Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1913 — Netherland Monarchy. [ARTICLE]

Netherland Monarchy.

Next year the Netherlands wfll become an independent monarchy, and the event will be commemorated hi various forma One will be a maritime and naval exposition covering 50 acres on the north side of the harbor of Amsterdam. The land Is now worthless, hut will be permanently drained and afterward used as a park, fireproof buildings will be extensively used, one to contain a large historical collection, which will be one of the twenty departments of the exposition. Other features will be a reproduction ot an East India Dutch colony; the machinery department; an exposition of the Dutch fishing industry*, a ship’s bakery, a wireless telegraph station, and amusement plans which will Include a reproduction of old Amsterdam with its quaint shops, houses and restaurants.