The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-06
NOTES OF THE
WORLDS FAIR.

way Plaisancs.
More than 1890 carloads Of buildin
material have been received on ths expo
sition grounds
The Worlds fair appropriations by for
eipn countries, as far M reported, aggre
gate more than S ,500,O 600.
The Canadian Paoiho.railway will exhibi
nt the fair a model passenger train, an
Also models Of the hne ocean steamers il
that company's service.
The silk association of Americas and tn,
silk industry association have decided tt
combine in making the fnsat possible ex
hibit Of silk goods and products.
A choral building, $50 by 200 feet, ant
costing 100000. will be erected nsar horti-
cultural hall. II will be devoted to musica,
attractions, chiefly large ohorusss.
The exposition COMPANY will pay $50 per
lamp for the 5000 to 5000 arc lamps re-
unifed fer electric lighting. Abous 100, 0oo
incandesaent lights will also be used, but
have not ret been CONTACTED for.
A herd of live ok will be taken from
Taaho.to tho exposition. In tho Montana
exhibit viii be shown about 100 specimens
of wild animals ana birds native to that
state, and sol up bv a skilled ta1idsrmlst.
The Methodists have dsoidsd to hold an
interRational meeting OF . Men'ns
will be hsld half the time at Desplalncs ans
the other half at Lake Blut. Both piaces
are a few miles out from Chicago.
The italian government has selected It's
war shin. America, to conve to the unitsd
States the Italian exhibits to the oxpositleh
free of charge. The home on4noe. Va
commences has invited ether hambsrs TO
form committees to promote the securing
of Italian exhibits.
Nsrwseians living in Chicago. With the
help Of their eountrymsn IN ether paris 81
the country, are engaged in raising sum
cient money to Greet a bulldlns Tor NOT
way at the e1 exposition. Norway approprl-
alton of $56. $50 ls to be devoted sntlFeiy ~
securing an exhibit.
handsome two-story building, 100 by
$40 feet, with a central court Ga by I'll feet.
will b. erected at once IN jackson PARK LOT
use as the headquarters OF the oonstructlon
department., fire department and ponce
Offices. The building will also contain 9
hospital, restaurant n sleeping quarters.
Minnesota will supplement iAs Worlds
fair appropriation Of $50, 600 BY 100000
raised by subscription. Nearly three
fourths Of that amount has already boon
secured. EeRnepin county. IN which MIN
neapolis ID situated. has contributed SZo,-
600. Minnesota will expsnd $4,000 Tor 2
building. #r5
Idaho will show some splendid speci-
mems of mica in the mines building. Ii
has Lodges Of mica eight feet thick and ap-
~parently inexhaastibls Sheets Ct IL as
large as 10112 inches. without 3 flaw, ana
as thin as tissue paper, are not
1t is proposed to have some Of the windows
in the Idahs building glazed with mica.
Several additions have recently been
made to the app opriations made by the
states and territories, which now aggregate
RI. 1870, 600. Maryland and New York, re-
speetivsly, have voted $6O,00o and SSo0,0oO;
New Jersey has increased la appropriation
Of 40. 900 BY $50. 900; lows its $4,000 By
m,0r onn - Al csonrbrgctf has H0Nh1aH
the $4,000 which it had already appropri-
atsd.
From the Royal Nurseries for Ireland
John Thorpe of the bureau of Horticulture
has reosived information that two cases
containing 1.55O plants have been shipped
to the Worlds fair. The announcement
came through Alderman Dixon " Co.. who
MAINTAIN the nurseries. Mr. Thorpe be
ljeyes that his floral display will eclipse
ANYTHING Of the sort which the world has
ever seen.
II has been finally settled that the shoe
and leather industry will have . separate
building at the fair. Representatives of
that industry have accepted ths site offered
them, and will erect at an expense Of $780,
600, a building, measuring $50 bv 800 feet,
in which they will show an almost endless
array of leather products, and every pro
cess in their manufacture frem the raw hide
to the most finished article.
AT an expense OF fiJ,OUU COEsEdCtb ANvc
been let for furnishing she fair with boil
ers of 10000 horse power capacity. The
exposition power plant will burn oil instead
of coal. About 225, 600 barrels will be re-
uuirea, for which the exposition com pany
will pay 72114 cents n barrel. The contract
has BEEN let for putting In about twelve
miles of sewerage pipe in the grounds for
$57. 73G.
One million signatures of people directly
and indirectly connected with the e1posi-
ton are being collected by the Worlds Fair
Mammoth Autograph Album Go. Copies
of these collections of autographs will be-
bound in thrse volumes of $500 pages each,
to be presented, respectively. to the presi-
dent OF the United States for the Smith
sonian institution, to the governor of Hi
nois for the state library, and to the mayor
of Chicago for the city public library. The
names will be collected from all parts of
the world.
The corporation of rifle manufacturers
at Liege, Belgium, has addressed a petition
to the government asking for q subsidy to
enable it to make 4 worthy exhibit of it's
branch OF industry at tho Chicago e1posi-
ton. At Llege about 10000 persons are
employed in the manufacture of arms. but
during recent years it 10 Eaid that the pro-
ductlons of Iiege have diminished in prea-
tige. The manufacturers are now ying
to re-estaDlish their arms in favor, and to
this end want to make q fine exhibit at
Chicago.
The California Worlds Fair commission
has made the following apportionnent of
the 100000 which it has at it's disposal:
Agriculture, $4,000; malt and spirituous
liquors, $1,000; forestry, $4,000; horticul-
ture, $4,000; yiticultnre, $4,000; %ioriouI-
ture. $1,000; live stock, machinery. trsns-
portation, manufactures and electricity,
$500 each; fish and fisheries. IS, 900: minea
and mining, $15, 600; fine arts, 5000: lib
o~aI artp can fHH. athrct11y 90 rHD. r-I
LEFTY and promotion, $4,000; binding, $40
600; expense of commissioners, s14, 900;
contingent fund, $4,000. 1hsre is left
1851, 600, which will be devoted mainly to
manning the California building and OK
hibits.
Mrs. Palmer, president of the board Of
lady managers. Is il receipt OF cornmuni-
cations through the stnts department show
ing that the women of I{u4aia arc greatly
Interested in the woman's exhibit ut the
Worlds fair. Secretary Blame, at Mrs.
Palmer's request, had asked the appoint
ment of an imperial commission Of Rus
sian women to collect an sxhibis of
woman's wotk in the empire MiniBter
Smith, who PRESENTED the request, informs
Secretary Blaine that the request was re-
ceived most Graciousiv and the commission
was appointed with Mime. Nighnegraagki
wife OF the minister OF finance, an uresl-
dent. Mime. Vlshnegradski is greatly in
tetested in the peasant lace industry al
Russia. and has already had CONSIDERABLE.
correspondence with the board of lad,
managers on the subject of an exhibit.
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