Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-03-10
woRLD,s FAIR NOTES.

WORLDS FAIR NOTES.
The Rust OF mrs. stowe, the Famous
Connections NovelIst-Twenty-fi
Hundred Models From the Patent
Omce-Care of lnvalids-Newspape
Printing on Exhibition-To Provide
Thirty.five Million Admission Tick
cts.
The last will and testament of Queen Is
abella, in which she makes q number of
references to the new world, will be very
interesting object in the Spanish exhibit
at the worlds fair.
Exhibits for the woman's building are
required to be in the building by March Is,
at which time an expert committee of the
board of lady managers will pass upon
them to determine their fitness for exhibi-
ton.
Two white kangaroos will appear In the
New South Wales exhibit. These are ex-
essdingly rare animals. Only one other
living specimen is known to exist, and that
Is an attraction In the Royal Aquarium in
London.
The various transportation lines between
the central portion of Chicago and the fair
grounds will be able to carry upwards of
100, 900 people an hour.
In Its exhibit at the worlds fair the
government patent Office will show up
ward of 2, 500 models, many of them being
working machines.
Iceland ssgas, bearing on the early dis
coveries of the Norsemen and the stories of
their trips to Vinland and possibly North
America, will be lent by the Danish gov
eminent to the United States for exhibi-
bition at the worlds fair. These ssgas are
entitled Codex Fluteyensis. It has re-
quirsd great deal of red tape to secure
these valuable manuscripts. Before per-
hitting them to leave Copenhagen the
Danish government has stipulated that in
case of the total loss $50, 900 must be paid
for them and all expenses incident to their
exhibition. They are to be returned by q
United States man-of-war.
Visitors to the worlds fair who are in
firm, crippled or simply weary, can do
their sight seeing in the various buildings
by making use Of rolling chairs. A COM
pany was granted the right, some time ago,
will have 1 500 young men, chiefly college
students, in its employ to push them. The
charges to visitors for making use of these
chairs will be as follows: For cheir carry
ing one person, rs cents per hour, 40 cents
per half hour; two persons, 81 per hour,
80 cents per half hour; one person, when
chair is taken for a period of not less than
ten hours, Sc for the first ten hours and
40 cents an hour for the time over ten
hours; carrying two persons, So for the
first ten hours aud rs cents an hour after
that.
Visitors at thu worlds fair will have an
opportunity to witness the publication of
a daily newspaper from the beginning to
the end of the work and in all its branches.
The Columbian Exposition Bulletin, of
which Major Handy will BIS the editor, and
W. G. GATES, who has been connected with
the Minneapolis Tribune and the Review
of Reviews, will be business manager, will
be published in the machinery building.
Besides this, the leading afternoon papers
of the city will! get out special worlds fair
editions from the same building. Five of
the leading English morning papers of the
city will each contribute page to the Bull
letin, and the other three pages will bs
worlds fair matter. 1t is probable, too,
that similar arrangements may be made
with the city papers printed in foreign
languages. The pages that are contributed
by the morning papers will 60 to the
grounds in the shape of stereotyped plates
ready to go on the presses. The matter
for the other three pages will be collected
on the grounds, and will be put in type by
type machines, which will also serve as ex-
hibits. The stereotyping process of max
ing roller plates will be shown in another
room, and then the papers will be rolled
off the presses placed in the machinery
building.
Contracts have been let for furnishing
30, 600, 900 admission tickets to the worlds
fair. Of these 100000 will be litho-
graphed, and of such elaborate workman
ship that counterfeiting them will be next
to impossible. These are designed to meet
the orders for tickets which have bsen
flowing in fer months, and they will be
good whenever presented at the gates. The
remaining 10000, 900 will be simply print
ed after the style of an ordinary rail
road ticket. These tickets will not all be
alike, and different style will be used
each day. They will be good only on the
day on which they are sold, and will not be
offered to the public in advance of that
day. Thus danger of counterfeiting them
will be avoided. Thousands of compli-
mentary tickets and passes will have to be
Issued, of course, but 1t Is the intention of
the directory to keep the list down as low
as possible, and to issue them only to
'thoss whose official position demands
recognition by tbs exposition" The list,
as t us far prepared, includes the high Of
ficials of the government, the diplomatic
corps, governors, exposition commission
ers, directors, lsdy managers, exhibitors,
employees. etc., etc. Nearly all Of the
passes will have affixed the photograph of
the holder to prevent their being trans
ferred.
The women of Connecticut, it will be
remembered, raised $1,000 to procure a
bust of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, to be
placed in the library of the womsn's build
ing at the worlds fair, together with
copy OF her works, AS Connecticut's tribute
toward the decoration of the building.
Miss Anne Whitney of Boston was chosen
to execute the bust, which has just arrived
from Italy and is for few days at Miss
Whitney's studio in Boston. Last Friday
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker Mrs. Smith
and few friends were invited to lunch
with Miss Whitney and to see the re-
suit of her labors. The bust was pro-
nounced beautiful portrait of this most
gifted woman. The strong face, grown
fine with age, with the beautiful wavy
hair gracefully disposed OF, makes a sub
ject an artist might well desire, and Miss
Whitney has succeeded to a wonderful
degree In securing an artistic effect. The
face in tho marble retains the marked
of the famous anthOr, and
the artist has caught the expression of del
icste hunor playing about the mouth-an
so we'll known to Mrs. Stoves
friends, and one of the attractions of her
very interesting face.
bust IL to be placed in the public library
in Hartford: The fund by which the bust
was procured was raised by small contrib
utions of 10, 10 and 25 cents by children
and others from all parts of the state,
through the systematic arrangement of
Mrs. Virginia T. Smith of Hartford.
The Free Public Library.
Books added to the public library are as
follows:
Arnold, Sir E., Adzuma; OF, the Japanese
Wife, play in four acts, s2lS9C17.
Baildon, 81. B., ed. The Round Table series,