Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-09-24
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

Payments on Exposition stock sub
scriptions are coming in very rapidly
now. The two heaviest days were
August 81 and September upon which
$40O, 900 was paid in.
The Worlds Fair power plant will be
of 24.000 horse power, and will require
the services of $50 engineers, firemen
and attendants.
Mrs. Susan Gale Cook, of Tennessee,
Is now Permanent Secretary of the
Board of Lady Managers, having been
elected at the September meeting.
The London Chronicle says that the
Prince of Wales has all but decided to go
to OChicago to attend the Exposition and
that he is likely to be accompanied by
Emperor William of Germany.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany, which operate all the way from
Alaska to Mexico, has agreed to carry
all exhibits to and from the Exposition
at half regular freight rates. The
Southern Pacific railway system has
has made like concession on all per-
ishahle goods. This insures a very
extensive fruit exhibit from the Pacific
Coast.
The model for the statue of Queen
Isabella, on which Miss Harriet Hosmer
has been at work in her studio at Rome,
is almost completed. The Queen is
represented in full royal robes, stepping
down from her thrown, with her jewe's
in her outstreched hand. The figure is
full of grace and strength, and the robes
have been most skillfully draped by the
artist, giving pleasing outline from
every point of view.
A committee of live stock experts has
Apportioned the cash premiums to be
awarded in the Exposition Live Stock
Department, amounting to $3.50, 600; as
follows: For horses, $52 900; cattle. $780,
600; swine, $4,000; poultry and pet
stock, $4,000; dogs, "a 900. This leaves
a contingent fund of $4,000, which
Chief Buchanan says should be held for
special breeds of animals that may have
been overlooked.
The dates for holding the various
livestock shows during the Exposition
have been decided upon by the Nation
al Comission. The period devoted to
the exhibition ofanimals for awards in
the following divisions for livestock
will be as follows: Cattle, Sept. II to
Sept. q; horses, jacks and jennets, Aug.
"a to Sept. 27; sheep and swine, Oct. 2
to Oct. IA; kennel show or dogs, June
12to June II; poultry, pigeons, pet
stock, ETC., Oct. IS to Oct. 80. Exhib-
itors of horses and cattle must accom-
pany their application with written
evidence as to the pedigree of the ami
NAL offered for entry. This written
evidence implies description or pedi-
gree in the standard livestock record
books. Animals unregistered, but
which have some peculiar historical
value, may be exhibited, but may not
compete for any prizes or medals which
may be offered.
s. H. Peabody, Ex- Presidentof the
Illinois State University, has been con-
firmed as Chief of the Department OF
Liberal Arts of the Exposition. j. M
Samuels of Kentucky, has been con,
firmed as Chief of the Department o1
Horticulture, and L. W. Robinson OF
Philadelphia, as Chief of the Depart
ment of Machinery. John Thorpe OF
New York, is SUBJ Chief in the Horticul'
ture Department in charge of Floricul'
ture.
The Exposition Directors have ap'
propriated $4,000 for the expense Of
reproducing at the exposition the Con
vent of La Ribada, Palos, Spain, where
Columbus lived while perfecting hi'
plans for his voyage of discovery. The
building will be used for housing ar
extensive collection of Columbus
relics, and its ancient appearance, it il
believed, will afford pleasing contrast
to that of the magnificent palaces by
which it will be surrounded.
AT the request of the Latin-Ameri
can Bureau of the Worlds Columbia.
Exposition, Cardinal Gibbons has re
quested the proper officers of the sew
eral religious orders of the Roman
Catholic church, both in America ant
Europe, to cause their archieves to b
searched for historical records bearin
upon the discovery and settlement Q
the New World. 1t is known tina
every ship that left Spain, beginnin
with the first voyage of Columbus
carried among its crew priest or
friar. and that these missionaries mad
voluminous reports to the heads G
their different orders, few Of whic
were ever published. 1t is believe
that the archieves of the church ar
filled with valuable historical materia