Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-25


Qife size) Of Greedy receiving Lock-
wood and his companions with the dog
eiedge II the far north, and on the screen
In the background q far perspective revealing
in the distance the solitary and historic cabin
at Cape Sabine. It is q pathetic scene, and on
the right Is an iceberg thirty feet high (of
alum) with white bear and a walrus face to
face. The other side of the canvas will pre-
sent the arctic triumphs of the navy
Ihe War Department will bring a model hos
pital fully equipped, and show how to handle
a.hospital corps in the field. 1t will show on
ffe-size lay figures in groups all the uniforms
OF the army from its organization-a regular
Eden Musee-and all the small arms it has ever
used. and it will have in lively operation man
nfactory of Springfield rifles and ammunition.
All our modern cannon will be represented and
there will be a Zalinsky dynamite gun in prac-
tice.
UNCLE JERRY RUsK AND OTHERS.
No lessAthan sixteen divisions of Uncle Jerry
husks department will be there, infinitely illus
trating every governmental process and inquiry
In which farmer can have an interest The
process OF forecasting the weather will be gone
| through with every day. The National Museum
VIII carry n large proportion of its enormous
collection, so that that part remaining in WASH
ington will hardly be worth visiting next sum
mer. Alfe-saving station will be erected at the
fair and manned by picked crew of picked men.
who Will give daily exhibition drill The
Treasury and Post Office departments will
bring all they have worth showing and the
Navy Department will build on piles in the lake
full-sized model of a worship and therein will
assemble all the bureaus and illustrate their
functions. Simond's successor will be there
with his patents and Morgans successor with
his Indians.
The bureaus of the government will not RELY
90 pictures to any great extent. but Will present
actual specimens from their workshops and will
appear To the plastic art for illustrations of~ab
struse studies The geological survey will
assemble rock sections from ali parts OF the coun-
try as an educational exhibit, with an ar
rangement of fossils in the geo
logical column and a display Of the
| giant fossils, unique in zoology. found in the
far west by Marsh and others of its corps. And
special effort will be made to show how
| geology rests on paleontology as q solid base
1t Is not generally known that The most COM
| plete school exhibition al Chicago will probably
| be that of Washington. This city has one ad-
| vantage not possessed by any other section Of
the country; all of its schools are a unit
virtually under one head. and SO centered that
| their exhibition will have a symmetry not at
tainable by any state, with the numerous and
! complex local interests and numerous conflict
ing authorities. They have at once
the simple. character of citys sys-
TEN and the comprehensive charac-
ter OF states system, and both will be ex-
hiolted under one roof in such a way as to be
easily Ineligible to foreign students as
| typical of the American public school 1t is
probable that Supt. Powell will for this rea-
son be requested to show the Washington
school grades al work at Chicago, in which case
volunteers will be called for among the pupils
who VIII visit the fair from this city to illus
trate not only our exceptionally complete man
ual training methods, but all of the grades in
class.
THE DENIZENs OF THE DEEP
One OF the most interesting and curious of
Uncle Sans exhibits at Chicago will be that of
the fish commission, including not only speci-
mems of all marine life Of every attainable sort,
but object lessons in propagating protecting
catching and curing. The method of making
models of such fish cannot be shown in
aquar.ums Is unique and northumberland new
and calculated to Gstonish the world. Among
the stores and commission houses on 10Th street,
not far from The STAR Office, is a
broad three-story building, entirely filed
with, win me work Of preparation, in
charge OF Capt Collins, Gloucester
sailor and fisherman all his life before putting
his artistic hand to this job, and ENJOYING the
rare distinction Of having been once drowned
and once struck by lightning though he man
aged to escape from both to tell ii sh stories very
vividly. Hundreds Of boxes are ready packed
by him to ship to Chicago, besides the
various complicated models and groups
an ingenious waterway, stuffed alligators,
sea lions, &c. The model of an Alaskan fish
ing village is eight or ten feet long. the sea
being of thick glass and the rocks and land
scapes of rough cork. the men and women.
about three inches high, spearing fish through
a trap, with little earth hat in the corner
The modelssof fish, OF which thousands have
been fabricated and fixed on boards, are made
OF sort OF flexible glue, which leave,
the fish soft and plant in the hand-even more
plant than rubber. and which, unlike rubber,
does not become Initiated and brittle by con-
tact with the air. Frogs and snakes thus cast
painted to the life, have lasted for years in pre-
clseiy the same state. The glue is shipped
to We shington in its elemental condi-
ton by its inventor, one Denton. bay
much for the exhibits the inventor of the
''staff has done for the buildings. Every
creature of the briny deep and the terrestrial
shadows Is thus preserved and presented from
the ugly little sea worms and slugJ (dried for
Chinese markets) to the enormous sword
fish and shark.
Many curiosities are here-a porcelain door
knob from the stomach of cod also an ossified
banana though why the eater thus disposed of
1t passes comprehension. A lantern lost two
years ago and a boot Of about the same period
are exhibited, covered and encrusted with
young oysters, like the old womans shoe with
infants. Among the beauties of the deep is an
obellsk OF coral six feet high, with a surface Of
most delicate lace work
The processes of fishing and curing are rep
.oscneu ny Rroups OF men, nIe-elZe and start
llngly life like made from the glue and the
yielding flesh feels and looks like that of
actual fishermen at their work Wax
bears no comparison. Wooden models of
all American fishing boats are produced, |
from the earlies. and most simple |
10 the modern steam whaler. exactitut.e |
IN the minutest proportions being maintained |
On the walls win hang thousands of paintings |
In water coiors and sepia of American fishing |
grounds, villages and equipments.
SIX MONTHS TOO SHORT
Ii seems at this moment that the War Depart |
ment VIII require more room. indoors and out, |
than any other, with its rifle factory, its
numerous mounted cannon and other large |
arms, It's historic museum of muskets, its |
maneuvering batteries. its microscopic inquiry |
after bacteria. its practicable hospital corps, |
its deploying telephone kit and balloon service,
and, above all, its complete working model of a |
national cemetery.
Obviously, six months will not be too long to |
stay at Chicago. IA. CRorFUT.
FANCIES IN STATIONERY,
Novel and Useful Cor the June |
Bride.