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to the exposition grounds. For this
purpose the club will build its own
spur of track.
An association has been formed in
| Alabama to raise funds to provide and
maintain a worthy exhibit of the
states products and resources at the
fair. The legislature failed to make
an appropriation for official participa
ton.
Two contracts for concessions on
"the pike" were let recently. They will
be known as the magic whirlpool and
the Spanish concession The latter
will be a reproduction of a typical
Spanish scene composed Of the court
of Lions from the Alhambra and the
market place of Triana.
Canada's exhibit of fish will embrace
the fish from its inland waters, such as
| Hudson bay and the great lakes, its
principal rivers and both sea coasts.
A Canton (Mo.) mill will furnish free
trips to the fair for three ladies. A
ticket is placed on each sack of flour
and the three ladies collecting the
largest number of tickets will be the
recipient of free tickets to st. Louis
and the Exposition
The idea of having a great reunion
of the Greek letter societies during
the fair is receiving much attention
among college men. 1t was first sug-
gested by President Francis of the
fair at dinner in his honor by the
Beta Theta ri club of st. Louis
made up largely of the alumni of
Washington University of which Pres
ident Francis is q graduate. The
speaker recalled that % Greek letter
fraternites of the American colleges
boasted membership of abou+ 1870, 900.
He believed it would be an admira
able thing to bring them together at
the fair. 1t was suggested that GER
tain rooms in the temple of fraternity
might he secured for the use OF the
visiting Greek letter men and their
friends and that special days at the
exposition could with propriety be set
aside for such programs as commit
tee of the societies might determine.
One of the exhibits in the trans
Of n foir will no
model railway ticket office in full OPP
Grafton. Tickets TO any part of the
world may be bought at the office and
baggage checks and sleeper tickets Sc
cured. Visitors may also have their
special return tickets o. KID" en-.
aiding them to remain much longer
on the grounds.
The Massachusetts building will be
100000 reproduction of the old colo
NAL mansion at Cambridge which was
used hv washington for his headquar-
ters in the war of the revolution, and
afterwards by Longfellow as his home
The fair rose garden, which. when
! It covered four acres, was the largest
in the world, has now been increased
to six acres.
The palace of horticulture is on the
summit of Sllinker hill and is separ-
ated from the palace of agriculture by
$50 rect Of model landscape gardens
| The beautiful palace, 400XS00 feet, in
| its extreme measurements. is in the
| form OF cross with a center pavilion,
400 feet square. and two wings, each
| 204x2S0 The wings are divided from
the center pavilion by glass partitions
and the floor of each is 9 feet lower
, than that Of the center pavilion, This
difference in elevation produces a
monumental effect, which is further
heightened by the use in the main en-
trance on the north front of two tow
ers $50 feet high. The eastern wing Of
the building is almost entirely of glass
and will be used as conservatory. A
water heating plant is to be installed
in the cellar and the pipes are led
/ throughout the wing, The plants will
be forced during the winter and early
spring for outdoor planting, and in the
! couServatories will be kept tropical
plants. At the close Of the exposition
many of the valuable plants that would
perish from the cold will be stored
therein and kept during the winter.
The glass sides allow the admission
Of the sun throughout the day. In this
wing will be shown specimens Of plant
cultures grown In different countries
!, for use and ornament. and the forced
culture Of vegetables and fruits. The
west wing IS used for general horticul.
tural exhibits. The center pavilion
will contain the pomologieal exhibits,
including pomaceous and stone fruits,