The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-04-20
THE WORLDS FAIR.
Officials Positive Everything Will
Be Practically Ready.

Officials Positive Everything Viii
Be Practically Ready.
CHICAGO. March 29,-Between fifteer
and twenty thousand men are now EN-
ployed day and night at jackson Park
Worlds Fair. officials are positive il
their assertions that all the buildings
will be practically completed by the Isl
of May, and say the work of installing
exhibits will haye been so far finished by
that time that the casual observer will
not be aware that there'is anything lack
ing in the great exhibit. Car loads and
train loads of exhibits are coming in al
lively rate, and all branches of the in
stallation department are working un
der steady pressure. Upto date every
thing in sight has. been handled with
promptness and care.
The big roof on the Manufacturers
Building has been repaired. The final
glass plates for the skylsghts were placed
in position yesterday afternoon and
hence fol tn no such downpour of water
will be experienced on the big floor, as
was the case last week.
The construction of booths is progress
sing rapidly, but nowhere more so than
in the liberal arts department. Nearly
all the foreign countries have their space
fenced in and joiners are now busy con-
structing pagodas, shelves, cases, &C.,
where the educational methods of the
different countries will be deliberately
illustrated. New South Wales. England,
Brazil, Italy, France and Canada have
their space all fenced up and the install
lation hall begun.
THE GREAT ENGINE.
A visit to Machinery Hall will convince
the most credulous that the plants for
furnishing heat, power and light will be
completed by May LIST are we'll founded.
All of last week workmen were unload
ing the first pieces of the great Allis en-
CINE on the foundations prepared for it
and it is confidently expected that with
in three weeks the monster machine
will be in operation. The Allis engine,
which is as much larger than the Corliss
engine of the Philadelphia Centennial
Exposition, as that engine was larger
than any other built up to that time,
weighs, exclusive of boiler and all accom-
panying attachments, exactly 1895 tons.
The Coriss engine had a capacity of
1000 horse power while the Aliis ma
chine has normal power of 1000 horses
and can be run under pressure up to
{, 900 horse power.
GUNS AND PAINTINGS.
The most valuable of the consignmonts
so far received are the Krupp exhibits
These great ordnance pieces, together
with the 4ninor necessities in the improv-
ed art of war have been appraised at
1926 600. Germanys lot of one hundred
paintings, designed to ornament the wo-
mans Building, ranks next. They are
listed at $37 1872. New South Wales,
with its varied exhibit, follows in order
with $50, 1884 charged up to its account
in favor of United State tariff
The work of construction of foreign
is worthy of praise for the
speed and excellence with which it has
been executed. These buildings will be
on the opening day.
REGULAR AND EXTRA CHARGES.
The price of admission and entrance
to the exhibition grounds will be so cents
each; children under six years of age, ac-
by parents. will be admitted
free.
Once inside the grounds the first price
of admission admits the visitor to all the
principal buildings and all attractions
on the grounds. The concessions operat-
of land 600 feet wide and seven-eighths
of mile long, connecting Jackson and
Park, are the Austrian vii
lage, Bohemian glassfact'ry, Dahomey vii
lage Dutch East Indian villages. There
will be no charge for visiting these at
fractions and walking through the
These concessions are given the
privilege of selling their wares and the
plaisance will be the only place
where articles are sold.
There are few exceptions to this rule,
as, for instance, the Esquimaux village,
where an admission fee of 25 cents will
be charged.
OPENING AND CLOSING.
The Exposition will open May list and
close October 81. This will be the most
extensive national exhibition ever held
The grounds comprise 693 acres. The
cost thus far is about $17.O0O,000. In
the vicinity of Jackson Park apartment
houses, hotels and boarding houses are
springing up rapidly, and it now looks as
though there will be no trouble in TAX
ing care of the crowds.
NATIONAL GUARD CAMP OFF.
The proposed encampment of the Ma
tional Guards of the different States to
be held during the Worlds Fair has
been definitely abandoned. Unforeseen
obstacles have greatly discouraged the
hackers of the scheme, and now the re-
fusal of the State of Illinois to loan the
tents belonging to the National Guard
of the State has knocked them out com
pletely.
The model Worlds Fair Sunday school
building is now an assured fact, sufficient
money for it's construction having been