Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
WORLDS FAIR FACTS.
A Great Electric Lighting Grab Has
Been Nipped in the Bud.
LADY MANAGERS DOING WELL.
Nearly 400 Pennsylvania Firms Have Al.
ready Applied for Space.
PLENTY OF IRON YET TO BE PLACED

rspEc 1Ar TELreRAM TO THE DIsrAron.l
CHICAGO, April 1n-The Thomson
Houston electric combine has been de-
feated In its attempt to bleed the Worlds
Fair When bids for incandescent lights
were opened several weeks ago 1t was
found that the combine demanded three
timelas much for the service as the lowest
bidder Ninety-two thousand incandescent
lamps of 16-candle power each are to be
used, in addition to 9, 900 arc lamps of 2, 000-
candle power each. The Southside Metal
and Machine Works of this city agree to
furnish the $1,000 lamps for $572, 240, or
Sc % per lamp. The combine, which in
cludes the Brush, Fort Wayne, Excelsior,
Edison and number of other companies,
wanted 81, ,sO2, 900 for the work, or $1S 80 q
lamp. The Thomson Houston people have
concluded that they cannot afford to lose
the contract, and they have, therefore, low
cred their price to something like IS q lamp.
The Worlds Fair managers will save about
81 ,OO0, 900. The Southside Metal and Ma
chine Works was supported in its fight
against the Thomson Houston combine by
the New York Insulated Wire Company,
and the Westinghouse, National and
Electrical companies, as we'll as the La
Roche Company of Philadelphia. The
firms that helped in the defeat of the COM
bine will undoubtedly get liberal share of
the lighting business.
What the Women Are Doing.
The most important thing done BY the
lady managers of the fair for the benefit of
women is the proposed construction of three
dormitories near the Worlds Fair grounds
for the exclusive accommodation Of working
women. 1t is estimated that $4,000 women
of this class would attend the fair If they
could be sure of securing lodging places
within their means; it would be out of the
question for them to come to Chicago with
the expectation of putting up at the average
hotel or boarding house. The plans for one
of these hotels for women have been
prepared. 1t will be something like
150x450 feet in size, with accommodations
for 5000 women at once. It will be two
stories high, and the rooms will be arranged
around an inner court like those of Spanish
houses. This will be 1O0x40 feet in size.
It will have lawn, with fountains, shrub
berry, etc. The occupants of the building,
when too tired to spend the time on the
fair grounds, may spend the day amid grass
and flowers with perfect seclusion from
observation. The building will, of
couIse, coutalu udlnly sicepiHS IoomS, VIC
smallest not less than 10x6 feet, There will
be four large rooms at the angles OF the
building, fitted up with writing desks,
tables and writing materials, books and
daily papers from the principal cities. These
drawing rooms will have pretty mantels and
freplaces; there will be no provision for fire
in any other part of the building. Cooking
will not be allowed within the building, but
it is possible that a kitchen will be con-
structed near at hand. from which simple
meals will be furnished at cost.
This building will be located on plat Of
ground donated by George M. Pullman, two
blocks and half north of the north entrance
to Jackson Park. The front will be toward
Fair grounds will be within the vision
toward the south. The location Of the other
three buildings has not been determined,
but it is expected that sites will be obtained
in the immediate vicinity Of the one now
located.
A Good Thing for the Fair Sex.
A room and bed in these hotels will be
furnished for 30 cents a day. The first
preference will be given to those women
who hold stock in the enterprise, for it is
proposed to place it in the hands directly of
the women themselves by organizing
stock company. Shares will be sold
for S. share, and the certificate
of stock will be good for its face
value in paying for accommodations. If |
guest does not stay long enough to use the
entire SIS worth of stock, she will be allowed |
to transfer it to any other acceptable woman |
The business management of the hotels will |
be under the control of the Board of Lady |
Managers Of the Worlds Fair, represented |
by experienced and competent women.
Tro of ha cfo -
support the roof of the Manufactures |
building, the largest in the world, are now
in position. They span $50 feet, and give Q |
height from the floor of POI feet. Their |
weight is 200 tons each. The q trusses to
be used in the building would furnish |
enough material to construct the BROOKLYN,
Bridg. with 2, 400 tons left over 1t would |
reproduce the st. Louis bridge, with 400 tons
to spare.
The Sunday closing question will be
finally considered by the National CON-
mission at its October session. The petit
tions against the opening of the Fair on
Sunday, received to date, number 2,725.
heads the list with 40, Ohio
sends 221, and West Virginia Z.
A Resting Spot for Tired Mothers.
A children's home, or pavilion, has been
planned for the used of tired mothers during
the Fair. 1t is designed that the little ones
be left in the care of attendants while the
mothers visit the Exposition buildings. The
lady managers will raise the $40, 900 neces-
sary to maintain the building during the
Fair, but they have asked the several States
to secure about $4,000 with which to con-
struct the building. The amount assigned
TO Pennsylvania is s., 600. The same amount
is asked of the women of Ohio, while $100
from West Virginia will be sufficient
Three hundred and forty-seven Pennsvl-
vania firms have filed applications for space
at the Exposition. The number of exhib-
itors from that State at the Centennial Ex-
position was $500. The Pennsylvania
committee will forward to Chicago
within the next few weeks some handsomely
carved panels, memorial windows, and
number of pieces of drapery, embroidered
Or painted for the woman's building. These
are all the production of PENNSYLVANIA
women, and many of them are said to be of
a high order of merit
The Vanderbilts have asked for space in
the transportation building for three tracks,
each 500 feet long, on which to make dis
play of locomotives, cars and railway SER
vice appliances.
Out of total of "a. ia, ,934 pounds of iron
required in the construction of Worlds
Fair buildings, II, ,4S5, 12S pounds have been
placed
The Legislature of Ohio has appropriated
SO, 600 for the erection of monument on
the Exposition grounds commemorative of 7
the achievements of Ohio men.
Schemes to Fight thu Flames.
The provisions for fighting fire at the Ex-
position grounds will be as complete as it is
possible TO make them. Every building is
by water pipe eight inches or
more in diameter. Double-nozzled, FROST
Jacket hydrants are set in this pipe 800
feet apart. Ninety-four OF these hydrants
are already in place. There will be more than
800 of them when the buildings are COM