Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-07-28
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

II is estimated that the thirty-five
railroads which enter Chicago will ex.
pend $4,000, 600 In increasing and inn
proving their equipment and facilities
for transporting Worlds Fair visitors
and freight.
The board of Trade and citizens OF
Fargo, n. D., have undertaken TO raise
$50, 600 to supplement the states
Worlds Fair appropriation of 500, 900.
Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Wise, Lady Man
ayers for Virginia, together with their
auxiliary board, have undertaken TO
raise SIC, 900 for the Virginia building
at the worlds fair, which is TO be full
sized reproduction of Washington's
home at Mount Vernon. To raise the
money the women of Virginia are SELL
ing certificates of membership in the
Mount Vernon Association at 81 each.
They are also asking the county and
city supervisors, councils, etc. for levies
of one cent per capita, and are giving
entertainments of various kinds.
The Missouri worlds fair commission
has not done a great deal of talking,
but information has been received to
the effect that il has been most diligent-
ly at work all the time, and that the
Missouri exhibit at the fair will be one
of the best there.
Butterflies to the number of 10000
will be shown in the Pennsylvania
exhibit at the worlds fair. The collec-
ton is said to be the most complete
and finest in the world.
Costa Rica's pavilion at the worlds
fair will be surrounded by gardens or
namented by a profusion o: tropical
plants, and in the galleries of the
pavilion will be placed more than 5000
beautiful birds, many of which have
very gorgeous plumage.
France intends oshow its skill in
landscape gardening at the worlds fair.
A cablegram has been received from
the French commission asking that it
be allowed to do, and bear the expense
of, the "whole decoration of the spaces
surrounding the Horticultural and the
Woman's buildings.n This generous
offer, doubtless, will tie accepted if it
does not interfere with plans too far
advanced to be changed. The French
are world-renowned as artistic land
scape gardeners, and it is believed they
would hardly have made the offer re-
ferred to unless they intended to make
a display of surprising beauty. The
commission asked also for 60, 600 square
feet for the French horticultural eXhib-
1t.
Conspicuous in the shoe and leather
exhibit at the worlds fair will be the
display made by Lynn, Mass.-I.ynn is
the largest shoe producing center in
the United States, and fully seventy
five and perhaps one hundred of the
shoe manufacturers of that city will
furnish exhibits. They are acting in
harmony in the matter.
The Wisconsin worlds fair building
will have $1,000 grand staircase, the
donation of the Margan company, one
of the best known firms of the state.
Daoud Sifico, a wealthy merchant of
Algiers on recent visit to Chicago, OBJ
tanned from the worlds fair authori-
ties concession to establish an Algeri-
an village and attractions on Midway
Plaisance. According to this account
the village will be a marvel, in its way,
of oriental construction and highly in
teresting exhibits. The building will
have a Moorish dome, towers and or
namental minarets, Inside will be
number of native Kabyles, Arabians
and negroes. They will sell jewelry,
embroidery, hric-a-brac, etc., and serve
guests in safe concert hall capable of
seating l 900 persons. Then, in addition
to this hall, there will be Moorish
cafe, a Kabyle house with Kabyle labor
ers, an Arab tent village with Arabs,
some desert tents, and an illustration
of what an Arab desert camp really is.
There will be fifty people, and dancing
girls, who will give exhibits in the
concert hall. They will perform to
the music of an Algerian band. Fully
Sl50,000 will be expended upon this
concession.