New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-08
NOTES OF THE UORLD'S FAIR.
AU:TRALIA's FXHIBIT-RUSsIAN WOMEN IN
TERESTEI-TIIE CRUISER NEWARK
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Chicago. jan. Spccial).-Today eight carioaos OF
| goods TINT were shipped from Australia Two monuis
ago we're unloaded within the Agricultural buio''B
and deposited upon the space assigned to tat country
This will be the first exhibit to enter the building ahd
as the work OF installation IS TO proceed at once
Australia will have the honor Of being the first IN
position The space assignee TO the exhibitors from The
Antipodes within the Agricultural Building is on INC
FIRST floor and Just east OF the central dome IL Is
s5x1OO fee. in dimension and well lighted. Inc eA
hibt is TO consist OF wool and cereals OF oil nhos anu
some canned goods. 1t IS however. with It's wool
that Australia expects 10 make the best showing
Chief Buchanan yesterday made the last assign
ment OF space within his building TO exhibitors whose
app!ica atoms have been regularly fled Few up
plcatlons are being received every day. md the
most important OF these will receive attention. In
all there will be more than 5000 exhibitors In the
Department OF Agriculture Within the Agricultural
Building however, there will be not more than 100
domestic exhibits OF manufactured food products or
these 10 have already been assigned space Tile
crop exhibits and the domestic wool md honey ex-
hibits will DO made within the State buildings
Her Imperial IIighness the Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Toodorauna Of Russia. has become Interested In the
Worlds Fair 0nd Will send 10 Chicago next yenr
through the Russian womnn's Committee n mag
niGcent exhibit from the city and government: OF
Moscow The womans committee In the Empire has
been active, and has succeeded In interesting many
Of the women Of the nobility IN the enterprise. several
OF them having promised their cooperation. The
committee has made application for 5000 square feet
OF space in the WOuan's Building
A section OF the Department OF Fine Arts at the
Exposition Will contain Retrospective exhi,it OF the
paintings OF deceased American artists. This exhibit
is designed to show the progress ana development OF
the art OF this country from Colonial times down TO
1876 Selections will be made with reference to the
artistic merit Of the pictures rather than to the sub
hut tx
elements combine viii receive preference. As the
space allotted In this section IS limited, II may not
be possible to exhibit more than single example OF
the work OF each artist excepting IN fcw special
instances when the artist has two Or more we'll
defined periods and preference Will DO given TO can
vas OF medium size large one. Miniatures Will
be exhibited in securely locked cases The Fine Arts
Eullding. In which the exhibition will be held, Is p.ac
tcay iire-proof In addition 20 this, pictures That
are accepted will be insured from the time they leave
the custody OF the until they ARE returned
Owners OF pictures who VII loan them for the Retro
pectve Exhibition Will De at expense, as all charges
for handling boxing, transportation and insurance
will be paid by the Exposition authorities Persons
Wetrnsneriiye Exhbiiion may obialn enrun>S- blanks
a"a Eli information by applying 10 Oharlcr Henry
Hart chairman OF The Committee on Retrospective ART
No $50 Drexel Building, philadelphia.
Peter Antonius q Co., Of Bcyrou syria, have begun
work on the Turkish theatre In the Turkish village. al
the Worlds Fair grounds. TIE building viii be com
Washington, jan. THE United States cruiser
Newark In command OF Admiral Benham, arrived at
Cadiz span today, according to q cable dispatch
ceived by Navy Department, and her officers Will
begin work Immediately In experimenting the fitting
out OF the Columbus carsvcls Nina and Plna for hor
voyage across the Atlantic to take part In the naval
review at Hampton Roads in May ana TO be- exhibited
later OF the Worlds Fair. After the work OF fitting
out completed the Newark will proceed 10 Naples
and secure the Vatican manuscripts and Columbus
relics thence TO Marsellcs get the French Columbus
relics. and back to Cadiz. The Newark with the Nina
the caravel Santa Maria. constructed by the spanish
Government will sail nom Cadlz about the middle Of
February, and II Is expected that they Will arrive at
Hampton Roads In time for the Zig review.
Manning L. Rose, Assistant Commissioner OF the
General Land Office, Is busily engaged preparing the
exhibit Of that Office at the Worlds Fair. The cx
hibt will embrace maps and Htajrs showing the pub
lie lands their location. character, products etc. the
timber mineral and agricultural resources Of the |
various sections Of the country II IL proposed TO place
before the pubiic Information as 10 the development OF
the country from its infancy 10 the present lime; to
show the cOuntry's growth by c,sAon aud purchase
the development OF the acquired territory the ad
vapcement In the rectangular system Of surveys |
adcpted by the Government exhibiting the extent Of
the surveyed and unslrveyed portion Of the public land
in States md territories. The location Of the agn |
nctuai settlers viii also be shown, together with tho |
iocati.n OF discovered and actually developed mineral
lands, the lands segregated 10 railroads ana the de-
velopment settlement OF adjacent territory.