San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-06-20
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

The National Lithographers' asso
citation has decided to make an exten
sive exhibit of TYPOGRAPHY at the ex
position.
DIR. James A Henshall, of the Ohie
fish commission, will have charge
of that part of the Worlds fair fish
and fisheries exhibit which relates tc
fishing tackle. DR.. Henshall is 9
famous fisherman and promises thai
visitors will see the finest display
OF angling appliances ever collected
The Mobile, Ala, Daily News has
started subscription for the purpose
of making a special Mobile exhibit at
the Exposition. Amounts from five
cents to five dollars are solicited.
An international Exposition re.
gatta is talked of AS one of the at
fractions of the Worlds Fair. 1t is
believed that the great oarsmen OF
the world can easily be induced to
participate In such an event, and ne
gotiations to that end have already
been begun by interested parties.
Phillippotesux, the celebrated pan
Drama artist who pain ted the BATTLE
of Gettysburg" and other great works
of the kind, wants to paint for the ex-
position huge panorama that shall
illustrate the life of Columbus from
his birth to his death.
Col. Musgrave, who was in charge
of the exhibit made by the Island OF
st. Vincent at the Jamaica exposi-
ton, will bring to Chicago a group
OF Carib Indians, who are descend
ants of the natives discovered by
Columbus. These Indians will live
on the grounds and pursue their in.
dustries, the chief OF which is basket
making.
Chief Collins, of the fish and fisher
les department, delivered an address
in Washington recently before the
National Fisheries association, in
which he said: Fisheries will re.
ceive ...more consideration at the
Worlds Columbian Exposition than
has ever been accorded themelsewhere
under similar circumstances. Here.
tofore there has never been an ade-
quate and suitable provision made al
any exhibit in this country for fish.
ing exhibit" Chief Collins heartily
approves the plans that have been
commission will make q complete ex.
hibit of the fishery resources of this
country.
Lieutenant Stafford, special exposi
tion commissioner to Peru, has SO
cured a collection of Indian antique
ties found in the graves or the tribes
that inhabited the coast region O
northern Peru before the conquest
The collection embraces specimens O
pottery, copper instruments anC
various objects Of chronological inter
| est.
At "Grand Masonic Bazaar
held recently in Dublin, one of the
prizes ballotted for was q round triK
ticket from Dublin to Chicago, in
Guiding maintenance at q first. elias
hotel, tickets of admission to tn
Worlds fair, and visit to Niagari
Falls.
An emergency hospital will be bull
on the Exposition grounds at once
DIR. John h. Owens has been chosel
medical director of the Exposition
and he will organize medical bureau
which will have charge of all cases o
personal injury occurring In the line
of duty, and any other cases for whicl
the Exposition company may, in
measure, be responsible.
One of the interesting features of tn
exhibit which will be made by tn
Interior department of the government
will be that relating to the America
Indians. One of the off ;ials of tina
department., in speaking of the MAJ
ter, said: 1--WE will have Sioux an
Pueblos on the ground in their pecU
liar wigwams, making all the art
Giles of merchandise that they nov
max. The Zunis, who are classeC
with the Pueblos, will make blank
cts, stone bottle and a peculiar kin
} of pottery, while the Navajoes wi
/, weave blankets so firm that they wi
hold water. The peculiar huts of th
Pueblos, which are entered from tn