News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-11-19
Worlds Fair Notes.

Day and night shifts of men ar,
now worked on all the Exposition
buildings.
Paraguay has decided to partici
pate in the Exposition. Barbados
French Guiana, Ceylon and Corea
have Joined the list.
The District of Columbia has de
cided to ask Congress for an apprO
priation of $4,000 to enable it tC
make a creditable exhibit at the fair
The uphoIsterers of Philadelphia
have applied for $4,000 square feet OF
space in the Manufactures Building,
for collective exhibit from their sew
eral establishments.
Hassan Ben Ali, ofMorocco, is seek
ing a concession to make Morocco
exhibit at the Exposition. He says
he will spend $4,000 in showing the
people, manners, customs, amuse-
ments, ETC., of his country, and in
bringing to Chicago a tribe of Ber-
bers
The Catholic church in Chicago
wants to make an exhibit at the Fair
and has applied for 75X75 feet of
space. The exhibit. according to the
request is to consist of, first, kider-
garten work second, primary grade:
third, grammar schools; fourth, col
leges and academies; fifth, industrial
schools, orphanages, and deaf and
dumb institutes.
The American Street Railway Asso-
citation has applied 10000 square
feet in the Transportation building
and appointed committee to help
Chief Smith get a suitable exhibit,
which will be collective. The commit
tee comprises men interested in street
railways from New York to San Fran
cisco and from Montreal to st. Louis.
John B. Parsons is the Chicago men,
ber
The supporting columns for the
Forestry Building are to be trunks of
trees with the bark on. Chief Bu-
chanan has requested each State to
furnish three trunks of trees for this
purpose. Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wis
cOnsin, Washington and West Vir-
ginia have promised to furnish their
quota.
Ample restaurant Accommodations
are to be provided at the Exposition
grounds. The locations for restau-
rants thus far decided upon are four
in the Mines and Mining Building,
sixteen in the Manufactures Building,
and six on the esplanade in front,
four in the Electricity Building and |
two in the Woman,s Building Some
are on the ground floor and some in
the galleries.
Acting Secretary of State Wharton
mas issued an order to all dipiO-
matte officers of the United States,
nstructing them to use their in
iuence to have all cuts and litho-
graphs sent out free to boom the
admitted into foreign
Countries free of duty. This order
vas issued because the admission of
uch cuts, etc, duty free, has been re-
used by some countries, and in con-
the desire to give the Expo
itiOn the greatest possible publicity
5 interfered with.
Electricity is to be the motive pow
r in jackson Park during the con-
truction of the buildings. The cleo
rlc plant has been completed and
team engines must go. This is done
order to reduce the fire risk. The
aw-mills used in getting out build
~ material, which have been run by
team, are now supplied by electric
over, furnished if desired night and :
ay. Electrical Engineer Sargeanti is i
with a siXty-horse power {
liant to supply electric-motor ser
ice. In a few days, 300 horse-pow-
: will be available. !
Expert engineers are working upon 7
he drainage problem in connection {
18th the Exposition grounds at Jack
On Park. AS result of calculation
the Construction Department, a /
new plan will be adopted t
II taking care of the Worlds Fair Fl
wage. All the offal, conveyed from
background pipes, will run into four :.
rye tanks at the southwestern Dor c.
on of jackson Park. These tanks a
e to be thirty feet in diameter and b
rty feet deep. The novel feature q
with the plan is that the
wage deposited in the tanks is to be o.
Gated chemically, and the Construc- HI
IN department believes that the a. a.
lter flowing from them after tho q.
emlcal treatment will be almost W
re and wholesome. So far as is
own similar treatment has never 50
Ell adopted, except at Berlin, Ger ClEf'
any. There the method has been tn
md to work with satisfaction. If m
lally successful at Chicago the ri Ri
tiers of the lake will not be polluted
the drainage from the Exposition to
Ounds. &c