Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-02
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

carnyel, the Santa Maria, Is being
built by the Spanish government at
the Carraca yard at Cadiz. The keel
was laid on March /. The caravel's
dimensions are: length at keel, 81 feet
4 inches; length be ween perpendicu-
lars, 75 fl. in; beam, % feet; draught,
.l4ft, Sin. Great care Is being taken
with details, and the instruments and
appliances of the time of Columbus
will he in their places aboard the
caravel. The PintG and Nina, 1t is
announced. are being reproduced by
American capital, 80 visitors TO the
Exposition will be able to see the
columbus fleet" complete. The
Spanish government will provide
crews for the three caravels, dressed as
were Columbus sailors, and the trip
across the Atlantic will be made under
escort of Spanish man-Of-war. After
participating in the naval review In
,yew York harbor the caravels will
proceed to Chicago. After the Fair
closes they will remain the property
of the United States.
In Topeka, Kan, an organ .zatiOn,
termed the Afro Columbian Auxiliary
Club, has been formed for the purpose
of aiding the colored people of Kansas,
Colorado and Missouri, to attend the
Worlds Fair and obtain reduced rates
and good accommodations.
A $50, 900 monument to Columbus,
designed by sculptor Howard Kretsch-
mar, of Chicago, will be erected in
Lake Front Park, which has been
termed the "Gateway to the ExpOsi-
tion." 1t will be statue in bronze
twenty feet high, surmounting q
granite pedestal thirty feet high. The
monument will form the design for
souvenirs of the Exposition.
Gen. J. H. Brinker, one of The
alternate National Commissioners
from Mississippi, has in his possession,
and will exhibit at the Exposition, five
bales of cotton that was raised by slave
labor in 1923.
Visitors to the Exposition will be
able to go comfortably and expedi-
tiously from one part of the grounds to
another and obtain advantageous
views of the buildings. They may do
this either in electric boats through
the lagOons, or by the intramural
elevated electric railway. the contract
for the latter has been awarded. There
will be five miles of double track and
stations at convenient points. The
route, as mapped out, runs from one
end to the other Of the grounds in a
sinuous course. The fare will be five
cents, and the capacity Sof the road
about 10000 an hour.
A project is being perfected at Mel
bourne, Australia, whereby a large
party OF artisans of various crafts may
be enabled to visit the Exposition at
Chicago for study and pleasure COM
bined.
1t is now issued that the various col
lege Greek letter fraternities will unite
first, in making collective exhibit in
the Liberal Arts Department of the
Exposition, and, second, that they will
hold Q panhellenc council, composed
of accredited representatives from the
different fraternities. This council
will be held in July of next year, at a
date yet to be fixed, and will discuss
the relations between students, colleges
and fraternities and how best to pro-
mote the best interests of all three,
Plans for making the prospect collec.
tive exhibit are fast being matured and
doubtless, will be perfected at meet
ing of representatives of the interested
fraternities, which has been called for
Thursday June Z, at the Grand Pacific
hotel, Chicago. At that time it is ex-
pected that space will be assigned and
action taken indicating the scope and
character of the exhibit to be made.
A glass punch bowl, made by the
glassblowers of Cork in 1925, and
presented to Daniel O'Connell, the
famous Irish patriot, will appear in the
exhibit from Cork. One side of the
bowl bears O'Connel's initials and the
ether representation of Cork, as it
then existed.
According to the Liverpool Journal
Of Commerce the English railway will
carry Worlds Fair exhibits at halt
rates from any station to the port of
embarkation, and most of the Atlantic
steamship lines will transport them at
a uniform rate oils 1887 per ton.
An international chess congress in
connection with the Worlds Fair is
being advocated, and may beaccounted
acertainty, as some af the most influen-
tial cheese associations and clubs are
strongly in favor of the idea.
Many relics of the Cabots, the early
english voyagers to America, will be
exhibited at the exposition by COM
mittee formed for that purpose in Bris-
tol, England. where the Cabots lived.
The Bristol Times and Mirror ofrecent
date, states that the committee held a
meeting to complete arrangements for
collecting the material for the exhibit;
that the mayor of the city presided; that
was very large attendance, represent
ing especially the leading mercantile
houses and the various archaeological
associations of the city, and that it
was apparent from the proceedings
that there was available an abundance
of relics from which to select a very
interesting exhibit.
pr. N. G.. Blalock, president of the
Washington State Worlds Fair Board
announces that there will be celebrated
at the Washington building water
melon day." He has set apart 100 acres
to be devoted entirely to the raising Of
these melons, and he promised to take
a train lead of them to the Fair and
give them away with the purpose OF
convincing people that as a water.
melon growing state Washington
stands first.
The following item clipped from the Ft.
Madison, (Iowa,) Democrat, contains in.
formation well worth remembering: Mr.
John Roth of this city, who met with an ac-
cident few days ago spraining and bruisina
his leg and arm quite severely, was Gu. ed by
one 80 cent bottle of Chamberlain's Pair
Balm" This remedy is without an eoua]
for sprains and bruises and should have s
place in every household. For sale by Saur 4
Balsiey. I'm
Western Wisd 0n1