San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-20
FAIR NOTES.

ests of the exposition.
Montana's worlds fair commission
has set aside s. 900 OF the states ap.
preparation of $50, 900 fos the use OF the
women.
The Illinois Board of Worlds Fair
Commissioners has ordered specIfica.
ton in drawings of all the Illtr %
state institutions and public build
ings. sixteen in number.
One of the interesting exhibits from
Montana will be q relief map of Butte,
the greatest mining camp in the
world. 1t is reported that Montana's
appropriation of $50, 1000 will be
doubled at the next session OF the
legislature.
Mr.. Sell, the London advertising
agent, has applied for space to exhi-
Dit specimens of all OF the leading
newspapers of the world which have
been printed during the last two GEN.
turtles.
The Council of the American Soci-
ETY. of Mechanical Engineers has APP
pointed a committee to devise and
recommend a series of efficiency
tests of engineering appliances. On
this committee are Chas. f Emery,
who was in charge of the steam boiler
tests at the Centennial Exposition,
and Prof. r. H. Thurston, of Cornell
University, who was a commissioner
to the Viena Exposition OF 1873, al d a
member of the jury of the Paris Expo
sition of 1880.
w. A. Alexander andLouis Colder,
representing the insurance %associa-
tiOns of Chicago, have asked for space
80 by 100 feet, to construct a building
at the fair TO constitute an exhibit Of
the most improved methods of fire.
proof construction and the appliances
used in saving goods from burning
buildings. The buildings. The build
ing, 1t is urged, can be occupied by q
salvage corps during the fair.
Commissioners Groner and Lindsay
and Directors Lawrence and Peck
have been appointed a committee to
call ON President Harrison and the
Secretary of the Navy to ascertain
what, If any, expense of the naval
| rendezvous at Hampton Roads and re-
view in New York harbor in April,
1898, should be borne by the EXPOSE.
ton management. Many are of the
opini IN that the government ought
to foot the bill.
A splendid exhibit from Australia
seems assured. Minerals, education,
| forestry and especially wool are to be
| represented. Wool growers and wool
brokers, to the number of fifty, met
recently inSydney, New South Wales,
and took steps to make at the exposi-
ton q very extensive collective ex-
| hibit of woods. New South Wales has
selected its commission to the worlds
fair.
William OrdWsy Partridge the great
sculptor, has asked for space in the
Art Palace for his statue of Shakes
peare, which he is now making for Lin
| coin PARK. His statue of Alexander
| Hami. oJn, which he is making for
| the city OF Boston, will also be shown.
| Mr.. Partridge is vice. president of the
American Artists Association in
Paris. He gives assurances that the
association is heartily interested in
the exposition.
The Council of the Society of Arts,
which is the Royal British Worlds
Falr Commission, after listening to
the i hly favorable report Of Com
m]issiOners Sir Henry Wood and James
Dfedge, relative to their investiga-
| ton of Exposition matters at Chicago,
decided to appoint committees on
finance, fine arts, Indian, colonial,
engineering, manufactures, electrici-
ty, agriculture. mines and metallurgy,
textile industries and transportation,
and also q committee on wOmen's
| work to cooperate with the Board Of
Lady Managers in Chicago. 1t also
voted to invite the assistance of cham
| bers to commerce and local commit
tees throughout England.
The exposition committee on cleo
tricity has decided that the anne OF
the following electricians shall appear
| over the a of the electricity
building: Franklin, Calvin, Ampere,
| Faraday, Sturgeon, Ohm, Morse, Sic
mans, Dsvy, Volta, Henry, Oersted,
| Coulomb, Ronald, Page, Weber, Gill
bert, Davenport, Soemmering, Don
Silva, Arago, Daniel, jacob, Wheat
| stone, Gauss, Vail, Sain, De Ia Rive,
julie, Saussere, Cooke, Varley, Stein
he'll, Guerick, La Place, Claiming,
Priestly, Maxwell, Coke, Theles, Cav
endish. 1t was concluded best not to
honor thus any electricians who are.
now living.
Mr.. Takshlrs, Japanese Consul
General in New York, who was spe-
cially commissioned by the Mikado to
look into Exposition matters, has
made a formal application to Director
General Davis, for 124, 600 square feet
in the several buildings and on the
Midway Plaisance, as follows: For an
official Japanese building, 10000
square feet; in the Manufacturers
building, 35 1000; Agricultural build
ing, 1000; Fine Arts, 1000; Mines and
Mining, $50; Forestry, $50; Razasrs,
AZ 1000. Mr.. Takahira vas formerly
aa-nrataru of the Iananas LEGATION at