The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-30

The original settler in Iowa, Julien Du-
buque, besides doing a little trading with
the Indians, worked the lead mines, of the
existence of which he was informed by the
aborigines, and it is therefore but natural
that this product and relics in connection
with it should form an important feature
of the Iowa exhibit, although a great deal
of space will be given up to agriculture, for
it is O fact that Iowa contains less waste
land than any state in the Union.
Rhode Islands exhibit will necessarily
consist largely of manufactures, for this
the smallest state in the Union actually
reverberates with the busy hum of machin-
cry. Then, as the state vas one of the
original thirteen, there will be a great many
relics Of great interest to students of early
American history. The people have come
forward generously in this matter, and it
is certain that Little Rhody" will have an
exhibit st the Worlds fair of which any
state might we'll be proud.
A source of great wonderment 20 persons
visiting the Worlds fair grounds just now
is the elaborate heating apparatus en-
ployed to maintain . uniform temperature
of 60 degs. in the mammoth horticultural
building. The transition from cold and
snow and icicles to genial warmth and trop-
ical plants and exotics never fails to give
rise to O novel sensation on the part of the
visitor. The steam for preserving the lives
Of the valuable plants in the horticultural
building is furnished by three boilers Of
$50 horsepower each, which consume twenty
tons of coal per day and are in charge of
six fremen and three engineers divided
into three shifts of eight hours each. The
pressure maintained is uniformly fifty
pounds to the square inch. There is an
elaborate arrangement Of engines and fans,
by means of which the heat is distributed
throughout every portion of the building
night and day.
The disciples of Izaak Walton will be
well represented at the fair. The father Of
anglers was born Aug. 8, 1898, and it is pro-
posed to commemorate the Booth anniver-
sary of his birth by an angling tournament,
open to the world, which shall consist of
exhibitions of skill in casting the artificial
fly and real bait. The idea is to nave ten
or twelve contests between the most expert
representative casters Of the different
countries of the world. If the plan be
adopted, Aug. 8 will be known as "Izaak
Walton Day" and there will be other ex-
ercises appropriate to the occasion. There
will be gold and silver medals as prizes for
the winners. and 1t is by n means improb-
able that a memorial building will be
erected which will be an exact reproduc-
ton of Walton and Cotton's house on the
River Dove, in England.
Every ~precaution will be taken at the
Worlds fair to guard against the loss of
life and property. The flreboat Fire Queen
rests quietly in the grand canal, ready at a
moments notice to proceed to any part of
the grounds for the purpose of extinguish-
ing incipient confagrations. She is pro-
vided with half a mile of cotton hose, and
her powerful pumps will throw two large
streams over the dome of the Administra-
ton building During the winter the Fire
Queen will be used to keep the channel
clear Of ice, and thus prevent the destruc-
ton of the docks by the expansion of the
water as it congeals. Last winter much
damage was done in this way.
Opposite the Fisheries building, on the
other side of the canal, there stands o
squatty looking building with a wide pr
azza on three sides and a lookout tower on
top. There are several inclined platforms
leading from large double doors TO the
waters edge. Along the ridge Of the roof