Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-24
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Mr.. Childs Donates a Number of Rare
and Beautiful Palm Trees From
His Conservatory.

His Conservatory.
The Salvation Army intends to show
at the exposition in col D-ste mannel
its whole scheme of moral and social re
form.
A relief map showing San Francisco
San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz
counties, CAL, is being prepared at al
expense of $4,000 for exhibition at the
fair.
As evidence OF the great and wide
epread interest abroad taken in the
Worlds Fair it is announced that more
than half of the mail now being received
by the State Department at Washington
is in relation to it.
William Saunders, Executive EXPOSE
ton Commissioner for Canada, says that
a large and excellent exhibit from the
Dominion is assured. 1t will be espe-
cially notable in the lines of agriculture,
dairying, minerals and manufactures.
The principal commercial organiza-
| tons of New Orleans have united in a
petition to the State Legislature of Lou
isiana, which assemblies this month, to
make Worlds Fair appropriation OF
$4,000. A bill making such an appro-
priation has been drafted.
George w. Childs, the Philadelphia
philanthropist, signalized his visit to the
| Worlds Fair grounds by planting lin
den tree on the wooded island" Mr..
Childs has donated to the exposition a
number of rare and beautiful pain trees
| from his conservatory. He is very en-
thusiastic over the fair and it's prospects.
The New York State building at the
ex position, as shown by the plan which
the Commissioners have approved, will
he one OF the most commodious and ar
tistic of all. 1t will measure 97xl93 feet,
be two stories high and covered with
staff" treated to represent marble.
The estimated cost is from 1000 to
100000.
Prof. Charles d. Walcott of the United
States geological survey intends to have
at the Worlds Fair an exhibit which
will illustrate section of the earth g
crust by specimens OF the rock strata
placed in their proper relative positions
and by collections OF the characteristic
fossils shown in connection with the for
nations in which they are found.
President Harrison has accepted the
invitation, conveyed to him by COM
mittee, to attend the dedication cere-
monies OF the exposition building next
October. 1t is believed certain that
every member OF the Presidents Cabinet
and of the Supreme Court and nearly
every Senator, Congressman and Gov
ernor also will be present on that occa-
sion.
Helena, Mont, will send to the expo
sition a meteor discovered near that CITY,
1t is composed of nickel and magnetic
iron, and is in two pieces of ninety and
seventy pounds respectively. 1t is re-
ported that when found these pieces
were in a hole in the ground large enough
to contain house, from which fact it is
inferred that the meteor exploded when
it struck the earth.
Philadelphia's contribution to the
Pennsylvania exhibit at the fair will in
clude number of articles of great his
torlc interest. Among them are the desk
and chairs used In the Continental Con-
gress and the celebrated portraits of the
Declaration of Independence. In the
art exhibit, which promises to be large,
will appear the very valuable painting,
1.-The Festival OF the Brides of Venice"
by Giacomo Giacomelli, and a mosaic
picture representing the discovery of the
remains of St. Marcus, the patron saint
OF Venice. The latter contains more
than million pieces, and required in
Its making seven years of patient work.
The prospect is that the engineering
congress, which is to be held in Chicago
in 1893 under the auspices of the worlds
congress auxiliary, will be a gathering
OF very great scientific Importance. OF
the $l5, 900 estimated to be necessary for
its expenses $1,000 have been raised.
Many OF the most prominent engineers
OF the world have accepted mem berships
on the advisory council, among whom
may be mentioned William III, Nav and
James Dredge OF the London Enqineer-
ing, Don Fernandez Leal, President of
the Mexican Society of Engineers and
Architects, @. s. Gowzski of Canada
and others.
The New York School of Industrial
Art and Technical Design for Women.
OF which Mrs. Florence 4. Cory is prin-
clpal, will make notable exhibit in the
wonan's building. 1t will EN- brace the
work of 500 women, pupils of the insti-
tuition, in the line of preparing working
designs Tor body Brussels and ingram
carpets, tapestry, table linen, wall pa
pers, oil cloths, stained glass screens. |
window shades, embroidery, laces, calico
prints, etc, and also many finished fab
rics made from these designs. The de-
signs made by pupils of this school are
furnished to many foreign as well as do |
nestle manufacturers