San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-29
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.


twenty. five years.
More Than one and one-half million
pounds of steel and iron will enter
int the construction OF the Mines
and Mining Building.
The Royal Agricultural and Com
mercjal Society of British Guiana has
decided To hold local exhibition of
its resources preliminary TO the dis
play it intends making at Chicago.
The imi tation battle ship "Illinois "
at the naval pier, i'll the Exposition
grounds, lie now rising from the water.
Work is progressing satisfactorily on
the null. The deck will measure
ov er all 34S 10y 50 Ia feel. This struc-
rure is to cost 100000 and is the
most original ILLUSTRATION OF artchi-
lecture ever worked out.
A company has been formed, EN-.
braclng several very wealthy men, TO
lnaugurate and operate in chicago
permanent circus after the style OF
the HippOdrome in Paris. ~ bull
ding with seating capacity Of 5000
ana having garden on the loot,
will be erected, and the attraction
Will be in o. GRAFTON to entertain
Worlds Fair Crowds.
Charles w. Rolfe, of the Illinois
University, at Champaign, has been
elected 10 take charge or the relief
map OF Illinois, which is To be part
OF the state exhibit. He will be a-sis
ted by corps Of ten engineer, who
will 20 III the field soon, Inc map
il to be made on scale OF one inch to
three miles. IL will be six by ten
feet and cost SIS 600.
One of the largest bicycle factories
in America has written to chief
Smith, OF the transportation Depart
ment, that 1t will exhibit at tae
Fair bicycles and tricycies OF every
style OF the trade, showing the rise
and progress OF the art OF making
wheels, from the first bone shaker
DuilG Ill this country up TO the highly
finished safety of the present day.
Chief Ives OF the Art department,
now i'll Europe, writes most encOurag
lngly concerning the prospects of the
Art exhibit OF the Exposition. He
mas conferred with ARTISTS and art
societies III many OF the principal
cities OF Europe aud has found them
greatly interested in the Elk position,
and anxious to send paintings and
other art production lUr exhibition.
He reports his success much greater
Than no anticipated.
a stock company with capital of
SlOU, 900 has been formed to place a
paper eXhIOIt at the Columbian EX-
position. Every American paper
maker or American manufacturer OF
paper making machinery, will be
allowed To take stock. The entire
capital has already been secured, but
the pledges Will lot be called tor
until the outsiders have been given
q chance, in order to do away with
any idea OF b mOney.making scheme.
\ Committee of Five mas been
appointed by President NJ. J, Fitch
10 take the matter In hand and to
send a representative to the meeting
the Boston Paper Trade Club Oh
the third Wednesday III November.
ALI OF the restaurants in the Mines
aud Mining anu Electricity buildings
will be in the galleries. This was de-
termined i'll order To leave the ground
floor free as far as may be for intend
ing exhibitors. IL Is thought also
that restaurants Oh the second floors
OF the buildings would prove an
attractive feature. 1t was also decided
That the RESTAURANTS i'll the Electricity
building be located in the two bays
at the north end of the hall. In each
bay there is to ne one large dining
room, surrounded by several smaller
rooms twenty. three feet square. The
balcony connecting the two is to be
fitted up for serving temperance
drinks and ices. In the great manu-
features Building about 40, 600 square
I at have been set apart for restsu.
"a ITS.
The President of Uruguay has de-
81 gnated the Association Rural of
That country as the National Com
mission to have charge of UIuguay's
exhibits at Chicago in 1898.
ValmoriDe & Co., of Paris, who
made the largest horticultural sxhi
bit at the Paris Exposition, have had
representative in Chicago con ferring
with Chief Samuels and perfeCtin
arrangements for making a similar
exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
A $4,000 model of a stamp mill fol-
reducing copper, now the property OF
the state Museum of Michigan, will
be shown at the Fair. This model
was made and presented by the
Calumet and Hecla Copper Company
There have been distributed 10000
of the Autographs of Machinery Hall,
of which New York City and State
have received the largest number.
Over 1000 requests are now on file
from Leading manufacturers, mer.
chants and importers of New York
City and Eastern Stated.
The Atlantic Transport Company
operating the line of steamers be-
tween London and New York, has