Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — PROGRESS OF THE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

PROGRESS OF THE FAIR.

WORK THAT IS DOING FOR THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. Extent of the Preparations that Are Being Made in Our Own and Other Countries for the Great Vtorld’s Exhibit at Chicago 'led iu short Paragraphs. Guatemala will ssnd Its national band. Japan will spend $500,000 upon its exhibit The American Indians want to be represented. A herd of eighty-five buffalo will be exhibited. An extensive display of postage stamps may be expected. Manx of the foreign nations will erect buildings v of their own. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union intends to make a notable exhibit Peru has appropriated $25,000 to defray the expenses of making its exhibit Theodore Thomas, it Is announced, will be musical director of the Exposition. 1 It is next to certain that the Exposition will be open evenings, In all of its departments. ” ■ The Directory lias called -for plans and estimates for lighting, by electricity, all of the buildings. A Boston Orchestra composed of young women has ottered to furnish music at the Women’s Building. Thirty acres in the northern portion of J ackson Park ha\ e been reserved for sites for State buildings. The fine arts "building, which will cost about SOOO,OOO, will stand In the northern portion of thq grounds. Kwong Wo Quiong, a Chinese merchant in Hong jjfonifc has applied for space for an exhibit of Chinese goods. The people of New Mexico intend to raise $75,000 to add to the Territory’s World’s hair appropriation of $25,000. KansAs,- ’which defeated its World’s Fair appropriation, is' "how trying to raise $150,000 with vyhicli to make an exhibit. It is proposed to light both the buildings and grounds so brilliantly that everything can be seen at night as well as by day. An exhibit from Alaska will be collected under the auspices of the Government’s Indian Bureau and Geological Department. An enterprising Nebraska man says that he will take to the Exposition a crowd of 50,000 school children from Omaha and vicinity. The opening ceremonies will be extended through several days, and seme 15,000 militia and United btates troops, it is expected, wi.l participate. Lieut. Little, of the Navy Department, has sailed for Europe to complete the plans for reproducing the caravais which formed the lieet of Columbus.

An appropriation of $150,000 has been made by* the Exposition directjry, for the expense of the ceremonies attending the dedication of the buildings, Oct. 12, 1892. One hundred thousand soldiers gathered from the regular army and national guard would make an euective feature of the Fair, so General Miles thinks. CoMPLfIfrELY equipped police station and fire engine house will be erected at once, and the city will furnish them with a full complement of apparatus and men. As soon as they can be prepared 100,000 copies will be issued of a fine water color lithograph representing a bird’s eye view of the Exposition buildings and grounds. Ohio, which has an appropriation of SIOO,OOO to spend on its exhibit, intends to put about a quarter of it into a building, which will be made the State headquarters on the grounds. One of the interesting objects which wi.l be exhibited is a table, made from the timber of the house in Funchal, Madeira, in which Co uinbus lived for a time before ho began his voyages of discovery. The sum of $150,000 has been appropriat d by the Exposition directory for the construction of a pier exteding 1,500 feet or more into Lake Michigan at Jackson Park, and for an ornamental casino at its extremity. At a meeting of representatives of various religious, benevolent and reformatory organizations held recently In New York for the purpose, a committee of five was chosen to arrange, if possible, for the erection of a separate building at the Exposition in which can be shown the mothods and results of every description of religious, missionary and philanthropic work in this country.