Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — World’s Fair Notes. [ARTICLE]

World’s Fair Notes.

JaMaioa has i Teased its World’s Fair appropriation t” $26,000. One hundred tons of exhibits for the Exposition have already been collected and are awaiting shipment at Lima and Callao. An effort is being made to collect $25,000 with which to build the Exposition a headquarters for the Sunday schools of the United States. A company from the National Military Institute of Colombia, South America, wants tp attend the Exposition and camp on the’World's Fair grounds. The lofty stone monolith, whioh Wisconsin will ' exhibit at the Fair, will remain at JactSon Park permanently, the park commissioners bavins? given their consent. The monolith is 107 feet high and out from a solid block of stone. A circular has been issued by the Exposition authorities to all the railway passenger associations of the United States and individual roads, asking that a materially reduced rate be made by the railroads on the occasion of the dedicatory ceremonies next October. As an Illustration of the rapidity with which the work of erecting the Exposition buildings is being pushed at Jackson Park, it may be stated that on March 1 sketches were made for a building to serve as permanent accommodations for the Construction Bureau, the Columbian guards, emergency hospital central fire-alarm service, etc. The contract was let on April 2, and on April 30 the building was finished and occupied. The structure measures 200 by 300 feet.

The scene which the Expoeition grounds now afford, with most of the buildings nearing completion and the construction being pushed forward by more than 6,000 workmen, is accounted so interesting and wonderful that from 1,000 to 5,000 visitors a day willingly pay the admission fee of 25 cents to witness it. Before the abolition of the free pass system, the visitors often numbered as high as 15,000 or 20,000. The work of construction was interfered with, so that it was thought best to charge an admission and thus diminish the size of the crowd of sightseers and at the same time add to the financial resources of the Exposition.