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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE.

such an immense outlay on road that
will be used but six months. When it
is considered that this company surren-
ders to the exposition managers one
fourth of its entire receipts, the figures
become still more alarming; but those
who have built the road are confident
that it will prove to be paying invest
ment. The road is now done and cars
are ready to be raised to the track. 1t
is not likely, however, that trains will
be run much earlier than the opening
of the exposition. Six miles of single
track have been laid on structure SUBJ
stantial enough for permanent uses.
The road begins away down in the
southeast corner of the park over near
the buildings where Krupp's immense
display of guns will be located. 1t
sweeps down past the leather and for
estry buildings and then turns toward
the main section of the exposition, run
ming around the end of Machinery hall,
across the roof of Transportation build
ing and then along the west line of the
park, past Horticultural hall and up
through the section devoted to state
buildings. Then it swings down along
the shore line again among a group of
foreign buildings and terminates near
Uncle Sans big house. The track is in
the form of continuous loop and the
cars keep running around all day with
out a moments delay for switching or
making up new trains. The run will
be made from one end of the grounds
to the other in perhaps twenty minutes.
If a visitor prefers to make the
circuit of the grounds by water he can
do so by getting into one of the cleo
trio launches that pillow through the
lagoons interlacing the park from one
end to the other. There is water
course within the grounds of almost
three miles, and New York company
has contracted to put fifty launches,
operated by electric storage batteries,
on these waters. The launches are
now ready and all of them will be on
the lagoons several weeks before the
opening of the fair. The picturesque
features of the lagoons will be height
ened by a number of gondolas manned
by Venetian gondoliers in gay costume.
These gondolas carry but few persons
each, in fact no more than half dozen,
while the electric launches will COM
fortably seat forty passengers.
Up on the boulevards number of
interesting vehicles will be at the dis
posal of visitors. One company has
contracted to furnish 1900 roller
chairs which are propelled by small
storage batteries fixed under the seat.
These chairs are to be leased at a fixed
rate per hour and it is expected that
they will be in great demand not only
among the aged people and invalids,
but also among younger folks who
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04

nestle exhibits, which are made on a
lavish scale by some of the great Amer
lean wine growers. Senator Leland
Stanford's monster vineyard of 1000
acres IN Lower California has splendid
representation in the pavilion that is
typical of the state iE both size and
tropical appearance A fountain spout
ing wine is one of the attractions of
this pavilion. The fountain is inclosed
in a glass case to preserve the wine
from atmospheric contamination. Ma
tional vineyard scenery and the processes
of wine manufacture are also shown.
Other great wine-growers of California
make collective exhibit, showing coal
grottoes filed with wines, storage cellars
and actual working scenes showing the
processes from the handling of grapes
to the bottling of the sparkling juices.
One coppersmith has an ingenious ex-
hibit of a continuous still, consuming
grapes at one end and pouring out wine
at the other. One wine-grower shows
fermenting tank, 20 feet deep and 16
feet in diameter, made of a single red
wood log. New York wine-growers
make a collective exhibit in an artistic
pavilion, showing dry and still wines,
champagne and brandies. A pyramid
of bottles filed with vinous products of
the state stands in front of the entrance.
Ohio and Lake Erie growers also COM
bine in collective exhibit, their pavil-
ion being ornamented by huge Cor
inthian column made of wine bottles
and surmounted by an eagle, the col
umn slowly revolving and being orna-
mented by clusters Of grapes. Missouri,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey
and other states will also make extern
sive displays. One eastern wine-grower
makes an extensive exhibit of wines
made from grapes grown on the battle
field of Bull Run.
conducted on liberal lines, most of the
displays of fruits being made by means
of drawings, paintings and wax models.
1t would be impossible to make good
showing of natural foreign fruits, and
even domestic growths would soon de-
teriorate. The collection of domestic
fruits will include models of products
of all states, from the hardy small Der
ries of the north to the mangoes and
sapodillas of Florida. The raisin indus
try will also have splendid representa-
ton in the department. while the col
lection of native nuts will be complete,
from the common Georgia ''goober'' to
the cultivated almond and cocoanut, as
well as the common wild nuts.
PAUL De FL. SWEENEY.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
EXPOSITION NOTES.

