Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-05-13
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

President Of New York's Worlds Fair Board.
A RACINE (Wis.) firm is planning to have
a complete tannery plant in operation at the
Exposition.
IT is reporter that one hundred tons Of
exhibits for the Exposition have already
| been collected and are awaiting shipment at
Lima and Callao.
A COMPANY from the National Military
Institute of Columbia, South America wants
to attend the Exposition and camp on the
| Worlds Fair grounds.
A MONSTER panorama, A. feet long and 81
feet high, representing the Bernese Alps, with
| the Jungfrau in the background, has been
! painte4 for exhibition at the Fair.
| BAVARIA will send to the Worlds Fair
two professors from its institute of tech
nology to report on the progress of the
United States in technical matters.
| OWING to the recent increase OF Great
Britain's Worlds Fair appropriation to
| $4,000 British exhibitors will not be
charged for space, at first determined.
| LEIGH s. LYNCH, Worlds Fair Commits
sioner to the South Sea Islands, has caoled
that he has completed arrangements for an
exhibit from the PHILIPPINE Islands, and Is
| now devotiny his attention to Java.
The lofty stone monolth, which Wiscon-
| sin will exhibit at the Fair, will remain at
| jackson Park permanently, the park com
| missoners having given their consent. The
|
| solid block Of stone.
| BARON DE JEUNE's valuable collection OF
| prehistoric relics, it is believed, will be Sc
cured for exhibition at the Fair. 1t CON-
| prises many rare specimens from caves In
| France DeMaret, who made the collection,
| spent twenty-five years In the work.
Mr.. RoRERT S. MCCORMICK, Resident
Commissioner for the Worlds Fair. at Lon.
don. has received word that an influential
committee in Geneva is actively promoting
the formation of & creditable Swiss section
at the Fair, and is meeting with gratifying
success.
CONTRACTS have been let for the con-
struction OF the Casino, Music Hall and
connecting peristYle, which together will be
a conspicuous feature in the foreground OF
the Administration building and near the
shore end of the lake pier. The contracts
aggregate $279, $50.
COSTA RIGA has one of the largest and
finest archaeological collections in the world,
showing many Columbian relics and his
toric data relating to the discovery OF Amer
lea. This collection goes to Madrid this year
for the Spanish Exposition, and will after
wards go to Chicago.
AN effort is being made to collect S25, 900
with which to build at the Exposition
headquarters for the Sunday schools of the
United States. The scheme contemplateS
asking each school to contribute amount
equal to ten cents for each officer and teach
KARL HAGENBECK famous for his ability
in tanning wild animals, is deyoting his time
in Hamburg to a group Of 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 fortune on
the group.
THE scene which the Exposition grounds
now afford, with most of the buildings near
ing completion and the construction being
pushed forward by more than 5000 workmen,
is accounted so interesting and wonderful
that from 1000 to 5000 visitors a day will
ingly pay the admission fee of twenty-five
cents to witness it
BISHOP J. L. SPAULDING, of Peoria, Pres
ident of the Catholic educational exhibit, an
nounces that Cardinal Gibbons and the arch
bishops of the United States have requested
Brother Maureian, President Of the Chris
tian Brothers College, Memphis, Tenn. to
act as Secretary and Manager or the Cath
Ole educational exhibit.
THE contract for the erection of the Texas
building has been let to a Waco contractor
for 100000 The building will be in Spanish
renaissance style, will measure elghty-hve
by $50 feet, and have four towers. The ex-
terror will be covered with staff and rem
dered very ornamental. The interior will
be handsomely finished with native Texas
woods.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the Expo
sition authorities to all the railway passen-
ger associations of the Uuited States and
individal roads, asking that materially re-
duced rate be made by the railroads on the
occasion Of the dedcatory ceremonies next
October. 1t is believed that 500, OGO visitors
will be in Chicago from different parts of
the country.
PRESIDENT DIAz has rac1 mmended to the
Mexican Congress that October 18th of this
year be made a National holiday in COM
memoration of the landing of Columbus in
the New World. He says in his message that
the work of collecting the Mexican exhibit is
progressing rapidly, and that display of
Mexican troops will be ma te at the dedicl-
tory exercises.
AS an illustration of the rapidi5y with
which the work of erecting the Exposition
buildings is being pushed at Jackson Park it
may be stated that on March l, sketches
were made for building to serve as perma-
nent accommodations for the Construction
Bureau, the Columbian guards, emergency
hospital, central fire alarm service, etc. The
contract was let on April = and on April
30 the building was finished and occupied.
The structure measures 200 by 300 feet, is
covered and ornamented with staff, and is
substantially put up.
The women of North Carolina are organ
izing throughout the state for the purpose
of raising $40, 900 with which to erect that
States building at the Exposition. The
building will be a reproduction of the
''Tryon Palace" celebrated structure
which was the home Of the Governors in
placing in the Women's building memorial
of Virginia Dare, claimed to be the first white
female child born in America, thus ernphas-
ing the fact that the first American woman
was born on North Carolina soil.
THE construction of the Exposition build