Passaic City record., 1892-05-28
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

WORLDS FAIR NOTES.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is hav-
ing an elaorate display made for the Expo
sition.
INSURANCE aggregating more than $3,.
900, 900 is now carried on the Worlds Fair
buildings
CHILE will be represented at the Fair, re-
gardless of the fact that its Government
made no appropriation.
AN association has been formed in Ger
many to organize excursion parties to visit
the Worlds Fair and incidentally Niagara
Falls, and number of the larger cities.
MANY relics of the Cabots, the early Eng
lish voyagers to America. will be exhited at
the Exposition by a COMMITTEES formed for
that purpose in Bristol, England, where the
Cabots lived.
A PROJECT is being perfected at Mel
bourne, Australia, whereby large party of
artisans of various crafts may be enabled to
visit the Exposition at Chicago for study and
pleasure combined.
GENERAL j. H. BEINKER, one of the al
ternate National Commissioners from Mis-
sissippi, has in his possession, and will ex-
hibit at the Exposition, five bales of cotton
that was raised by slave labor in 1862.
THE 5000 Worlds Fair appropriation
which Greece has made will be devoted in
large part to the preparation for exhibit of
reproductions in cast OF the many famous
specimens of ancient Greek art, now owned
by the Government.
AT the special request of the Empress OF
Germany the Princess Frederick Karl, aunt
Of the Emperor, has accepted the presidency
Of the women's commission, which Will CO.
operate with the Board of Lady Managers
in promoting the women's exhibit at the
Fair.
A GLASS punch bowl, made by the glass
blowers OF Cork in 1925, and presented to
Daniel O'Connell. the famous Irish patriot,
will appear in the exhibit from Cork. One
side of the bowl bears UConnelps initials
and the other representation OF Cork, as it
then existed.
VISITORS to the Exposition will be able to
90 comfortably and expeditiously from one
part Of the grounds to another and obtain
advantageous views of the buildings. They
may do this either in electric boats through
the lagoons, or by the intramurai elevated
electric railway.
THE Illinois Woman's Exposition Board
contemplates novel exhibit as part Of its
work, in the form of modelhome. The idea
surround woman's life In the household
and demonstrate the facilities that can be
provided at moderate cost.
GREAT BRITAIN's building at the EXPOSE
ton will be q typical specimen of pictur-
esque, hhl1-timbered English home of the
time of Henry Will, or about the period
which the w orid's FAIR will commemorate.
It will be ninety feet square, two stories high,
and built of red brick, neavy timber and yell
lowish terra Gotta, with red tiling for the
roof.
signed by Sculptor Howard Kretschmar, of
Chicago, will be erected in Lake Front Park,
which has been termed the Gateway to the
Exposition It will be a statue in bronze
twenty feet high, surmounting a granite
pedestal thirty lest high. The monument
win form the d<sign for souvenirs of the
Exposition.
visited Chicago, inspected the Exposition
grounds and buildings, and inquired care
fully into the progress of the work Of prep
aration for the great fair. The members
OF the board expressed their astonishment
and enthusiasm over the magnificent build
ings, and the vast amount of work that has
been accomplished.
In the women's exhibit from South Da-
kota will be life size statue of Sioux In
dian maiden. The subject was Minnshaha,
the eighteen year old daughter OF Sitting
Bear, who was prominent in the engagement
with General Clusters troops on the Little
Big Horn Minnshaka fell in love Lieu
tenant in the United States Army at Fort
Sully and died of a broken heart
DIR. N. G.. BLALoCK, President of the
Washington State Worlds Fair Board, an
nounces that there will be celebrated at the
Washington building a watermelon day"
He has set apart 100 acres to be devoted en-
tirely to the raising OF these melons, and he
promises to take a train load of them to the
Fair and give them away with the purpose
of convincing people that as water melon
growing State ashington stands first
THE Exposition probably will not have an
Eiffel tower or anything approximating it
in height, except the elevation to which the
captive balloons will.ascend. There will be,
however, three observation towers about
800 feet high for the accommodation of
visitors who want to take birds-eye view
OF the grounds and buildings Thess towers
win be of elaborate design and beautiful in
appearance. and viii cost about 500, 900