The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-17
NOTES OF THE
WORLDS FAIR.

MULES VI IHE
WORLDS FAIR
CeyIon will conduct a ten house on Mid
way P%lsisance.
Queen Margaret. Of Italy, has promise,
TO loan her famous collection of rare lace
for exhibition at the fair.
The crown prince OF Italy, according 1,
Director ~Higinbothlm, il greatly interested
in the exposition, and says he will visit it
A parade, participated in by $4,000 biay-
clists, may be q sight at the exposition
Efforts arc being made to bring about tina
result.
The governor OF Dutch Guiana has ap.
pcintcd a commission Of thirteen TO super
intend the exhibit which that colony will.
make at the fair.
lows, in its exhibits at the exposition,
will show the various forms in which corn
products are u0aful as food. and also the
processes of their preparation.
The Pennsylvania coal operators want te
construct a building entirely of anthracita
coal at tbs exposition. and to have $4,000
tons Of best anthracite on exhibition.
II is reported from Argentine Republic
that strong pressure il being brouRht upon
that government to increase its World's
fair appropriation from 100000 to 100000.
Regulations for exhibitors in tho several
departments of the exposition have been
issued and can be obtained by all intend
ing exhibitors by applying for them. either
in person or by mail.
The resources and industries of the state
Of Minaa Geraes, Brazil. will be shown at
an exhibition which opens ut Ouro Prato.
ON June Is, 1892. The best of the exhibits
will be brought to Chicago later.
In the Washington state exhibit will be
included a representation Of tho methods
used by tue Makah Indians in catching sal
mon and other fish. The exhibit will in
eluas boats, lines. hooks, seinss, harpoons,
etc.
A bill makinu q Worlds fair %appropris-
ton of $50, 900 and authorizing municipal
and county AUTH critics to make additional
appropriations for the sams purpose has
been introduced in the Virginia Legislature.
Thu Sultan of Turkey has consented to
the erection of a mosque at the exposition
grounds for the religious services Of Mo-
hammadams who attend the fair. It il
reported that s $1,000 will be expended in its
erection.
Th. horticultural department. Of the OK
rose garden in which will DO fully $4,000
plants, besides large groups in special areas.
The garden will be of classic design with
temples. arbors. archways and trsllises.
Thu Rhode Island Worlds fair board
~contemplatss having it's exposition build
ing at Chicago combin the best architect
xral features of its state capitol at Provi-
dence, together with those of The old capi-
tol building formerly occupied at Newport.
The enormous steel trussss to sustain the
roof of tho manufactures building, are
about to DO erected. These trussss are the
largest ever made for ARCHITECTURAL purposes.
They span 365 feet aud rise to . height of
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about $46o.0 600. .r#.5@M
The Illinois State Exposition board has
set apart $4,000 as q special fund for the
announcements of live stock exhibits at the
fair. The fund is apportioned as follows:
Horses. 81 Dor cent; cattle, ~ per cent;
hogs, Is per cent; sheep, II Per cont;
poultry, six per cent.
Members Of the Farmers' alliance in
Kosciusko county, Ind, at a recent meeting
in Warsaw, decided to assess themselves
weekly to provide a fund to defray. their
expenses for a visit to the Worlds fair.
About 400 farmers and their wives will COM
pose the visiting party.
The bureau Of music has issued letters of
invitation to all the important choral
cooperate in forming the grand chorus Of
1000 voices, which will render standard
oratorios at the ceremonies dodicatory of
the exposition buildings.
Some Swiss painte rs, at Geneva, are
painting q large panorama of the Bernesc
Alps, with the Intention Of BRINGING it to
Chicago fer the Worlds fair. The piano.
rama will measure 51x345 feet and cost
$500. 600. The sketches for the panorama
were taken from the sumrait of the Mann
lichen.
A Berlin dispatch states that Emperor
William is greatly interested in Germany
making a fine exhibit at the exposition, and
Al-4 L. 80. ~.rno~oJlr --~Al r,.-- ALo
noted gun-maker, and Schlutow, manager
of the ship building works at Ststtin, to sx-
hibit the latest and best products of their
vast industries.
The Connecticut members of the board of
lady managers have undertaken to raise by
contribution a und with which to pay for
a fine bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe. This
will be their contribution towards the
adornment of the walls of the woman's
building, Copies Of Mrs. Stoves literary
works will also be contributed.
A dispatch states that a silversmith at
Monterey, Mexico, is engaged ON q work
in silver which when completed will be an
building o being built IN the exposition
grounds, Chicago. 1t will be sighs feet
wide, will contain a quantity Of silver val
ued as bullion at $40, 900, and when finished
will be valued at $4,000.
A New York advisory committee of artists
mas been selected, which Will pass Judgment
ON the admissibility of American works of
art offered at New York as exhibits at the
exposition. This committee embraces
Eastman johnson, K. S. Clifford, w. NJ.
Chase. j. G. A. Ward, August St. Gaudens,
j. G. Brown, H. Bolton Jones and +. D..
Millet, all of the National academy.
The Society for the Promotion Of Physi-
cal Culture and Correct Dress has applied
for 1000 square feet of floor space in the
Wonan's building to make an exhibit. The
exhibition by the society will be by means
Of statuary, Photographic, pictures and cases
containing costumes. Ths application says
as the aims of the society are educational
it would prefer not being elassed with re-
forms or charities.
Balsa Brothers, the largest Cigar manu-
facturers in Mexico, will make an extensive
exhibit at Chicago, in 1888, and Loeing
Olmstead, who has charge of ono of the
largest tobacco plantations in Mexico,
which is the property of the Bank of Lon
don, and situated in the state of Puebla.
will make a very interesting exhibit, ilIus-
trating hacienda life in Mexico. Mr..
Olmstead WAS formerly an officer in the
United States navy, and is a graduate from
the Annapolis naval acadamy.
A British woman's committee has boon
selected to supsrintend the representation
of the work of English women at the expo-
sltlon, and cooperate with the board of
lady managers. The committee has for its
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