The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-18
WORLDS FAIR GOSSIP.

WORLDS FAIR GOSSIP.
Progress of the Preliminary Work of
the Exposition.
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-With the Inaugural
ton Of the new year the scope and activ-
ity of the executive officials of the Worlds
Columbian exposition is considerably en-
larged. In the few weeks that are to elapse
before the end of the month it is expected
that several new bureaus will be Differed,
while those already in existence will ex-
tend their operations far beyond the limits
that have so far been touched OF the new
bureaus it is pretty certain that one will
be devoted to electricity. Considerable
pressure to this end has been brought to
bear upon the director general by promi-
nent electricians throughout the country,
and it is generally conceded that if the
plans for a gigantic electrical display are
to be carried out the work cannot be COM
menced too early.
There were displays of exhibits identified
with electricity at the Centennial, as well
as at the Paris exposition, and meager as
they were in both cases they nevertheless
attracted considerable attention. So far
as the coming fair is concerned there seems
to be g consensus of opinion that the cleo
trical department must Guido its prede-
cessors, not so much in the matter of
quantity, but of quality and of scientific
merit There are enough electric light
companies and telephone concerns in the
country to get together an immense dis
play of motors and lamps and wires and
phones in very few months, but some
thing more than this is needed. Accord
ingly it has been suggested that all the
various inventors and concerns interested
should unite upon some new and novel at
fractions, which should combine to dem
onstrate the diversified adaptability of
electricity, as well as the resources and
synthetical power of the electrical world.
Already two suggestions in this line are
receiving considerable attension. One looks
to the application of long distance trans
mission of power by supplying the fair
with power from Niagara. The other is
the construction of an immense mine in
which shall be installed an electric plant
to do all the necessary work, from run
ming the elevator and pumping out the
water to purifying the metals after they
have been brought to the surface. 1t may
be that both of these suggestions are chi
merical, despite the fact that they are ia
vorably regarded by several experienced
electricians, but at any rate the very fact
that the suggestions have been offered with
several score of others in good faith may
be taken as an evidence that the electric
interests of the country are getting alive
to the fact that their department. of the
fair must demonstrate, in as large degree
as possible, what remains to be done with
electricity just as much as what has al
ready been done.
The bureau of foreign affairs-now that
the presidents proclamation has been car
ried to the four quarters of the earth-is
another of the departments to get down to
work in right earnest, and it is only a
question of little while before the direct
or general will have corps of representa-
tives engaged both in the European and
the South American fields. This also is a
matter in which delay would be danger
GUS, for previous experience has shown
that the leading exhibitors of the countries
Of the Old World require, not matter of
few months, but a year, in some cases
two years and even more in which to
formulate their plans for their appropriate
representation, and to carry them to a sue
cessful issue.
In its work the bureau of foreign affairs
will be greatly aided by the department of
promotion and publicity, the chief of
which, Maj. Moses P. Handy, and who
has been given the somewhat peculiar title
of promoter general, has already outlined
some decidedly original ideas. For one
thing, he proposes to placard the leading
cities of England, France, Germany, Italy,
Russia and other European countries with
pictures and printed matter telling of Chi
cagos greatness and glory, and of what
she proposes to do in 1893, to an extent that
will put to shame the recent onslaughts of
Barnum and of the Wild West show on the
billboards of the Old World.
Then the newspapers, daily and weekly,
in every country are to be deluged with
weekly letters and pictures which will tell
of the progress of the work, and furnish a
revolving view of the magnitude of the en-
terprise. Coupled with all this there will
be the efforts of the accredited agents of
the state department, and altogether there
would seem to be no reason why before a
year has elapsed every man and woman,
boy and girl, in every land, who can read
or derive knowledge from pictorial illus
tration, should not know almost as much
concerning the status of the fair as those
who are upon the ground in Chicago.
A third department., the members of
which will get together very shortly, is the
one which has in charge the formal cere-
monies growing out of the fair. 1t has al
ready been decided that the dedication OF
the buildings, which takes place year
from next October, shall be marked by a
great and imposing demonstration Just
what form this shall take, however, is a
matter on which there is some diversity OF
opinion. Secretary Dickinson is in favor
of a mobilization of the United States
army, the militia of every state and terri
tory, and of all the leading military bands
of the country. This would certainly
prove feature both great and impos
ing" Some of the national commission
ers take kindly to the proposition. The
majority, however, do not. The exposi
ton, as have been all of it's predecessors
will be illustrative of the arts of peace
The bringing together of an immense body
of troops on account of it would be very
strongly illustrative of the arts of war.
As Col. Mckenzie, the genial and indie
fatiga5ia commissioner from Kentucky
and who is doing herculean work in arous
ing interest in the south, puts it, ''Tht
dedication ceremonies should be simply
suggestive of international fraternity"
suggestion which has been favorably re
ceived takes the form of an immense pa
rade of troops and of civic bodies, brief ex
eroises at the exposition grounds, to b.
followed by public meetings and orations
in all the public halls and theatres of the
city. Some plan similar to this will prob
ably be adopted.
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