The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-04
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

Model schools for the blind and deaf
 Old St. Louis-as it was 100 years ago.
 lee plant produces 300 tons of ice daily.
 Special building on Art Hill for sculp- ture
 Typical 49 mining camp in Mining Gulch."
 Jubilee presents of the late Queen Vic toria.
 Outdoor mining exhibit, covering twelve acres.
 Rose garden. six acres in area, 5O.OOO rose trees.
 "lIing cotton." statue in cotton 30 feet high.
 sunken gardens 75O feet long and 100 feet wide. History of the Louisiana purchase told in flowers.
 Approximate cost of the Exposition. $50. .OO0,000.
 Palace of Education. 525 by 75O feet, cost $3l9,999.
 Palace of Electricity, 525 by 75O feet, cost $399 $40.
 Towers on Palace of Machinery are 265 feet tall.
 Forty thousand horsepower for Exposi- ton uses.
 Largest silver nugget ever mined; weighs five tons.
 Fair opens April 30, 1904; closes Decem- Der l, 1904.
 An S.0OO-horse power turbine engine in power plant
 Size of grounds. 1,24O acres nearly two square miles.
 Largest gas engine ever made, 3,0O0-
 The sum of s15O,OOO appropriated for athletic events.
 United States Fisheries Building. 1s3 feet square.
 Revival of the Olympian games of an- cient Greece
 Fifteen exhibits departments IA groups. sos classes.
 More than 100 important buildings on the grounds. Over fifty foreign governments to make elaborate displays. Philippine exhibit, costing $lOOo, 900, cov- CTS forty acres. Anthropology Building, 26S by 1l3 feet, I cost S115,000. Palace of Horticulture, 400 by 500 feet, | cost $22S, 000
 Palace of Machinery, 525 by 1000 feet,
 Palace of Liberal Arts, 225 by 75O feet, l cost $475, GOO. | Palace of Manufactures, 525 by 1,2O0 1 feet. cost $7l9 399. Conservatory 200 feet square in Palace l of Horticulture. Live stock exhibit covers 37 acres; s25O,- l 000 for premiums. Automobile chairs, carrying two per l sons, reach all points. Statue of Vulcan. in coal, iron and coke. 1 30 feet high. Art pottery manufactory in operation. showing processes. I Half a million dollars expended in deco I rative sculpture.
 Rainbow gardens line the Cascades; | flowers of every hue. Forty-four states and territories appro- l priate s5,S12, 300. | International congresses, learned men | from everywhere.
 Hank Monks stage coach--the one Hor- | ace Greeley rode in.
 Model strawberry farm, with 400 varie- l ties growing thereon
 Aerial navigation, s2O0,OOO appropriated | for tournament. 1 Amount raised by city of St. Louis and | citizens $l0, coo, 600. Intramural double-track railway to all | parts of the grounds.
 Floral clock, dial 100 feet in diameter. 1 hands 50 feet long
 Walls of ancient Manila reproduced in l Philippine exhibit. 1 Melon udN-0pu'UoO iHtlDIlS SeTNeu tO NlS- | itors without cost
 Natural garden where all North Ameri- | can wild flowers grow. Many historic structures reproduced for | various purposes. | Louisiana State Building to be the Ca | bido at New Orlenas. l Festival Hall, 200 feet high, in center of Cascade Gardens l Palace of Varied Industries, 525 by 1,200 | feet, cost s604,6o0. | Palace of Transportation, 559 by BOO | feet. cost s696.OO0
 Seventy-five thousand yards of sod laid | in Cascade territory. Wireless telegraph stations among | great electrical exhibits. | Great Britain to reproduce the Orangery | of Kenslngton Palace. | The Art Palaces. central structure per- | manent. cost s1040,000. 1 The Pike. a mile long. concessions cost l ing more than $5,000.000. Thirty-five miles of asphalt and gravel | roadways in grounds. l Inside Inn. within Exposition grounds capacity of COCO persons.
 Jerpsalem, the Holy City, important