The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-11-27


Mrs. Lucas, Lady Manager for
PENNSYLVANIA. has appointed Miss
Florence Lewis, young colored girl,
upon her Auxiliary Committee. Miss
Lewis is one of the press representa-
tives of the Board of Lady Managers
in Philadelphia.
The National Farmers Congress, at
its recent session at Sedalia, Mo-,
heartily Endorsed the Worlds Column
bian Exposition.
1t is announced in the Berlin news
papers that the entire organization Of
the Imperial Opera Company of Ber-
lin, Germany, will come TO Chicago in
1898, to give operate performances in
the Music-Hall TO be erected in the
Exposition grounds
The furniture manufacturers of
Chicago have taken steps to make a
collective exhibit in their line, and
they promise that it will open the
eyes of visitors.
Oxford University, England, has ex-
pressed its willingness to send an
eight-oared crew to the Worlds Fair,
provided a competition can be arrang-
ed with American college crews.
The Government Department of
Agriculture is taking steps to make
a very elaborate exhibit of every kind
of wool clipped in this country. The
Department viii issue a small pamph-
let upon each branch of the eXhi-
bits it will make, containing informa-
tion not widely known, and of great
nv. of vol fn tDpicfC
Hugh Price, one of the Wisconsin
commissioners, has made arrange
ments for securing for the World
Fair mammoth cork pine, tree
which is growing rare in his State.
1t is twenty-four feet length, and
will scale $500 feet. One plank is
sixteen feet long, three inches thick,
and forty-four inches vide, without a
knot or blemiSh.
The government Of Russia has de
cided to haul exhibits for the Fair at
half rates on all government rail-
roads, and at the same time it has
suggested to private companies that
they make a like reduction. A like
arrangement has been effected in Ger
many
John McAdams & Co., of Brooklyn,
have applied for space to exhibit a
device that can not be shown in any
of the buildings. They will have to
go out in Lake Michigan to make
their exhibit, and that is what they
want to do. They have an invention
to prevent boats from coming in col
liSion. 1t is marine brake, power
fnl nnnf1nh fhnu ole n hoo .
running at high rate of speed. The
company wants to operate a steam
boat or steam-yacht in the lake, carry
ing passengers, and to give practical
demonstrations Of the efficiency Of
their brake.
France, through Edward Bruwaert,
the French consul at Chicago, has
asked for 10000 square feet of space
in the Exposition BuiIdings-lOO,OOO
feet in the Manufacturers Building,
80, 900 in the Fine Arts, 10000 it the
Live Stock, and 10000 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 Company. 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 hands OF the
jeweler-crushing the blue, diamond
ferrous Clay, washing machine, Grad
ling the pebbles, obtained from the
last process, through a pulsatOr, hand
sorting for the small stones, and cut
ting and polishing the stones. In the
Cape Colony exhibit will also be d
mass of crystal, elevated on d pedes-
tai, eQualing in weightsall the dla-
monds found in the Kimberly mines
since 1870. Cape Colony has appro
priated S25, 600. and the De Beers
Company has voted to eXpend a like
amount.
The Exposition authorities will
illuminate with electricity the entire
Exposition grounds, including Mid
way Plaisance. More than three
times as much power will be required
to run the dynamoS as was used in all
the departments of the Philadelphia
Centennial show. Although the eSti-
mates have not been flushed, the en-
gineers have already provided for 20
600 arc lamps and fully 100000 mean
descent lamps. Twelve thousand of
the latter will be used in the Fine
Art Galleries alone.
The native flora of each State and
Territory will be shown at the EX-
position, under the direction of Chief
Thorpe, who has enlisted the Lady
Managers to undertake the collection
of specimens.
On the roof of the Horticulture
Building, around the central dome,
an elaborate display of roof-gardening
will be made. 1t is expected that
this will not only be pleasurable to
visitors, but will afford valuable sug-
gestions that will be utilized by per-
sons who live in large cities and are
deprived of door-yards and lawns.
In the center Of the Horticulture
Building will be a miniature noun
tain, seventy feet high, upon which
will grow giant tree-ferns and palms,
and other vegetation, finding there a
congenial home. A mountain stream
will dash from one decliyity to an
other and play hide-and-seek with the
foliage. Beneath this rock-mountain
will be cave, eighty feet in diamet-
er and sixty feet high, brilliantly
lighted by electricity, where, during
the whole six months of the Exp0si
tion. the experiment will be tried