Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-16
At THE WORLDS FAIR.

At THE WORLDS FAIR.
Clock Factories VIII be :
well Represented-Other General =
Notes Regarding the Coming Big
Show-ConnecticutC Colleges and the :
Exposition. I
During his visit to Chicago at the time
of the dedication of the worlds fair build
ings In October President Harrison will be
the guest of Harlow N. Higinbotham,
president of the exposition.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby excursion trains to tho worlds
fair, by whatever road they may arrive in
Chicago, will run within the exposition
grounds and discharge their passengers
there. No transfer of passengers at any
point will be necessary.
The Southern Pacific railway has recent
ly subscribed for $4,000 of worlds fair |
stock. The various transportation lines |
of the country have taken an aggregate of
about 81 900, 900 of the stock.
Several Australian cyclists are coming
to the worlds fair to engage in the cycling
contests which are being arranged.
A heroic statue of Hendrick Hudson, the
discoverer of the Hudson river, will be
| placed in New York's Worlds fair build
ing.
More than 10, 600 men are now at work
in getting the buildings and grounds ready
for the great exposition of 1898. On q
number of the structures work proceeds
day and night. Wonderful progress il be-
ing made, and it Is assured that all will be
completed in time for the opening.
ASwedish worlds fair club has been in
corporated with the object of furnishing
to the Swedish exhibitors and visitors at
the exposition.
Carl Hegenbeck, the celebrated German
collector and tanner of wild animals, Is in
Chicago to arrange for the extensive ZOO
logical exhibit which he will make in Mid
way Plaisance at the worlds fair. He will
exhibit lions, tigers, panthers, leopards,
bears, monkeys, etc, in great number, and
will show the largest 'happy family" ever
seen.
A very interesting exhibit in the trans
portation department of the worlds fair
will be made by the steamship and railway
companies of England. This collection of
models of battleships, yachts, cruisers,
| steamers and merchant vessels will be more
complete than was ever before exhibited.
The London and Northwestern railway
| will send over a complete train of cars
headed by great compound locomotive
/ named "Great Britain" This will afford
an opportunity to compare the English
! compartment cars and sleepers with Amer
lean coaches. The Great Western railway
will exhibit the sntiquated locomo olive
"Lord of the Isles." one of the first used
/ on that road. Several of the railways will
show their signaling systems.
According to present plans the Ohio
state building at the worlds fair will be
| dedicated at the came time as are the gen
eral exposition buildings. Speeches will
be made by Governor Mckinley, ex-Gov-
ernor Campbell and Senators Sherman and
l Brice. President Harrison is expected to
deliver an address at the unwilling of Reb-
| isso's equestrian statue of William Henry
Harrison, which will stand in front of the
Ohio building.
Members of the North American Tur-
ner Bund are making elaborate prepare
i | tons for their exhibit at the worlds fair.
y They will occupy 4 500 square feet in the
5 Liberal Arts building and 112, 800 square
/ | feet for outdoor drill, in which probably
) | 5000 adults and several Thousand children
i will participate. In the covered space the
, turner's will have model classes taught
d gymnastics in accordance with their sys-
tenn, now in vogue in their societies an6
the Chicago public schools. The exhibi
cludes $50 societies, with a membership
of $4,000, of whom 5000 reside in Chi.
cago.
The United States ship Constitution i.
about to start for Italy to collect works
of art for the worlds fair. These art
treasures will remain in constant custody
of the government, and will be returned
after the fair in the same manner al
brought.
The pupils of the high echool of Salem
Mass, are preparing an interesting memo
rial of that ancient town for the world
fair. The amateur photographers of tn
school are engaged in the preparation of
series of views of the many points of his
toric interest in which the town abounds
These are to be finished by the pupil
themselves and are to form the illustra
tons of handsome album. The descril
tive letter-pre OF the book, also the wor
of the pupils, is to be neatly written on
typewriter, so that the whole volume wi
be literally the handiwork of the childre
of Salem.
Miss Elizabeth Ney of Hampstead, Tex
descendant of Marshal Ney of France
will execute in marble the statues of
- number of Texas heroes for exhibition
the worlds fair.
SOME OF OUR MANUFACTURERS.
Connecticut clock manufactures will (
represented at the great exhibit, our ow
!, big New Haven clock shop in particula
4 The Chicago correspondence of the Jewe
- ers' Circular says:
A striking feature of the fair will be IL
clock exhibit. A thorough canvass of IL
nd interests included in clock making has di
, r99, closed remarkable unanimity of feeling
i a regards making fine exhibit of the pr
re- ducts of the different factories. The syl
s by tenn of classification separates the exhib
lot into horology-watches, clocks, ETC.,
o., the department of manufactures-and il
Inc inc struments of provision, to be shown in Il
, department Of liberal arts.
The clock exhibit in the department
manufactures includes commercial clock
el, of all kinds, clock movements, clock ma
On ing machinery and watchmsn's time regi
ters; in the liberal arts it includes q
ohronometric apparatus-ohronomete
watches of precision, astronomical clock
church and metropolitan clocks, clesps
graphs, electrical clocks and metronome
E. F. Strickland of the New Haven Clio,
company returned from New Haven Au
ust 20. :sWe thoroughly discussed Il
subject of an exhibit at the fair" said b
"Our application was the first one preseu
ed for clocks. We are interested in bell
properly represented and propose to gi,
the finest display ever shown in our line
Our former exhibits were at the Centennis
the Nsw Orleans Cotton exposition and Il
Mexican exposition. Our people are We
busy now making up choice things for Il
exposition, including several souvenirs
the exposition itself, the exact nature
on. which We are not at liberty to
vulge at present. am prepari,
a very elegant booklet illustrate,
the famous Chicago figure, and al
have in preparation an illustrated histo
of the New Haven Clock company. inclu