The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-10-25
WORDS FAIR NOTES.
In American Sportsman Exhibit 60 The Palace
Of MlSiC-ODhI Mines.

Theodore Roosevelt, the Civil Service
champion. wants to have an American
Sportsman's Exhibit" made at the exposi-
ton. In explanation of his idea he says:
81 want an exhibit of every weapon and
utensil used in hunting, fishing and trapping
since the discovery of the country down to
the preseat day. We have the greatest
hunting country on earth. The Boone and
Crockett Club of which l am member, is
enthusiastic over an exhibition of the kind,
and we want nothing in it but what is
American. For instance, know where the
rifles used by Davy Crockett and Daniel
Boone can be secured. Nothing can be more
interesting than collection of the kind.
The exhibition should embrace the heads of
all kinds of American game of the larger
sort and specimens of the smaller game,
animals, birds ana fishes; the old wigwams,
hunting shocks of pioneer days, all kinds OF
weapons, and all the convrniences that go
to make up n modern huntlng-camp,"
Sir Walker Bullard. who owns the nnest
collection Of native Maori curi0slties ana
paintings in the world, has applied for
space in which TO display his collection, and
intends visiting the exposition with his fam
lily. Major John Wilson of Auckland has
submitted a proposition to the Foreign Al
fairs Com mittee to bring 4 colony of Maoris
to the exposition, house them IN one OF
their native-bult forts, and let them show
their native costumes home life and meth
DDS Of warfare. The proposition IS regard
ed with some favor, as 1t would add greatly
to the value of the general chronological ex-
hihit of the exposition.
gentleman writes the Texas Worlds
Fair Association from Williamson County
that he has quite an interesting historical
relic in the shape OF caSt-lron slack
trough which was captured by General Sam
Houston from Santa Ana at the battle of
San JacintO, and that he wishes to con-
tribute it to the Texas exhibit at the w GRID S
Fair He will be requested TO send 1t TO
the headquarters at Fort Worth, whence it
Will be sent to Chicago at the proper time.
The Palace of Music al the exposition, 1t
is now expected, will stand on the great
island formed by the lagoons, and will be
surrounded by a magnificent garden OF
fl lowers, ten acres or more In extent. This
location is desired by Theodore Thomas,
Musical Director Of the exposition, but has
not yet been finally passed upon by the
Board of Directors. The structure will
measure 100 by 80 feet, and cost approx
imately S1C0,0G0
One of the unique features OF the Next
can exhibit az the fair will be the celebrated
Pdndure family, consisting Of five persons,
who are probably the most expert workers
in clay and mOdeleTS Of figures II the world.
This family will be sent to Chicago by the
State of Guadalajara. 1t is the intention to
pIONlue II MtAlCdu muse lUL Liltll " i've III
during the fair, and workshop where
their work may be inspected.
c. w. WyukOOp has been sent out by
London syndicate to find the gold mines in
the biblical lands of Ophir, where King
Solomon and the Queen Of Sheba got their
riches. He will report to Chief Skif the re-
suit Of his investigations, and promises to
furnish some interesting matter for the
mines and mining department.
Between $40 and 800 men are employed in
perfecting the landscape features of the
exposition site. 1t is the intention to make
the grounds exceedingly beautiful by walks,
drives. lawns, terraces fountains, shrubbery
and flowers. Several hundred thousand
dollars are TO be expended for this purpose.
Exhibitors at the Worlds Fair can have
their empty cases, in which their exhibits
are transported to the exposition, stored
during the fair for > cents per cubic foot;
OF stored and insured for > y cents per cubic
foot. The latter rate Is less than One-siXth
what was charged exhibitors at the Paris
Exposition Of 1889.
The magnitude Of the building operations
now going on at jackson Park can be sur
missed from the fact that an average of from
thirty-fYe to forty carloads OF construction
material arrive daily. The exposition
buildings are rising with wonderful rap
idity.
Ivan Malakoff, st. Petersburg capitalist,
wants to reproduce at the exposition a
street scene from Mini Novgorod, the cele-
brated place where expostious have been
held for so years. He agrees to spend
$3.50 COO upon the rep reduction.