Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — World’s Fair Notes. [ARTICLE]

World’s Fair Notes.

Wisconsin will have a $30,000 building at the Fair. A 100-year-old bearing orange tree, from San Gabriel, is one of the exhibits announced from California. Galveston, Texas, has raised SBO,OOO of the $150,000 which it pledged toward the State World’s Fair fund. Fifty public - spirited citizens of Utah have guaranteed $50,000 for an exhibit at the Fair from that Territory. New Hampshire, which claims to be the “Switzerland of America,” has appropriately planned to erect a Swiss chalet for its World’s Fair building. A new Directory was elected by the Exposition stockholders on April 2. With seven exceptions the members of last year’s Directory were re-elected. The Missouri World’s rair Board has forwarded to Chicago nine tree trunks to compose three of the columns of the rustic colonnade around the Forestry building. The Commercial Exchange of Dee Moines, lowa, has resolved in favor of raising $20,000 for the purpose of securing a creditable representation at the Exposition. R. S. Moore, of Newberne, N. C., claims to have fragments of the chain which restrained Columbus when he was in prison, and he intends to exhibit them at the Fair. A number of owners of steam yachts in New York intend to utilize them to transport themselves and their friends to the Exposition by way of the St. Lawrence and the 'Welland Canal. The main Exposition buildings require for their ornamentation 160.678 separate pieces of staff work. Of these, 108,000 have been cast, and more than 59,000 have been put in place on the buildings. Intending exhibitors at the Exposition can get the general rules and regu--lations for exhibitors, and thespecial regulations pertaining to exhibits in the department or departments in which they may be particularly interested, by addressing Director General Davis. The Great Western Railway of England will exhibit in the Transportation building the famous old locomotive, “The Lord of the Isles,” which was built at the company’s works in Swindon in 1851, from designs by the late Sir Daniel Gooch. This locomotive was a notable exhibit at the first World’s Fair in London in 1851. ~ Major Meigs, the Government Engineer, in charge of. river.improvements at Keokuk, lowa, is preparing for exhibition at the World’s Fair working models of the Government dry docks and engine house, the various boats used in making river improvements, and sections of dams, showing the manner of their construction. • ■•< From the reports and estimates prepared by the Exposition authorities for the Congressional Investigating Committee the following interesting facts, among many others, appear: To complete the Exposition and conduct it to its close will require of the directory a total expenditure of $22,246,403. Up' to March 1 the total expenditure was $3,860,934. The liabilities under contracts already maue are $4,692,724. The receipts have been $6,252,404, and the amount due from stock Subscriptions and city bonds, $5,713,051. The National Commission has expended $184,522, and estimates that $1,067,983 more is needed, including s 90,000 for awards. The lady managers have spent $57,811 and think they require $227,574 more up to the close of the Fair.