The state chronicle., 1893-04-14
SHAPIG THE WORLDS FAIR.

Ihe Cosmopolitan Crowd Increasing
Progress on the Woman's Building.
CHICAGO, April 13.-One of the
immense locomotives that will stand
on a pedestal outside the terminal
depot at the Worlds Fair, to Illus
trate the latest advances in engine
building, arrived at Jackson Park
this morning. 1t is a Brooks en-
gine, built for the Great Northern
Railway, and weighs 1877 900 pounds.
1t has twelve wheels, four of which
are driving g-wheels and coupled.
A still larger locomotive, weigh
ing 100000 pounds. or 100 tons,
will be its companion, which is ex-
pected to arrive soon from the
Baldwin Locomotive Works. It is
q freight engine, built for the Erie
road.
| The Crown laces lent to the Fair
by Queen Margherita of Italy have
arrived and will be placed on ex-
hibition in the Woman's Building
| They will be guarded night and
day during the Exposition by Ital-
ian sailors.
The cosmopolitan crowd on the
Midway Plaisance has been swelled
by the arrival of party of Persians.
They will have a village there and
will show how they live in their
own country.
,, The work at the Woman's Build
ing is progressing very rapidly
Mrs. Charles Wadsworth, Miss
3 Anna Roosevelt and Miss Carrie
3 ! Dennis will have charge of the in
stallation Of the New York loan col
> lection which is to be placed in th'
4 Woman's Building. The collection
J will be here on April Is. Mis-
Sackett is busy directing the install
q lation Of the Pratt Institute ez
hibit
: The New York wcmen's exhibi
. of the Training School for Nurse
Is include eight important hospital
. This will also be placed in th
i Woman's Building, and Architet
's McKim has made drawing for th
- general trained nurse exhibit. Til
~ paintings by New York women fc
o exhibition in the Woman's Buildin
y ale now on the way to Chicago.
t Mrs. Watkins, Lady Manager f(
10 the District Of Columbia, is supe
~ intending the erection of strikin
III pavilion in the Woman's Buildln
u It will be an artistic structu,
III draped with the flags of Ameri'
'ii and Spain, and in it will be di
played the Isabella and Columbl
q Immortal" This is magnifce
al folio of illustrations descriptive
'r- the discovery of America.
at No country has sent a finer ct
lections Of books, both as regar
be quantity and quality, to the W
'te mans building than has Italy. Tt
RS. collection has been the result in
re- large measure of the personal
zee forts of Mrs. Alice Howard Cad
nj an American journalist, long re
to dent in Italy. Mrs. Cady may
he most be said to have inaugural
he Worlds Fair work in Italy. S
Der sent circular throughout TIA
snt urging the participation of
he Italian women in the Expositit
to conducting her enterprises at /
te- own personal expense.
I'll Mrs. Cady will appear as the re
the resentative of Italian literature
LILY the Congress.
iall Seventeen Indians from Fort T
"a port, Vancouver Island, arrived t
hat morning at the World f
IN grounds, and they will be quarter
the in the chronological exhibit, VIII
IN they will erect a wooden hou
hat totem-pole and all. There are
YES men, five women and two pappoo
hat in the party, and they repres
the four tribes of the Quacquhi natiC
on The men will row one of their
Gre ti7e canoes on the southern lagc
and the women will manufact
eive baskets and trinkets during
heir Worlds Fair season.
rary