Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-10-02
National Exposition Notes.

, their own country or abroad.
National Exposition Notes.
The Oriental Consistory has ap
pointed committee to devise plan,
and programme for the entertain
ment of all Scottish Rite Masons who
shall attend the Exposition.
Senor Noyez, for Madrid, petitioned
for the privilege OF conducting bull
fights during the Exposition, and of.
fered to pay 81 ,250, 600 for the right to
do SO. The directory decided not to
sanction any bull fights.
Two granite columns for the WO-
mans Building have been contributed
by Mrs. Alice Houghton, Lady Mana
ger, of Washington. The columns are
fifteen feet high, twenty inches in
diameter, and will be placed in the
main entrance on the east side Of the
Woman's Building
Secretary Dickinson is greatly in
tcrested in the efforts OF Texas, his
own State, to raise large Exposition
fund. He has offered prizes of 800,
$75, and $50 to the young woman of
Texas who shall raise the largest
amonnt for the fund before Novem-
ber lst.
The Grounds and Buildings Com
mittee decided to advertise for the con-
struction of a building to accommo-
date four saw-nlill plants. The struc-
ture will he located south of the Agri-
cultural Annex, on piles driven in
what is now natural lagoon. The
building will he 13Ox2O0 feet and will
cost $25,O00
Worlds Fair Excursion schemes,
similar to those put in operation in
many parts of this country, are be-
ginning to be regarded with favor in
England, especially in London. Toyn-
bee Hall is organizing tour, and the
Regent Street Polytechnic School has
arranged to take parties of 100 each
for four-weeks' trip for 20 guineas to
see the Fair, and to visit Philadelphia,
Washington. New York, and Niagara
Falls. Similar excursion parties are
being organized in Mexico.
Chief Buchanan, Of the Agricultu-
raj Department, says that the cotton
industry will make one of the great
displays of the Exposition. Cotton is
the leading vegetable fiber of the
world, and the United States furnishes
over 81 per cent. of the entire product,
so that it is entitled to q prominent
place in the Agricultural Department.
AS contemplated by Chief Buchanan,
the exhibit will embrace samples from
every country where the plant is
grown to any extent, and various illus
trations OF growth and preparation for
market.
The Colorado Marble and Mining
Company has offered to donate suf-
ficient marble to erect the Colorado
State building at the Worlds Fair
The only conditions the company
makes are that its members shall be
consulted with reference to the con-
struction of the building, so that the
effect and beauty of the marble can be
brought out to the best advantage,
and that the State pay the railroad
freight on the material from Colorado
to Chicago. 1t is claimed that in dur
ability, tone, color, and finish the
Colorado marble is equal to any that
is imported from Italy.
Two anchors that Columbus carried
in his ships will be exhibited at the
Fair and already one of them is stored
in Washington, waiting to he brought
to Chicago. The anchors were found
by Columbian Commissioner Ober
near two old wells at San Salvador.
He had photographs and accurate
models made. These reproductions
were sent to Paris, were expert anti
quarians pronounced them to be
fifteenth century anchors, and un-
doubtedly those lost by Columbus in
his wreck off San Salvador. One of
them has been presented to the United
States and the other will be loaned to
the Fair.
E. 7. Jeffery, Chairman OF the
Grounds and Buildings Committee of
the Exposition, made the following es-
innate of necessary Exposition ex-
penses for submission to the recent
meeting of the National Commission