The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-12
CORRESPONDENCE.
From the Garden City.
CHICAGO, Feb. Sd,


To the Editor of the Bonner:-DRAB
6ER:-On the third day Of this month,
sitting in one of my rooms facing the
south, outside of window was tin
vessel placed upon box; on this vessel
saw large green fly. called gentle
mans attention to the object and he re-
marks: "Can it he possible that green
dy has made his appearance this early :"
The sun was then shining, but the ques-
ton arose where could this fly have kept
himself through the past cold months
and come out so early in the season.
Can it be any Indication of an early
spring? So far in this month it appears
rs though we will have one. We have
no desire for any more winter, although
the months have been very mild, the
thermometer ranging only few degrees
below zero and only few times at that
The milliOnaires have had but little COCA
sion to leave tor more cOngenial cline
fhis winter. So far 1t has been very
favorable for the building operations at
jackson Park, where the great Fair is to
be held. Great progress is being made
for this wonderful exhibit of the worlds
people and it is spoken of as though it
would far exceed any of the kind held.
We hope the country will not be in any
way disappointed, but they are begging
bard for another five million. We hope
the country will not come to bankruptcy
ON it's account The figures of VermOnts
appropriation are smaller than any have
yet seen. | had u long list before me a
short time since, with the different apprO-
priatiOns, and | was very much surprised
1T my nat We States appropriation.
Perhaps it has been enlarged. l hope it
has, for l feel little delicate of this
meagre sum. Congress is to be asked to
appropriate certain sum of money for
the Worlds Fair. This body will not
however, be asked to appropriate a sum
of money for the use and convenience of
the local directory of the Worlds Column
bian Exposition Company. 1t will, how
ever, be asked to appropriate sum OF
money to be devoted to the different de-
partments of the Fair, all of them being
under the control of the National Com
mission and Director General Davis.
The conclusion reached concerning the
best plan to work on is based on the
idea that it would not be exactly the
thing for the Fair people to ask Congress
to appropriate an immense sum OF money
for the use of an Illinois corporation.
Such request, it is declared, would be
refused with emphasis. On the other
hand, however, the United States as a
nation has declared that the Worlds
Fair is not a Chicago matter, but some
thing which concerns the whole country
and which to be success must be cham
piOned by Uncle Sam himself. The
stockholders, the principal ones, and
nearly all the directors declare the
arrangement to be suited to their ideas.
zad it may now be said that the VeXed
question of an appropriation has at last
been brought to a satisfactory termIna-
zion. Ex-senator John j. ingalls, of
Kansas was one of the visitors to the
Worlds Fair grounds on Thursday of
this week, the Statesman being out of
iob," was very enthusiastic over the
sights he saw there and said: "You can
write about it, you can talk about it In
The most glowing terms, but no one can
appreciate it who does not come here to
see it; it is simply wonderful. l was
here last May and saw marsh, wooded
waste, with only little dredging boat at
york, and 1 said to myself, they will
never get it finished in time. But now
look at it. Nothing but calamity
hurled by Providence can ever stop it."
1t 10 an exhalatiOn, yesterday iJ was not;
to-day it is a vision Uf magnificence, to-
morrow it will be destroyed and nothing
Will UuJ Anu y0bV WOu-
derful as it is, the greatest wonder of the
exposition will be Chicago, this magnif-
cent spectacle; and then to think that it
% possible for it to be visited by some of
the noted ones of earth, such as Glad
Stone, aud perhaps probable, as Aunt
Hannah once said, Victoria may give US
q visit The Sultan Of Turkey has Off
ciallY announced that he has decided to
consent to the erection of mosque at
the Worlds Fair for the religious SER
NOES of his faithful Mahommedan sub
tects." 1t was stated that So, 900 will be
devoted to builing this oriental temple
N the neighbOrhuOd of the oriental ba-
Aaar, a concession for which has been
granted to Turkish firm. The United
States Minister stat q tO the Imperial
Turkish Minister that this offer of finan
dial assistance was made solely in the in
terest of the spiritual welfare of Mu-
hammedan visitors in order that they
may not be deprived of the essentials of
Che public exercise of their religion, and
further, that the offer was made cOndi-
t0nal ON the approval of the Sultan and
the appointment by him of Ilnans and
Murzzins (So-called) for the proper oon-
duct of religious services. The Sultan
has consented to the erection of the
mosque, but declines to appoint any
1mans or Murzzins, suggesting that the
functions of these offices can be under
taken by some of the Musselmen t. be
found in Chicago. The Old World. gen.
orally, is being very much interested in
this great fair, and particularly Japan.
Rvery department is being pushed as
fast as lies in the power of the commits
aiOners to make this a great and grand
success. More anon.
CORP. W. Z. SuELDoM.