San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-29
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.


pounds and worth $50, 600, will be
exhibited in the Mines and Mining
building at the Worlds fair by Her
ena, Mont, mine owner.
/ The high school of San Diego, CAL,
will give grand Fourth of Jaly cell
ebratlon and devote the proceeds to-
ward making q complete collection
of San Diego fish Tor exhibitions at
the Worlds fair. The specimens will
be preserved in alcohol and properly
labeled, etc. The exhibit will be
competitive one.
1t is probable that q number OF gen.
uine Aetrakhan sheep, the finest
specimens living. will be exhibited
at the Worlds Fair. A dozen OF
them have recently PrIiysa IN this
country from Persia, having been pur-
chased there by United States Minis.
ter Beale for Secretary Rusk, of the
department of agriculture, who in
tends to try the experiment of raising
the species in this country. They are
to be taken TO Southern California,
and If they prosper will be taken to
the fair next summer.
A schooner lie now being fitted out
at Halifaux to go the arctic regions t.
get ten or twelve Esquimo families
fifty or sixty persons In all, for exhi-
bitlon at the Worlds fair. Dogs,
fishing Implements, utensils and
everything necessary to show Esqui-
mo, life, will also tie procured.
The Indian exhibit at the Worlds
Fair will include representatives of
every tribe from the extreme north to
Terra del Fuego.
The Paper Trade Club of Chicago,
representing nearly all the paper
manufacturers of the city, 10 arrang.
ing for an interesting display at the
Worlds Fair. The club expects to
put up complete paper mill on the
grounds and show the process of
making paper from the pulp to q
finished card in the shape Oft Worlds
fair souvenir.
The chair in which Thomas Jeffsr.
son sat while writing the Declaration
of Independence is now owned by the
Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
It is reported that this interesting
relic will be exhibited at the Worlds
fair.
Chief Ives, who is In Europe in the
interest of the Fine Arts department
of the Worlds Fair, has written that
the French and American artists in
Paris are all agog with enthusiasm
for the Fair. The American artists
are hard at work, and their section of
the exhibit will be Unexpectedly
large and of the highest order, Chief
Ives had several conferences with
Commissioner Proust, who is the chief
OF the fine arts department for the
French exhibit, and finds the repre-.
sentative men of French art circles
active ana in earnest to make their
display exceptionally fine and sur.
passing in extent anything formerly
accomplished.
An. exhibit of bells will be made at
the Worlds Fair by large manufac.
turing concern in this country, and
the firm is planning to display 1t in q
reproduction Of the Tar Kolokol
(King of bells). the famous
broken bell of Moscow, which is %
feet in diameter and 81 feet inches
high, weighs 443, 772 pounds, and is
used as chapel.
South Burmah and the East Indies
intend to have worthy exhibit ut
the exposition. The cnamb Der of COM
merce of Kurrachee has appointed
Jehangir II. Kothari. q prominent
wealthy merchant of Kurrachee spe-
cial commissioners to develop an ex.
hibit for the fair.
Three Worlds fair commissioners
from France are now in Chicago, to
erect and decorate the building which
will be the headquarters of France at
the fair, and to complete arrange.
ments for installing the French eX.
hibit. They are Baron de Vialar, M.
Rene Dubuisson and M. Henri Motto. |
They say that france will have an
exhibit unrivaled by that of any
other nation and that wills eclipse |
of the kind ever previously !
undertaken by the French govern
ment. They have asked for 200 900 !
square feet additional space. The |
French building is to be one of the |
finest of foreign structures and deco
rated most artistically under direc-
ton of M. Motto, who is q celebrated |
painter and decorator.
Not to belong to Woman's |
Worlds Fair committee is now re-
garded by titled and aristocratic
European women as positive lack of
Indeed, the interest In |
she Exposition displayed by promi- /
nent and influential women in most |
of the European countries is truly re.
markable. The exhibit of woman's |
work is sure to be very comprehen-
sive, and, it is believed, surprising.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of
the Board of Lady Managers, who
has recently returned from q Euro
pean tour, reports that the women of
Europe, particularly of Great Britain,