The Green Forest tribune., 1893-05-11
NUMBER II

elusive of the booths.
The acreage under the roof Is estma-
ted to be over 200, $50 acres being cov-
cred by exposition buildings and fifty
by concession buildings. The Fair
is in as good condition as could rea- .
sonabiy be expected, and there is but
little fault foud among the visitors. In
fact, there is SO little room in which
one can see the ground that people nei-
ther know nor care whether they stand
on wet or day ground. If you want q
correct idea of how the peop e
looked at Jackson Park last Monday,
just look at a large box of sardines, and
you will form some idea how thick they
stood.
Never before, and probably never
again will there be so many people
crowded together in so small space.
Idaho calls her building the "Gem of
the Mountains.
Germany shows a full set of machin-
cry for making matches and match box
eS.
India sends complete room in carved
teak wood and display of mechanical
dolls illustrating the domestic life of the
Hindoos.
A $4,000 pound block of salt, followed
out and lit up inside by incandescent
lights, is one of the curiosities of the
Manufactures building.
The appropriations OF States and Ter
ritories for the Exposition have amount
ed to over three million dollars and
the appropriations of foreign govern
ments are nearly four millions. Fifty
six nations or colonies are represented.
The Moorish Palace in Midway Plai-
sance is built after an old Moorish tenn
pie and contains collection Of a mil
lion dollars in gold coins. The Turk
ish village shows street in old Siam
boul, and Turkish fire company is
ready to protect it.
In the Japanese exhibit of lacquer
work is set Of chairs and small table.
The black ground is relieved with gilt
stripes and cherry blossoms. The legs
of the chairs are covered with silver,
the upholstering is heavy silk; the set
is valued at 81 900.
Cevlon has used as the model for.her
building an old temple which is repro
duced in ebony, sandal wood and jak
wood. Within it are teas, worries, jew
elry, and ornamental woods. The tea
planters Of India have expended half
million dollars on their tea exchange.
The japanese palace which, with it's
contents, was given to Chicago FOR a
museum. consists of three low buildings
representing three periods Of Japanese
architecture, 500 years ago, at the dis
covery Of America, and in the eighteen
tn century. The building was finished
and dedicated last March and cost $780,
000
Russia's building was all made in
Russia and was only put together here.
1t is very large and will contain the
most precious of the exhibits sent over
in the three shiploads of goods which
represent her resources at Chicago. The
Swedish building too was only put to-
gether after it reached the Worlds
Fair.
In Machinery Hall the fremen who
tend the thirty big boilers are clad in
spotless raiment, because they have no
coal to handle. The fuel is petroleum,
which is pumped through pipes from a
town in Indiana and is blown into the
furn aces in an atomized form. Two com
plete flour mills are at work in the
building.
/ The table service given to Prince Bis
marck by the old Emperor William l
for his 10Th birthday, with twenty 9TH
er tributes offered to the chancellor by
different German cities, make up col
| lection which is valued at $50 900 Won
Moltke's baton which he carried as field
marshal through the Franco Prussian
war is also exhibited
In the Forestry Building is huge
pyramid composed Of woods from differ
ent States. Kansas sends a trunk of
walnut, Kentucky an oak, and North
Carolina popular. Wisconsin'e ed-
flee in this building is made of twenty
hexagonal columns, six kinds of wood
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