The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-19
Worlds Fair Gossip,

CHICAGO, June 2-It is understood that
Thomas A. Edison proposes to be repre-
senrzd at the Worlds fair by a new in
vention which will create more de-
cided sensation than anything he has yet
given to the world, not even excepting the
photograph, is of international interest.
Just what form it will take is a secret
locked in his own breast, unless 1t be
shared by his confidants in his laboratory.
The very fact, however, thatanother great
discovery will be given to the world at this
time invests the event with additional i'm
portance, and will help to perpetuate its
record upon history.
Edison does not talk much, but he does
mighty site of thinking and just as much
hard work, and when he told the directors
the other day that he had been busy with
his plans for his display at the fair for al
most a year-in other words, that he had
commenced almost simultaneously with
the agitation in congress-a good many eyes
opened wide. and good many Threats ex-
pressed admiration of his enterprise and
the hustling characteristics of his methods.
The wizard illustrates the old adage Of
taking time by the forelock" just about
as strongly as it is possible to illustrate it.
Leading electricians, not only in this coun-
try, but also in the Old World, are now be-
ing consulted, and on the principle that in
the multitude of counselors there is wis
dom, the indications are that the two cleo
trical branches of the exposition viii be
the most remarkable, as well as the most
complete, of their kind that the world is
likely to see in the present century.
The South Side parks, round about where
the buildings will be located, present avery
different appearance TO what they did
when the apology for a winters snow had
melted. The sites are now completely
leveled for the buildings to be devoted to
electricity, machinery, agriculture, fish
cries and mines and mining, while tbs
right of way is graded for the railroad of
construction from the initial entrance to
the grounds TO the first structure of the
row-the mining building. The labors of
the landscape artist are also bringing forth
good fruit, and for nearly q mile along the
eastern shore the large wooded island Is
dotted with shrubbery and flowers, afford
ing very fair idea OF how things will look
under the summer sun of 1898. Some idea
Of the amount of preparatory work that
has yet to be done can be gained from the
fact that no less than eighteen miles Of
railroad track has to be laid purely for
freight purposes.
The structure which is TO be devoted to
fish and fisheries will be just IS unique as
its contents. Those who have seen the
plans say that they resemble hump
backed banana, which is certainly some
thing new II architectural design. The
architect had no easy task Of it, for he was
to subdivide the building into
three parts, and TO SO adapt himself TO cir
that they might conform to
the shape of the island Instead of maxi
ing the land TO suit the building, the build
ing had TO fit the land, for the architect
WAS assigned an ugly shaped area Of ground,
and told TO design q structure to fit it. This
is very much on the principle Of the New
York publisher who some years ago bought
a few bushels of cuts at auction, some Of
them, as remember, being OF lions, tigers,
Arabs in native costume and young couples
rowing about in boats, AID assigned q well
known journalist Of that city to write
stories for Sunday school publication TO
&c the cuts. He performed his task great
deal better than many an artist who makes
his picture to fit the story. And 80 Archi-
tect Cobb has made a more picturesque
building 70 Ct the ground than be might
have done had he been givea free foot
and all the land that he wanted.
q. II. Hunt.