Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-07-15
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

EVERY State building has from one to thres
pianos in its different reception rooms.
A sEvENTY-rwo pound salmon in o cake of
ice weighing 800 pounds has been placed on
exhibition in the Fisheries Building
AMONG tine mineral curiosities there is a
twelvc-ton lump of camel coal sent from
| Lancashire, England, by the Wigan Junction
| Colliery.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has sent ono OF his axes
with which he cut down trees for exhibition
in the Forestry Building, 1t is OF fine steel,
and is very sharp and heavy.
The Roslyn lump of coal from the State -
Washington is the largest ever mined. 1t is
five feet thick, twenty-six feet long. AMI
weighs more than $4,000 pounds,
The Woman's Building is 200 feet in width
by 383 feet in length and is said to be the,
most expensive tor the size and quality Of its
construction Of any Of the Worlds Fair build
ings.
THE Committee OF Awards has selected
Dunham's farm at Wayne, H.. as the place
where the tests of agricultural implements
will be held, 1t is thirty-five miles from
Chicago, is fat. and the crops are heavy.
The National Association of Woman
Stenographers has opened booth in ths
Woman's Building. Miss Ida C. Orr, the
fastest writer in tho country, will give daily
exhibitions of speed each afternoon from
2 to 1 O'Clock.
THKsE are 1866 places waere ono max regis
ter his name and residence. and thers ars
those who do not rest easy until thay hav9
inscribed their signature on svsry one oftheni
The register crank is a new proluction O.
the Worlds Fair.
TIE wide gravee1reais ofthe Fair grounds
are clean and well rolled. There are numer-
Gus pieces OF statuary, some of immense size,
al .TH Ia fr.an nd h0ja of Hpv
here and there. Two OF these ara especially
noticeable in front ofthe Horticultural Build
ing containing 10000 plants Of pansies Of all
co,or5 and kinds.
TIE Association o. American Exhibitors 1t
The Worlds Fair elected j. g. Pancborn
President in place of John NJ. Pgllnan, who
declined the ofliea Mr.. Pangbora repre-
sents the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, and Is
heartily in favor OF lower rates Of fare TO
Chicago. The association viii make an or
ganized effort to secure lower rates.
AMoSa the many articles Of rare anil curl
Gus make Is very delieate handkerchief
among Queen Msrgharita's Laces. ii is valued
Mt $50 900. Three different artists have
wrought upon It during period OF not less
than twenty years. II Is 50 light that one is
not conscious of it touching the hsn1 il tho
eyes be shut, and it can be easily folded into
q gold easset not larger than Boston bean.
Is the Swedish Building ara exhibited
those remarkable pieces in steel. One isthe
largest band saw in the world. II is 20 feet
/ long by u iaehes wide, weighs ca pounis,
and is made Of one continuous piece Of
metal. The second Is the largest cold rolle1
steel band ever made L Is $50 feet LONE. II
inches wide, and weighs 53s pounia. 'the
third is the lar gesf het rolled steel hand ever
made. Il is 30 feet long, II inches wide, AMI
weighs al pounds.
GUIDES dressed in blue uniforms are every
where. there are $50 OF them and visitors csn
have the use Of their services for seYsnty-fiye
cents an hour. At every turn one meets little
/ fellows, dressed in red from top to toe. sell
ing guide books and catalogues as red as rel
can be. Four hun lreI young men from col
ieges all eyerthe country wheel chairs through
the buildings an1 grounds. These cost
/ seyenty-ave cents a.; hour AMI Slsst,sTs can
| be wheeled Wherever they like.
THEKE isa model Of the Einel ra5ger IL
Midway Piaisance composed of nearly ESQ.,
600 pieces OF solid bronze. II took ti,e
maker Tour years to complete II. It il 90
feet high, and made on the scale OF 1 70 50.
Situated in a perfect little pIrk, lighted by
electric lights, the smallest ever made. with
electric eolored fountains. 1t Is really q
marvel o. wonder and skiil. AMI said b.
those VINO hay3 sssn both to be an q let
counterpart OF ths great Eiffei Towcr al
Paris.
The iron eagle in the japanese SEXTON ii
the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building
is an interesting exhibit The figure stands
with oulstretehed wings aeasaring ) feet
from tip TO tip. is two feet in height and
Weighs 1873 pounds. By an ingenious pieee
of mechanism The head i. made TO move
| freely and the eyes sean Is furtiyeiy, ike
those af q living bird. There ara nearsy
$500 steel greesel feathers, made separately
and hy hand. 1t required ivs years con
slant AMI patient tel to complete tAs
WORK.