The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-13
NOTES OF THE
WORLDS FAIR.

A 10O-year-old bearing orange tree, from
San Gabriel, is one Of the exhibits an
nounced from California.
Ostrich eggs. artistically painted III a
prize competition. are to be a feature IN the
exhibit made by Cape Colony, South Africa.
The Washington State Worlds Fair
building will be constructed in sections at
Tacoma and sent to Chicago next Septem-
Der.
New Hampshire, which claims to be the
"Switzerland of America" has appropri-
ately planned to erect a Swiss chalet for its
Worlds fair building.
A new directory was elected by the expo
sition stockholders on April 2. With seven
exceptions the members OF last years dl-
rectory were reelected.
Wisconsin will have a $50, 600 building at
the fair. Building material to the value of
Sl3, 600 has been donated, and tine contract
ter erection has been let for $4,000.
The main exposition buildings require
for their ornamentation 100, 678 separate
pieces of staff work. OF these, los, 900 have
been cast and more than SO, 600 have boen
put in place on the buildings.
Galveston. Texas, has raised $4,000 of
the $780, 600 which it pledged towards the
state Worlds fair fund. The city is alive
with enthusiasm over the fair, and is hold
ing public meetings, torchllght process
siOns. etc.
The Commercial exchange of Des Moines,
Ia, has resolved in favor of raising $4,000
for the purpose of securing q ctedltable
representation of that city at the exposi-
ton. Brooklyn. N. Y, wants to devote a
like sum to the same end.
The directors of the celebrated Wards
museum at Rochester, N. Y, have decided
to expend $25,Oo in making at the EXPOSE
ton 4 display of specimens from all parts
of the establishment. The value of the ex-
hibit will exceed $4,000
Fifty public spirited citizens of Utah
have guaranteed $4,000 for an exhibit ct
the fair from that territory. A like amount
WAS Similarly raised in Connecticut recent
Nv. and in both cases it ls the expectation
that the legislature will reimburse the
donors.
Intending exhibitors at the exposition
can get the general rules ana regulations
for exhibitors, and the special regulations
departments in which they may be particu-
larly interested, by addressing Director
General Davis.
r. S.. Moore, of Newburn, N. c., claims
to have fragments of the chain which re-.
strained Columbus when he was il prison,
and he intends to exhibit them at the fair.
j. G. Calhoun, of New York, says he has
pieces of the house in San Domingo in
which Columbus was imprisoned, and ht
has a similar desire.
Italian Commissioner Alexander Del Nero
whites from Rome to the effect that there
will be a fine exhibit of the mosaics, tapes
tries, Columbian relics and other treasures
of the vatican which have never vet beer
on exhibition. He further reports that tn,
Ethonogiaphic museum OF Rome will prob
ably loan many Columbian antiquities t.
the exposition.
The Missouri Worlds fair board has for
warded to- Chicago min tree trunks to com
pose three of the columns of the rustic col
onnade around the forestry building. Thes
trunks are typical specimens of yello,
pine, white oak, red oak, ash, Cypress, re
gum and hickory. It has also sent thirt
pieces of timber, all of different yariet,
for the rustic iIterlaced work between til
three columns.
The counties in California are permitted
by action of the last legislature. to mai
Worlds fair appropriations, aggregatin
$545,000. Some of the counties have re
sponded and nearly all seem disposed to d
SO. 1t is believed that fully $500, 900 wi
be raised in that manner. II SO, Californl
with its state appropriation of $4,000
will have the handsome sum of $4,000
with "hich to make a representation
the exposition
A number of owners of steam yachts
New York intend to utilize them to tran
port themselves and their friends to IL