Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-09-09
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.
Items OF Interest I'm Connection with
Next Years Great Show at Chicago.

Items OF Interest in Connection with
Next Years Great show at Chicago.
A gold brick worth $4,000 will be ex-
hbited by Montana.
On each side of the MacMonies NAM
moth memorial fountain in front of the ad-
mnistration building will be a huge electri-
cal fountain which will throw a stream $50
feet high, brilliantly illuminated by vari-
ously colored electric lights.
Thirty-two silk manufactures at Lyons,
France, have decided to make exhibits, and
each one is striving to make the finest
showing. Lyons is the greatest silk manu-
featuring centre in the world and made a
magnificent display at the Paris exposition.
1t is reported, however, that it will do still
better at Chicago.
The japanese government has arranged
to send to this country 1000 japanese of
the middle class, who are to be here during
the worlds fair and afterward make tour
of the principal cities of the United States
Instruction and information as to the in
pie constitute the object desired to be at
tanned.
1t is expected that the first of the worlds
fair souvenir half-dollars will be issued in
November, probably by the middle of the
month. The exposition authorities have
offered quantities of them to banks through
out the country at the uniform rate of one
dollar each, and it is believed that those
institutions will be prompt to avail them
selves of the opportunity to get supply
for their customers. Orders for them are
already being sent in at the rate of $1,000
to $4,000 day.
A false statement is going the rounds of
the press to the effect that visitors will not
be able to get any drinking water at the
worlds fair without paying for it. There
will be an abundance of excellent water
free to all who want it. Those who wish
to drink mineral spring water, piped TO the
exposition grounds from Waukesha, Wis,
a hundred miles distant, will have to pay
one cent glass for it. The free water will
be that of Lake Michigan, brought by tun-
mel from point four miles from shore.
Among the exhibits to be made by for
eign nations the visitor will doubtless find
that of Persia one of the most interesting.
1t will include rare specimens of art indus
try work. Rich and highly wrought fabrics
will constitute an attractive feature, as will
exquisitely fine embroideries and elaborate
ly worked gold and silver jewelry, rare Per
sian rugs, carpets, embroidered hangings,
etc. There will also be found in this Per
sian exhibit a department for manufactured
articles, such as arms, curiOs and richly
wrought armor, tiles and tile work, mosaics,
objects of art, antiquities, musical instru-
ments, wearing apparel, etc.
Germanys building will cost about $125,
600, and will be combination of typica
| styles of German architecture, such as art
seen in perfection in Nuremburg. 1t will
| be massive in construction, the first story
| being of great blocks of sandstone and the
! second of a combination of brick and ce
ment. At one end will be erected a gothic
/ cathedral, the windows of which will show
| exceedingly artistic effects, being the work
of several of the most famous designers in
| Germany. The interior of the building
will be finished throughout with .natura
woods implanted. Much of the building
material has already been received from
Germany, and the construction of the edi
flee is in progress.