Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
THE VANISHING CITY.

panY Tor 500.
THE fish exhibit which was offered to
the Illinois University and declined be-
cause the college could not care for it.
E. r. MEEKER took eight of the electric
launches which were in use at the
World FAIR grounds to St. Louis by
way of the Illinois and Michigan canal
The Worlds Columbian Exposition
received at the gates up to November l
l0,516, POS. There is now in the treas
ury 81, 153, 12S, not including souvenir
coins.
DR. WHITE CLOUD he made a contract
with Director General DeYoung to take
his Indian village to the midwinter ex-
position at California previous to going
to the Antwerp fair.
A SMALL but vigorous blaze broke out
among some packing cases in the west
gallery of the German section of the
manufactures building yesterday morn
ing; 500 damage was done.
CEYLoN's building on the lake front
was sold at auction for s., 900. The
building was bought by f. r. Chandler,
of this city, and will be removed to Lake
Geneva and used as q summer house.
The Cingalese valued their building at
$4,000.
On November Is Lieuts Paxton,
Moore, Baker, French, Helm and
Massey, of the United States army, will
be relieved. The force of guards will
be reduced to 800 men on December 10.
The force at present numbers ,450
men.
THE great Allis engine is being labori-
ously taken to pieces. One week has
been spent already, and three more
may be required. 1t will be taken back
tn bn oh Of Il L.
alterations will be made, if necessary,
to suit several prospective purchasers
GLADTONE'S AK, which was exhibited
in the forestry building, was presented
to the Lumbermen's Exchange as a
nucleus for the endowment of chair of
forestry in the University of Chicago
The gift was given by f. S. Shurick. of
Marietta, O., to whom the AK was pre-
scented by Herbert Gladstone. The
center-plece OF the forestry building,
made of several thousand varieties Of
wood, was also given for the same pur-
pose.
Our of the $4,000 installed exhibits
about 10000 have been removed.
New YORK building is being torn
down. The beautiful tower Of light in
electricity is also going.
ART gallery statuary and paintings are
being sold at good prices. Chicago resi-
dents are the principal buyers.
FOREIGN commissioners have gained
their demands in the protests against
the rulings of John Boyd Thacher.
CAPT BoNFIELD's Secret Service Corps
will be reduced to fifty men November
10 and be disbanded on November so.
THE Krupp exhibit is being removed
as fast as fifty men can take down and
load the guns and other heavy machin-
cry. 1t will take forty cars to transport
this exhibit to New York.
THE difficulty of getting around Jack
son Park was SO great after the intra-
mural suspended that roller chairs have
re-appaered, and the Electric Launch
and Navigation Company has concluded
to resume business.
Upon the request of the British Am
bassador at Washington the legal de-
partment of the government is making
inquiry into the suit brought by Sells
Brothers against the Province of New
South Wales in the superior court here
q few DAYS ago.
The counter, III feet long, which was
sa we'd out of q single redwood tree and
which played such an advertising role
for cafe in the fair grounds will be
shipped to New York soon. 1t will
probably spend the remainder of it's
days at Coney Island.
SUIT has been brought against the
Ferris Wheel Company for S75, 5000,
which it has withheld from the Exposi-
ton company. The officers of the
company has broken its contract by
closing the Midway Plaisance before
January next.
The government has taken possession
of the aquarium. With the exception of
the grayling, geld fish and trout, which
Will be sent to government hatcheries,
and the black bass, which will be dis
tributed among the Illinois stations, the
collection has been presented to the
Illinois State University.
THE New Hampshire building has
been sold for $500 to people who will
take it apart and put it together again
in Manchester, n. III. The Montana
building has been sold to wrecker for
$500. The Virginia building will be sold
for $500 to people who intend to take it
apart and put it together somewhere
else.
THE Singhalese outfit at Jackson Park
will be sold under the hammer at II A.
NJ. to-day. The Ceylon building and
contents will be sold first, and then the
scene of the sale will be shifted first to
the agricultural and then to the Wom-
ans building. The booth in the manu-
features building has been disposed of
at private sale.
WoRKMEN have begun to tear up the
roadways in the park and sight-seers
will soon have to wade through lanes of
sand. When the roadways were built
the Exposition company paid 55 cents a
square yard, the crushed stone used to
be recovered by the firm after the fair.
The saving by rebating to the contract
ors the material used was about 800, 900.
KLAAs, the orang-outang of the Java
Village, has been sold to New York
man.
ONLY 945 persons were arrested out of
the p, 100000 visitors, while of the 2,1S2
articles found S6l were retired to
owners.
ONE hundred and twenty-five Japa-
nese from the fair will sail for home to-
day from San Francisco on the City of
Picking.