Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-25
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

Hawaii. otherwise the Sandwich Islands,
has decided 10 make an exhibit at the expo
sition.
Mrs. Lucas, lady manager for Pennsyl-
vania, has appointed Miss Florence Lewis,
a young colored girl, upon her auxiliary
committee. Miss Lewis is one of the press
representatives of the board of lady manag-
ers in Philadelphia.
The national Farmers congress, at its re-
cent session at Sedalia, Mo-, heartily in
dorsed the Worlds Columbian exposition.
It is announced in the Berlin newspapers
that the eutire organization of the Imperial
opera company of Berlin, Germany, will
come to Chicago in 1893, to give operatic
performances in the music hall to be
erected in the exposition grounds.
The furniture manufacturers of Chicago
have taken steps to make q collective eX
hibit in their line, and they promise that it
viii open the eyes of visitors.
Artists and manufacturers in Denmark
are making great preparations for the fair.
United States Minister Thayer, who has
just returned from Copenhagen, told Direc-
tor General Davis that Danish exhibitors
would eclipse their efforts at any previous
exposition, "And that means great deal, >"
he added, for the artists of Denmark have
made number of fine exhibits
The agricultural department of the gov
eminent will make an exhibit of fac-simile
casts of all of the 200 varieties OF edible
mushrooms which grow in this country. 1t is
believed that the exhibit will De productive
of great benefit in educating the people re-
speeding this valuable article of food,
which is abundant but now little utilized.
The government of Russia has decided to
haul exhibits for the fair at half rates on
all government railroads, and at the same
time it has suggested to private companies
that they make like reduction. \ like ar
rangemeut has been effected in Germany.
s.rGfxford university, England, has ex-
pressed its willingness 10 send an eight
cared crew TO the Worlds fair, provided a
competition can be arranged with American
college crews.
,FJohn McAdams s. Co. of Brooklyn, have
fapphed for space to exhibit a device that
cannot be shown in any of the buildings.
They will have to go out IL Lake Michigan
to make their exhibit, ana that is Whist they
want TO do. They have an invention TO pre-
vent boats from coming in collision. Ii is 4
marine brake, powerful enough, they claim,
to stop boats running at high rate Of
speed. The company wants to operate
steamboat or Steam-yacht in the lake, car
ryiug passengers, and to give practical de-
monstrations of the efficiency of their
brake.
Secretary Dickinson has sent out notices
to the governors of the various states ask
ing them to choose two members of their
Worlds fair boards to come to Chicago De-
cember 9th to attend big Worlds fair con-
vention. This notice is sent out in accord
ance with resolution adopted by the board
of control at its last session. The object of
the convention is to have the delegates meet
the board of control, department chiefs and
other officials, and to devise uniform plans
for state work Mrs. Palmer adds to the
wit a
women who are members of the various
state boards to be present and learn about
the plans for promoting the work women
are doing.
France, through Edward Bruwaert the
French consul at Chicago, has asked for
$50, 900 square feet of space in the EXPOSE
ton buildings-100, 600 feet in the manufact-
urers' building 80. 900 in the fine arts, 10. 900
in the live stock and 10. 900 in the machin-
cry. Mr.. Bruwaert intimated that in all
probability more space would be asked for
later on
A very notable diamond exhibit from
Cape Colony, South Africa, will be made
by the De Beers consolidated mines COM
pany. This exhibit will give visitors to the
exposition an idea of the various processes
through which the gems pass from the time
they leave the mouth of the mining shaft
till they reach the hand Of the ieweler-
crushing the blue, diamondiferous clay,
washing the earth by means of rotary
washing machine, grading the pebbles
obtained from the last process, through a
fpulsator, hand sorting for the small stones.
and cutting and polishing the stones. In
the Cape Colony exhibit will also be a mass
of crystal, elevated on a pedestal, equaling
in weight All the diamonds found in the
: imbssiy mines since 1870. Cape Colony
mas appropriated $2S, 600, and the De Beers