The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-05-26
A HEAVY CONTRACT.


day. Mr.. Hand said Congress provided
for Sunday closing without giving the
commission any discretionary power in
matter This is the stand we will take
What the district court will decide is
question. We expect to file the bill in
time to secure an injunction which will
close the gates this Sunday"
The officials in charge of the Pennsyl-
vania building at the fair have received
orders from the state executive committee
to keep the building closed on Sunday
during the continuance Of the exposition.
The German section Of agricultural
buildings was thrown open yesterday for
the first time. The feature of the exhbi-
tion is a temple built of solid chocolate
from the firm Of Stolwerek Bros, of Col
ogne, and deserves special mentio in con-
sequence of its popularity. The temple Is
built on the renaissance style and covers
ten squire feet and a height of thirty
eight feet up to the crown. The entire
quantity OF chocolate used In the construc-
tion of the pavilion amounts to about 3d.
600 pounds, the imitation of brown gram
ite being so striking that person unac.
quainted with the facts would have a pre-
sentiment as to its genuineness. The
statue Of Germania, eleven feet high, a re-
production Of the Niederwald monument,
is another work of the sculptor for which
chocolate has been used instead of marble.
Austria's contribution to the fine art
display was opened to the public during
the afternoon. The Austrian exhibit is
not extensive, occupying only three salons,
but it has been carefully selected, and some
are great works of art. The most con-
spicuous in size, execution and subjects is
BroZik' painting 1.-THE Defense of Prague"
He is the artist WHO painted columbus at
the Court of Isabella which is repro
duced in Columbian stamps of the United
States. There are some gems of art loaned
from the private galleries of Emperor
Francis Joseph and Prince Lichenstein, of
Vienna. The exhibit consists of $50 oil
and waters, fifteen pieces of sculpture in
bronze, besides etchings and engravings
The Chicago columbian chorns OF 1850
voices and the exposition orchestra of $50
overbalanced by about 500 the auditors
who assembled In Festival hall yesterday
afternoon to hear Hayden's oratorio, 1.-The
Creation" The solists were Nine Lillian
Nordica, Whitney Mockrdge and p.
Greene, with Mr.. w. L. Tomlins directing.
The entertainment was in all respects the
finest of its kind thus far given.
Fred Douglass posing as Uncle Tom was
one of the features of a remarkable scene
at the Woman's building at the fair to-
day, when Isabella Beecher Hooker un-
veiled bust of her famous sister, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, in the library room. Mrs.
Hooker has been waiting for some time
for the completion of the room and the
arrangements of tho unveiling. Mr. Doug
lass heard of the proposed ceremony and
asked to be permitted to stand as Uncle
Tom. Mrs Hooper gladly consented, and
the distinguished representative of the
race for which Mrs Stowe wrote was an
hand to fulfill his part OF the arrangement.
The men in the fair grounds who wheel
visitors about in rolling chairs for cash
consideration are very partial to lady pa.
irons, but when one is patronized by 200
pounds of feminine loveliness, as shown in
the cut, he regrets the order forbidding
eXtortion.
The paid admissions to the fair yester-
day were 49, ia