WRIGHT & Sons, an English firm,
have sent 1870 anvils for exhibit in the
machinery department.
MASSACHUSETTS has been assigned 500
square feet inside the Horticultural
building and 1000 feet of the wooded
island for plants and flowers.
The Dudley Buck glee club, of Pu-
eblo, has been chosen to represent Col
orado in a musical way at the worlds
fair. The club is composed of twenty
members.
The reproduction of the Yucatan
ruins is completed. The structures have
been painted the exact color of the orig
inals, which were for many centuries in
the tropical regions.
THE German empire will exhibit in
the Horticultural building 1000 square
feet of azaleas, 1000 Of caladiums, 10 Of
pelargoniums, 200 Of asparagus plums,
$50 of lilies of the valley, and 200 of cy-
clamens.
FIFTY men in uniform of the Royal
Engineers, of England, will be sent to
Chicago next summer to represent the
leading artillery and other regiments
of Great Britain. Their expenses will
be paid and bonus of $40 granted for
their time.
Iowa will make showing in the
Mines building. Her exhibit will show
a coal mine from both an interior and
exterior point of view. Coal will be
placed inside a shaft in natural posi-
tions with figures of miners and all
mining appliances. Another exhibit
will show the mouth of shaft with
hoisting machinery.
THE Offices of the bureau of music
announce that the famous conductor,
Hans Richter, of Vienna, has been Sc
cured to conduct series of Wagner
concerts in Music hall. Hans Richter
may be said very justly to be the first
great orchestral conductor in the
world. He is the master spirit of the
annual Wagner performances at
Baireuth.
WOMEN in Pennsylvania made table
for the fair. 1t was composed of his
torical woods-timbers from celebrated
localities and famous buildings. 1t is a
sort of ''crazy quilt in furniture. The
table is now at the park. 1t came the
other day, but has not been unpacked.
When the Woman's building is dedi-
Gated Mrs. Palmer will stand behind
the Pennsylvania table.
The Isabella coins, issued to the
board of lady managers. will be ready
for distribution with the opening Of
the fair. The souvenirs are Of artistic
design. A vignette of Queen Isabella
appears on one side and an appropriate
inscription on the other. Forty thou
sand of the quarters are to be minted,
and Mrs. Palmer has been offered s40,-
600 for them. The offer was refused.
as the lady managers will not sell the
issue to spectators.
IDAHO intends to have a mineral
shield at the fair which will represent
the mineral products of the state. The
shield will be shown in the Mines build
ing. Some Idaho stone chiselers have
been working upon it for months, and
have developed with perspective ac-
curacy the Typography of an Idaho
canyon, a stamp mill, sunrise scene, lone
pine trees, farmers boy blowing in the
valley, delineation of justice, and a
few Idaho animals. The ground work
is of magnesia, and the various marbles
of the territory have been employed in
lending colors.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04

display Of aquatic plants will be es-
pecially complete and valuable. Toward
the fall will come the chrysanthemum,
the close of the fair to be marked by a
display of these flowers. Every week
during the exposition there will be q
cut flower display on tables reserved
for this purpose in the balconies of the
building.
The department of viticulture prom
ises the largest and finest exhibit of
wines ever got together. Every wine
growing nation of the world is repre-
sented. Naturally America has the
largest representation, but the vine
yards of Germany, France and Spain
are not far behind California in making
a complete display. At rough esti-
mate nearly twenty million dollars of
capital will be represented in the wine
exhibit, which is located in the south
pavilion of Horticultural hall Within
this great pavilion are scores Of smaller
structures put up by the various nations
and firms making displays. Germany
has what may be termed cellar above
ground stocked with the choicest prod
uct of the vine and some of it of great
age and almost priceless value. The
framework of the structure is of iron
and the panels are covered with mural
paintings showing important wine
growing districts of the fatherland.
There are pictures of the Rhine, with
its terraced vineyards, of the districts Of
Moselle, Alsace-Lorraine, Strassburg and
the famous river Neckar. Thousands
of bottles three of each kind of wine),
are arranged in artistic groups about
the Rathskeller. France has about one
half the space occupied by Germany,
but the display of champagne is said to
be the finest ever got together. Every
process of wine-making is fully illus
trated. Russia, Austria, Canada, Spain,
New South Wales, Mexico and other
foreign nations have splendid show
ing of good things in liquid form, some
of the rarest and most costly vintages
being exhibited.
Wonderful development in the ma
tive wine industry is shown in the do
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
Spain's Gift to America.

The government of Spain has official
ly rendered, as a gift to the govern
ment of the United States, the Santa
Maria, which is now on it's way to
America to participate in the naval re-
view, and which will form part OF the
Spanish exhibit at the fair. The cere-
monies of the presentation will take
place on some date near the close of the
exposition. tits the intention to take
the Santa Maria to Washington for per-
ruanent exhibition.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04

