Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-02-07

sry>* unique Exhibit-Sta,e Days
Alaska ExMIbi's- Lace and Needle.
wUIk fr"m Abroad.
Special Correspondence Of the TIxEsI
C"1cAGo. February :, 1893
Everybody will have the opp. rtu.
NIFTY OF attending the opening .x.r
c'scs Of the Worlds Fair, May /. ],
WAS int "ded, according to the fr.,
pr"grsm sr'a'ged by the committee
on ceremonies, 10 held thu initial day 3
exercises i" Festival Hall, which .es,s
but 5000 people. One thousand of
these seats were to be reserved for OF.
hclals Of tho Fair, members Of Con.
R'ess aud other dis.iny uished i"div,d
usls. The rsmsini"s 1000 seats it
was proposed TO sell ~ IS each, tickets
to 10 issued. on invitation. This
contemplated action Of the committee
on ceremonies caused such unfsvorable
comment. aud, at the suggestion of
the national board of control and the
executive committee OF the directors,
u new program was arranged which il
intended TO satisfy everybody that
wants to attend the formal opening.
Tho exercises will he brld out Of
doors; AID Grover Cleveland, who
will he President If the Uhit+d States
by that time, will deliver the Only ad-
d'-ss ths. will be heard that day.
BY resolution il was decided to con-
duct the exercises in the open xir,
when every body could attend them.
The king and queen of Spain aud
the living descendants Of Columbus,
OF which there arc several, have be. n
invited by President Harrison to par>
ticipate in the formal opening of the
exercises as the guests Of the governs
men. Of this country.
New Jersey will have one Of the
most unique State departments at
jackson Park. The State Board will
reproduce in part Wa.hington's head.
quarters in Morristown during the
winter OF 1879 so. The New Jersey
building will not be a fac-simile of this
historical structure, hut its main fes.
lures have BEEN modelled after il. IL
adopting an historical building FOR It's
desig" New jersey has follow. d in the
wake OF Massachusetts and Pennsyl.
vania, Of which the one will have the
old John Hancock residence aud the
other a reproduction Of Independence
Hall at Philadephis.
New Jersey people think they have
done a patriotic thing in selecting
Washineton's headquarters. They
say that it was there Ale xander Ham,
'lton lived during the long winter Of /
1879, aud there he met the lady hom |
he afterwards married. In addition.
celebrated men, including Green,
Knox. Lafayette, Steuhen, Schuyler.
Israel Putnam and Benedict Arnold
have been beneath its roof.
Tho building will he used as head,
quarters for the New Jersey commits
sion~rs. and will be . place where
every one from that State will ke
made to feel 1t home; where he will
meet his friends, register his name
and receive his letters. It is, ia fact,
TO he New Jersey headquarters.
Various States in the onion are
beginning to designate the days
which they wish to have set apar. for
heir special celebration. Altogether
zen States and Territories have o.,
ected days. Utah will have July "a;
Washington, May IL; Wisconsin,
May 23; North Carolina. August
'lst.; California. September 9; Maine,
|une z; Colorado, August II. Kansas,
September Is and Ii. and New York.
4. The commercial travel,
rs have been given July 26. and the
pdependent Order of Forestry May :
9th.
Alaska will really make On exhibit ,
fifteen cases of curios representative
1 the art work and relics Of the
Alaskan country are now enroute to
,hicago.
The Minneapolis Public Schools {
sill contribute to q fund for the er~c. r
ion OF statute symbolical OF Long s
FLOWS "Hiawssha" to be placed a.
be entrance of the Minnesota build.