The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-28
CAUSES SURPRISE
To the Thousands Who Visit
the Worlds Fair Site.
The Splendor and Magnitude of
the Preparations

For an Exposition Which viii by Far
Eclipse ANY Ever Held in This or Any
Other Country-Thousands Now Visit
the Grounds Daily and Pay IA Quarter
Admission, Too
CHICAGO, June 27.-The worlds fair
grounds and buildings. now near COM
pletiOn, are so renowned as most
beautiful and interesting spectacle that
not only do from 5000 to Il 600 people a
dav, at a cost of twenty-five cents
apiece. inspect them, but the great ma
jority of travellers who pass through
Chicago devote a day or more TO the
same purpose. Hundreds of distin-
guished foreigners and thousands of
prominent men from the various states
of the Union have availed themselves Of
this privilege. and it is not eXaggeratlon
to say that all, without exception, have
been most agreeably surprised at the
spIendor and magnitude of what they
witnessed, and have departed very en-
thusiastic over the bright prospects of
the fair. Several hundred of the return
ing delegates of the late Republican ma
tional convention at Minneapolis in
spected the wonders of jackson park
while in Chicago. Nearly all of the del
egates to the Democratic convention at
Chicago did the same. The exposition
authorities have committees to show
visitors about and explain details to
them.
Turkeys Exhibit.
Those who have been charged with
the preparation of the Turkish exhibit
are making very extensive preparations
! to have it of superior merit and interest.
They will charter large ship to trans
port the exhibit. They will bring over
400 native Turks arrayed in their ma
| tional costumes. They will reproduce
! at Chicago a street in Constantinople
| with all its peculiar crOOl1edness and
narrowness and its interesting baZars
! and restaurants The baZars will be
| filled with salable articles of Turkish
manufacture The expedition to Chi
cago will start from COnstantinOple and
! will call at all Turkish ports for reiIl-
! forcements and articles to be placed on
| exhibition. Indianapolis and PhilOppo-
! lis have caught the fever and VIII dc
quite as much as the capital to make the
! Turkish exhibit a success. The exhibit
1 will include a reproduction in miniature
of the Mosque of St. Sophia. This has
never been reproduced in any Christian
country, and for its reproduction at Chi.
cago special permission Of the sultan
had to be obtained.
France.
Three worlds fair commissioners from
France are now in Chicago, to erect and
decorate the building which will be the
| headquarters of France at the fair, and
to complete arrangements for installing
the French exhibit. They are Baron Dc
Vialar, NJ. Rene Dubuisson and Nj
Henri Motto. They say that France vii
! have an exhibit unrivaled by that of any
other nation and that will eclipse any
thing of the kind ever previously under
taken by the French government. They
have asked for 200, 900 square feet ad
/ ditional space The French building |:
to be one of the finest OF foreign struc
lures and decorated most stlually I'm
der direction of NJ. Motto. who Is a caIe
brated painter and decorator.
The First Exhibit
The first exhibit to be taken into Tx
worlds fair was received at the custom
house Friday. 1t consisted OF Thirteen
enormous logs containing !, 584 600 fee
! of lumber They came from Canada
having been chopped from the great
northern pines of that country.
The Indian Exhibit.
The Indian exhibit at the worlds fan
will include representatives Of ever
tribe from the extreme north to Teri;
del Fuego.
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