The Coconino weekly sun., 1891-11-26

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 w. A. Alexander and Louis Gelder, representing the insurance associations of Chicago, have asked for space, 90 by 100 feet, to construct . building al the Fair to constitute an exhibit of the most improved methods of fireprooi construction and the appliances used in saving goods from burning build ings. The building, it is urged, can be occupied by a salvage corps during the fair
 Commissioners Groner and Lindsay and Directors Lawrence and Peck have been appointed committee to call on President Harrison and the Secretary of the Navy to ascertain what, if any, expense of the naval rendezvous at Hampton Roads and review Tn New York harbor in April, 1893, should be borne by the Exposition management Many are of the opinion that the gov ernment ought to foot the bill.
 The Council of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers has appointed q committee to devise and recommend a series of efficiency tests of engineering appliances. On this committee are Chas. E. Emery, who was in charge of the steam boiler tests at the Centennial Exposition, and Prof R. H. Thurst6n of Cornell University, who was q com missioner to the Vienna Exposition of 1873, and member of the jury of the Paris Exposition of 1889.
 The Chicago Paper Trade Club, which includes the prominent manu- lecturers and dealers in paper in In- diana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon- sin, has decided to make the best cX- hibit of paper manufacturing and its machinery and appliances ever held under one roof. The display will show the actual manufacture of paper in all grades from wood pulp to the highly finished book, and the exhibit will be conducted every day during the time of the Exposition. The finished pro duet is to be run through perfecting press and printed and sold as a souve- mir.
 A splendid exhibit from Australia seems assured. Minerals, education, forestry, and especially wool are to be represented. Wool growers and wool brokers to the number of fifty, met re- gently in Sydney, New South Wales, and took steps to make at the EXposi- ton very extensive collective exhibit of wools. New South Wales has select ed its commission to the Worlds Fair.
 William Ordway Partridge, the great sculptor, has asked for space in the Art Palace for his statue of Shake speare, which he is now making for Lincoln Park. His statue of AIeXan- der Hamilton, which he is making for the city of Boston, will also be shown. Mir. Partridge is vice-president of the American Artists Association in Paris He gives assurances that the associa- tion heartily interested in the Exposi- tion.
 The Council of the Society of Arts, which is the Royal British Worlds Fair Commission, after listening to the highly favorable report of Commission CTS Sir Henry Wood and James Dredge relative to their investigation of Expo sition matters at Chicago, decided to appoint committees on finance, fine arts, Indian, colonial, engineering, manufactures, electricity, agriculture, mines and metallurgy, textile indus tries and transportation, and also . committee on women's work to cooper ate with the Board of Lady Managers in Chicago. It also voted to invite the assistance of chambers of commerce and local committees throughout Eng land.
 The Exposition Committee on Elec- tr'icity has decided that the names of the following electricians shall appear over the entrances of the Electricity Building: Franklin, Galvani, Ampere, Faraday, Sturgeon, Ohm, Morse, Siemens, Dayy, Volta, Henry, oersted, Coulomb, Ronald, Page, Weber, Gill bert, Davenport, Soemmering, Don Silva, Arago, Daniell, Jacobi, Wheat stone, Gauss, Vail, Bain, De la Rive, Joule, Saussure, Cooke, Varley, Stein- heil Guericke, La Place. Charming, Priestly, Maxwell, CoXe, Theles, Cavendish. It was concluded best not to honor thus any electricians who are now living,