The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1891-11-14
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

| the Exposition. bar OauOeSs FISiiCn w.
anO, Cpylon and COrea have also joined
| the list.
The uphoISterers of Philadelphia have
applied for 1000 square feet OF space in
the Manufactures Building, for collec-
tive exhibit fro u their several establish
| ments.
The District of Columbia has decided
to ask Ongress for an appropriation of
$50, 900 to enable it to make credita' le
| exhibit at the Fair.
Electricity is to be the motive force in
Jackson Park during the cOnstruc ton of
the buildings. The electric plant has
been completed and steam engines must
90.
British Guiana has appointed its Royal
Agrj ultural and Commercial Society
Worlds Fair Commission to repre- sent
tie Colony, and has appropriated 10000
for al exhibit.
Hassan BAn Ali, of Morocco, is seek
iu4 cone. sion to make Morocco ex-
hibit at the Exposition.
l.. Takaqui and K. Ike1a, two repre-
sen aIil,S commissioned by TIE MikadO
OF Japan, itave ben in Chicago seeking
detailed Information concerning the FIX
position.
Dav and night shifts of men are
worked on all the Exposition buildings.
Ample restaurant accommodations are
to he provided at the Exposition grounds.
Tue supporting cOlumS for the Forestry
Building are TO be trunks of trees with
the bark on. Chief Buchanan has requeS-
ted each state to furnish three trunks OF
tree for this purpose.
Acting Secretary Of State Wharton has
issued an order t. all diplomatic officers
of the United States, iuStructing them to
Use tue,r Influence to have all cuts and
ljto2raphS sent out free to boom the EX-
position, admitted into foreign countries
free OF duty. This order was issued be-
cause the admission of such cuts, etc,
duty, has been refused by some countries
anf, in c0~eguenc', the desire to give the
Exposition the greatest possible publici
~ i inteTfsrrd with.
The Catholic church in Chicago wants
to make an exhibit at the Fair, and has
applied for 75X75 feet of space.
Expert engineers are working upon the
Or ,iusga problem III connection with the
Exposition grounds at, Jackson Park.
The following petition, addressed to
the Congress of the tinted States is be
ing extensively circulated for signatures.
'The undersigned citizens o f the Unit
ed States, having profound sense CT the
Evil and inaAequacy Of war as a mode of
settling in ernatOnal disputes, hereby
pray Your honorable body to take what
ever actjou may be necessary to invite a
conference of the governments of the
world to sit, during, and in connection
with, The World Columbian Exposition.
to BE- held III Chicago in 1893, for the pur-
pos OF davising, discussing and recon-
meuding measures by which the princi-
pie of arbitration may be incorporated
into treais, conflicting international
laws may he harmOnized, and an inter-
uaf on ii court established, having juris-
dictiOD i'll cases which governments shall
fail 10 settle by negot ia ton"
The American Street Railway Associ-
alton has applied for $4,000 square feet
in the Transportation building and ap-
pointed committee to help Chief Smith
get a suitable cXiribit, which will be COL
lcctive.
Director General Davis and chiefs Buc-
hanan and Peabody. respectively of the
Agricultural AMI Liberal Arts Depart
meut Of the Exposition, have held con-
ference with Il number Of gentlemen rep
resentipg nearly fifty agricultural colleges
and experimental stations in the United
States, regarding exhibits from such in
SttutiOnS.
The DepaItm of Electricity is max
ing an effort to secure complete cOllec-
ton of historical electrical apparatus, in
order to show the progress Ofscience from
early times.
Mexico has made a Worlds Fair an
preparation of $4,000. This is only pre-
liminary, however, rs it is fully expected
that the whole of the $75O,OOO. which
was ASKED for, and perhaps more, will be
voted,
In The interest of the Persian participa-
ton in the Exposition, the Persian gov
prnment has lifted the export duty on all
goods which will be sent to the Worlds
Fair from Persia, and it has also lifted
the import duty on all goods which will
be purchased at the Worlds Fair and
brought into Persia.
Henri Moser, of France wants to rent.
for SO 600, collection of relies from Cen
tral Asia, the result OF five expeditions To
that COuntTy.
The president of Ecuador has ordered
that complt te display of women's work
be prepared for the Fair.
Three women have been appointed in
Dutch Guiana to collect display for the
women's department, and in Mexico and
quite number OF Other countries prOvi |
Sions f)r women's displays are being
made.
The women physicians, pharmacists.
dentists of Illinois intend to prepare an
eXnibiJ to be made in the Illinois State
building.
The Daughters of the American Reyo-
luton have been granted 5000 SQUARE
feet for an Xhibt in the Woman's Bull,
ding.
Miss SIra BOdtker. of Chicaoo won the