Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-25
Notes of Progress at the Worlds Fair.


Interesting notes Of progress regarding
the various departments Of interest at the
approaching Worlds Columbian Exposition
are given below:
Hawaii, otherwise the Sandwich Islands,
has decided to make An exhibit Ut the Expo
sition.
-Four hundred railway lines have already
agreed to return exhibits to the Exposition
free Of charge.
The native fi,rs Of each state and terri
tory will be shown at the Exposition. under
the direction Of Chief Thorpe, who has en-
listed the lady managers to undertake the
collection Of specimens.
1. is announced in the Berlin newspapers
that the entire organization Of the Imperial
Opera Company Of Berlin, Germany, will
come to Chicago in 1898, to give operate
performances in the Music Hall to be
erected in the Exposition grounds.
An additional appropriation Of $500, 900
to $500, 600 is what the board Of mansGe-
ment Of the Government Exhibit thinks will
be necessary to insure the exhibit at the
Worlds Fair on the scale intended by
Congress. The members will try TO have
thi, included in the treasury estimates.
The Government Department of Agri-
culture is taking steps to make very elab-
orate exhibit Of every kind Of wool clipped
in this country. The department will Issue
q small pamphlet upon each branch Of the
exhibits it will make. containing Informs
ton not widely known, and Of great prsct-
cal value to sgficulturists.
On the roof Of the Horticulture Build
ing, around the central dome, an. elaborate
display Of roof gardening will be made. 1t
is expected that this will not only be pleasur-
able to visitors, but will afford valuable
suggestions that will be utilized BY persons
Who live in large cities and are deprived OF
door-ysrds and lawns.
Hugh Price, one Of the Wisconsin COM
miss ouers, hae made arrangements Tor
securing for the Worlds Fair q mammoth
cork pine, tree which is growing rare 10
his state. 1t is twenty -four feet in length,
aud will scale $500 feet. One plank 10 six
teen feet long, three inches thick. and
forty -four inches vide, without 3 knot or
blemish.
the agricultural department Of the gov
eminent will make an exhibit OF facsimile
casts Of all Of the 200 varieties Of edible
mushrooms which grow 10 this country. 1t
10 believed that the exhibit will be produc-
tive Of great benefit in educating the people
respecting this valuable article Of food,
which 10 abundant but now little utilized.
France. through Edward Bruwsert. the
French consul at Chicago, has asked for
$50, 900 square feet Of space in the EXPOSE
ton Buildlngs-l00,00 900 feet in the Manu-
f.cturers' Building, 30, coo in the Fine Arts
10 900 in the Live Stock. and 10000 in the
Machinery. Mr.. Bruvsert intimated thss
in all probability more space would be
asked for lister on.
Artist. and manufacturers in Denmark
are making great separations for the Fair
United States Minister Thayer, who has
lust returned from Copenhagen told
Dire ctor General Davis that Danish exhib
itors would eclipse their efforts ct any pre-
vicu, exposition. "And that means great
DEAL he added. "fof the artists Of Den
mark have made q number Of fine exhibits.
In the center Of the Horticultural Build
ing will be q miniature mountain, seventy
feet high. upon which will grow giant tree
ferns and palms. and other vegetation,
finding there . congenisl home. A noun
,ain stream will dash from one declivity to
smother ard play hide and seek with the
foliage. Beneath this rock mountain will
be cave, eighty feet in diameter and sixty
feet high, brilliantly lighted BY electricity,
where, during the whole six months OF the
Exposition, the experiment will be tried
whether plants will grow under electric
lisht rs we'll ~ under sunlight. Chief
Thorpe, Of the Horticulture Division, orig
mated the plan.
Secretary Dickinson has sent out notices
to the governors Of the vsrious states asking
them to choose two members of their
Worlds Fir boards to come to Chicsso
December oh. to sttends big Worlds Fair
cor vention, This notice il sent ont in
accordsncs with = resolution adopted by
the Pos-d Of Control, st its last session.
The obi C, Of the convention is to have the
d.lsgst.- meet the board Of control depart.
msnt chiefs snd other officials. xnc to
devise u-iform plans for State work. Mrs.
Palmer dds to the invitation . statement
tha- she wants all women Who are members
Of he vsri3ps state boards to be present
.nd learn about the plsns for promoting the
work women are dong.
The II vi.xtion extended BY the lsdy mar
sssrs ior contributions in the form Of
u.,eri.l. 10 the womeu'a building has m Il
with q, ny responses Mrs Giutv, lady
p.n.s.r 'r,m Wisconsin, offer, to furni, b
q IA. woods sud stone from her Ssate, and
uecsrvtd but highly polished panel. foc the
rseel ton room Mrs. Ashley, lady
man. ger for Col,rsdo. has promised two
rstv panels. Mary Louise Mill
ken of Chicago, wants to awe . finished
redwood panel from her native State,
C.Itorris. Mrs, Mary R,Trs. OF
Fors Smith. Offers . door. Miss Patf
Moore. OF Missouri, will give an on;x COL
una. B p. Ravens, ~ Iniisns fair COM |
missioner. asks TO have Q VII lie room %. |
signed to his state board, to be finished in
IniianA's finest faished woods. Miss
M.nel Smith Of Mayviile. vill carve .
panel Several women Of Salem ;. Ore, |
who ..a skilled in brass. will contribute to |
the building decorations.