Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-10-08

IHE DPeSS anu IrlnUlng committee
has passed resolution asking that
building 2O0X400 feet be constructed,
in which is to be furnished Office room
for all foreign and American news
papers.
No sIDEsHOws are to be permitted
within the Exposition grounds, The
Directory has decided that the en-
trance fee shall entitle the visitor to
see everything within the Enclosure.
THE Exposition Directory has taken
action under which adequate insur-
ance will be placed upon all persons
and property for which it can be held
liable during the Fair.
THE Wisconsin State Building will
be two stories high, with not less
than TO-, 900 feet of floor space, eXclu-
sive of pOrches. The whole structure
is to be built of Wisconsin material.
TEXAS has decided to set apart a
spacious room in its Exposition Build
ing for an exhibit by the colored peO-
pie Of the State.
ALL of the important trunk lines
in the United States have agreed to
transport exhibits at half the usual
rates.
THE lumbermen of Washington
have promised to contribute all the
material necessary for the cOnstruc-
tion Of the building Of that State at
the Exposition, and the Northern
Pacific has agreed to transport the
| nvhi hit frna of pborOp
A MAGNIFICENT microscope has
just been completed by the Munich
Poeller Physical and Optical Institute
for the great Chicago Exposition, at
a cost of $3.50. 1t possesses a mag
nifying power of II, 900 diameters.
THE Worlds Fair power plant will
be of "a, 600 horsepower, and will re-
quire the services of $50 engineers,
tiremen, and attendants.
| MICHIGAN will construct it's build
ing wholly of Michigan material, and
will send it to Chicago in sections.
The photographers of the country
want a separate building at the EX-
position, adapted to magnificent
| Photographic exhibit collected from
! the whole world.
| AN interesting collection from
| Asiatic- Russian provinces is being eX-
hibited on the Champs Elysee in
| Paris, and it is said will be taken tC
| Chicago in 1898.
THE Exposition Directors have ap.
| propriated $4,000 for the expense OF
reproducing at the Exposition the
| Convent of La Ribada, PalOs, Spain,
where Columbus lived while perfect
| ing his plans for his voyage Of dis.
covery
THE effort to have a tribe of Afri.
can pigmies exhibited at the Exposi.
tion is pretty certain to succeed.
CALIFORNIA may show at the
| Worlds Fair, as a part of its exhibit,
the finest collection Of minerals in
the United States.
S. II. PEABODY, eX-President Of the
| Illinois State University, has been
confirmed as Chief of the Department
of Liberal Arts of the Exposition.
A COMMITTEE of livestock experts
has apportioned the cash premiums
to be awarded in the Exposition Live
Stock Department, amounting to
$3.50, 600, as follows: For horses $52,-
600; cattle, $50, 900: swine, S15, 900:
poultry and pet stock, $4,000 dogs,
81, 600 This leaves a contingent
fund of $40, 600, which Chief Buchanan
says should be held for special breeds
of animals that may have been over
! looked
THE dates for holding the various
| livestock shows during the EXposi-
ton have been decided upon by the
National Commission. The period
devoted to the exhibition of animals
for awards in the following divisions
for livestock will be as follows: Cat
tie, Sept. IL TO Sept. 27; horses,
jacks and jennets, Aug. "a to Sept.
27; sheep and swine, Oct. 2 to Oct.
II: kennel show for dogs, June II to
June II; poultry, pigeons, pet stock,
! etc, Oct. Is to Oct. 30. Exhibitors
| of horses and cattle must accompany
their application with written evil
| dence as to the pedigree Of the ami
NAL offered for entry. This written
| evidence implies a description or ped
! igree in the standard livestock record
books Animals unregistered but
which have some peculiar historical
value. may be exhibited, but may not
compete for any p ICES or medals
which may be Offered
AT the request OF the Latin-Ameri-
can Bureau Of the Worlds Columbian
Exposition, Cardinal Gibbons has re-
quested the proper officers Of the sew
eral religious orders of the Roman
CatholicAChurch, both in Europe and
America, to cause their archives to
be searched for historical records
bearing upon the discovery and set
Element of the new world. 1t is
known that every ship that left
Spain, beginning with the first voy-
age of Columbus, carried among its