Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-30
woRLI s FAIR

THERE are two hundred aud forty-one sp.
lrlications on file for space for exhibits from
Philadelphia alone.
TIE Kentucky legislature has voted an
appropriation OF $780, 600 for state representa-
lion at the Exposition.
THE plans Of the New York state eomm's-
sion for the Exposition contemplate the cree
lion Of q building to cost SSlOa0.
The Vanderbilt railroads have applied for
three trucks, each five hundred feet long, in
ihe Transportation Exhibits Building for
somplee exhibit Of cars, locomotives and rail-
way appliances.
THE total amoani Of lumber to be used in
the Exposition buildings will be 800 eco
feet, OF which $3.50 993 is ia place. Iron
(nd steel to be used will aggregate Sl,0SI,aSi
pounts Of which IL, 4S,, i2S is in place.
/ J THE Worlds Fair commission of Honolulu
has seut two Of its members to open perma.
nent offices in Chicago. The commissioners
will arrange for Hawaiian building and ex-
hibit, and incidentally boom the islands as
health resort.
THERE is much interest in the poem on the
Exposition found among the manuscripts OF
Walt Whitman. Its quite possible the poem
may be given conspicuous place IN tue
dedication program, ana il has been suggeste
that Talcott Williams, Of the editorial stat OF
The Philadelphia Pr, S. and a warm friend OF
the dead poet, be invited to read it.
NEW HAMPsHIRE will carry out the idea
hn its state building OF those who so frequently
Fall the state the Switzerland of America.
| The building will be Swiss chalet, with the
| typical verandas aud peak roof IL will be
constructed Of granitequarried in New Hamp.
shire, and will have u reception hall 201SJ
/ feet.
MEMBERS of the board of lady managers in
( the different states have agreed TO raise
1 ~, COO for a dry nursery in the grounds, aud
/ the amount apportioned TO each state has been
settled. Maryland is TO be taxed 500, Nir-
/ ginia 500, Delaware So, and the District of
i Columbia 500. The hereby states will raise
| most of the money as the nursery Will be
used most by mothers from near Chicago.
/ A SYNDICATE of capitalists are trying to
\ induce John Philip Sousa, leader OF the
/ famous Marine Band Washington, TO take
! ahe leadership Of band of picked musicians
/ TO be formed next fall for services in c0nnec-
1 tion with the Exposition. Mr.. Sousa as
leader of the Marine Band, receives salary
/ of 81 900; the Chicago men, confident of the
! power of gold, propose to offer him 5000 and
| an interest in the profits Of the new organiza-
| ton. Chicago is perhaps, not music mad,
! but i is determined to have the best talent
That can be procured.
| FROM data in the hands Of president Bon
ney, of the Worlds Congress Auxiliary 1t is
estimated that eight thousand newspaper men
will attend the Editorial Congress during the
/ Exposition; three thousand doctors the Homo
pathio Medical Congress; thirty thousand
teachers the Educational Congress, aud that
Chicago will not have halls enough TO ho,d
Che delegates to the religious congresses OF
'hirty-seycn foreign societies Of engineers,
twenty have accepted the invitation 10 send
delegates. DR.. George Ebers, the famous
Psychologist, has written that he will pirtici-
pate in the congress.
THE Cougress.ot Authors Of the Worlds
Congress Auxiliary, especially in the field OF
imaginative literature, seems 10 meet with
general favor among the most distinguish ed
writer's at home aud abroad. Acceptances OF
appointment 70 the adysory council OF the
congress have been received from the follow.
ing: His Majesty Oscar, King of Sweden and
Norway; Lord Alfred Tennyson; William T..
Gladstone; Sir Edwin Arnold; Walter liesant;
DIR. George Euers. Munich; Professor X.
Lanciani, Rome; Senior Munez de Arce,
Madrid; John G. Whittier; DR.. Oliver Wen.
dell Holiness DR.. Edward Everett Hale;
Charles Dudley Warren; George William
Curt 5; DR.. 5. Weir Mitchell: Henry NJ
Alden; Richard Watson Glider; Edward
.Eggleston; George w Gable; Edmund Clar,
enee Stedmau; kossiier johnson; Frank H.
Stoc;ou and Henry Cabot Lodge.