Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-23
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

PENNsYLvANIA's Exposition building will
! cost $15, 600.
! THE Florida horticultural Society has
asked for three acres in which 20 show ssa
orange grove and make a fruit display.
SoUTH DAKOTA Is now engaged in raising
$50 OUO for its representation at the Exposi-
ton 1t proposes TO erect a building IA
feet square.
BIDS are soon to be invited for $50, 900
square feet OF sidewalks for the Exposition
grounds. These walks, for the most part,
will be forty feet wide.
INDIANA will have q 800 900 building at
the Fair. 1t will not cost that much, how
ever, large share of the material, all OF
which viii come from that State, will be
donated.
THERE will be not less than twenty-five
restaurants, as we'll as numerous cafes in
the Exposition buildings. 1t Is the intention
of the Exposition authorities TO protect visi-
tors from exhorbtant cnarges.
1T Is expected that there will be fully 5000
dogs entered in the Exposition bench show.
The various kennel clubs propose TO supple
Tnent the already satisfactory premium list
by number OF very handsome medals.
THE total expense of organization, admin
istration and operation of the Exposition is
estimated at nearly s., 900, 600. This takes
no account of the sums to be- spent by the
Government, the states or foreign nations.
The State Department at Washington
has been notified that Russia has appointed
its royal Worlds Fair Commission and
that the President OF it Is Prvy Coun-
cillor Behr. Director OF the Department. of
Finance.
FRANCE has asked %, OO0 and The Hague
11,OOO square feet of space for their picture
exhibits alone. Until Recently it was thought
that the weakest feature or the Exposition
would be its fine arts exhibit. Now, how
- heliaYa1 Wi hp n
the best of ALL
THE owners of one of the finest business
corners in Chicago have decided to erect a
$l,OOO, OOO slxteen-stOry building to be called
THE Columbus" in honor OF Americas dis
cover. The plans contemplate a structure
strlklngly artistic and ornate in appearance
OF the Spanish style of architecture.
THE Western Union Telegraph Company
intends to frame handsomely the first tele-
graph message ever sent, which was i'll May,
1914, and exhibit it in the Electrical Depart
ment at the Exposition. The messag e was
received by Professor Morse at the Capitol
in Washington, from an assistant in Au-
napOlls.
The American Pathological Society," at its
recent annual meeting in Washington, de-
clded to make an exhibit classified by State
and comfy associations, and also by indi-
V1duals; and it appointed a Worlds Fair
committee of six TO confer with the Horti-
cultural Department, and to perfect ar
rangements.
1T is not thought probable, now that there
will be any tower at the Worlds Fair. The
projectors Of the most promising tower
scheme abandoned it when they found that
they would have to take down their tower
when the exposition closed because the Park
Commissioners refused to grant any subse-
Quent use of site.
DIR. BERTOLLTTE, Commissioner of the La
Platte Republics, has informed the Latin
american Department that he is endeavor-
ing to secure for the Exposition co.ony
of lace makers and gold and silver workers
from Paraguay. These people ingen-
lous, their product being equal to that of
the Brussels working women, and the fact
that they use vegetable fibre exclusively
makes their work of even greater value and
interest.
ASIDE from the cost of the great building,
which will be not far from 100000, the
following are among the sums which have
been or will be spent in preparation Of the
Exposition grounds: Grading and filling,
$3.50, 600, landscape gardening, 1923, 800;
viaducts and bridges, $l25, 900; piers, $7O,-
600; waterway improvements, 1926, 600;
railways, $500, co., steam plant, 5000
electric lighting, 81, 5OO,O0O; statuarv, $780,
600; vases, lamps etc. $50, 900; lake front
$500, O00 water supply and
sewerage 5000, 900: other expenses Sl,00l-
OOO; total, 1913. 900.