San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-23
wORLD'S FAIR NOTES.

The total amount paid out up to
February /, by Treasurer Seeberger,
for construction and other expenses
the exposition, was 1852. S91.
The board of trade of Columbia, 8.
c., has un6 ertaken to see that an ex-
hibit worthy OF that state is made at
the exposition.
The preparation of the educational
exhibits from South Dakota and New
Mexico has been entrusted to the
women members of the respective
state boards.
Chief Samuels, of the Horticular
department, has returned from q trip
to Florida and Cuba, where he stimu-
lated interest in the Exposition and
secured the promise of many fne
palms and other tropical plants, to be
exhibited in his department.
Invitations to foreign nations to
send representatives TO the exercises
dedicatory of the Exposition buildings
next October, have been issued by the
Committee on Ceremonies, and have
been forwarded to their destinations
by Secretary OF State Blaine.
Michigan will expend $12, 900 to
SIS, 900 on its forestry exhibit, and
$4,000 to $1,000 or its display of fruits.
The Manufacturers' club of PhIla-
delphia desires to erect q building in
the Exposition grounds, constructed
entirely of material made by men,
bers of the club, with intent that it be
headquarters for manufacturers, not
only of Philadelphia, but of the entire
country.
A number o%finfiuential Norwegians,
residing In Chicago, have formed an.
association with the purpose of hav-'
ing q Norwegian artist paint q large
picture representing Lief Erickson
starting on his voyage of discovery of
America, and also of erecting in Chi
cago q monument to the noted Nor
wegian d~iscOverer. 1t is the inten-
tion to exhibit the painting In the art
gallery of the exposition and to erect
the monument in n of the Chicago
parks.
The women of Denver are engaged
in raising $4,000 with which to con-
tribute something notable to the
Colorado exhibit ut the Exposition.
They purpose to get Preston Powers
TO reproduce in bronze, on.eighth
larger than life size, his celebrated
group, "The Closing Era" which
represents q dead buffalo and q soil.
tary Indian in melancholy contem
plation of 1.-THE two forming, as
Bierstadt says in commencing the
project, a "perpetuation in bronze of
a dual departing Race" After ex
hibition at Chicago, 1t is the intention
to place the group in the capitol
grounds at Denver.
The Bristol, England, Chamber of
Commerce mas undertaken to furnish
an exhibit for the Exposition that
will doubtless attract a great deal of
attention. In addition, to a repsesen.
tation OF the manufactures of the
place, the exhibit will show much in
illustration of the lives and discover
les of John and Sebastian Cabot, upon
whose early American explorations is
based England's claim to its past and
present possessions In this country.
The Merchant Venturer's Guild has
agreed to contribute Cabot relics, of
which it has a large collection.
A cablegram,from Rome states that
the Pope assured Thomas B. Bryan,
vice-president of the exposition, to
whom he gave q special audience,
that he was deeply interested in the
exposition, and would contribute as
far as possible to the success and
eclat of the undertaking, and that he
would. soon issue a pontificial letter
embodying his sentiments as ex-
pressed. An exhibit from the Vati-
can, prepared under the direction of
Cardinal Rampolla, the papal secre-
tarY of state. Is nromised.