The Mankato free press., 1891-11-20
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.


The Art Palace on the Lake Front
park, which will be built by the Art
Institute assisted to the extent OF
$780, 900 by the EXPOSITION company,
will cost about 100000. The designs
and plans of Shepley, Rutan y Cool
idge, of Boston, have been adopted
During the Exposition the building
will be used by the Worlds Congress
Auxiliary for'some OF its numerous
meetings.
California is the first state to re.
spond to Chief Buchanan's request
that each state contribute the trunks
Of three of it's most characteristic
trees, to be used in constructing a
rustic colonnade for the Forestry
building. California's contribution
includes a sugaripine furnished by
Towle Bros. Company, Of Alta; red
wood, by j. f. Cunningham, of Santa
Cruz; and sequoia, by Smith Com
stock, of Tulare.
The great imitation coast-line bat
| tleship, which is to constitute and
contain the governments naval eX-
| hibit is in an advanced state of con-
| struction. 1t will be all inclosed be-
fore winter weather sets in and all of
| the interior work will be completed by
spring.
A Worlds Fair transportation COM
pany has been organized by number
of moneyed men in Maine for the pur-
pose of transporting New Englanders
| to and from the Exposition and pay
ing their expenses while in Chicago.
1t issues certificates payable in in
StallmentS and these, when paid up,
are transferable for round trip tickets
to the Exposition, including all nee
essary expenses.
The Carriage Builders National
Association, at it's recent session in
Cincinnati, appointed an influential
committee to supervise the collection
hibit of vehicles, and to cooperate
with Chief Smith of the Transporta-
tion Department.
The State Board Of Commerce, of
Oregon, has employed canyassers to
raise S25, 900 to be turned into the
States Worlds Fair fund.
E. r. L. Gould, the American del
egate to the International Statisti-
cal Institute, recently held in Paris,
writes to Chief Fearn saying that the
congress has accepted an invitation to
meet in Chicago in 1893.
The Quebec Steamship Company,
operating the New York, Bermuda &
West India Line, has agreed to bring
government exhibits to the Fair free.
Half rate is granted on the exhibits
of individuals.
Quaritch, the noted London book
dealer, intends to send to the EXposi
tion an autograph letter of Christie
pher Columbus, for which he paid
S., 900.
Thomas a. Edison, the famous cleo
trician has applied for $4,000 feet of
space, or about One-seveDth of all that
the Electricity building contains. II
have it from Mr.. Edison HIMSELF"
said Chief John p. Barrett, that his
display at the Fair is to be the great
est achievement of his life. In talk
ing Of his application for space Mr..
Edison admitted that he was asking
for large section of the building;
but every inch will be put to good
purpose he added. i shall not waste
a foot of the area assigned to me, but
Will present series of the most in
teresting electrical inventions ever
produced | happen to know" Pro-
fessOr Barrett added, that Mr. Edi-
son is doing just as he says
The agricultural society of France
has decided to offer number of pre-
miums for the best French horses
shown at the Fair.
One acre of ground within the Hor-
ticultural building has been reserved
for an orange grove from Florida and
the same amount for a grove from
California. These trees will be
brought to Chicago next year and
planted, so that they will bear fruit
while the Exposition is open. These
two acres constitute two interior
courts Of the building.
The State of Idaho has applied for
10000 square feet of space in the
Mines and Mining building for dis
play of minerals.
Wisconsin's building at the Exposi-
tion will be S0x90 feet, three stories
high, and of the Queen Anne style of
architecture. Its cost is estimated at
S29, 900.
Florida's Exposition building will
be full-siZed reproduction of Fort
Marion, which was built at st. Angus
tine in 1920 and is believed to be the
Oldest building in the United States.
1t is Of stone and covers a space of
about $50 feet square. The walls are
twenty feet high and nine feet thick
at the base. 1t is a rectangular
structure, the interior court being
about seVenty-five feet square. With
in the fort are some twenty-four
rooms. The reproduced structure on
the Fair grounds will be frame, cover
ed On the outside with the phosphate
rock of Florida, to give it the ap-
pearance of stone. The walks on the
parapet and within the inner court
will be covered with the celebrated
pebble phosphate OF Florida. This
use of the material will constitute the
States phosphate exhibit. The old
fort is encompassed about with a deep
moat. This moat will also be repro
duced, and will constitute sunken
garden in which will be shown all the
tropical plants of Florida-the pine
| apple, banana, rice, sugar cane, or
anges, etc. 1t is contemplated to
partition off a portion of the mOat and
! fill it with water and have there sew
eral alligators'and, perhaps, crocodiles
Several Of the old Spanish cannon
that once did service at the fort will
| be taken to Chicago. The Florida
building promises to be one of the
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