The Portland daily press., 1892-07-19

n GreaO Clambake Will be One or bhe
Features.-An Old New Bedfore Whaler
to be oni Exhibition.-RoyaI Lace.-The
| Fine Arts
CHICAGO, July 1e.-National restau-
rants are to be features of the Worlds
Fair. Nearly every foreign government
that has decided to make display at the
Exposition has also arranged, through
its representatives. for restaurant in
which refreshments will be served as
| they are at home. In most cases native
attendants will be in charge of the res
taurants. The German, French, English
and other European commissioners have
practically closed arrangements for these
cafes. Visisors from the New England
states will be agreeably surprised when
they reach Jackson park to learn that a
genuine New England clam-bake is to be
operated at the Fair. The company that
has secured the privilege of operating this
establishment will spend $50, 200 in con-
structing an artistic building. The
structure, as planned, is two storied,
with casino roof. 1t occupies COM
handing site over on the lake shore,
near Englands building. The food will
be cooked in the same way as it is in New
England coast resorts, which are patron
lied by thousands of people. During the
Fair two special refrigerator cars will
arrive every day with a supply of CLAIMS,
Holsters and seafish. The building will
be finished in time to give reception to
New Englanders when the buildings are
| dedicated in October. Facilities will be
provided to serve 10000 people a day
! during the fair.
! The Old Whaler Progress.
The old whaling bark Progress, .
which has now reached Detroit on her
way from New Bedford, Mass, to Chica-
90, where she and her. contents will con-
| stitute for the benefit of Worlds Fair
visitors, a complete exhibit of the whale
catching industry, has remarkable his
tory. She has made II trips around
Cape Horn, all of them successful. Forty
times has she crossed the Arctic ocean in
search of the whale and his valuable
blubber. In 1869 she set sail and Joined
the Arctic feet. 1t 1871 terrific storms
scattered the fleet and all met disaster
except the Progress" which came back
to New Bedford with 300 sailors, seven
captains, five women and three children,
the survivors of the wreck. She carries
six whaleboats, which have all seen ac-
tual service, and each one is provided
with a complete equipment of para
phernalia. These boats are sharp at both
ends, and can be driven at great speed by
six good oarsmen.
Royal Lace.
The Countess Brazza, writing to Mrs.
Potter Palmer from Venice, touching
the hoped for exhibit, at the Worlds
Fair, of the historical collection of laces,
the property of the queen of Italy, makes
several interesting statements. The
countess says the queen intends to send
the crown laces, "a thing never done by
any sovereign outside of her own country
Our history of lace begins a thousand
years before Christ, with photographs of
objects found in the Egyptian tombs."
The countess guarantees the most per-
feet exhibit of it's kind ever made, and
stipulates only for an advantageous loca-
ton. A drawing of the proposed ar
rangement was inclosed in the letter,
with a minute and detailed description
of the exhibit.
The Fine Arts.
It was feared by many at first that the
fine arts exhibit at the Worlds Fair
would be, perhaps, its weakest feature,
because of the fact that art in America is
yet too young to have produced many
works of great merit, and because the
Exposition is to be held so far from the
great European storehouses of art treas
ures that it was believed doubtful if any
considerable number of them would be
exhibited. So far from this being the
case, however, it is now certain that the
art exhibit will be one of the most COM
plete and splendid that visitors to the
Exposition will have the privilege of see
ing. This is due to several considera-
lions. European nations, as well as
all others, are taking an extraordinary
interest in the Exposition. There is a
commendable rivalry among those rich
est in art productions in the matter of
making a creditable exhibit. They have
come to recognize fully thatthe United
States is by far the best market in the
world for the products of the painter and
the sculptor. Added to these reasons
are the very ef6cieut efforts of agents of
the Fair to enlist the interest of foreign
nations in the making of exhibits in all
lines, and particularly in the art division.
Supplementing the good work done in
this direction by number of Exposition
special commissioners, Chief Ives of the
Fine Arts Department, has made two
trips to European nations, with the re-
suit that from each one an art exhibit OF
exceptional merit is forthcoming.
Notes.
Representatives of twenty-one different
college Greek letter fraternities attended
meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Chicago, recently and made arrange
ments for making fraternity exhibit at
the Worlds Fair. An executive commit
tee was appointed, consisting of Richard
L. Fearn, Miss Gertrude E. Small, E. M.
Winston, Miss Ethel M. Baker, and
Charles M. Kurtz.
Director-General Davis has announced.
that he will probably create Bureau of
Athletics in the Department of Liberal
Arts at the Worlds Fair and appoint
some well-known promoter of athletic
sport as chief. Col. Davis has a plan also
for securing forty acre camp ground
one mile south of jackson Park On this
tract, if the plan is followed, will be a
wheel course and big grand stand. 1t
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