The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-04
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WORLDS FAIR.

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Jamaica has Increased its Worlds fair
ri preparation to $50, GOO.
III The WOODEN manufacturers have resolved
to make \ united exhibit at the fair.
A Racine. Wis, firm Ia planning to have
q complete tannery plant IN operation at
the exposition.
Ohnuncoy Nj. Dspsw has been elsotsd
president Of New York'a Worlds fair board.
Commissions Gorton w. Allen 10 vice.
president.
Tho Bedford stone quarries have donated
$1,000 worth OF stone for the Indiana
Worlds fair building. Thu cutting Of the
stone Ii included.
Owing to the recent increase Of Great
RrltAin's Worlds fair appropriation to
$500, 600, British exhibitors will mot be
charged for space AZ at flst determined.
The steamship lines covering the west
coast of South America hnve ngreed to
oarry government exhibits free and private
exhibits at half price. az far AZ Panama.
Passenger rates also have been greatly re-
duoad.
Baron de Jsune's valuable collection OF
prehistoric relics, ii Is believed, will bs
secured for exhibition at the fair. II COM
Sprises many rare specimens from caves in
France. LeMaret, who made the colleo-
tion, spent twenty-five years in tho work.
A monster panorama, AS feet long and
ffty-one feet high, representing tho Ber-
nese Alps. with the Jungfrau in the back
ground, has been paintad for exhibition at
the fair. A private exhibition OF the work
WAS recently given to ths press in Berlin.
A ompany from the national military
I institute OF Columbia. South America.
/ wants to attend the exposition and camp
on the Worlds fair grounds. The PROPOSE
tion to give the company camping space in
Washington park, close by the grounds. is
now under consideration,
An effort il being made to COLLECT $25, 900
with which to build at tho exposition a
headquarters for the sunday schools OF the
United ttates. Tho scheme contemplates
asking each school to contribute an amount
equal to 10 cents for each officer and teacher
u one cent for each pupil.
The lofty stone monolith which Wiacon-
sin will exhibit at the fair, will emain at
Jackson park permanently, the park ON
missioners having given thsir consent.
Ihe monolith is 1O7 feet high and cut flom
: solid block Of stone. The contract for
it's erection has already been let. N
Karl Hagenbeck, famous for his ability
in tanning wild animals. ia dsvoting his
time in Hamburg to q group Of wild lions,
tigers, jaguars and hyenas that he expects
to bring to the fair. This group consists Of
fifty animals, all to be kept in one big cage.
Hagenbeck has already spent a fortune on
the group.
President Diaz has recommended to the
Mexican congress that Oct. y Of this year
be made n national holiday in commence
ration OF tbs landing Of Columbus in the
new world. He says in his message that
the work of collecting the Mexican exhibit
sis progressing rapidly, and that a display
kpf Mexican troops will be made at the
! dedicatory exercises.
Messrs. Hirst and jackson, Worlds fair
commissioners for Florida, report that tho
prospect ia very promiaing for raising
100000 for the representation of that state.
The interest of the people has been greatly
Increased by the decision to construct for
the FLORIDA building a reproduction of old
Fort Marion claimed to be the oldest
structure on the continent.
Mr.. Robert s. Mccormick, resident CON-
missioner of the Worlds faif, at LONDON.
has received word that an influential com
mittee in Geneva il actively promoting. the
Q ;mation Of a creditable Swiss section at
the fair, and is meeting with gratifying
success. Matchmaking will be one Of the
chief features Of the display. It ID con
sidered possible that Switzerland will vet
appoint a government commission on the
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Bishop J. I. Spauldinc. Of Peoria. prcsi-
dent Of the Catholic educational exhibit.
announces that Cardinal Gibbons and tho
arohbishops OF the United States have re-
quested Brother Maurelian, president OF
the Christian Brothers' college. Memphis,
Tenn, to act as secretary and manager of
the Catholic educational exhibit. Brother
Maurellan has the approval Of the su! eriois
of his order and will enter upon the duties
of his office without delay. Headquarters
have been established for him in Chicago
at the northeast corner of Thirty-frBt
street and Wabash avenue.
The scene which the exposition grounds
now afford. with most of tho buildings
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being pushed forward by more than 5000
workmen, is accounted 30 interesting and
wonderful that from 1000 to 1000 visitors
o day willingly pay the admission fee of 25
cents to see it. Before tbs abolition of the
free pass system the visitors often num-
bered as high as $4,000 or 10000. The work
OF construction was intsrfersd with, so
that it was thought best to charge an
admission fee and thus diminish the size
OF the crowd Of sightseers and'at the same
time add to the financial resources of the
exposition.
Visitors to the exposition will avail them
selves of q bureau OF public comfort, man
aged by the exposition authorities. This
will have headquarters in Il building on the
grounds, and will provide for visitors means
of information and almost every ~facility for
convenience and comfort except lodging.
The bureau will DO managed by VI. N.
Iasson. who had charge of similar service
at the Philadelphia centennial, though on
q much smaller scale than is now planned.
A separate organization having arrange
ments with the hotels and lodging houses
of the CITY, will extend its service to I'LL
visitors who wish it. It is the determine
tion to protect visitors from imposition of
every description, and to Sos that prices are /.
kept down to a reasonable basis.
The construction of the exposition build
ngs is progressing in the most satisfactory
manner ind there is no teuson for doubt
that all will be completed in time for dedi-
cation. The rough carpentry work is prac-
tically finished or all of the la ge atruct-
ures except machinery hall and tue manu-
building, and on these it is in an
stage. Six or seven Of the build
ings have tho exterior appearance almost
Of finished structures. and look like impos-
ing marble palaces. The erection of Il num-
Der of the state buildings is now progress.
ing. Landscape gardening and Other work
OF Identifying the grounds is beng pushed
by q large force of mon, and soddlng. walk
and the planting of thousands OF
shrubs, ETC., is in progress.
A plan has been elaborated for making
tina Tyrolese section perhaps the most en-
pertaining part of Austria's exhibit ut the
fair, The uuGpDsa in urr,puinr