Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-07-14
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

which is great pillared porches.
1t is reported that King Alexande
of Servia has decided to visit thu
Worlds Fair next year. He is six
teen years old and son of the much
talked of ex-King Milan and ex-Queer
Natalie.
A group of Caribs from the LESSEE
Antilles, descend ants of the Gambia.
race discovered by Columbus on his
second voyage, will be at the worlds
fair, engaged in making baskets and
other native industries.
Sir Henry Wood, Of the British
Commission, is reported TO have
declared that so great is the interest
in England that he believes the
English exhibit would fill half of all
the buildings if the space could be
secured.
The Swiss National Council has
appropriated 10000 francs 1924, OOO)
for an exhibit at the worlds fair of
the Swiss matchmaking industry.
1t also approved subsidies for exhibits
of other industries, including female
work in the manufacturing line.
One of the novel exhibits in the
marine section of the Transportation
department at the worlds fair, will
be 200 pen e~ngravings of American
steam vessels, beginning with the Cler-
mont and following down a typical
series to the present day. The pic
lures will be sent by a New York
marine paper.
More than one thousand men are
now at work on the mammoth manu-
features building for the worlds fair.
The force was recently doubled by
order of the exposition authorities,
who concluded that the contractor
was not making as rapid progress as
was desirable. The authorities are
determined that all the buildings
shall be completed in time for dedi-
cation in October, and the public
may be assured that this will be done.
The total number OF workmen at
Jackson park now exceeds 1000. 1t
will probably be increased to 10000 or
more.
Kentucky will make at the Worlds
Fair an exhibit of tobacco in all its
forms from the seed up to the matured
and manufactured leaf. There will
be exhibits of different varieties of
plants in various stages of growth,
and illustrations of the manner of
shipping and handling the weed from
the time the seed is put in the ground
until the produce goes into the chew
er's or smokers mouth. The people
may be assured that it will be the
greatest exhibition ever given of
tobacco in the world. The various
ways in which tobacco is used in
manufacture will also be a feature of
the display.
The Jelly palace, which the women
of California will prepare for the
Worlds Fair exhibit, will be sixteen
by twenty feet and twenty-five feet
high, with two open doors approached
by three marble steps. The frame
work will be of wire. On this will be
firmly placed several thousand jelly
glasses-cups, globes, prisms, etc
filed with jelly of many shades of
color arranged in artistic and beauti-
full designs. The interior will be
brilliantly illuminated by electricity.
The cost of the framework and glasses
alone is estimated at So, 700.
The mineral exhibit at the worlds
fair promises to be incomparably finer
than any eyer before made, either in
this country or abroad. California
and Colorado each is striving to sur
pass all other states, and claims that
it will surely do o Michigan, Mon
tana and Missouri, too, are making a
speciality of the exhibition of their
remarkably rich and varied mineral
resources, and are not without hope
Of winning the highest award.
Almost every state possesses mineral
resources of especial merit in me OF
more particulars, and will display its
best. From all together a wonder
fully complete and valuable exhibit
is a certainty. Then, too, many
foreign nations, notably England,
will make mineral exhibits of the
most complete description. Canada
will occupy 10000 square feet for its
mineral display. Half of it is desired
by Ontario province, which intends
to make an extensive exhibit, includ-
ing lead, copper, iron, gold, graphite,
mica, asbestos, phosphate of lime,
gypsum, mari, petroleum, salt, terra
Gotta clay, nickel, silver, and many
varities of marble, granite and other
building materials.