Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-26
EXPOSITION NOTES.
What Ia Proposed to Be Done and What Is Being Done for Att
 lanta's Great Show.

The committee on music has under way arrangements for an elaborate programme. The best musical organizations of the country are on the list.
 Mr. E J. Arbeeley, editor of Kawkab Americana, of New York, will bring au oriental village to the Cotton States and International exposition. He contracts to produce an oriental street and populate it with natives of Persia, Armenia, Turkey and Egypt.
 The official acceptance of Honduras has just been received by President Collier of t le Cotton States and Interna tional expo- sition. President Bonilla writes that fre- quent revolutions have retarded the indus trial progress of Honduras, but the best possible exhibit will be made.
 The American charge d'affairs, MT. Me- Carr, writes from Santiago that the invi- tation oi the Cotton States and Interna- tional Exposition company, transmitted through the state department of the United States government and commended by our government, has been duly referred to the minister of hacienda (interor) and Is un- der consideration by that official.
 The fine arts committee has on foot broad plans for the exhibit at the Cotton States and International exposition. A liberal appropriation has been made for the purchase of pictures of merit, and 1t Is proba ble that a commissioner will be sent to Europe to secure foreign exhibits of high character.
 The management of the Cotton States and international exposition has closed contract with parties who performed sim liar service for the Worlds fair to bring to the Cotton States and International ex- position an Italian exhibit to cover 10, 0,000 square feet and an Austro- Hungarian eX- hibit of 5000 square feet.
 Work on the superstructure of the fine arts building proceeds rapidly, and the foundations of the other leading buildings 1atT f1n i'm. stant contracts were let to different firms for the following buildings: Manufactures and liberal arts, agriculture, electricity, machinery and mining and forestry. Work begins at once and an army of workmen will be on the grounds by New Year's. srhe contracts require the completion of these buildings by June l, 1895.
 Miss Elise Mercur ot Pittsburg, architect of the woman's building of the Cotton States and International exposition, visited headquarters recently, and while there gave this description of her plan: tThe building is to be purely classical in detail with Corinthian columns. It is to have several bay windows in front. The build- ing is to be covered with staff, and if 1t is decided to make it a permanent structure it will be mixed with hydraulic cement. One of the features of the building will be the terraces surrounding it. TL5 terrace will be 25 feet deep in front or the building and will extend around it." It has been decided 10 enlarge the DulldluB DecauSe all of the departments desired more space than had been assigned them.
 Within the past few weeks number of communications have been received from Col. 1. w. Avery, who represents the Cot ton States and International exposition in Brazil, and all indicate an early and favora- ble reply to the invitation to take part in the exposition. By fortunate coincidence, he was in Rio de Janero when the corner stone of statute to James Monroe was laid. All South American nations hold the Monroe doctrine in high esteem and the presence of commissioner from an exposi- ton to be held in the United States for the purpose of promoting closer commercial re- lations between those states and the repub- lies of South and Central America sug- gested to the committee of arrangements ani address from Colonel Avery as an appropri- ate part of the programme. He accepted the immense concourse of people, including invitation and made the address to an delegations from Argentine, Uruguay and Paraguay, together with high officials and dignitaries oi Brazil. The occasion brought the exposition prominently before the re- publics of South America, as the incident was widely reported in the newspapers.