Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-15
Major Truman's Panoramic
Painting of the Grounds.
The Mikado a King Pin En-
thusiast.
California's Appropriation Believed
to Be Mythical.
General Davis's Notable Day in Los
AngeEes-Rooms Being Engaged at
Pretty High Rates for the
Fair-Incidents.
Special correspondence to the g.sALD.l


CHICAGO, Nov. s, 1891.
Since / wrote you last, about two
weeks ago, there has been such an ad-
vancement of work out at worlds fair
grounds that much progress might be
noted each twenty-four hours. As
matter of fact, every one is knuckling
down to work and the days of strife are
uver-not but that there are strained
relations all round, .but that all con-
nected have concluded that if things
are not pushed until April, 1898, there
will be no grand opening in May of that
year. So, week before last, electric
lights were introduced all over the
grounds and work is being carried on
day and night, Sundays and all. The
grounds are literally sheet of cleo
trio light at present at night, fair
weather or foul. Steam dredgers, pile
drivers, buzz saw and hammer, may
now be heard continuously, and the
strong arms of nearly 1000 men make
mechanical music all hours OF the day
and night. Night is more completely
turned into day than | have ever seen it
before. Electricity is playing another
important part-it is running all kinds
of machinery, except that OF dredgers
and pile drivers, and while all this is
going on, Mr.. Sargent, chief electrician,
is preparing plans for the general light
ing of the buildings and grounds in
1898. He says that the interior lighting
alone will require 21, 900 lamps, with a
capacity of 100000 candle power.
The fine arts palace will present full
mile of wall space and will be provided
with 1900 incandescent lights. The
woman's building will have 200 incan-
descents. The liberal arts building
will have 1000 arc lights; machinery
hall 600, agricultural hall 600, electricity
building 800, mines and mining
building, 400; transportation building,
450; horticultural hall, 400, and the for
estry building 150-5000 arc lights in all
and about $4,000 incandescents, inside
of main buildings. 1t is estimated that
the first night the grounds are lighted
there will be sheet of electric light
equal to 33,O0O,0 900 candle power, and
that large portion of the machinery
will be run from the central plant. Each
of the arc lights will equal 1000 candle
power, and the incandescents each six
teen. 1t will far outdo anything that
has yet been attempted in the way OF
electric illumination. and all that has
been developed by Franklin and Morse
and forty-one other eminent (dead) cleo
tricians, and Edison and multitude of
distinguished living ones, will be exhib-
tied on brilliant scale. Indeed, there
is no telling what may not be accom-
plished by Electrician Sargent in the
way of lighting, power, machinery, and
the innumerable accessories that pertain
to electrical handiwork and use.
THE ELECTRICAL BUILDING.
The electrical building is already we'll
under way, more than million feet of
lumber having been already used.
When completed this structure will
cover space of 700x350 feet, or nearly
six acres. Its style of architecture will
be of Italian renaissance order. 1t will
be 60 feet high, and ornamented with
designs suggestive of the department.
1t will be much smaller than many OF
the prominent buildings. but will be
one of the handsomest of the central
group. There will be four entrances,
the main one being on the south. At
this entrance there will be fine statue
of Franklin, nearly 20 feet in height.
Its main approach will be by means of
a splendid bridge, spanning one of the
artificial canals.
CALIFORNIA TOO SLOW.
There is one thing that l must i'm
press upon our state. and that is that it
is too slow in applying for space. 1t
seems to me that it need not wait for a
decision regarding the appropriation,
but apply for space in the horticultural,
mines and mining, woman's, agricul-
tural, forestry, machinery, liberal arts
and other buildings at once. Even if it
never used any of the space asked for, it
is all the same, as every foot has been
already applied for. Florida has even
now secured more than California will
probably ask for outside of its own
building. And that reminds me that
the place set apart for the California
building is the most desirable of all. 1t
is perfect in every respect-right close
to two of the main entrances, and
within stones throw OF the woman's,
horticultural, fine arts and Illinois state
buildings. By spending $1,000,000
judiciously California should be the
gamer by sl0O,O0O,OOO in four years
afterward. You'll see.
MINOR EXPOSITION NOTES.
The Mikado has written to the direct
or-general that Japan will appropriate
100000, and that his country proposes
to beat out OF sight its exhibits at Phil
adelphia in 1876, and Paris in 1889, and
requests that no permits be given for
so-called japanese displays and bazars
not under the auspices of his nation.
Among the many things transpiring
here that are never telegraphed are
suits in the courts to compel subscrib-
ers to pay up their assessments. Among
these is one against well-known hotel
keeper named Mccoy, who will prob
ably clean up 900 as a result of the
exposition, but who has compelled the
directors to sue him for $4,000, the
amount of his subscription.
The archdiocese of Chicago has ap-
piled for space OF 75x75 feet for
Catholic educational exhibit, and the
is signed by Vicar-General
Patrick Bowling and Chancellor Pat
rick J. Muldoon.
Three thousand square feet have been
set apart for the exhibit of the Daugh-
ters of the Revolution, who claim that
they will make a fine display of colonial
laces, coins, jewelry, etc. This space
will be set apart in the woman's build
ing.
Let the tailors of California be up and
doing, or their goose will be cooked by
the journeymen tailors of England, who
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