The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-23

of the Worlds Fair, presumably
under the auspices Of the Worlds
Congress Auxiliary, to bring about
throughout the world the universal
adoption OF decimal system OF
weights, measurements and coinage.
An effort is being made to have
the cotton mills OF Georgia make a
fine exhibit at the Worlds Fair. L.
is believed that such exhibit would
greatly stimulate the investment of
capital in cotton mills in the South.
The famed "Six Nations in New
York state will be well represented
in the Indian exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
The secretary of Mic igan's
Worlds Fair commissioners have
been trying to find mod of Fulton's
steamboat, the "Clermont," to be-
included in the states exhibit at
Chicago. So far, however, they
have been unable 70 di,cover one.
and they have asked the Maritime
Exchange to help them out They
have made many inquiries, but have
been able 10 get only some statistics
as to the vessels dimensions. None
of tie New York shipping men ap.
pear to know if any model Of the
old steamboat survives the eighty
years since the vessel was used.
In Denmark's exhibit at the
Worlds Fair will he a fine array Of
procelain ware and a notable art dis
play, including reproductions OF
the Thoswaldsen sculptures.
1t is proposed to hold worlds fairs
in Berlin IN 1898, and in Paris in
1900, but definite action has not vet
been talken by the nations concerned.
The authorities of Harvard Uni
versity have appealed TO Chief Pea
body OF the depai tment of library
arts OF the Worlds Fair for 1000
square feet for thoroughly repre-
sentative educational exhibit from
that historic institution. The officers
# the university say that they are
prepared not only To fill but to splen-
dldly and representatively fill every
foot Of space which can be granted
to them tor their educational exhibit,
and they accompany their application
with carefully calculated schedule
and diagram showing what they are
pr, pai Ell TO do iD this dire tc,ion.
Captain r. Fl. Pratt, of the gov
ernment Indian school at Carlisle
Pa, wants to place 300 Of the young
Indian scholar al the Carlisle
school IN the civil parade at the time
of the dedication OF the Worlds
Fair buildings. Captain Pratt de-
sres also to have full military
band, composed exclusively of these
Indian scholars. He intends to make
at the Fair al exhibit illustrating the
educational aud training work of the
Carlisle school.
The WASHINGTON state building at
the World's Fair vii show to some
extent the forest resources of the state.
The foundation alone will contain
III logs, some of them 100 feet long
AMI AZ inches in diameter at the small
end. The superstructure OF the
building will contain, besides heavy
timber, fine finished timber woods,
showing the grain and structure Of
the woods, and complete exhibit OF
shipbuilding material.
The work Of assigning space to
the thousands of exhibitors in the
| various Worlds Fair buildings has
been entered upon and will be
pushed to a finish as rapidly as
possible. As much more space has
been applied for than is available it
will be necessary to scale down the
requests of majority Of the appli-
cants.
The exhibit to be made at the
Worlds Fair by Krupp, the cele.
brated German gun maker, will
represent an expenditure Of 81 500,
600. The largest canon ever made,
weighing 1872 tons, will be in the
exhibit, as will be also several hun
dred tons Of war material.
Foreign governments participating