pended everywhere, their contents dis
playing rare bits of color against the
green background of the vine curtains.
Within the central portion of Horticul-
tural hall all the tropical plants are
stored, together with many delicate
Towering plants that cannot withstand
the sudden changes of temperature so
often noted in Chicago.
Quaint shrubs, that one would in
stinctively guess come from Japan, form
part of the collection in the north
wing. Dwarf pines and cedars, hun
dreds of years old, and not more than
four feet high, attract much attention.
Like most human dwarfs they are ugly,
showing their deformities plainly. The
secret of dwarfing trees has been known
to the japanese for centuries, and, like
their forefathers, the Japanese garden
ers at jackson park are not willing to
impart their secret to others.
The greenhouses have been filed with
blooming plants all winter, and Super
intendent Thorpe is awaiting fine
weather to make an out-of-door display
that will astonish the world. When the
exposition opens there will be thou
sands and thousands of violets arranged
in beds about the Horticultural build
ing. The pansies, too, will then be in
bloom. 100000 of the plants being
placed in one big bed. They are of
every variety and every color, and the
collection will be the best ever shown.
Holland will be outrivaled in the tulip
display, 10000 bulbs now being ready
to put out. There will be forty beds of
cannas, blushing from their great
stalks in front of the Horticultural
building. while the display of
hyacinths, rhododendrons, narcissi,
azaleas and other early summer flowers
will make the grounds about the big
glass dome very attractive.
Then will come the roses. These will
be placed mostly on the wooded island.
They are of every color and variety and
will bloom along throughout the sum-
mer until frosts appear. There are thou
sands of rose plants scattered every
where on the island. Then will come the
display of orchids There are hundreds
of varieties and they will bloom through
out the summer. Most of the plants
come from Mexico and South America.
One single florist will make an orchid
display costing $4,000. At other times
during the summer there will be special
shows of petunias, begonias, clematis,
azaleas, all varieties of lilies, sweet
peas, peonies, iris, carnations, phlox,
asters and other varieties of plants. The
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04

hand, while with his right he points his
sword heavenward, as if invoking a
heavenly benediction. The head is
thrown back. The face is deeply lined
and looks careworn.
On the suit of armor is thrown the
martial cloak of that day. The hands
are incased in gauntlets and falling
from the cuirass are the tassels or
skirts of sliding splints of steel.
Cast in bronze the statue will adorn
the plaza fronting the Administration
building at the fair.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
Isabella's Original Will.

Queen Isabella's original will may
be seen at the fair this year. The
precious document is regarded as the
most interesting one owned by the
Spanish government. 1t contains in
structiOns as to the treatment of the
natives of America. Along with the
will is shipped the original portrait of
Columbus in the National gallery.
Visitors will be given an opportunity to
see the face of Columbus as pictured by
his patrons. The shipment is being
made on the United States steamer
Newark.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
Raiah of Kapunthala Coming.

The rajah of Kapunthala, who is a
big man in his own country, is on his
way to America with large retinue of
servants, and will visit the exposition.
He will get here a few weeks before
the sultan of Johore, who wears s1o,-
GOO, 900 worth of diamonds when he puts
on his full regalia- The sultan made q
tour through Europe several years ago
and left crimson streak in his trail al
wide as Midway Plalsance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
STATUE OF COLUMBUS.

Miss Lawrence's Work to Adorn the
Worlds Fair Grounds.
The statue of Columbus made by
Miss Mary Lawrence is six feet high,
representing Columbus just setting foot
on land. He holds the standard OF
CASTLE and Aragon uplifted in his left
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04

than quarter of a mile long and it was
argued that many visitors would rather
pay small fee to ride from the end of
it down to the shore line than walk
The travelling sidewalk is now COM
pleted and, like all other schemes con-
nected with the fair, the managers ex-
pect to reap a rich harvest from those
who may be attracted by its novelty.
WILLIAM IGLEHEART.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
TRAVEL MADE EASY.
How People Are to Be Moved
Around jackson Park.
Che Worlds Fair Electric Railroads.&c..
trio Launches and Venetian Gondolas
by the Score The Moving
Sidewalk and Chairs
Especial Worlds Fair Letter. I

I0PoS1"1 w U11U . 4 OH IzcIlcT.V
How to move people about in Jack
son park with safety and comfort was
for long time one of the most vexing
questions that confronted the man
ayers. The park includes in all about
100 acres and the land lies in such a
way that person who walks from the
Iowa building, which is in the extreme
northeast corner of the grounds, down
to the buildings where the mummies
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
GuATEMALA's EXHIBIT.

Tho Little Republic viii Have . Nice
Home ut jackson Park.
The Guatemala building at Jackson
park will be finished soon and the ex-
hibits that have been collected for
warded to Chicago. The building IT.
self is an interesting one, but the gar.
den that surrounds it is much more so.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-05-04
NORWAY'S BUILDING.
It Is Small, But Will Attract Consider,
BILE Attention.

