Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-14
EXPOSITION NEWS.
Thirty-Fivc States Have Accepted Build
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CHICAGO, June 14-Thirty five of the
forty-nine states and territories in the
Union have accepted the building sites
assigned them ON the worlds Columbian
exposition grounds, and have submitted
to the construction bureau for approval
the plans of the bureau they propose to
erect. Nearly all the others, it is known,
are about ready to take like action.
Every state and territory with perhaps
three exceptions, will erect building.
Quite number of these buildings will
be reprOductiOnS of historic structures
such as Independence Hall, Washing
tons Mount Vernon home, old Fort
Marion, etc. They will occupy the
northern portion Of the exposition
grounds and will be surrounded by
walks, lawns, shinbbery and flowers.
They will be occupied as headquarters
for state boards and visitors and AS re-
ceptaclcs for exhibits showing state re-
sources, etc.
Interesting Railroad Exhibit.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad IS
having an elaborate display made for
the exposition. 1t will include models
of the rolling stock and motive power,
showing its construction of the first
fourteen miles. which We're opened for
traffic MAY 81, 1921, from Baltimore to
Ellicott Mills, when strap iron was
nailed to wooden stringcrs, and the two
or three open coaches, which We're called
wagons, were hauled by horses. The
next step will show the York" the first
locomotive constructed, which was built
by Phineas Davis, and was purchased by
company for $1,000, the price agreed
upon before it was built. The wagons
or coaches the York pulled, and which
the horses pulled before it was con
structed, will also be represented by
models on the strap-iron track, just as
they were when they made their first
trip The next representation will be
models of the Improvement on the
york" being what is known rs the
"grasshopper' or crab locomotive,
and were received by the road from the
same maker. The first regular pas8en-
ger coaches, or models of them, will also
he exhibited.
Cnnnda's Mineral Resources.
Canada will make aremarkable display
of her mineral resources mt the worlds
fair. The province of Ontario has deter
mined on making large exhibit of all
the minerals found in that province, and
Quebec has resolved not to he behind her
sister province in this respect. Nova
Scotia, SO rich in mineral wealth, is also
actively engaged in bringing together
specimens of her richest deposits. 1t is
expected that the gold ores of Nova
Scotia will surprise many of the visitors
to the worlds fair, while the samples
from her coal fields will afford some idea
of the wonderful resources of the prov
ince in that particular. The asbestos,
mica, plumbagO and phosphate deposits
will form prominent features III the
Quebec exhibit; while the rich nickel
ores, for which Ontario isnow famous,
will receive much attention from that
province The Dominion geological sur
vey will make u fine exhibit, which will
afford facilities for studying the mineral
resources of the country, on either the
limited provincial basis or from the
wider Dominion standpoint.
A German village"
The German village" for which the
exposition authorities granted conces'
SION some time ago, will occupy space
225 by 80 feet ON Midway Plaisance.
The features of the exhibit are a
medieval German town. with market
place and town hall. which will contain
the German photographic museum.
Around the town will be farm houses
from dfferent sections OF the German
empire occupied by natives. In
medieval German castle there will be
restaurant presided over by caterers
from Berlin. Another interesting fea-
ture of the town will he an ancient
monastery establishment. Then there
will be a large concert gardens, in which
about 5000 people can sit at tables,
while two German bands will play. The
construction work has been in progress
for several weeks at Frankfort -on-the'
Main. The contractors are Phillip Holz,
mann Il Company, the builders OF the
imperial palace at Strlssburg, ana many
other celebrated structures in Germany
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