The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19
FEATURES OF THE BIG FAIR
Mammoth Crystal Cave Beneath Mound
10 the Horticultural Building.
Vegetables and Flowers TO BE Grown BY Elec-
trio Light-The Turkish Mosque Com
pleted- Pictures for the Rogue's Gallery.


to-day that after tomorrow and next day
the worlds fair grounds are to be sacred
from all excavation. There is q determi-
nation to have the great park in prime con-
dition for the opening day. With that end
In view. piping and all other underground
work about the park must be completed by
Thursday night. After that time no one
will be allowed to turn q spade of earth. A
large force is at work fixing MP the drive
ways and walks. After Thursday the force
will be greatly increased.
One of the most brilliant speotacles of
the exposition will be q mammoth crystal
cave beneath the great mound covered with
rare palms and ferns In the center Of the
horticultural building. 1t Is TO be q re-
production of the oave In the Black Hills
near Deadwood. From the sides of the
chambers hang great chunks of crystal,
800. 600 pounds IN all. glistening like dia-
monds in the light thrown from number
less electric bulbs. There are seven cham
hers in the cave and o number of winding
and bewildering passages. In the largest
central chamber John Thorpe. chief of
Horticulture. intends to grow vegetables
and bloom flowers by electric light. III
they bloom at all 1t will rave To be By
electric light, for there Ia no ray of the sun
within the cave. This exDeriment has
never been publicly tried before and Mr..
Thorpe is confident that it will be success
full and interest q great number of people.
The furnishing of the Turkish mosque
was completed to-day and Immediately the
door was locked upon its rich tapestries
and decorations. This means that the I'M
hallOwed feet OF the Christian believer
shall never again tread within the sacred
portals OF this pretty model of the famous
Mosque of st. Sophia. The key Will be de-
livered over TO the muezzin, who will hold
IL until time TO tear down the ediice. when
the MOsleDis have completed their um.
mer's sOjourn In Chicago. Ten days from
to-day the mosque will lie dedicated, and
the whole colony will be ont in dazzling
Oriental costumes. The members of Medi-
ma Temple, Chicago, OF the Order of the
Mystic Shrine. lave been invited to be
present Is special guests.
Wilson McClaughrey. son of Chief of Po-
lice M~cClaughrey, returned. to-day, from q
trip which has occupied him several
months. He was sent eli over the United
States to procure pictures of every crook OF
any nOtoriety for the rouges' gallery here.
In anticipation of the fair. 1t was realized
by the chief of police that. with the fair
here. crooks from all quarters of the United
States would flock TO this city TO prey upon
the hundreds of thousands of strangers
who will come to see the exposition. The
trip has been very successful. over four
thousand good lIkencsses of crooks have
been secured for the guidance of the Chi
cagO police. The work done by Wilson
McClaughrey 10 regarded Is of a most im.
portant character.
Educational exhibits are coming into the
manufacturers and liberal art building
faster than the large CORPS of workmen
can handle them. The German educational
exhibits. consisting of go cases, has arrived
and is being arranged as fast Is possible.
1t will be divided into two distinct sections.
one Tor the universities proper and the
other for the German schools. The exhibits
of the Pennsylvania School of Design for
Women. the Academy OF Fine Arts. the
Spring Garden Institution and the Penn
svlv8nia Museum and School, of Industrial
Arc were among to days arrivals.
Ex-COngressman Frank. OF st. Louls ar
rived IN Chicago to-day with a delegation
of commercial travelling men to arrange
with Secretary Culp for the Travellers Pro-
tsetlve Associations special day on June
10. The others of the party were George :.
McGrew, national president OF the Asso-
citation; G. NJ. Aldrich. of the Illinois
divisions; n. Z. Hughes. of the Tennessee
divisions; John a. Lee, Of the Missouri
division. and q. II. Hough. representative
of the association TO the fair. Travellers
day" programme has not been arrsE ged In
detail. but the general scheme Is settled.
"Vice-pres!dent Stevenson has consented
to come" said Mr.. McGrew. and We will
have the Governors of ten or twelve States.
There will be u parade aud music and
every thing else TO make the day merry.
Ihe members of the association, ten
Thousand strong. will come up from the
national convention at Peoria IN special
trains. We expect that fully fifty Thousand
commercial travellers Will be on the
grounds for the day."
Frenchmcn Object tn Captain Borup.
PARIS. April1s.- Several newspapers pro-
tsst against the selection of Capt. Henry ID.
B0rup to assist in the reception of the
French military delegates at the Chicago
fair. The grounds on which the protest IL
made concern the charges brought last
year by the French government against
Captain Borup while he was military at
tache of the United States legation in this
city thai he communicated to European
powers secret plans for the military de-
Tense of France. In consequence of these
charges Borup eventually was detached