Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-05-25
WORLDS FAIR LETTER.
Queer Doings in this Land of Mod
eren Things.
The Old WOrld-Its People and Their
Interesting Habits.
From Our Special Correspondent.
From Our Special Correspondent.
CHICAGO, May II, 1893.


The Electricity building is beginning
to wear look of respectability now.
When the lamps were all put out last
Saturday night large force of work.
men were put to work in the building,
and now exhibition batteries is going
forward very rapidly. The dirt cover
ed floors have been cleaned and in
every section exhibitors are buisily ar
ranging their exhibits, tacking up flags
and bunting, polishing reflectors and
furnishing brass ratings. In short
time now the fair buildings will all be
in state of perfection.
The Tyrolean booth in the Transpor.
tation building was dedicated ateleven
O'Clock Yesterday morning. This
quaint booth is very attractive, being
an exact reproduction of a TYrolean
home in the alps. In the center of the
room is miniature mountain path,
formed of great stones and limbs OF
trees. This runs back to fine paint
ing of the Alps. The painting is forty
feet long by eighteen feet high, and on
which is portrayed Tyrolean village
on the mountain side. The exercises
began by reading poems, and singing
their native hymns. H. V. Wieland,
who has charge of the booth, addressed
the visitors who crowded around, and
then luncheon was served. The visi-
tors were allowed the freedom of the
booth.
Boushreens, the natives of Khartoum
arrived in the Midway Plaisance Sun
day. There home is next the temple
in Cairo street in the Plaisance. The
house is called toukle, and is perfect
ly oval in shape, with walls of bord
and pitch covered roof. The Boush-
reens are the most savage people in the
street. In the party were six men and
three women. They are all very black
and are attired in quite shabby robes
with turbans and sandals. The women
wear their hair in long braids, while
the men adorn themselves with cork
screw curls.
Every man has from one to five deep
scars on his cheek, the marks of his
tribe. When the chief was asked what
he thought of the exposition, he simp-
ly rolled his eyes heavenward and
gave satisfied grunt Each Boush-
reen wears long dagger up his sleeve
and has cold manner. The British
building, Victoria, is completed. 1t
stands down ON the lakeshore near the
naval pier, and is one of the most per
feet of its kind on the grounds. 1t is
Elisabethan in styland is a typical
example of and old timbered manor
house of the Tudor period. The en-
trance doors are heavy oak, with brass
hinges and wooden locks. They open
into a wide hall which has fireplace
at each end and a double staircase at
the back. The fireplaces are very wide
and comfortable looking. The and.
iron dogs are monstrous and the CRATES
have at each end the lion and unicorn
rampant. In the center of the hall is a
monumental Golfer reproduced from an
old Florentine example in the royal
palace at Naples, with sumptnous carv.
ing, enriched with a painted frontal
panel on gilt ground. On the left Of
the hall is a library, entirely in oak
and the shelves are filled with vol
umes by British authors. The wal
ing room is at the right of the entrance
and has that air of refinement peculiar
to English homes. The windows ART
wide and deep, with old seats arranged
in them. The finishing of this room il
like the others, of an old period. Ii
all the rooms the floors are of hare
wood, covered with large wilton rugs
woven in oriental design. The nam,
Victoria" was given it by the queen
who has taken great interest in the ex
position, and to whom pictures of tn
different buildings on the ground
will be sent.
The Egyptian Temple was dedicate,
yesterday morning, and such quee
dedication as it was. 1t was more lik
an old fashioned Quaker meeting thai
any thing else that we could think of
At the end of the darkened and decor
ated room, on a raised platform sa
eight Egyptians in fancy colored cos
tunes. At either side sat two girls
with harps which they twanged ono,
in while. Others reclined ON silkel
couches and looked at each other, bu
no one spoke word. The girls will
the harps were priestesses, and the res
were all high priests, SO the manage
told us.
On the ground near the platform
stood two solemn-looking Egyptian
with trailing leopard skins throun owe
their shoulders. They just looked a
each other all day long. Not wor'
passed between them. Each held
long pole, on the top of which was
carving of the Isis and Osiris, the de
tiles of the people of the land of Nile
Dressing For the Worlds Fair Trip.