Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-25
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| eAuiUll Vi lNeSe artlcieS at Iilc UoIiu D LAX
| To secure this end she Is trying to raise
$4,000 in this country. 1--WE hope to have
the use OF two rooms in the woman's oulld,
| ing,'' said the countess. I'm one We will
| have representation OF bridal party.
| The figures, which will be of wax, will be
| clothed entirely in garments made by these
| poor Irish girls. but it will be beautiful
| display, the laces and embroideries being OF
the richest. Then there will be girls at
work, and goods will be sold. Beds laid
\ with the finest hand-woyen linen and
wooden will be seen, and costly curtains"
The Ohio board of Worlds fair commits
| sionerS is planning for real and practical
results. 1t proposes TO prepare map OF
4 the state showing the variety and location
| of various soils. A complete show OF agri-
| cultural products viii be obtained by sup
plementing the premiums offered at the
| state fair, with the condition that they
| shall become the property of the state COM
| mission. 1t is the intention to supplement
the exposition cash premiums for livestock
! by others offered by the state. All OF the
| $50 or more varieties OF birds in the state
| will be shown mounted by taxidermy. In
numerous other branches the commission is
working to secure a notable exhibit.
| All Indian exhibits at the Worlds fair
| will be under the direction of the govern
ment, or of Chief Putnam of the depart
ment of ethnology. The ways and means
| committee has decided that it will consider
no application by private indivuals for an
| Indian exhibit.
Hugh Price, one of the Wisconsin COM
| missioners, has made arrangements for Sc
curing for the Worlds fair mammoth cork
pine, tree which is growing rare in his
state. It is twenty-four feet in length, and
will scale 2500 feet. One plank is sixteen
| feet long, three inches thick and forty-four
| inches wide, without a knot or blemish.
Gen. Nelson A Miles will be grand mar
shal of the parades, civic and military, con-
nected with the exposition, including the
parade on the occasion of the dedication of
the buildings, October u, 1892. Miss Har-
riet Monroe of Chicago has been chosen TO
write commemorative ode for the dedica-
tory ceremonies.
An additional appropriation of $500, 0OO to
5000, 900 is what the board of management of
the government exhibit thinks will be nee
essary to insure the exhibit at the Worlds
fair on the scale intended by congress. The
members will try to have this included in
the treasury estimates.
Sir Henry Trueman Wood of the royal
British commission on the exposition says
the list of intending exhibitors is growing
rapidly, and the success of the British sec
ton is already secured to an extent beyond
any hopes that were at first entertained.
He is convinced that the interest in the
enterprise will continue undated. The ex-
hibit of textiles and pottery will be espec-
tally good.
a committee of the Iowa state teachers
association having in charge the matter of
an educational exhibit for the next meeting
of the association, which shall form the
basis for the exhibit of the Worlds fair.
has adopted the following outline for the
display: Blanks showing the school organi-
cation, text books by Iowa authors, work
of state colleges and public schools, work
Of industrial and charitable schools, work
of UNCONVENTIONAL schools and colleges, pho
tographs of school buildings and schools at
work, statistical tables, apparatus, cabi-
nets, library exhibits and historical records.
The government department of agricul-
ture is taking steps to make very elabo-
rate exhibit of every kind OF wool clipped in
this country. The department will issue
small pamphlet upon each branch of the
exhibits it will make, containing informa-
ton not widely known, and of great practi
cal value TO agriculturistS.
Professor Ives of the art department, re-
ports that the artists off Russia are deeply
interested in the exposition, and have prom
ised him to send to it a fine collection of
their best work.
James Dredge, one of the British commits
sioners who recently visited Chicago, it is
reported, has been i vited, and hss con-
scented, to lecture before associations of
manufacturers and art societies throughout
England upon the exposition and the ar
rangements that have been made for for
eign exhibitors. BY means of stereopti-
con he will illustrate his lectures with
views of the exposition grounds and build
ings.
Four hundred railway lines have already
agreed to return exhibits from the EXPOSE
ton free of charge.
The South park commissioners have
taken steps to have Drexel, Grand and Oak
wood boulevards, leading to the exposition
grounds, brilliantly lighted with electric
ity. An electric plant costing $4,000 to
SlO0, 200, and equal to supplying 800 arc
authorities will illuminate with electricity
the entire exposition grounds, including
Midway plaisauce More than three times
as much power will be required to run the
dynamos as was used in all, the depart
ments of the Philadelphia centen-
NAL show. Although the estimates
have not been finished. the engineers
lamps and fully 100000 incandescent
lamps. Twelve Thousand OF the latter will
be used in the fine art galleries alone.
The native flora of each state and terri
tory will be shown at the exposition, under
the direction of Chief Thorpe, who has en-
listed the lady managers to undertake the
collection of specimens.
On the roof of the horticulture building,
around the central dome, an elaborate dis
play of roof gardening will be made. It is
expected that this will not only be pleasur-
able to visitors, but will afford valuable
suggestions that will be utilized by persons
who live in large cities and are deprived of
door yards and lawns.
In the center of the horticulture building
will be 4 miniature mountain, seventy feet
high, upon which will grow giant tree
ferns and palms, and other vegetation,
finding there congenial home. A noun
tain stream will dash from one declivity to
another and play hide-and-seek with the
foliage. Beneath this rock mountain will
be cave, eighty feet in diameter and sixty
feet high, brilliantly lighted by electricity,
where during the whole six months of the
exposition. the experiment will be tried
whether plants will grow under electric
light as well as under sunlight. Chief
Thorpe of the Horticulture division origi-
mated the plan.
The invitation extended by the lady man
ayers for contri buttons in the form of mate
rails to the women's building has met with
many responses. Mrs. Ginty, lady man
ager from Wi consin, offers to furnish fine
woods and stone from her state, and IN
carved but highly polished panels for the
reception-room. Mrs. Ashley. lady manager
for Colorado, has promised two carved
panels. Marie Louise lIillikin of Chicago
wants to give finished redwood panel from
her native state, California Mrs. Mary
Rogers of Fort Smith offers a door, Miss
Patti Moore of Missouri will give an onyx
column 2 p Ravens an Indiana fair