Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-08-17
MES. RiLL,S RErURN.

Pleasant Chat Over Delaware Matters at
the Great Show in the Windy City,
The Diamond state Might Have Done
Much Better.
Mrs. j. Frank Ball, national commits.
sioner in the Women's Department Of
the Worlds Fair, returned home from
Chicago last Tuesday. She is in good
health and expressed herself as delighted
to be in Wilmington again. Her official
| duties kept her almost constantly at the
| Women's Department Still she found
opportunity to pay visits to the Della
ware Building. She described it as at
tractive and pretty. Several people
whose official opinions make the express
sion of peculiar value, have spoken well
of the Delaware Building. Mrs. Teresa
Cope, royal commissioner from Great
Britain for the Womens Department,
and who is also special representative
of the Queen, told Mrs. Ball that the
Delaware Building is the most hospit-
able one on the grounds. The internal
arrangements were criticised as very
harmonious. In just n position with
the magnificent structures of its two
immediate neighbors, the New York
and Maryland Buildings, it suffered in
external appearance.
The paintings in the Delaware Build
ing have been very much admired. Mr..
Chalfant's famous 'Dollar" painting has
!. attracted the attention of every one.
Mr.. Hammitts pictures also received
notice.
Delaware needlework and porcelain
is installed in the Women's Building in
the Department Of Applied Arts. 1t is
placed in six cases. 1t includes artistic
needlework and embroidery in all yarie.
ties of original designs One of the
articles attracting particular attention is
the back valance for an antique bed.
The design is in pink water lilies, on a
white linen surface. There has been
unstinted praise, Mrs. Ball says, of the
Delaware needlework. Aud this has
been made by competent judges.
The Judge of awards for Delaware in
J this branch is Miss Mcdowell OF
Uruguay, who is graduate of the
Royal Art School of Needlework at
Kensington, London. $50" added Mrs.
Ball, "our interests are well taken care
) of" The Delaware porcelain exhibit
: occupies case to itself, in conjunction
J with the needlework.
, The special impression made by the
, Delaware Building is its homelikeness.
play. Mrs. Balls idea is that in this
fact it comes nearer 10 the original in.
tention of the State buildings. The
third floor has been converted into
| apartments.
l The Delaware colonial collection is in
4 the Government Building. Miss knight
is in charge, and for the StaR, Miss
Kinder of Milford The collection i!
I | In Oh f,Fg 81
D which might have been made. 1t looks
+ as if the owners of old family plate were
/ afraid to loan their property. A lock Of
, Washington's hair is shown. 1t is thu
: property of Mrs. DIR. Draper of this city
SOMETHING LACKING.
In contrast with other States. Della
> ware is notably lacking in its exhibits o
c horticulture, forestry and pomology
There is no educational exhibit tina
could be found. The mail car in use il
G the Government Building is from thu
: Jackson d Sharp works. The Hilles
/. Jones exhibit in the Machinery Build
ing has been frequently noticed. Tn,
. Harlan g. Hollingsworth exhibit Of car
i and models is in the Transportation
n Building. An old one-horse chaist
o owned by John Weldon, from 1900 /,
II 1860, is in the same department.
! In general way, when compared
. with her sister states, Delaware is con
J. spicuons for its absence of exhibits
d The Western states continually replen
is ish their fruit exhibits. They ar
q keenly alive to the commercial oppor
= tunity afforded by the Fair, and as 500
y as the fruit is decayed, fresh specimen
Is appear. New Jersey has fine exhibi
of berries. Even far off Australia has
magnificent fruit display. 1t did nc
sr come to this country in cold storage
T. II took 80 days from Australia to Sa
4 Francisco. Mrs. Ball saw the frui
!, nine days after it had stood in the ex
70 hibit. She says there was no sign c
4 decay in it.
p New South Wales has outdone itself i
IL its mines and mining exhibit. Its edu
n cstional exhibit is fine. ITO think" II
4. marked Mrs. Ball, 'that Delaware, on
~ of the integral States of the Union Ia
u nothing to show in this direction, Will
a New South Wales makes the fine di:
be play it does, and that only as colony
There are eight books by Delawar
female writers in the Women's Depar
AZ ment.
:, The New.Century settle has a fin
y place in the gallery of honor in tn
es Womcn's Building. 1t was there Ion
ne before chairs had been provided for til,
he department. 1t was favorite loungin
is place for the ladies and proved as usefl
No as it is ornamental. 1t is very hanC
= some piece OF furniture of carved oak
40 Mrs. Ball does not return to Chicag
n until October. AT that time the gathe
re ing together of the articles and the
packing up takes place.