the most expert workers
In clay and modeers Of figures In the world.
This family will be sent to Chicago by the
State of Guadalajara. It is the intention 70
provide a Mexican house tor them TO i've IN
during the Fair, and workshop where the
work may be inspected.
THE Palace of Music at the Exposition. 1t
IS now expected, will stand on the great
island formed by the lazoons, and viii be
surrounded by magnificent gardenof How
ers, ten acres of more in extent. This loca,
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Director to the Exposition. but has not yet
been finally passed upon by the Board OF
Directors. The structure will measure l50 by
$50 feet, and cost approximately SloODo0.
DIRECTOR GEORGE ScHNE1DEI. has re.
ceiyed adyicas from Berlin to the effect that
the associated chemical works of the Ger
man Empire had agreed to make full and
comprehensive exhibit at the Exposition in
1893 Asis we'll known, the German Empire
leads all the world in the matter OF the
chemical manufactures, and the exhibit thus
determined upon can not fail to be one or
the most attractive and instructive at the
Exposition.
DR.. EDWARD BEpLoE, United States Con-
sui at Annoy, China, who has been an NJ actlve
promoter of the interests OF the Worlds
Fair, writes to Chief Handy that, in all Eng
Ish-speaking circles in China, there l. great
and growing interest in the Chicago Expo
sition, In addition to other work he has So
cured promises from eight friends to send on
their private collections Of curios and brio
a-brac in 1893. and hopes to obtain most in
teresting collections from Annoy and from
Formosa.
SIR WALKER BULLARD who owns the
finest collection of native Maori curiosities
and paintings in the world, has applied for
space in which to display his collection. and
intends visiting the Exposition with his
family. Major John Wilson, OF Auckland,
has submitted proposition TO the Foreign
Affairs Committee to bring colony or
Maoris to the Exposition, house them IN one
Of their native built forts. and let them
show their native costumes, nome lie and
methods Of warfare.
COLOMBIA will celebrate the anniversary
of its independence, July 20, by opening an
exposition on that date in 1892. The e1posi-
tion will continue until the end Of October,
and will embrace an extensive showing OF
the resources and products Of the country,
and also a historical. archaeological, aud
ethnolozical exhibit. At the close or the
exposition the whole collection, or the best
part OF it at least, will be sent to the orid's
Fair at Chicago as part OF the exhlole from
the Republic of Colombia.
PROFESSOR WARD the wel-known miner
alogist and scientist Of Rochester. N. T.,
called upon Director-General Davis, few
days ago and offered to send his entire collec-
tion Of geological specimens to the Expo
sition. His collection represents ths expen-
diture Of great deal Of money and the work
OF years, and is one of the most complete IN
this country. At the Centennial Professor
Ward was allotted space 1201l3O feet. 1.-The
can secure it he will fill considerably more
space at the Exposition OF 1888.