Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-04-06
WORLDS FAIR LETTER;
Ladies to Exhibit a CsllSSkSiH Of
Colonial Relics. "
Unique Bible Exhibit..Painting the Big
Buildings.
From Our Special Correspondent.
CHICAGO, March 80, 1893.


Mr.. Partridge's work, and he has spar.
ed no effort that would help to make it
perfect. Artists who know say that it
is great Certainly it is MI tural in pose
and likeness according to the accepted
likeness of Shakespeare, and one does
not have to be an artist to appreciate
it and like it. The statue represents
Shakespeare sitting in his arm chair of
the Elizabethan period, evidently con-
templating a sunset and meditating
on the text, "What piece of work is
man." The head is erect, the body
thrown easily back, and one foot slight
ly extended. The pose is easy and
graceful and thoroughly dignified.
The bronze is now being cast in Paris.
1t will be finished and in position by
May 1.
The fruit will be in the west curtains
and the pavilions of horticultural hall.
To maintain constantly fresh and at
tractve supply of fruit will be the task
of the department of pomology. All
the States will be represented by fruit
display of some kind, and individual
exhibitors will be numerous. The fruit
will not be shown in great masses but
almost infinite varieties. New York,
Maine, Minnesota and Oregon will have
especially fine displays.
Small fruits, including strawberries,
raspberries, blackberries and currants
will be exhibited during the entire sea-
son. The first dis lays will come from
the Southern States, then from the
Middle and Northern States, and from
Canada. New York will show 800 va
rieties of strawberries.
The exhibits of nuts, domestic and
foreign will include fine displays of
almonds, walnuts and pecans, from the
Eastern and Southern States, and also
from California.
Fruit machinery will be seen in ope
ration on the ground. Cider mills will
turn out the real article, there will be
a machine for wrapping oranges, and
all kinds of machines for spraying
fruit.
The display of culinary vegetables,
seeds and horticultural appliances will
be very large. On the nursery ground
in the Midway Plaisance, five acres
in extent, there will be California
orange grove and Michigan peach or
chard, both in full bearing. All sort
of shrubs, trees and ornamental plants
will be shown in actual growth, and
the various grating processes. One
German exhibitor will show 15O styles
of grating, only FIVE or six OF which
are common in this country. There
will also be shown in this department
an interesting exhibit of raisin culture
and the methods of planting, stalking
anu udinluS Vie Nlues'
A delegation of Worl is Fair ladies
called upon President Cleveland ere he
was fairly settled in the Presidential
chair at the White House, and they
were not after Office either. They want
ed large section of the Government
building at Jackson Park in which t.
show collection of old colonial relics
The President listened quietly while
they explained their method of exhi
) biting these relics, then finally wrote {
few lines endorsing the project, and th'
visitors departed, thanking him pro
- fusely for his kindness.
Under six of the eight great arche
of the dome of the Government build
ing the women will group their relic
Z of colonial days. The exhibit will b
strictly historical. The six arches viii
be equally proportioned among tn
thirteen original States participating
in the colonial exhibit. Their respec
tive flags and coats of arms indicat
the location of each.
Indiana will have an extensive dis
play of agricultural products in tn
Agricultural building, besides a grea
many exhibits by the manufacturer
! of farming implements. The Stat
( booth in that department covers 20
Z square feet of space, and will be file
. with grains and grasses of all kinds
u There are twenty six individual firms
: the leading manufacturers of plow'
= drills, reapers, threshing machines an
Il all the other implements used on
r farm, that have spaces assigned then
!. and in which they will make extensiy
displays.
The exhibit to be made at the Exp,
sition by the American Bible Societ
is on its way from New York to tn
city. Many rare and valuable VOLUME
n from the library in the Bible hou
n will be placed on the shelves for Il
or inspection of the public. Among the
n. IN. will be a copy of the original Xii
es es James edition of the Bible, which W
u published in 1911. There will also
L. fac simile of the first page of the fiji
Bible ever printed, the famous MAJ
rim Bible of 1850. The English Hex
pla, showing the six early versions
J. the Bible at single opening, will
exhinited.
Work began yesterday on the fl
painting of the exterior of the b
buildings. The first structure to I