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

among other things, just how first
rate postoffice is managed. A work.
/ ing model of such an Office will be a
part of the U. S. government exhibit.
1t will be branch of the central Chi
cago postoffice so far as mails are con-
cerned, but entirely Independent in
its exhibition features. 1t will han die
all mails Of officials, exhibitors and
others to and from the Exposition
grounds, and will have q special de.
| livery service of it's own. The en-
ployees will be taken from the Chica-
90 office and will be experts in their
respective duties. Gen. A d. Hazen,
| second assistant postmaster general
will have charge of this model office
| during the Exposition. The distri-
| button of mail under the present per-
fected system and under the primitive
| system of long ago will be shown in
| contrast. In an exhibit hall adjoin-
ing this Exposition postal station
will be shown many historic relics of
| the ostoffice and railway mail SER
vice.
Indiana's worlds fair commission
offers prizes of $500, 5000 and 500 res.
pectively for the first, second and
third best plans for the Indiana
building at Jackson Park. The build
ing is to cost about S25, 900 and to con-
tain about 5000 square feet of floor
space. 1t will be constructed entirely
| of Indiana material. The outside
walls will be of stone, pressed
brick and terra Gotta; the
roof of roofing tile or of iron made
in that state. The inside finish is to
be highly ornamental and made of
plate, beveled and looking glass, hard
wood and encaustic tile. The build
ing is to serve the double purpose of
displaying, in its construction, the
building material of Indiana, and as
headquarters for an entertainment of
visitors from the state and their
guests at the exposition.
There is to be one large room on the
ground floor for assembly and recep-
ton purposes, and seperate ladies'
and gentlemen's rooms with lavator-
les and all modern conveniences, a
check or baggage room, and a room
for dining and lunching.
Contracts for the erection of the
Worlds Fair buildings are now being
let at the rate of about one a week.
Chief of Construction Burnham says
that there is no good reason why the
buildings should not be completed by
July l, 1892. Contractors are put
under heavy bonds to finish their
work within a specified time. The
first building contracted for must be
completed by December 31st of this
year. The grounds are to be kept
lighted by electricity at night, SO
that the contractors, if they chose
or If they find it necessary, can work
three gangs of men eight hours
each.
At the International Congress of
Engineers, which will be held at Chi
Gag in 1893, under the auspices of the
Worlds Congress Auxiliary of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition,
papers will be read on the chief ques-
tions involved in civil, mining, me-
chanical, marine, military and cleo
trical engineering by the ablest rep
resentatives of those several branch
es, and the papers will be collected
and bound afterward.
George P. Hollis, U. S. Consul at
Cape Town, South Africa, is trying TO
induce one of the English South Afri-
can steamship lines to run steamers
to New York during the exposition,
and also to make arrangements with
the New York and Liverpool lines
whereby visitors can return to South
Africa by way of England. "The
idea is quite feasible" he says, land
people with whom 1 have talked are
taken with the project; in fact, my
wife and have been asked to chap
eron a party of young ladies to the
fair If the project Is put through. The
Trau svaal will make o good exhibit,
am certain, and hope the chamber
OF mines ia the same state will do
likewise. l shall epdeavOr to have
the Orange Free State do the same,
and will try to induce Mr. Rhodes,
the head of the British South African
Company, which holds all the coun-
try to the north of the Trapsvaal to
make good showing. l have sug.
gested that a specimen copy of our
South African newspapers be hand
somely bound and sent to the exposi-
ton, and the principal newspaper
agent has promised to take charge of
the collecting"
The laundry Industry, which has
assumed considerable proportions in
this country within the last few
years, is now agitating the question of
making a display at the worlds fair.
The National Laundrymen's associa-
tlon aud the National Laundrymen's
Journal are both interested in the
matter. 1t is thought that it would
be an excellent idea to es tablish some
where on the grounds a complete
laundry, fitted out with the lat
est and most improved macbin-
cry, and to keep it in operation, that
visitors might see it's workings. The