The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-04-20
ATTRACTIVE NOVELTIES OF
TIE FAIR.
r,s sultan of Solos Dancing
Girls Are There.
ESPECIAL To THE ADVERTISER.

tiful floral exhibit. One acre of roses
in full bloom and three acres of violets
of all kinds were the chief attraction,
TO say nothing of the superb and gor-
geous display of lilies, orchids and
tropical foliage of all kinds.
Machinery Hall is the only building
now in doubt of completion. En-
gineers competent to express an
opinion, say that the work of install
ling heavy machinery is of such ma
ture that the relative number of men
put on the work cuts but little figure.
The work of placing the heavy pieces
has to be accomplished with the aid
of three large twenty-ton electric
cranes. These cranes can only work
at certain rate of speed, which is not
sufficient to guarantee the placing of
all the machinery exhibits before the
middle or latter part of May. The
matter of greatest concern, however,
that of having the great power plant
i'm readiness when President Cleye-
land is here to "toueh the button"
and start the whole in motion, is hap
PLY well under way. Mechanical En-
gineer Foster assures the executive
authorities that as fast as more power
is required he will be able to supply
it, and that the complete plant will be
capable of working at its maximum of
1900 horsepower on opening day,
Nav 1st. The monster Allis engine,
which is to furnish nearly half the
power, is being rapidly put together,
and soon its thirty-ton cylinder will
be vibrating to the touch of a 10000
horsepower force.
A large company has arrived from
Java; also the Sultan's dancing girls,
of whom there are thirty-siX women
in the colony. Sixteen of these are
dancing girls loaned by the Sultan of
Solo. Great-eyed. soft-voiced cOquet-
tish little creatures, with huge silver
ornaments rivetted to their ears-the
insignia of royalty-are the dancing
girls. These girls promise to be the
most attractive feature of Java's ex-
hibit, and range from IA to is
years of age. They will dance
to the accompaniment of the native
orchestra of thirty-six gongs, drums,
banio-like fiddles, bells, tom-toms and
other strange instruments. Their
dancing is said to be o succession OF
graceful posturings and poises.
The new tickets of admission to the
Exposition were distributed last week,
and are on sale at the different down
town hotels, music stores, etc. The
tickets are not good for admission till
May 1st, and will be refused at tue
gates if presented before that time.
There are four series, differing in the
sola rf rQl n
tiyely of Columbus, Washington, Liza
coin. and an Indian. In general ao-
pearance these tickets resemble the de-
signs for fractional paper currency OF
greenback days. They are printed On
heavy cardboard and the scroll work
of the engraving is intricate, to pre-.
vent eounterfeiting.
The "Daily Columbian" is the title
of the morning newspaper to be issued
on the Worlds Fair grounds, and the
only official Bulletin of the Colum.
bian Exposition. Tt will be an eight
page composite paper, unlike any.
thing ever seen before. Five page:
will consist of the Tribune, Times
Inter-Ocean, Herald and The Record
The other three pages will contain
official orders, programmes, prices o
transportation, lists of officers anC
matters of interest to exhibitors anC
visitors, furnished by the Department
of Publicity and Promotion, under tht
supervision of Major Handy, who will
virtually be the editor. w. G. Gates
lately Of the Review of Reviews, New
York, will be the Manager. The frs
number will appear on May 1st.
Mrs. III. I. Kimball, of New York
will send an extraordinary piece o
tapestry work to the Exposition
Twenty years ago this work was be
gun, and it has been finished only {:
few days. Some idea of its elaborat,
character may be obtained when it il
known that the method used il
making it requires SO stitches to th'
square inch. 1t is done on rich sill
and worsted on canvas, and is 4 feet
inches by 46 inches. 1t represents {
scene from Shakespeare's "Henr,
VIII.n
Manufacturers of candy have from
the beginning shown their eager
ness to make creditabie display
and in one of the gallerie
of the Agricultural Building viii
be found candy in every manu-
turers have been especially active il
firm will exhibit a colossal chocolat
statue of Columbus, weighing 10
pounds.
One feature of the Canadian exhib
it, aside from her grain, will be tn
monster cheese weighing 26, 900 pound
made from the milk of 10000 cows.
c.. B. Schmidt, general manager {
the Ethnographic Exhibition, has n
ceiyed official information from Be
lin that the German government wi
send two military bands to the Fail
One will be regimental band of fort
men, to be uniformed in the dress of
regiment OF foot guards, the other
twenty-six cavalrymen to wear th
picturesque costume of the Garde d
Corps, with breast plates and eagle
mounted helmets. The infantry ban
will be under the leadership of th
veteran royal Prussian bandmastel
Rushewerjh, and the Garde du Corp:
band will be led by the regular cavalr
bandmaster, Herr Herald. The cere
mony OF mounting the guard, as it
seen "Unter den Linden" in Berlin
will be daily shown by these bands.
More than a million and q quartz
candle-power will be the limit of elec
tric light at the Columbian Expos
ton. There will be 20O0 arc lights i
position on the grounds, most of whic
will be mounted on handsome and al
tistie metal posts placed from sixty
seventy-five feet apart, though in ez
treme positions of the grounds, tn
intervals are in some places one hur
dred and twenty-five feet. At the az
proaehes of bridges single lamps wi
stand, while clusters of three will b
placed in the center, and each al
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