Milford chronicle., 1891-07-03
Worlds Fair Notes.

Illinois has appropriated $500 900 for it
exhibit at the exposition. It will erect al
immense building costing about $3.50, 900 an,
endeavOr to make the most complete ex
hibit of any of the States.
Official acceptance ofthe invitation to par
ticipate in the Exposition has recently beer
received from Nicaragua, Chile, San Do
mingo, Turkey, Egypt and Denmark.
Twenty-one foreign nations have now ac
cepted.
The Worlds Fair Association of CONNER.
cial Travellers, recently formed, decided to
hold two weeks congress at the Worlds
| Fair. All organized bodies of travelling men
in the United States, and foreign drummers
as we'll will be invited to participate It was
decided that a Committee Of Control conf
posed ofone member from each association
| be selected to govern the affairs of the body
and that s5o,Oco be raised to defraY the ex-
penses of the congress.
United States Attorney General Miller has
rendered decision thar will be of great in
terest to foreign exhibitors. It is to the ef-
feet that these exhibitors can bring with them
enough employees to show the process of
manufacturing the goods they display with
out being held for violation Of the contract
labor law The decision was rendered at
the request ofthe French consul in Chicago,
who represented that many manufacturers
in France would not take part in the Fair I'M
less they could bring a limited number of
employees along.
Chief Buchanan has sent out letters to all |
Of the state boards Of agriculture advising |
them as to the design of the proposed for. |
estry building. The building will be about 4
200 by 500 feet, and will occupy a command |
ing position on the lake shore, It will be 1
designed to illustrate in its construction and /
arrangement the forestry wealth ofthe world.
The architecture is Of a rustic character and
will make a beautiful effect feature will
be the wide colonuade along the front Of the
building aud across either end. The sup
porting columns of this colounade will be
trunks oftrees with the bark on, representing
the characteristic woods of the United States
This will not only add to the unique beauty
70 the structure, but will furnish the states
IN opportunity to show specimens of their
rees. These tree trunks will be twenty-five
eet long, about twenty inches in diameter
It the base, tapering gradually to the top.
Zach trunk will have attached to It a tablet
m which will be engraved the name OF the
tate furnishing it, the name of the tree, and
be estimate of the quantity of such timber
n the state or territory. Chief Buchanan
SKIS each STATE board of agriculture to send
n three of such tree trunks.
Thirty thousand tons, or two thousand car.
Dads, of staff will be used in the construc-
on OF the main buildings of the Exposition.
has been decided that all Of the buildings
i'll be faced with this material staff was
vented in France about 1876, and first used
the buildings Of the Paris exposition in
49, It is composed chiefly Of powdered
gpsum, the other constituents being alum
IA. glycerine and dextrine. The are mixed
it'll water without heal, and cast in molds in
" desired shape and allowed to harden.
he natural color is a murky white, but
her col0rs are produced by external washes -
Their than by additional ingredients To
event brittleness the material is cast around
coarse cloth, bagging, or oakum. The
SITS are shallow-lil<e, and about half an
ch thick They may be in any fornt--in
itation OF cut stone, rock, faced stone, =
,idings or the most delicate designs For
: lower portions of the walls the material IL
mixed with cement, which MAKES il hard.
III is impervious to water, and is a perma-
nt building material, although its cost is
S than one-tenth Of that Of marble or gran =