The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-23
NEXT YEARS E FAIR
OME OF THE THINGS AMERICANS
WILL EXHIBIT IN PARIS.
~Indfana's Progress in Building Good
Roads to BE shown by Means
of Photographs.

NEW YORK, Oct. s22.-Mr. Ferdinand w.
Peck. United States commissioner general
of the United States Commission to the
Paris exposition, speaking of the American
end of the exposition, says:
I'VE have been busily engaged in COL
lecting exhibits and now we are called upon
to deliver the goods. I think our part in 1t
will be highly creditable 10 the Nation. I
have no doubt that the exposition will open
on schedule time, as / am advised that the
work is in a state Of satisfactory advance
ment."
The parks of milwaukee, will be part of
the exhibit of that city at the Paris EXPOSE
ton next year. A series of Photographic
views of the public parks will be shown.
The views are handsome and are mounted
on extra heavy board 22x2S inches in size.
four views to a card.
At the Paris exposition the central power
station will be 1900 feet long and 12O feet
wide There will be 5000 steam horse power
and 5000 electrical horse power. The steam
will be supplied at a pressure Of 142 pounds
per square inch. Electricity will be sup
piled at voltages of lbs, $50 and 500 for d.
rect, and 200 for alternating currents.
The exhibit of the Omaha public schools
for the Paris exposition has been shipped
to Albany, N. Y, where the school exhibits
OF the country are being collected for ship
ment abroad.
The Yosemite valley is to be exhibited at
the Paris exposition. 1t is being painted by
panorama building. The wonderful sight
will be viewed from a platform placed near
the entrance of the building so that the eye
Will take III the entire length OF the valley.
"OLD PARIS"
One feature of the Paris exposition is to
hn m ssn11 Do~f~fs
and faithful reconstruction of life in the
fifteenth century. The architecture, cos
tunes and crafts of the times are to be
shown. The narrow streets are to be repro
duced. and lining them will be exact dupli-
Gates of the tiny little shops wherein a
cosmopolitan of Lombards, Florentines.
Danes. Orientals and Flemish dealt in rare
and curious merchandise.
Chief of the Fire Department James A.
Baxter. of philadelphia. and Chief Gilbert
chosen TO represent Pennsylvania at the
international Congress of Fire Fighters to
be held at the Paris exposition of 1900.
been in South Dakota for the past three
months making models in clay of Indians
for the Paris exposition. He found some
me specimens or the American aborigines
among the Sioux at at the Grow Creek
agency, South Dakota. and succeeded i'm
working up a half dozen splendid models.
ANNOA oAodA Ill D. b., ~ en-
gagged In polishing $1,000, 900 worth of chal-
cedony. or petrified wood, for exhibition
at the Paris exposition. The wood is found
In Arizona. and is shipped to Sioux falls i'm
great logs and stumps, weighing many tons
each, to be sawed up and worked into col
mmns, table tops, cuff buttons. jewelry, etc.
can cut into it to the extent of only three
inches a day, the petrified wood being sew
enrtenths as hard as adiamond.
Ine nrst Paris exposition was held in
1iSs. one hundred years ago, and was the
fairs.
The agricultural department Of the Uni
versity of California will send exhibits TO
the worlds fair at Paris. They will form
a part or the exhibit OF the United States
Department of Agriculture. Soils from diff
ferent localities in the State. as we'll as
walls containing their chemical constituents.
VIII form the chief part of the exhibit. A
will also be sent. A nickelplate model of
the soil separator invented by Prof. Hill
gard. which was exhibited at the worlds
fair In Chicago. will compan the ex-
hibit.
INDIANA'S GOOD ROADS.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, Is preparing
Tor the Paris exposition an elaborate ex-
hibit by means Of photographs which is to
demonstrate the progress made in good
roads in that State.
The State of Indiana has 5O.oOO miles of
graded and graveled highway, an average OF
ever $50 miles TO each of its ninety-two
countless: there are S.6s3 miles of pike COM
parable with the best roads In France. and
but 200 of them are owned and controlled
by corporations maintaining tollgates. The
latter have been abolished. as the roads
have been improved by the State and coun-
ties; Inc people OF Indiana found good
roads a good investment.
The United States electric exhibit at the
Paris exposition ON the Champ de Mars
VIII be very interesting from a historical
ana documentary point of view. The great
american inventions OF recent years will
De somewhat disseminated in the various
1oreign sections, because the leading firms
OF American origin have important estab-
ilsnments In France. Germany and England
and Will consequently exhibit largely in the
sections OF these countries as well as i'm
the United States section.
The work of erecting the foreign paviIions
Is being rapid hurried forward. Bv
means OF metal framework and fire-proof
timber, faced with a light covering of deco
rative veneering in steel cement" and I'm
stat. these buildings are given all the
appearance OF solid stone edifices.
The United States commission has now
been shown the exact amount OF space re-
served TO American exhibitors at the Paris
exposition annex. The installation at Vim
cennes of an important United States an
mex. devoted almost exclusively 10 machine
tools. promises TO be most interesting. The
building will be entirely of steel taken
10 Paris for that purpose from the United
states. All exhibits comprised in Class %
will be displayed I'm this annex. and MIR. +.
r.. Drake. director OF machinery and cleo
tricity I'm the United States commission. in
preparing some powerful and remarkable
The great difference I'm the various pro-
cesses OF French and American manufac-
lure VIII be shown In practical fashion.
MIR. Drake recently remained several weeks
IN Paris. and has now returned 10 the
United States and has submitted his plans
20 the commissioners general. the Hon. Fer