The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-11
wonLp,s rArrs NOTES.
Summing mp the Exposition and Chicago
Also Odds und Ends.

summing up the Exposition and chicago
Also Odds ind Ends.
The estimated cost OF q history OF
the nearly half q million exhibits Of
the sixty thousand exhibitors of the
| Worlds Columbian Exposition IL
seventy.five thousand dollars.
The Worlds Columbian Exposition
| will stand pre-eminent In human an
nails for magnitude. completeness
| highest achievements at A. ID. 1898. ex
| ternal landscape ami architecture
beauty. efficient execution oil great ant
comprehensive conception and design
| coupled with generous and ever.lavjsl
| expenditure OF money.
IL exemplifies admirable achlye
ments OF stem. electricity, transpor
tation. light. science. art. mechanics
engineering, architecture. etc.
It's newest mechanical engineering
triumph. the Ferris Wheel, Is promi
cling candidate for the Worlds highes
honors.
Its didactlcal congresses of religion
literature. science. art, music. etc,
| constitute one of lis several unprecl-
dented Worlds fair features.
Its whole general moral and INTEL
lectual effect solidiiies and strength
ems personal character. enlightens and
broadens the intellect and inspires the
spirit OF man toward greater and high
err achievements.
ChicBgo, that has won the worlds
Triumph In Worlds Fairs. ie neither
mean nor small. The city is &c miles
long, greatest width IS miles, total
area 100 square miles. Lake frontage
~ miles and 2,2l0 miles OF streets.
| Boulevards 80 miles. Population.
Qso0) 1899 CSC; at the Worlds Fair
| season t1S9S) say nearly 100000.
Jackson" is one OF her eight princi.
pie parks, and contains tho Columbus
Exposition. 1t is about seven miles
south OF the city's center.
Its stock yards ale the stock markets
of the world. They cover over $50
acres with pens sufficient to aecommo'
| unite Sc, 600 cattle. 200, 700 hogs, $4,000
sheep and 10000 horses all at one
| time.
lls wheat market with it's standards
OF grading and rating, influences the
maits OF the world. IL it Is not al.
| ready the worlds greatest wheat mar
ket 1t surely promises to become
euch.
lis things of principal Interest are
churches. schools, colleges, libraries,
| stock exchanges, board of trade.
| stock sards. grain elevators. cable
car machinery, lake tunnels and via
duct, waterworks and tower.
A Chicagonn explained how he could
ride twenty miles for cents, by street
car cable and electric trolly. The
Elevated" like New York clty's in
style, takes you about neven miles for
II nickel and the Illinois Central quick
er for dime-both from the heart of
tho city to the Fair.
ODDS AND ENDS.
CHICAGO DAY. Sept. 9th, THE brill
liant episode of the Worlds Colum.
bian Exposition.
Leopold Pokagon owned all the land
OH which Chicago Is seen to-day. His
con Simon. also full.blooded Potta-
wattamie chief, aged So, prominent
man in Chicago Days great parade,
has published slXteen-page illustrat.
ed ook on birch bark. n unique Soul
yenier. His son Charles, age 20, sells
the m at % cents each, in the American
Indian Villpge, containing representa-
lives Of six tribes, J he chicago Irib.
uEe calls Tho Red Mans Greeting."I
Full OF elcquence characteristic Of
the Aborigines." The Inter-Ocean, in
a column review: mo words of ours
can tell of the pathos in this tiny book.
IL is told simply, and yet with q force
that leaves an indelible picture on
your mind"
ITO the memory OF William Penn,
Roger Williams the late lamented
Helen Hunt jackson, and many others
now in Heaven, who conceived that
noble spirit OF Justice which recoE-I
niZes the Brotherhood of the Red
Man. ana to Emma G. sickels. and all
others now living defenders OF our
race. / most gratefully dedicate this
tribute OF the forest CHIEF PoKAGoN."l
Over one million of acres of land
were coded to the United States by
treaties of 1880 and 1888 with Leopold
1 okagon at Chicago.
Hartford, Michigan. is the p. o. adj
dress OF Chief Simon Pokagon, Charles
L. Pokagon, his son, and OF q. H.
Engle his publisher.
Tie Ferris Wheel 1. V. Rice super
intendeDt, paid its cost, $300, 600. and
MADE a surplus OF over $5C0. 900 more
than month before closing day. Tho
Exposition will make largely more
than s25O, 900 from IL. Without fear,
faint or jar you cit In a revolving chair
In ali enclosed car % feet long. Is feet
wide and feet high. containing 80
other persons, while you gradually
rise, with n constantly unfolding and I
enlarging view, 265 feet, the wheel be.
Ing $50 feet in diam eter, S25 cireum \
ference, 80 fset wide. There are So
cars uble to carry l446 persons around
twice in 90 minutes at 80 cents each.
Weight Of wheel aud carriages filled
with passengers about 100 tons. The
iron nxle b ~ inches thick and 45 feet
long. The wheel Is lighted with near.
ly three Thousand electric lights. Overl
!. 100000 pnopie rode over the wheel in
considerably less than five III uuths
Congratulations to the inventor IL W.
q. ferris, consulting and constructing
civil engineer and president of q W.
u. Ferris IL Co.. bridge. builders of
Iittsburg, Pa.
About coo people are on the aver
age. reported to vlsit Buffalo Bills
Wild West twice daily. !. e. $4,000 per
dc. 1t is reserve military arm of
extraordinary value TO the United
States His congress of the worlds 4
rough riders Is grand and impress I
sive sight. Gen. w. L. Cody Is IL bril- /.
liant success.
Our famous Wilmington boat, build I
ing firm. Thomas Drein Il Son, get the
award for "tle best exhibit of metailicl
boats aud life RATS Their exhibit, /
opposite the II. & II. Cos. Marine, is |
lurge and ms attracted popular alton
ton over since tho fair opened. One.
of their most distinguished epecIaities
Is their improved beaded iron bottom,
which adds strength to the metaliicE
boat. hey have built boats for some [
of tie bsst of the New York lines, and |
for some OF the largest shipbullders
on the Clyde. Some OF our o Il citizens 4
will remember that Thomas Drein /
started boat building Mt 1atIall street
and L. W. IL II. Railroad in lSL6