Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-26

BY Greely, Kane, Hayes, De Long, etc
From corner to corner diagonally will run
q screen for cycloramic effects, one side be.
ing painted by Che War and the other by
| the Navy Department. In front of the
| former will be papier mache figures Cite
slze) OF Greedy receiving Lockwood and
his companions with the dog sledge in the
Far North, and on the screen in the back
| ground far perspective revealing in the
distance the solitary and historic cabin at
Cape Sabine. 1t is pathetic scene, and on
the right is an iceberg 80 feet high (of alum)
with white bear and walrus face to face.
The other side of the canvas will present
the Arctic triumphs of the navy.
The War Department will bring model
hospital fully equipped and show how to
handle hospital corps in the field. 1t will
show on ife-sized figures in groups all the
uniforms Of the army from the organiza-
tion-a regular Eden Musee-and all the
small arms 1t has ever used, and it will
have in lively operation manufactory of
Springfield rifles and ammunition. All our
modern cannon will be represented and
there will be q Zalinsky dynamite gun in
practice.
What Jerry Rusk Proposes to Do.
No less than 16 divisions Of General
Jerry Rusk's Department will be there,
minutely illustrating every governmental
process and inquiry in which q farmer can
have an interest The process of forecast
ing the weather will be gone through with
every day. The National Museum
will carry large proportion Of
its enormous collection, so that
that part remaining in Washington
will hardly be worth visiting next summer.
A life saving station will be erected at the
Fair and manned by q picked crew Of
men, who will give daily exhibition drill.
The Treasury and Postofice Departments
and Geological Survey will bring all they
have worth showing, and the Navy Depart
ment will build on piles in the lake full
sized model of warship, and therein will
assemble all the bureaus and illustrate their
functions Simond's successor will be there
with his patents, and Morgan's successor
with his Indians
One of the most interesting and curious
of Uncle Sans exhibit will be that of the
Fish Commission, including not only speci-
mems of all marine life, of every attainable
sort, but object lessons in propagating, pro-
tecting, catching and curing The method
of making models of such fish as cannot be
shown in aquariums is unique and original
brand new, and calculated to astonish the
world.
The Models Of Sea Life.
AuOUx tue BtOTcS duu COmullSSlOA uOubCs
on Tenth street is broad three-story build
ing entirely filed with the work of prepara-
tion, in charge of Captain Collins, Glou-
cester sailor and fisherman, enjoying the
rare distinction of having been once drowned
and once struck by lightning, though he
managed to escape from both to tell fish,
stories very vividly. Hundreds of boxes,
packed by him, are ready to ship to Chicago
besides the various complicated models and
groups-an ingenious waterway, stuffed
alligators, sea lions, etc.
The model of an Alaskan fishing village
is eight or ten feet long, the sea being Of
thick glass and the rocks of rough cork, the
men and women about three inches high,
spearing fish through trap, with little
earth hut in the corner. The models of fish,
of which thousands have been fabricated
and fixed on boards, are made of sort of
flexible glue, which leaves the fish soft and
plant in the hand-even more plant
than rubber, and, unlike it, does
not become yitiated and brittle by
contact with the air. Frogs and
snakes thus cast painted to the life have
lasted for years in precisely the same state.
The glue is shipped to Washington in its
elemental condition by its inventor, one
Denton, Bay State Yankee, who seems to
have done about as much for the exhibits as
the inventor of the "staff' has done for the