Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-10
NEW FAIR FEATURES.
An Irish Village Being Arranged to
Exhibit at Chicago.
ITALY's QUEEN TO SHOW LACEs.
Australia Promises to Take an Active Part
in the Exposition,
BUT HAS SOME GRIEVANCES ALREADY

| oeinR arranged IOr e4ulpltlOn at the w OrlQs
Fair under the auspices Of the Countess o
Aberdeen and Mrs. Ernest Hart. The latter
has the following TO say in regard to it:
eve shall have seven cottages in which
| peasant girls and lads from Donegal and
| elsewhere will be seen at work, weaving
| spinning, dyeing, sprigging, carving, etc.
The girls will look very pretty in Come
| mara red petticoats, fshwife skirts and
blouses and scarlet cloaks. In one cottage
a girl will be seen dyeiug and spinning
| famous hand and hearth homespuns, the
wool, the lchens and heather of her native
bog outside. This operation is certain to
prove immensely attractive to sightseers, as
well as the carding, spinning and bobbin
| filling, which will be shown here.
Between this and the next cottage there
| will be a model dairy in which dairy maids
| will be at work, churning and buttermak-
| ing. 1 can assure our American cousins they
will have chance of tasting some good but
| ter, as we shall send over some OF the world
famed Kerry COWS, which will be stabbed at
the rear. In another cottage which is under
the especial care of the Irish Industries
Association, every description of Irish lace
will be shown. sprigging and veining, which
are employed III the production OF the beau
tiful hemstitched bandkerchiefs Of Belfast,
will be shown"
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 interest
ing statements. The Countess says the
Queen intends to send the crown laces, "a
thing never done by any sovereign Of this
OF any other country. The history Of lace
begins 1000 years before Christ, with photog-
raphs OF objects found in the Egyptian
tombs."
Canada has determined to send an Indian
exhibit to the Worlds Fair.
Sir George Dibbs. the Premier of New
day and he feels bitter toward the manage
ment Of the Worlds Fair. According to him,
the exhibit of New South Wales. which is
almost the only English colony that intends
to exhibit, promises to be failure, and this
is what he says: New South Wales was al
most the only colony that intended to OK
hibit. Our exhibition will be about one
fourth OF which it would have been If the
Chicago managers had dealt with us as We
had been promised. They sentan agent out,
by what authority l do not know, who
way of space and accommodations. After
we had committed ourselves and spent
about sl00. 900, they told us that the agent
was acting without authority and that we
could uot have space at all adequate to our
wants. The result will be that it will prac-
tically ruin our exhibit.
A Competitor of America in Raw Material.
sour exhibit will be largely in raw,ma-
terials. The trouble is that they are like
American raw materials, and will make no
particular showing separately. We wanted
to make our exhibit on bloc. To classify 1t
will only be to weaken it. We wanted a col
lective exhibit, but the Fair arrangements
do not allow of focusing, and without that
1 cannot see what advantage there is in the
colony's exhibiting at ALL If our woods have
to be in one place, our gold in another, our
silver and wool scattered about among vari-
Gus buildings, the advantage to us of such a
display becomes very doubtful.
II am sure that If we had learned at first
what We have since learned, we would not
have exhibited at all. The trouble is we 1
have now gone too far to go out now. As It
Is our exhibit VIII De failure , TO large arg ex-
hibit again. My vote and influence shall
always be against it. at least. 4
"Of course, we do not expect to rival
America and other older countries. As
have said, our exhibit would have been
chiefly in raw materials, but it would have
had an element Of novelty that would have
made it interesting even to Americans, As
1t is. it will be a miserable failure.
"And you may put it down, the feeling is
very bitter throughout England. They have
an idea that the Fair is not being managed
with the usual intelligence that Americans
bring to bear on such big enterprises.
Wool Is Australia's Strong Point.
"Our most interesting exhibit will prob
ably be in wool, especially merino woods.
There has been a great deal of talk as to
whether they should be admitted duty free.
Well, we do hot care whether they are or
not. You have got to have our fine class
woods to mix With your coarse woods. It
makes no difference whether you get them
direct or go to London for them. 1t is q
wonder to me that the intelligence of the
people of America can't see that.
Heretofore Americans have had it all |
their own way In our markets, but we are
going to take leaf out of your book. We |
will manufacture our own wooden nutmegs
hereafter. We have discovered that when q |
reaches certain size it must man. |
utacture, grow and produce for itself.
81 leave tonight for Montreal, then go to |
Ottawa. The Canadian Government is MAX |
ing an effort for more extended trade be- |
tween Canada and the colonies, and am /
going there to see what they have to say |
tbout it."
When asked whether he would visit Chi
,ago Sir George announced very emphatic
lily that he would not. At the con olusion
If his mission in Canada Sir George leaves
or Sydney. sailing from San Francisco on
he 18th instant.