Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-30
WORLDS FAIR LETTER.
Light for the Fair-British Guia-
mas Picturesque Exhibit.
The Government Fish Commission Ex.
hibit.
From Our Special Correspondent.

CHICAGO, March 90, 1893.
1t will require fourteen special car
to transport the huge piece of machin
cry which the General Electric Com
pany will ship to the fair this week
This exhibit, which will also furnish
power, has a capacity of 5000 amperel
and 100 volts. The enormous genera
tor will supply light for the entire Park
The engine and dynamo which have
two armatures and their fields are load
ed on six cars Their net weight is
10000 pounds. When the engines are
placed in position in Machinery Hall
they with their armatures will be TWEEN
ty five feet high. One hundred and
ten revolutions per minute will be made
causing resistance of 750 horse power
from the twelve magnet arranged in
the field. To persons interested in cleo.
trio lighting this will be a fine sight,
showing the wonderful progress of
electricity.
Nicholas Owrey, the commissioner
of the province of Ontario, Canada, il
In the city, and will take immediate
steps to have the installation of the ex-
hiSits from that place commenced.
Under his direction the Ontario exhibit
is sure to be complete and a decided
success. The Canadian building has
sections for each of the provinces, call
ed courts.
The Ontario court will contain COM
plete exhibits Of stock, grains, mine
rails, fruits, timber, honey, wool and
educational displays. During the sea-
son fruits and berries will be brought
here by express every second day from
Ontario that there may be a continu-
GUS fresh display of these articles as
they ripen. Over 5000 samples of
grains are already here. The mineral
exhibit will consist of 1900 samples of
ore from all parts of the province.
British Guiana will not make large
exhibit but very unique one. 1t will
be in the form of garden and will be
called the promenade" This garden
will be laid out in beds, bordered by
rough stones and paths strewn with
broken shells, all radiating from CEN
tral octagonal pavilion. Shrubs and
flowers will be SO closely set in the
beds and plats that they will represent
the luxuriance of tropical growth.
Palms and orchids will be plentiful. A
circular path covered with fine pebbles
will enclose the garden, while around
the outside of the path, which will be
seven feet wide, will run narrow la
goon filled with water lilies of the Vic
toria Regia variety. These famous ILL
les are truly wonderful. Without the
slightest exaggeration the dark green
leaves measure five feet across, with
curling rims four inches high, and the
flowers are not less than foot in dia-
meter and weigh from two to three
shaped like rose, the outer
petals creamy white, pale pink within,
shading to violet in the center. This
exhibit no doubt will attract many Wis.
itOrs.
Activity has begun in Nevada toward
an exhibition at the Worlds
Fair Ten thousand dollars has been
appropriated to defray the expenses of
shipment and care of the displays.
Many wealthy Nevadans will contrib
ute more to the amount already appro-
priated. For so thinly populated
State Nevada will make a very good
showing. Agricultural and mining
products will be the CHIEF displays in
their exhibit.
Taken as whole the Government
Fish Commission will be the most COM
plete of its kind ever made. There is
no building at the Park that presents
such complete story of what will be
its contents as the fish and fisheries
building. Every column, every cor
nice and every capital is covered with
ornaments that are life like reproduc-
tions of fish, reptiles and other crea-
lures that live in the waters of the sea.
In the main building will be exhibit
ed fish products and the commercial
elements of the fish industry. In the
East wing will be displayed the live
fish. The western pavilion will be de-
voted to collections of angling appara-
tus of all kinds. This portion of the
building will be fishermans para
disc. There are ten aquariums for the
live fish. They have each a capacity
of 1900 gallons, and when combined
form the largest aquarium in the Unit
ed States.
NOTES,
April 10 florist of New Jersey will
start for Chicago with ten car loads of
plants and flowers for that State s hor-
tlcultural exhibit.
Mrs. U. S. Grant has engaged two
suites of rooms for herself and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sartoris and Col. Fred Grant
at Hyde Park hotel for month during
the Fair.
There will be on exhibition in the de-
partment of fish and fisheries a turtle
weighing six hundred pounds from
Texas.
Forty cars Of home exhibits arrived
at the grounds yesterday, and as many
more are expected today.