The Green Forest tribune., 1893-07-13
CAN Be Seen At The FAIR.
DESCRIPTIONS OF INTERESTING EXHIBITS
FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
The Judges of Awards Utah's Beautiful Silk Ex
hbt-Extensive Display of Cork.

WoRLD's FAIR GROUNDS CHICAGO, July
S.-The little chocolate colored Turkish
pavilion just dedicated is brightly dec
Grated and covered with scroll work.
On formal occasions its doors are guard
ed by armed Bedouins, and Turks In
their native costumes serve as guests.
The commissio ners wear the garb of
civilization but have not parted with
the little red fez. The building is a
copy of fountain i'll Constantinople.
and the woodwork was all carved in
Damascus, carved doors being inserted
in the walls in place of the fountains
that are in the original Four large
cases in the building are filled with the
embroiders, silks, and wells which make
up Turkish woman's wardrobe Ev-
cry picturesque adjunct to Turkish life
is here displayed, rugs, nargilehs, high
heeed sandals iniayed with mother of
pearl, daggers and knives, musical in
struments and sweetmeats. and, in
the more strictly commercial articles are
soap, salt, minerals, coffee, and opium.
Two large canvases stretched over all
shows the east and west sides of Con-
stantinope.
Ex-Secretary jeremiah Rusk has sent
to Washington for Prof. Wiley and
Prof. Dodge to come to the Exposition
to assist in Judging the exhibit of ce-
reals.
The judges of awards are to number
$50, $50 being foreigners. The lady
managers wish 115 women included in
the list of American judges. Congress
allowed 100000 to be used in paying
the expenses of judges selected by the
lady managers.
The party of French farmers spend
ing eight days at the Worlds Fair were
sent over by the French government.
They own farms of about fifty acres
and are required to send in reports on
their return home to the agricultural
department of what they have observed
in reference to American methods of
farming.
In the Swedish village is exhibited
the largest band-saw in the world 1t
is made of one piece of steel, twelve in
ches wide and 22O feet long; 1t wei ighs
677 pounds There is also cold rolled
steel band $50 feet long and hot rolled
steel band which weigh III pounds.
The Mexican exhibit in Machinery
Hall consists chiefly Of machines for
separating the fiber of the MEXICAN
plants maguey and henniauen, and ma
chimes for grinding mescal. The pro-
cess of preparing cocoa is also shown.
The exhibitors of agricultural ma
chinery will give a banquet July II to
the exposition officials.
In the Forestry building are two
bamboo poles from Japan, six inches
thick at the large end and seventy feet
long. These are the longest bamboo
poles IN the world The widest plank
is shown here. It is California red
wood Is feet wide. A teak wood table
without a flaw in its top is 5 ID feet
wide, 10 feet long, and 3 inches thick.
In the Agricultural building the AL
.gerian section is inclosed in a room
Whith is taken from the governors
palace in Algiers. Cork is the principal
exhibit, and it is shown in bales of the
bark, manufactured corks, sheet cork
in different thicknesses, and the trunk
of a cork tree.
The Turkish fire company seems to
excite considerable interest in Chicago.
In fire which lasted an hour Tuesday
this enthusiastic company filled its
engine up and pumped it empty seven
times. 1t t1ok about two minutes to
empty it and five to fill it again, the
water having to be carried i'll buckets.
Near the German village on Midway
Plaisance stands an old Dutch wind
mill The businesslike American in
ventiops in windmills have not yet
reached th.. conservative countries of
Europe, where windmils are still made
as they were hundreds of years ago.
This brilliantly colored and picturesque
erection is somewhat of puzzle at first
sight, but after an inspection one sees
that the bright red and blue arms are
the four vanes set on the shaft, whirh
turns in a socket on the side of the
dome. This dome, or cap, is rotary,
SO that it catches every breeze that