Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-03-09
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Progress of the Great Columbian Expo.
SitiOn,

The following late notes relating to events
and incidents regarding the coming Worlds
Fair at Chicago, are Of fresh interest to ali
readers;
New Jersey has increased its Worlds
Fair appropriation from 10000 to $4,000.
Austria will make fine exhibit of glass
poI ce lain, bronze, leather, artistic iron and
cabinet work.
The grand entrance to the msmmotb
manufactures building will be decorated al
an expense Of about $4,000.
A heroic statue of Columbus, by Louis
ST Gsudens, will stand before tho main en-
trance Of the Administration Building.
Hayt hss appropriated S25 GOO FOR its
representation at the Exposition. Fred
Douglass has been appointed commissioner
to represent that country.
Mrs. Frona Wait. one Of the lady man
ayers OF California, has offered to finish in
redwood one Of the large reception rooms
in the Womsn's Building.
The total amount reported appropriated
BY foreign nations and colonies for their
representation at the Exposition, so far as
heard from, is SO 951 ,O53. Quite a num-
ber of those which have deciaed to psrtici-
pate have not yet made appropriations.
The Newport. x. | Artillery, which
celebrated its l50th anniversary several
months sgo, and claims to be the oldest
active military company in the United
States, will attend the Worlds Fair. IL
visited the Centennial at Philadelphia and
attracted much attention.
A Choral Hall, l60x2G0 feet, will be
erected near the Horticultural Building
There Professor Tomlins, with 1000 trained
voices, will furnish rare choral music dur
ing the Exposition. The Welsh Interna-
tional Este idfod will occupy the building
for q week.
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture
has ffsrei number Of prizes ranging from
$50 to $3.50. for the best exhibits shown at
the State Fair, to be held at Peoria, in
September. From these exhibits the board
will make many sele c1ions for the Worlds
Fair.
The exhibit which Illinois women will
make in the Womsn's Building will be q
model hospital, conducted entirely by
women. The women physicians and sur
geons of the state and the Illinois Training
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Three rooms 10 the Womsn's Building hsve G
been assigned for the exhibit. and the state
board has appropriated $1,000 to tefrsy the
expense.
The Russian government has adopted a
very liberal policy toward the Exposition.
Information has been received al head.
quarters that the minister Of finance, with
the approval Of the Emperor has decided to
pay all freight charges on Russian exhibits
for the fair, to iDture the exhibits and 70
decorate the Russian section. The imp
rial porcelain factory is making ware of
special designs 10 be shown st the fair.
The Bethlehem Iron Company, Of South
Bethlehem, "a -, will make an extensive Ell
hibit, including steel rails, a battle ship
shafting l25 feet in length, guns, pro jeo.
tiles, an armor plate ingot weighing l0d
tons, and various naval appliances. The
company will also erect fuli-szs model oi
| its famous I75-ton steam hammer, said 70
| be the largest in the world. IL will be to
ali Appearances 3 perfect duplicate 10 every
respect. II will span the main svenue oi
Machinery Hall, and will rise to height oil
ninety feet. At the last Paris exhibition
| great Attention was attracted by . simiiaI
model shown by the Creusot works, bu
representing only l0o-son hammer.
Jackson Park viii retaia as one Of ii
permanent attractions the building which
japan will erect for It's headquarters at tbs
Exposition. The building will be modele'
after one Of the most famous snd sfcbitec
tursliy unique Of Jspsn's ancient temples
and With It's surrounding garden will co,
1000. About 10 900 square feat will D.
occupied. The South Park commissioner
have accepted the offer Of s. Tegima. rep
ra.entaii e Of the Mikado, to give tn
structure to Chicago on condition that it D
kept permanent and in repair, and that on
room in Is be devoted to public exhibit 0
japanese works Of art, which the Japaaes
government agrees to repIenish from tim
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