Passaic City record., 1892-01-30
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.


THE National Association of Woolen Nam
ufacturers has decided TO make uniteueA
hibit at the Fair.
WATER for the Exposition grounds will
be supplied from two pumping stations hav-
ing combined capacity of "a, O00, 600 gallons
a day.
A COLLECTIVE exhibit of sanitary appli-
ances and methods of sanitation. and OF all
that pertains closely to them, is to be made
at the Exposition.
1T is the intention to have one room in
Delaware's Exposition building fitted up IN
colonial style, with hangings, pictures and
furniture OF that period.
ON the three evenings during the exercise,
dedlcatory of the Exposition buildings, Oc
tober IL, IL and 13, fireworks to the value Of
S25, 900 will be displayed.
THE Blue Grass League Of Iowa, embrac
ing tine southwestern counties OF the state,
has decided to construct "Biue Grass
Palace at the Exposition.
THE Hon. w. c. P Brecknridge, of Ken
lucky, according to present plans, will de
liver the Grafton dedicatory OF the Ex'
position buildings, on October IL, 1892.
THE fine geological collection made by the
late Professor Worthen, State 9eologist Of
at the Exposition The State Worlds Fair
Board has purchased it for $4,000.
THE United States Potters' Association
has applied for 80 900 square feet in the
Manufacturers building, and announces its
intention of making an exhibit that Will mol
be surpassed by any showing made by the
famed potteries of Europe.
THE colossal statute of the Republic
which will stand on a pedestal rising from
the basin in front of the Administrator
buiIding. is being modelled in Paris by Daniel
C. French, the New York sculptor. 1t will
be a female figure seventy-fve feet high.
A PROJECT has been inaugurated to have
an international rife shoot at Chicago at
some time while the Exposition Is in prog
ress. It is proposed that picked teams from
the United States Army and National Guard
compete with teams from other nations.
THE Lord Mayor of London. it is an.
nounced, will form a committee to raise
the sum necessary to send to the Exposition
a selected number OF representablve VOTE
ingmen from London, with view or Their
making reports on the industrial exhibits
there.
THE Chemical National Bank of Chicago
has been granted the privilege of establish.
ing and operating bank on the Exposition
grounds. It will afford to exhibitors and
visitors all the conveniences and safeguards
of a metropolitan bank, including safety
deposit vaults.
A GRAND ded1catlOn Dali, prODaDly III Tue
Auditorium, on the night of October 13,
1892. will conclude the exercises dedicatory
Of the Exposition buildings Many repre-.
sentatives of foreign countries are expected
to be present, and the event will be, to an
extent. international in character.
A COLUMBIAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS" will
be held at Chicago at the time OF the Ex-
position. beginning, as now planned, on
September 9Th, and continuing five days. 1t
Is expected that fully 5000 delegates from
dioceses in the United States alone will be
present and that the number from European
countries will be very large and will include
many noted dignitaries Of the church.
THE ceremonies attending the dedication
Of the Exposition buildings, October II, IL
and 13, 1892, are to be very elaborate and
Impressive. The committee having the
matter in hand will devote $500, 900 to that
purpose. 1t is expected that the President
Of the United States and his Cabinet
many of the Senators and Congressman
and Governors of the States, numerous rep
resentatives of foreign Governments. and
10 600 militia and several thousand regulars
will be present. A dedication ode and
marches written for the occasion, will be
rendered with full choral and orchestral ac-
compartment. Patriotic and other music,
dedicatory Grafton, pageant of symbolical
floats, representing the Procession of the
Centuries,n and magnificent displays Of fire
works will be among the chief features OF
the programme.