The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-05-28

An association has been formed Ia Ger
MANY TO organize excursion parties to visit
the Worlds Fair and incidentally Niagara
Falla. and number Of other large cities.
It IL proposed 10 accomplish this within .
period If sixty days and an expense Of
between $3.50 and $500
The reproduction Of Columbus caravel,
the Santa Maria, IL being built by the
SPANISH government at the Oarraca yarda
Cadiz. The keel was laid on March I. The
caraveTs dimensions are: length at keel,
90 feet 4 inches; length between perpen-
dieulars, Is feet 3 inches; beam, % feet;
draught, IA feet, 8 inches. Great care Is
being taken with details, and the instru-
mems and appliances of the time of Colum-
bus will be in their places aboard the cara
vel. The Pinta and Nina, 1t is announced,
are being reproduced by American capital,
20 visitors TO the exposition will be able to
see the columbus feet" complete. The
Spanish government will provide crews for
the three caravels, dressed a. were Colum-
bus sailors. and the trip across the Atlantic
will be made under escort of a Spanish
man-of-war. After participating 10 the
naval review in New York harbor the cara
vels will proceed to Chicago. After the
fair closes they will remain the property of
| the UnltcO OlaVeS.
In Topeka, Kan, an organization,
| termed the Afro Columbian Auxiliary
club, has been formed for the purpose of
aiding the colored people of Kansas,
| Colorado and Missouri, to attend the
| Worlds Fair and obtain reduced rates
and good accommodations.
| A $4,000 monument to Columbus, de-
signed BY sculptor Howard KretSchmar
Of Chicago, will be erected in Lake Front
Park. which has been termed the "Gate-
way to the Exposition. 1t will he a
statute in bronze twenty feet high, sur
mounting a granite pedestal thirty feet
high. The monument will form the de.
sign for souvenirs of the Exposition
Gen. J. HI. Brinker, one of the alternate
national commissioners from Mississippi,
has in his possession, and will exhibit at
the Exposition, five bales Of cotton that
were raised by slave labor in 1898
| Visitors to the Exposition will be able
to 60 comfortably and expeditiOusly from
one part of the grounds 10 another and
obtain advantageous views Of the build
ings. They may do this either in cleo
trio boats through the lagoons. or by the
intramural elevated elect ic railway. The
contract for the latter has been awarded
There will be five miles of double track
and stations at convenient points. The
route, as mapped out, runs from one end
to the other Of the grounds in q sinuous
course. The fare will be five cents and
the capacity of the road about 60, 100 TN
hour.
A project is being perfected at Mel
bourne, Australia, whereby large party
of artisans of various crafts may be en-
abled to visit the Exposition at Chicago
for study and pleasure combined.
In the women's exhibit from South Da-
kota will be life size statue Of Sioux
Indian maiden. The subject was Mime
haha, the eighteen year old daughter of
Sitting Bear, who was prominent in the
engagement with Gen. Clusters troops on
the Little Big HON. Minnehaha fell in
love with q lieutenant in the U. 8. army at
Fort Sully and died of broken heart.
It is now assured that The various college
Greek letter fraternilies will unite, first in
making a collective exhibit in the Liberal
Arts Department of the Exposition, and
second, that they will hold Panhellenic
council, composed of accredited representa-.
tives from the different fraternities. This
council will be held in July Of next year,
at date yet to be fixed, and will discuss
the relations between students, colleges
fraternities and how best to promote the
best interests of all three. Plans for max
ing the proposed collective exhibit are fast
being matured and, doubtless, will be per-
fected at meeting of representatives Of
the interested iIaternities, which has been
called for Thursday, June z, at the Grand
Pacific hotel, Chicago. At that time 1t is
expected that space will be assigned and
action taken indicating the scope and
character OF the exhibit to be made.
A glass punch bowl, made by the glass
blowers of Cork in 1925, and presented
to Daniel O'Connell, the famous Irish
patriot, will appear In the exhibit from
Cork. One side Of the bowl bears
OCOnnelPs initials and the other rep
resentalion of Cork, as it then existed.
According to the Liverpool Journal of
Commerce the English railways will carry
Worlds Fair exhibits at half rates from
any station to the port of embarkatiOn,
and most of the Atlantic steamship lines
will transport them at a uniform rate of
lis. ($s.6D per ton.
An International chess congress in con-
nection with the Worlds Fair is being
advocated, and may be accounted Ger.
tain,y, as some of the most influential
chess associations and clubs are stu ngly
in favor Of the idea.
Many relics of the Cabots, the early
English voyagers to America, will be ex-
hibited at the exposition by committee
formed for that purpose in Bristol. Eng,
where the Cabots lived. The Bristol
Times and Mirror of recent date, states
that the COMMITTEES held a meeting to
complete arrangements for collecting the
material for the exhibit; that the mayor
Of the city presided; that there was a
very large attendance, representing es-
pecially the leading mercantile houses
and the various archaeological associa-
tions Of the city, and that 1t was apparent
from the proceedings that there was
available an abundance Of relics from
which to select very interesting exhibit.
DR.. N. G. Blalock, president of the
Washington State Worlds Fair board,
announces that there will be celebrated
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