The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-11-28

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lmisof0nore. has na1ldo 1yxnu6 elnonta 3cF q
B curinR fof the World Z III 3 n1amnaot
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his state. It II twenty four f6et III len0t
Il and win scale 1900 feet One plank
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iwenty-fouz inches wide, without 3 kno
or blemishs
Il Gen. Nelson A. Miles will be grand mai
lshal OF the parades, civic and military cor
Injected with tho exposition, including th
parade on the occasion Of the dedication q
L the buildings October 10, 1892 Miss Hal
riett Monroe Of Chicago has been claoset
to write q commemorative ode for the ded
icatory ceremonies.
An additional appropriation of eSc0.OOl
to $500 600 ID what the board Of manage.
|ment Of the government exhibit think
i will be necessary to insure the :exhibit &
the Worlds Fair on the scale intended 81
congress. The members will try TO have
this included In the treasury estimates.
Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Of the Roya
British Commission on the Exposition
says the list of intending exhibitors i
growing rapidly, and the success Of ths
British section Is already secured to an ex'
tent beyond any hopes that were at firsl
entertained. He is convinced that the in
terest In the enterprise will continue I'm.
abated. The exhibit OF textiles and pot.
terry will be especially good.
A committee Of the Iowa State Teachers
Association, having in charge the mattxl
Of an educational exhibit for the next meet
| ing Of the association, which shall form the
basis for the exhibit &C the Worlds Fair.
has adopted the following outline for the
display: Blanks showing the school or
ganization, text books by Iowa authors,
work of state colleges and public schools,
work of industrial and charitable schools,
work OF Unconventional schools and col
legea photographs of school buildines and
schools at work, statistical tables, aDpara-
tus, cabinets, library exhibits, and iistor-.
ical records.
Oxford University, England, has ex-
pressed it's willingness TO send an. eight
cared crew to the Worlds Fair, provided
q competition can be arranged with Ameri-
can college crews.
The government department Of agricul-
ture 10 taking steps to make q very elabOr-
ate exhibit Of every kind Of wool clipped
in this country. The department will
issue small pamphlet of each branch of
the exhibits it will make, containing infor-
nation not widely known, and of great
practical value to agriculturists.
James Dredge, one Of the British COM
missioners who recently visited Chicago,
II 10 reported, has been invited and has
consented, to lecture before associations OF
manufacturers and art societies throughout
England upon the exposition and the Ar
Judgements that have bean made for for
eign exhibitors. BY meana Of i stereupti-
con he Will illustrate his lectures with
views N the exposition spounds and bnilda
|ings. s.ls
/ -Four hundred railway lines have already
agreed to return exhibits to the exposition
fee Of charge.
! The South Park commissioner have
taken steps 10 have Drexel, Grand and
lakewood bOuieyarda, leading to the oxpO-
position grounds, brilliantly lighted with
electricity. An electric plant coating
900 to $1OO, 900, and equal 10 supply
ing 800 arc lights, will be established.
The exposition authorities viii illuminate
with electricity the entire exposition
grounds, including Midway Plaisance.
More than three times as much power will
be required to run the dynanncs @ was
used In ell the departments Of The Phila-
|delphia Centennial show. Although the
estimates haye not been finished, the en-
gineers have already provided foe - 900
arc lamps and fully 100000 incandeocenl
lampa. Twelve thousand 81 tho latter WIll
b u1ed In the dne art galleries alone.
The native dora Of each state and ter.
|ritCty win be shown ct the exposition,
undsf the direction Of Chief Thorpe, who
hes enlisted the lady managers to nndsr-
take the collection of specimens. n
On the roof Of the horticulture buildInr'.
around the central dome, a clatorato az.
play of roof gardening viii b made. III &
expected that this will not only b uioaa-
urnble to visitors, bat will .afford VALUABLE
suGgeetions that will be utilized By pcrnon1
who live In large cities and are deprived
/ of d00r-yards and lawns.
In the center Of the horticulture buildins
win b minia turo mountain. seventy foci
high, upon which will grow giant tree,
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| finding there cOngenial home. "A mount.
ain stream will dash from one doCliyity G
another and play hide-and- seek with ths
foliage. Beneath this rock mountain will
bel cave, eighty feet ID diameter and
sixty feet high, brilliantly lighted By cleo
triciW, where, during the Whole Sls
mouths OF the exposition. the experiment
will be tried whether plants viii rror
pnder electric light a. well g under -,
Hight. Chief Thorpe, 0f the Horticulture
fdivilfon, originated the plan.
The Invitation extended 81 the id,
Imanagefs for contributions d the i0rn =
mAteFials % the NJ omep'e bull lna NJ NJ
i With many reopcnseA Nm GiStx. RI,
manaeer nom Wisconsin, cllssS . f6rni2|
nn1 woods and Stone ifcm HI 80. anll
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Ilhe eption- room Nh. AshIy. I,i3l
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