Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-07-09
WORLDS FAIR.

FORAGE for all ca tic exhibited will be
supplied by the Exposition.
A HELENA, Mont, min owner has prom
ised TO eXhibi a g,ld brick weighing so
POUNDS and worth Sl5), 009.
The report of the treasurer of the Exposi-
tion to the directory last week showed cash
on hand amounting to 81, 1876, 5S2.11.
BANKEEs WHO visit the Il pos ton will be
int rested in n display OF colonial and state
pank money used in this country years ago.
COSTA RICA's build n Mt the Exposition
Will have a collec ion of 8 0J0d flerent species
OF birds indigenous to that Little Central
American republic.
THE contract for the California building
at the Fair was signed. The building is 10
cost $3.50 Work is now in progress on
thirteen state buildings.
The Philosophical Society Of Philadelphia,
co1temp!ates exhibiting the chtir in which
homns Jefferson sat when he wrote the Dec
laration of independence.
COMMISSIONER FREDERICK a. OBFR, Of
the Exposition, who Eas Just returned from
the Leeward Islands. reports that several
families # Carib Indians viii be on exhibi
ton at the Fair. The Cards are the last of
the Tribes of Gambia Ind an diseove ed by
Co umJus on his S cond voyage TO America
in 1893.
THE Kentucky Worlds Fair commits ion
has accepted designs for n stuts building
typlcaloI the Southern Colonial style of archi-
lecture MS distinguished from the New Eng
land style. There viii, o course, be q row
OF gu ct columns extending from the ground
TO the rto and n b Dad yrran ah. The build
ing vii be 15x9) fee aud will cost SlS, o..
Cor. SINGEBLY. owner of the Philadelphia
Record, has secured spac. Tor an exhibit in
tie Live Stock Del artment The exhibit
VIII consist OF one m moth steer, which is
every day gro wing fatter and filter on the
Philadelphia editors stock ftTm at Siugerly,
Nd Mr.. Singerly eIpe,ls to show the
heaviest steer grown in America. and declares
the animal will tip the scale at 400 pounds
at least.
THE wigwam in which the Democratic
convention met il already being demolished.
The size of the great shanty VIII be under.
stood when it is known that the lumb will
be used in the construction O. lou hotels for
working girls visiting the Exposition, each
Loci to have LOO small rooms. The con.
tractor for The hotels say he will not have to
buy a board in addition TO these taken from
the wigwam. The hotels will be conducted
by the Woman's TEN peranc' Union. and
rooms will be rented at thirty-fye cents per
di m.
A CLUB Of five families has been formed al
Des hoines. Ia, to atten ths Exposition.
The club will rent a comfortable furnished
house, with grounds sni stable, and the fam.
i les will Cecupy il enc month each. A
prominent real estate dealer said that many
famili s in all parts of the cnun ~ are club.
bling together to come TO the Fair 10 this way.
II most cases the houses have 10 be rented Tor
II full year, while the Fir Only LASTS six
months. The real state man showed figures
however, which clearly demonstrated that It
would Re cheaper to rent and 10 keep fouss
here during the summer Of 395 than to board
The greater comfort 10 be thus secured viii
hardly need demonstrate i'm to the heads OF
families.