Passaic City record., 1891-07-25
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

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Thus far an aggregate OF S2,695,O0O has
been appropriated by twenty-nine States
| for representation at the Worlds Fair.
THE Catholics have chosen q committee to
| supervise the making of a national Catholic
| educational exhibit at the Exposition. Many
| prominent Catholics are much interested In
| the enterprise.
TWENTY -FOUR foreign nations have now
| officially accepted the invitation to partici-
| pate in the Exposition. Russia, Turkey,
| Denmark, Persia and Egypt are among the
recent acquisitions.
ers. which had a splendid exhibit at the
| Paris Exposition, and carried off all the hon.
| ors in its line there has decided to make a
| similar showing of its work at Chicago In
| 1893
MINISTER PHELPS has hopes OF inducing
! Baron Krupp to exhibit some OF his immense
guns at the Exposition. Baron Krupp hesi-
tates, for, he says, it will cost him SSooooo
to make an exhibit creditable to his estab-
lishment.
/, The Iumbermen of Washington have
promised to contribute all the material
necessary for the construction of the build
ing of that State at the Exposition, and the
Northern Pacific has agreed to transport the
exhibit free of charge. Thus Washington
can eXpenQ upon lJS exDlDit tue oueuo cAVo,-
600, which was appropriated.
CALIFORNIA may show at the Worlds
Fair as a part or its exhibit the finest col
lection of minerals IN the United States. In
stead of making a special collection, as was
done for the New Orleans Philadelphia and
Paris expositions, there is a strong proba-
bility that the State will send the magnifi-
cent collections belonging to the State Min
ing Bureau Museum.
CANADA has received, through the medi-
um of Great Britain, an invitation to make
an exhibit at the Exposition. and there Is no
doubt that it will do SO. A deputation OF
Ontario members of Parliament has asked
the Dominion Government to assist Ontario
producers and manufacturers in making an
exhibit at the Chicago Worlds Fair. Favor
able consideration was promised.
THE Kansas Worlds Fair managers offered
prizes of SO each for the best samples of
wheat, oats, rye and other grains and
grasses to be put in bundles eight inches in
diameter; each contestant furnishing two
bundles Half of the samples received will
be entered for premiums at the Exposition
and the others be used in decorating the
Kansas State bulldog at the Fair.
MODELS in papier mache representing the
fur seal and warus fisheries on the coast Of
| Alaska are being prepared by the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington for the
Worlds FAIR 1t is the intention, by means
of these models, to give visitors to the Ex-
position an idea of the seal industry which
has caused much diplomatic correspond
ence recently between this country and Great
| Britain.
LIEUTENANT ROGER WELLEs, JR., of the
| United States Navy, Commissioner to Vene-
zula and the neghboring colonies, reports
| that the Governor General OF the Dutch
| Colonies in the West Indies, composed Of the
J islands of Curacao, st. Martins, Bonaire,
| Aruba, st. Eustache and Saba, has accept
ed the invitation to participate in the Expo
sition, and has appointed commission to
take charge Of the work.
&c. PAYNE, Special Commissioner to
Mexico, says that country will probably ap
| propriate at the start $3.50, 900 for the rep
, resentation at the Exposition, and that it
| will most likely increase the amount to S2,-
OOO, 900 later on. Mexico voted $400, 900 at
, the start for the Paris Exposition, and spent
81, 300, 900 before it got through. Great en-
| thusiasm is manifested over the Chicago
| Exposition, and Mexico will certainly excel
| all previous efforts.
| THE colored people, through the National
| Emancipation Monument Association, pro-
| pose to erect a monument seventy-four feet
| high, in the Exposition grounds, commemo-
| rative of the emancipation of the negro race.
The plans provide for a huge stone plinth
| surmounted by negro soldier and surround
| ed at the base by bronze statues Of Lincoln,
Lovejoy, John Brown, Garrison, Phillips
| and two or three others prominent in the
| emancipation movement
| THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and Womans Temperance Publica-
ton Association have applied, through
Josephine R. Nichols. Of Indianapolis, for
| 1OOx2O feet of space in which to make an ex-
hibit Miss Nichols says these organizations
| want to exhibit flags, banners, books and
\ other publications, and numerous other
\ things, all prepared by women, and also to
establish and operate hospital and model
| creche, at the latter of which women visitors
| with babies can leave them to be cared for
while they see the sights
Nor the least interesting feature of the
Government exhibit at the Fair will be the
fast fight of carrier pigeons. Captain R.
| E. Thompson, of the Signal Service, has this
feature d the display ip charge, and at fre-
| quent intervals he will iberate birds for
| fights to within 200 miles of Chicago.
George W. Childs, the Philadelphia philan-
thropist, has taken q great interest in this
| feature of the Government display. and
offers prize valued at 800, which will be
| on exhibition at the Fair, to the owner of
the bird making the greatest distance in one
| day.
THERE is possibility that the visitor to
the Exposition may see tie celebrated
| Spitzer art collection, the u nprehen-
| sive collection of European la world,
and valued at above "a, ,000,ts =. Splitter,
of Paris is dead, and the mag a2nIfcent collec-
| tion is for sale. 1t is the hope OF artists all
| over the world that this treasure may be
kept together, and all are looking to Amer
lea for the purchaser. The bringing of the
collection to the Exposition must be the
work of private enterprise, and it is possible
to affect this, it is claimed, if the owners can
be insured from loss This collection in
cludes everything known in art during the
middle ages.
| TULARE, California, proposes to furnish a
very novel exhibit for the Fair. From q
| gigantic redwood tree 800 feet high, and
twenty six feet in diameter, will be cut two
| lengths forty -fvefeet long, and these will be
| transformed into full-sized railway coaches
by following out the interior. The rough
| bark of the tree will be left on the roof, and
OH the sides and ends the natural wood will
be left unpublished. The interior will be fin
ished after the style of Pullman cars. One
| will be buffet dining car, with bath, bar
ber-shop and kitchen, and the other Sleep
er, with observation room. Ordinary car
trucks will be put underneath, and the men
| IF Trlara with thair wives and children