1t Is Small, But Will Attract Considera.
BILE Attention.
From the land of the ford and the
Norseman comes a little building Of
lofty pinnacles. Distinctly Norwegian
in it's idiosyncrasies, the pavilion will
be built in what is known as the STAY
kirke style. In effect the 'edifice por-
trays a quaint old church, maze Of
gables, on which decorative figures rep
resent the defiant ornamentations of
the bows of viking ships. The whole
composition is most romantic in it's
conception. The material used is the
Norwegian pine wood, and the cost
will be in the neighborhood of $4,000.
Little will be attempted in the way of
collective exhibit, but in the various
buildings, and more especially in the art
gallery, Norway will be fully represent
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-02
THE EAST.

ILsLEY, DOUBLEDAY & Co., wholesale
dealers in paints, New York and Aus
tralia, have become financially en-
barrassed.
Ina passenger wreck on the Harlem
road near Brewster, n. Y, four persons
were killed and number injured.
A TERRIFIC hailstorm visited Rome,
N. Y, doing an immense amount OF
damage.
BY collision on the Long Island
railroad near Newtown, fourteen per-
sons were killed and about thirty in
jured. Among the killed was Col. Z
A. Buck, editor of the Spirit Of the
Times.
OYsTERMEN have just completed the
examination of the beds in the vicinity
of Bridgeport, Conn, and find very
promising crop-larger than usual 1t
was thought the entire crop was loss,
owing to the late storm.
THE financial stringency has been
felt very severely at Orange, n. j..
Every one of the twerty-eight large
hat factories has shut down. throwing
thousands of persons out of employ
ment.
RATHER than pay premium on cur
rency with which to pay their employees,
the United Knitting Co., Amsterdam,
n. Y, has closed down.
ALERsoN b. STEvER, one of the weigh
ers of the New York custom house, is
charged with defrauding the govern
ment
The yacht of George Witherbee cap
sized in Lake Ohamplain, n. Y, and he
and five others were drowned.
Four million dollars in gold coin ar-
rived at New York on the 2Sth from
San Francisco and was deposited in the
sub-treasury vaults
HAYWARD A. HARVEY, the inventor
of the Harveyized steel armor plates
and roller screw, died recently from
kidney trouble at Orange, N. j.
The four members of the Henry Irv'
ing theatrical company who were de.
tanned ut New York on the charge OF
being contract laborers were released.
The terrible storm which swept over
the southern states struck the vicinity
of New York later, doing an untold
amount of damage. Great loss was re-
ported from many points along the
coast
FoR the second time within o year
Rockaway Beach has been visited by a
disastrous fire
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-09-02
TIE LATEST.

THE house devoted most of its session
on the 3Oth to the consideration OF the
report OF the comnittee on rules.
IT is feared that the delay OF the
president in appointing strip land Office
officials may interfere seriously with
opening on time.
MISSOURI day was celebrated at the
fair on the 30th with an elaborate pro-
gramme. which was carried out in the
state building.
AT Caddo, !. T., Tandy Folsom,
United States deputy marshal and
member of the Indian police. killed
Capt. Durant a Choctaw officer, in
quarrel growing out of the latters at
tempt to introduce whisky.
MARIE PRESCOTT, the well known
actress, died at New York recently.
In private life she was Mrs ID. Shep-
pard, her husband being better known
under his stage name OF X. ID. Mac
Lean.
In the senate on the 30th Sherman
and Teller both spoke on the silver
question. the former denouncing as an
entire fabrication the alleged con-
spiracy to demonetize silver in 1878.
A TURBULENT mob of Chicago unem-
ployed created disturbance on the
lake front, and for little while it
looked as If there would be serious
riot, but the police broke up the mob
THE foundation for the many rumors
regarding the health of the president
is found in the fact which has been
made public that on July he had an
operation performed for the removal OF
growth inside his left jaw, portion
of the bone being cut away.
JUDGE Ross, in the United States dis
trict court at Los Angeles, CAL, hand
ed down an opinion declaring that the
warrant for the arrest of the Cinnamon
under section 6 Of the Geary law can
be issued with the complaint when its
verification is in proper form.
BEEsoS. the Oklahoma commissioner
of the worlds fair. was found guilty OF
corruption in pretending to obtain
prizes for exhibitors
A RECEIVER for the Nicaragua Canal
Co. has been appointed by Judge Bene.
dict in the United States circuit court
at New York.
RonERr d. WRESN is the tennis cham
pion of the United States. defeating
Hovey in the tournament at Newport
r. !.
BRUCE, the safe-blower in jail al
Terre Haute, Ind, has been positively
identified as the man who stole $4,000
worth of diamonds from Poilack' Oh
New York, on C.. b. & q train.
WILLIAM L. BoYcE has been appoint
! ed Chinese inspector at San francisco