The Green Forest tribune., 1893-06-29
THE FOURTH AT the FAIR.
THERE WILL BE A GRAND DISPLAY OF FIRE.
WoRkS-ARkhNSAS EDITORS THERE.
Description Of Scenes for tho Benefit of Inquirers
About the Great Exposition.

WORLDS FAIR GROUND CHICAGO, June
24.-The fireworks celebration for the
Fourth of July are to be on so magnifi-
cent scale that the American head of
the fireworks company telegraphed to
the London firm to send all the expert
directors of England and the con tinent
to Chicago, SO that there will be sixty
scientific managers beside the work
men engaged in the display. Niagara
Falls, 1000 feet long, one of the pieces,
cost $1,000. Liberty Bell, George
Washington, five fountains of fire, two
fire flags, 800 dynamite shells will be
shown, while battery of $500 steel
mortars will shoot sixty inch shells fill
ed with red, white, and blue fire, 100
being fired at a time, the object being
to make New York hear what good
time Chicago is having.
Arkansas editors, about sixty in num-
Der, arrived last night in special Pull
man cars over the Wabash road
and are now busily engaged tax
ing in the sights Of the White City,
Arkansas is fairly represented here, VS.
itors coming in most every day. That
State has cause for being proud of its
brilliant showing, which can but result
in much good. Her State building is
among the very finest of the kind in
Jackson Park.
In the Agricultural hall the process
of steralizin9 milk is shown. The milk
is placed in bottles with rubber STOP
pers held in racks; an opening in the
stopper admits the drawing out of the
air and the introduction of steam. By
means of the steam the milk is boiled,
then allowed to cool, and then boiled
again. The cost of the process is about
half cent a bottle and soups and milk
SO prepared are supposed to keep fresh
for years.
The thought reader in the Midway
Plaisance, does not speak English; he
has just arrived from Europe, where
scientists have been testing his powers.
The region of the Upper Nile is his
home and he is 25 years old, six feet
tall and slender. The tests are written
in English, the only condition exacted
by Osman Newson Effendi, being that
the thoughts Of the person doing the
writing must be continuously fixed on
the subject. Mr.. Charles Henrotin
wrote aquotation on slip of paper and
wrote under it, "Find the book and
point out the PASSAGE" which the
young Egyptian succeeded in doing.
Another statue Of Columbus will be
placed in the exposition grounds. 1t is
the work of Miss Lawrence and Angus
tus St. Gaudens, under whose directions
she executed it, is in Chicago superin-
tending it's erection. 1t is to stand at
the east door of the Administration
building.
The American Bible Society's exhibit
at the Worlds Fair is not closed on
Sunday, the white haired old gentle
man in charge maintaining thatit can t
hurt anybody to look at Bibles seven
days in the week. The Methodist Book
Concern pavilion is being put in order
in spite of the threatened withdrawal.
The Manufacturers building was for
mally opened Saturday and everything
was practically complete. The officers
of the exposition will make grand
tour of the building, dozen bands of
music were placed at different points,
the chimes were rung and the decora-
tons were elaborate.
When Sir Henry Wood issued orders
that no one would be admitted to the
English government building without
invitations, two of the commissioners
promptly sailed for England to make
protest. A card now appears on the
door stating that Victoria building
will be open from to So
In the leather building is complete
ly equipped shoe factory, having ca
pacity of l, 900 shoes per day. One ex-
hibitor Of leather has his collection so
colored and arranged that it looks like
a rainbow. Chicago shows hide split
into four thicknesses, each of which is
dyed different color Among the curl
osities is a beltin twelve feet wide and
200 feet long, and is worth $1,000; a
pair of horns nearly straight and eight
feet from tip to tip; an elephant hide