The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-22
NOTES OF THE
WORLDS FAIR.

Florida. at It's recent Wortd'a fair col
y~ention, decided to raise 100000 for Il
representation at Chicago In 1888.
A New York company that manufacture
aelf-windinp clocka has offered to furnis
free OF cost all the time.piece.t that will b
needed in the %buildinga during the fair.
Tho First infantry regiment, nationa
guard Of California, has decided to attens
the exposition in n body. and has inaugu'
rated 4 plan for providing for the expense
of the trip.
The national association Of wooden man
ufacturets and the American pottery $3.50
citation have each decided to mako an ex
hibit at the exposition such al has neve
before been seen in this country.
y-7 Ivan MalakoE. q St. Petersburg capital
list, wants to reproduce at the exposition.
street scene from Mini Norygorod, thu
celebrated place where expositions hav,
been held for 500 years. He agrees to spenS
$3.50, 600 upon tho reproduction.
Tho magnitude of the building operation
now going on at Jackson park can be sur
missed from the fact that an average of from
thirty Ave to forty carloads of construo'
sion material arrives daily. b exposition
buildings ars rising with wonderful rapid
ity. aNF @
All Indians who wish to take part in the
Indian congress at the Worlds fair are re-
uuested to communicate with ii. j. Jaxon,
~ VINO IN CuAlTluuA - bAAo ~ ~
ton and arrangements for visiting Indians.
Mr.. Jaxon's address IL No. ITO. Washington
street. Chicago.
Exhibitors at the Worlds fair can lave
their empty cases, In which their exhibits
are transported to the exposition, stored
during the fair for two cents per cubic
foot. The latter rate ID less than one-sixth
what was charged exhibitors at the Paris
exposition of 1883.
A company has applied for space TO erect
a building in tho form OF an iceberg IN
which to make a polar exhibit. A group OF
EsQuimaux, with reindeer, furS all the
parapherualia of inhabitants of the polar
regions, will be installed in the building II
the concession is granted.
The ways and means committee has
granted w. i. Libby u Son company, OF
Toledo, Ohio. a concession for the opera
ton of 4 big cut-glass factory. The COM
pany will invest between $4,000 and $50
900 on it's plant. which will be located at
Fifty-ninth street in the Midway plaisance,
on a plat Of land $50 by $50 feet.
The women of Illinois. who have the
spending of $4,000 of the $S00,OOO which
the state appropriated for its representa-
ton at the exposition, have been granted,
for their exclusive use, one-tenth OF the
space in the Illinois building, which, alto
pethcr, is something moro than an acre and
a half. The women will make a separate
exhibit.
One of the unique features of the Mexi-
can exhibit at the fair will be the celebrated
Pandure family, consisting Of five persons.
who are probably the most expert workers
in clay and modelers Of figures in the world.
This family will DO sent to Chicago by the
stats Of Gnadalajara. 1t is the intention to
provide q Mexican house for them to live in
during the fair, and a Workshop where their
work may be inspected.
The palace OF music at the exposition, it
is now expected. will stand on the great
island formed by tbs lagoons. and will be
flowers, ten acres or more in extent. This
location is desired by Theodore Thomas,
musical director of tine exposition, but has
not yet been finally passed upon by the
board of directors. The Structure will
measure $50 by $50 feet, and cost approx
mately 100000.
Director George Schneider has received
adyices from Berlin to the effect that the
associated chemical works of the German ,
empire had agreed to make a full and COM
lrehensive ext1 1t 1T the exposition in
1893. Az il wef Vsown, the German empire
leads all thef Ireld in the matter OF
chemical manufactures, and the Sxhibit
thus determined upon can not fail to be
one of the most attractive and instructive
at the exposition.
"A gentleman writes the Texas Worlds :
Fair association from Williamson county !
that he has quite an interesting historical !
relic in the shape of a cast-iron slack .
Houston from Santa Anna at the battle Of :
San Jacinto, and that he wishes to con- !
tribute it to the Te1aS exhibit at the
Worlds fair. He will be requested to send I
il to the headquarters at Fort Worth, q
whence it will be sent to Chicago at the
proper time. t
Prot. Ward. the well-known mineralogist !
md oOioy1&iot IF Ronhaotor N " nolIa1 ;
Director General Davis u few days ago =
offered to send his entire collection of =
geological specimens to the exposition. Ills '
represents the expenditure of n
great deal of money and the work of years, q
ind is one of the most complete in this l
allotted space 12ox130 feet. If he can a
Iecure it he will fill considerably more space r
n the exposition of 1893. y
Colombia will celebrate the anniversary q
If its independence July 20. by opening an q
exposition on that date in 1892. The expo
will continue until the end of Octo- o
and will embrace an extensive SHOW "
of the resources and products of the Ct
and also a historical, archaeology Al
al, and chronological exhibit. At the close v
# the exposition the whole collection, or q
he best part OF il ut least, will DO sent to II
he Worlds fair at Chicago as part of the N
Exhibit from the Republic Of Colombia. b
British Columbia has decided to build a .
which will be a novelty in archi-
composed of every variety of wood
to tho British Columbia forests.
The building will be built first in sections
II contracting woods neatly mortised to-
yether. The roof will be of native slate
md a variety of cedar shingles, making in b.
Ill a pleasing effect. 1t il intended to chip
he building in sections. ready tobo erected
2n it's arrival. Ths display will be unique u.
n every way, the government and cities of in
he province subscribing to the fund. Y
A mammoth labor congress is to be held 81
N Chicago in 1888, under the auspices of bt
,hs Worlds Congress Auxiliary of the Is
World'g Columbian exposition. John Burns
md Tom Mann, who led the great London
lock strike to u successful issue in 1889,
nave promised to be present, as have many Q
other prominent labor leaders. VIM. Il. Y
and Cardinal Manning have &C. =
'epted honorary membership, and will sub 4
nit their views in writing. Il. V. Powderly. G
Iarrou ID. Wright, and numerous others G
1eeply interested in labor questions, are &
earnestly supporting the movement. =
Van Houten d Zoon, the manufacturers +
# cocoa at Weesp, Holland, have set apart i
100000 with which to mako a splendid ex- X
libit at the exposition IN Chicago in 1893, |
they intend to erect a large building in the l
lyle of old Holland architecture Of the ff- X
eenth century, and to put in it, besides an N
xhibit in their own line of business, paint N
ngs, views, b~rio-a-brac, ETC.. illustrative of y
he Netherlands and the life and charao- N
of the Dutch people. They will
lave there 3 cocoa school," where Dutch p
naidens, clad in picturesque native attire, "