Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-25
WORLDS FAIR BUILDINGS

The Haytian building will be torn
| down and removed to Hayti
| The Costa RIGA building will he re-
moved by the contractor who erected
it.
THE New Jersey building is to 90 to
the state militia encampment grounds
at Seagirt.
CAL1FORNIA's building will undoubt-
edly be torn down Most of the ex-
hibits go to the Midwinter Fair.
The West Virginia building is to be
moved to Charleston, where it will be
put up as state museum with the con-
tents intact.
INDIANA has advertised it's building to
be sold at public sale and the Executive
commissioners will meet October % to
open the bids received.
The New Hampshire building will
probably be taken back. According to
contract the furniture reverts to William
Phillips q Co., of Chicago, who decorat-
ed the building.
THE Utah building has not been dis
posed of, and the commissioner is in
cllned to let it stand until he can get q
good offer for it. The furniture is to be
sent back to Utah
The Japanese building alone, of all
the foreign buildings, is slated to stand
where it is permanently. It has been
presented to the park commissioners
and accepted by them.
THE French and Spanish buildings
are deserted by the commissioners
They must have cost $40, 900 or 500, 600
each. The present appearances are
that these buildings will be sold for q
nominal sum or abandoned.
The New York building has been
definitely set aside for museum and
exhibit of wOman's work and has been
placed in the hands of Trustees Mrs.
Potter Palmer, Mrs. B. f. Clarke and
President Higinbotham.
The Connecticut building has been
sold for some time to Mr.. Richards, of
Hyde Park, who will move it to the
lake shore for a summer house, the To-
cation chosen being just below the fair
grounds. He paid $4,000 for it.
TIE Turkish building is enclosed in
carved wooden panels from Damascus,
owned by Mr.. Levy Of the Midway
Plaisance, who will take it back. What
will be lett of the building after this is
removed will be OF no consequence.
The Houston, Tex, people want the
Texas building to put up in their park,
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Houston have made proposition to the
Texas commissioners which includes
the transfer of all the contents Of the
building as well.
The Norwegian building, erected to
simulate a Norwegian church of the
Fourteenth Century, being small and
all OF wood, can be taken apart and put
together again. 1t is therefore consid-
erably inquired for by Norwegian
Americans III the West, and will prob
ably be sold.
DIR. RICHTER and the German COM
missiOners would like to have the Ger
man building stand for years. 1t cost
9l5O,OOO. But there is an obstacle in the
way, as many Of the features Of the
structure, including stained glass win
dows, thing, bells, ETC., are private
property, and if they are removed the
building will be practically dismantled.
THE fate of the India building, which
cost $4,000; the Guatemala building,
which cost $4,000; the Colombia build
ing, which cost $4,000; the Canada
building, which cost $50, 600; the Swed-
ish building, which cost $4,000, and the
Brazil building, which cost 800, 900, is
uncertain. So far as known there have
been no offers for these buildings