Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-08
THE LITTLE NUTMEG STATE.

and the Governors Foot Guard to |
Attend-Connectfcut Women and
the Fair-General Notes.
The Connecticut state board of managers
for the worlds fair will attend in body
the dedicatory exercises at Chicago in o.
tober. The committee on transportation |
consists of Governor Buckley, Frank A. |
Mitchell of Norwich, G. B. Davis of Hig-
ganum and g. S. L. Marlor of Brooklyn.
The governor and staff and the Cover
nor's Foot Guard will also attend the dedi-
catory exercises. The board has voted to
appropriate a sum not exceeding $4,000
for the transportation of the Foot Guard.
State exhibits of agricultural products,
live stock, shell fish, forestry and mineral
ogy were considered, and these matters
| were referred to the executive committee
| with recommendations that appropriations
| be made for them. The same recon-
mendation is officially made in regard to
| the exhibit by the Tobacco Growers as
| ISOLATION.
The exhibition of Connecticut woods,
made at New Orleans, is stored at the
| capitol and will be sent to Chicago.
Critics rated Connecticut's forestry ex-
hibition at New Orleans as superior to any
other, with the single exception of New
| Mexico
| Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker of the
| national commission has submitted to the
board plan for woma1's exhibit. She
said it was at the request of Mrs. Palmer,
| president of the womens national board,
| that she submitted the plan, which was
her own work. The ladies' board in
Detroit had recently asked Mrs. Hooker
to give them her plan, and with it they
made excellent progress. The board
unanimously referred the plan to the
ladies' board of managers of Connecticut.
The scheme is as follows:
First-Visit chief towns in the state and
| hold meetings of men and women to-
gether to hear of the general work and
methods of the worlds Columbian exposi-
ton.
Second-Visit every factory in the state
| and learn the number of women employed
in each, their sanitary condition, their
special duties, their wages as compared
with men, and what proportion of the ex-
| hibits sent to Chicago will have been made
by women.
Third-Make the farm work of women
a special study.
/ Fourth-Search for mechanical work in
9 vented or carried on by women, as engi-
, neers, captains. pilots, as employees in sig
! nal service, railways, stage lines, etc.
:: Fifth-List of titles of books and plays
d | written by women of the state, together
i with poems and magazine articles, also IL
| Illustrators of all these.
Sixth-List of colleges admitting women,
seminaries and private schools conducted
by women, including kindergarten and in
dustrial schools and schools of elocution
= and physical culture.
Eight-Priscns and reformatory institu.
. tions in charge of women, police matrons,
etc., and complete list of all reform as
eociations. A list of women's literary
clubs.
Nine-Number of girls in public schools
as compared to boys, and their relative
scholarship.
Ten-List of women ministers, must
clans and composers, astronomers, actors
lecturers, physicians, dentists, trained
nurses, teachers and lawyers.
Elsven-Women in painting, sculpture
architecture, wood carving, china paint
signing, decorative art, embroidery
needlework, dressmaking and millinery.
n. Twelve-Request the president of ever.
woman's organization in the state to repor
it's title and object to the chairman of th
county committee. This list should in
clude oranges, patrons of husbandry AM
similar organizations and all philan
t thropical work.
s Thirteen-Obtain list of woman taxpay
r ers in every town and their several assess
y ments.
S CONGRATULATIONS inhorticulture, viii
culture, bee culture, silk culture, foricul
,e ture, mining and stock raising.
+ Fifteenth-Woman telegraph and tele
n phone operators, stenographers, photog
raphers, editors, reporters, members 0
the press and women engaged in all kind
| 6re i,,o11 or
etc.
Tn Sixteenth-Women in hotels, restau
rants, boarding houses, 1ss1ndries, baker
les, canning establishments, confectionerie
and domestic services.
Observation-Disclosures postmasters, ma
contractors, taxidermists, civil engineers
pre- -empters of public lands, inventors an
patenters.
fredericksburg from manufacturer
an industrial prize" to be given to wome
in their employ who have shown speci,
ability in skilled work, the prize to be
weeks stay in Chicago, with full expense
of the trip.
tween ''display" and ''exhibit," and g.
cure admirable displays both for tt
women's building and the state building
also the woman's dormitory system, und,
the supervision of the board of lady man
b, gers.
n In order to carry out the plan of worl
the state board should call a public NEE
ing in each county seat or town where tt
plan of work should be submitted, an
committees be appointed to carry out eac
head of the plan, in the various towns
up the county; these committees to report
u 'ad the chairman of the county committee an
nee the chairman of the county to report
led the president of the state board, and fna
ly the president of the state board will r
port to the lady managers of the state, WI
cit will present condensed report to tt
IL are board of lady managers of the world
not Columbian Exposition.
fer OTHER WORLDS FAIR NOTES.
'et, More than one thousand men are no
at work on the mammoth manufacture
building for the worlds fair. The for
was recently doubled by order of the e.
lad position authorities, who concluded tn
d 70 the contractor was not making as rap
ing are determined that all of the building
snt shall be completed in time for dedioatit
in October, and the public may be assur,
bet, that this will be done. The total numb
3 & of workmen at Jackson park now excee
deT 1000. 1t will probably be increased
eep 10000 or more.
my A group of Caribs from the Lesser A
io9 titles, descendants of the cannibal race di
st covered by Columbus on his second voyae
will be at the worlds fair, engaged
nue. making baskets and in other native
ing dustries.
cry cry Great Britain, France, Germany. and,
and fact, many other foreign nations, are as
ell ing, and almost insisting, that more spa
be granted for their exhibits at Il
worlds fair. Sir Henry Wood, of t
Ises British commission, is reported to have
! at clarea that so great is the interest in En-
rch land that he believes the English exhit
'ea ca would fill half of all the buildings if t.
.ch. space could be secured.
ses, An agent of the Turkish government
ion, on his way to Chicago to superintend t
r. construction of the Ottoman pavilion al
a Turkish village for the worlds fair. A
companying him are native masons vi
n will build the pavilion.
The Swiss national council has approp
ated 12O, 900 francs (s24 ,00O for an exhil
at the worlds fair of the Swiss watc
making industry. 1t also approved sub