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A NSW MBA FOB THE TOWN. ttumwMWUt we bare particularly discussed the admirable offer of the Elliott company for the street railway franchise of this city. It is hardly too much to say that with this ofbr luduuupolis enters n nsw era. Come what may,there has been demonstrated herd, what wa bare constantly maintained, that the ralue ef our street railway privileges was beyond anything that had been authoritatively declared here. By this we ‘meaa to scant no credit dot to the Board of Fablie Works. As we have taken occasion to say, it has played a great and admirabi* part. As a new departure its work was onerous. The percentage* that it proposed were, of course, minima. Its Judgment is not neossssrily impeached because able and far-seeing men have offered mubh better terms. The board ia to be congratulated, and The News congratulates it heartily. It extinds this congratulation to Mayor Sullivan. Of the good things accomplished since our charter went into effect, this is indeed a crown. No step has keen so far forward as this demonatration •f the value of our street-car franchise which Is made ny this offer. The community it ef but one mind concerning it It to a time for congratulation. We de not know that, any one contemplates obstruction, but we do not risk much iu saying that if any one does ha it providing for himself “a bad quarter ef an haws.'* It ia a happy time, indeed, list the work go forward to consummation. TMM BFMRET RAILWAY FRAN cmsE. Tm caasa of the conservation of the people's heritage for the benefit of the people made a tremendous stride forward in this attp yesterdajL The News has been insisting for days that the street railway fraaohiso to Indianapolis ia an immensely valuable privilege; that the city ought to gut from it as great returns as any other eity similarly sitnated is able to secure. Wo have referred to Tbrente’s suoueas in dealing with the street-railway problem as worthy of emulation. We Imre contended that as great benefits ought to be secured by Indianapolis as had been secured by the Canadian city. The result of yesterday proves ; that Tkb News was right in every material portion that it has advanced. Ws do not think that the franchise offered by the eity is what it ought to be in all raspeots. Ws think there are provisions ia it relating to the quarterly reports; relating to the paving of the streets, and t» heating which are unnecessarily onerous to the franchiss-holder and which do not aeoure the host results to the city. But if a company is willing to accept them as they stand no one need to object to them on account of their onerousuess. Our criticism of them so far as they relate to what ia best for the etty, however, still stands. Again, as we have before said, we think that the franchise period is too long; and that soma limitation should Have been placed ia the franchise on the issuance of bonds . and stocks. But the force of both of these oritidsms is lessened to a certain degree by toe fact that the company securing the ^franchise is composed of local capitalists who have proved by their liberal offer, in tim face of no opposition, that they have the interests of the city at heart. It ia not likely, therefore, that they will engage ia stock-jobbing practioes that will bring too fair fama of the eity into diare-

pate.

In the main, Indianapolis gets by the ufitor ef the Klliott company as favorable toma as Toronto enjoys. In fact, we are not sure but ishat our terms are better. It ia ditoeuki to determine exactly. Tomato goto tickets, morning and evening, eight for 26 cents and school tickets ten for 16 cents, in addition to tickets at any time aix for 26 cents or twenty-five for a dollar. Bat Toronto receives a smaller percentage of gross receipts and has to pave the portion ef the streets ooeupied by tho tracks and to maintain toe pavement. The annual mileage rental •f $800 for single and $1,900 for double tmek, which Toronto receives, we have regarded as an offset to toe paving requirement here. But on further consideration we are inclined to doubt whether it would be a full offset We get then, six tickets for 25 cents; toe paving of the parts of the streets ooeupied by the company; the matntenanee of this pavement iu repair; the sprinkling and sweeping of the traoke; the payment for recent permanent improvements tu streets where tho tracks Be; 10 per eeat a year of gross receipts for five years; I2K per cent for the next five years; 18K per cent for the third five yean, and 14^ per cent for the royean of the franchise

> grow receipts to average (as \ week) for the first period $800,000, for the second $900,000, for the third $1,0*0,000, and for tho lest (of fifteen years) $1,500,000, the money payments to tba eity on percentages will amount during the franchise period to $4,900,000, or to an average annual payment of $163,833.38. 'Ah# cost for the entire necessary plant for tba city will not exceed 000. Probably it will be much this. If the city chooses it can i to pi expiration of the franfer a sinking fund

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* itill he>e a targe amount to go into the general fund, either to reduce the tax

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We can not think that with this offer for toe franchise from rcsponsiblellndianapolia men there will be serious opposition to the Council to the approval of the contract. The Council faces a very grave responsibility. Its one idea ehould be to do what is best for the city. It has an opportunity to secure what wo believe to be the brat bargain for street railway service possessed by any city in the United States. Indianapolis will be a model for other

oitiee of the country.

W# congratulate the city on the prospect of securing so favorable terms. We congratulate the men of this city who have shown their faith in its future, and have manifested their public spirit by coming forward at this time with an offer to pay adequately for the great franchise. We believe that their faith is not misplaced; that they will realize handsomely on their investment, chile at the same time giving the city improved facilities and its share of

the profits.

We take some credit to The News for having demonstrated to the popular apprehension the value of the franchise and for having helped in educating the city up to yesterday’s denouement.

must have crossed the borderland of genius iu expressing them. The proper and felicitous marshalling of words is not always possible even with writers who turn sounding lines is their happiest moments. Marlowe, for instance, may be followed through many pages before he rises to lines of great merit such as ho sometimes attained—as in Faustus, of Helen: Was this the fisoo that launched a thousand sbjjfcs, And burned the topless towers of Iliumf There is so modi, bad English afloat, prose and verse, that the trick of writing is almost to be numbered with the lost arts. It is commonly said that we have not time for it ii this day of telegraphs and typewriters. Even the ostensible writers of literature boldly confess that they have resolved writing into a business, like house-building, or iron-mold-tog, doing so muck before dinner and a little more alter. The quality of the inevitable with them is likely, rather than not, to be a quality inevitably bad. But time, who soonest drops the heaviest things That Weigh his pack, will carry diamonds long, and it is safe and cheering to know that there still remains a welcome for the excellent. The great multiplication of books in this day only makes more certain and •Wift the return of the unworthy to pulp.

It is observed that Voorhees and Lamb are still calling for pie.

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. IT is absurd to suppose that the dav of better street railway faeilitiss has been indefinitely postponed because the Citizens’ company did not want the new franchise offered for sale by the city. The city holds that the present franchise expires next January. The Citizens’ company holds that it runs till January, 1901. If this company has simply rudimentary business sense it will go forward on its theory of possession. On business principles there are two sensible coursee open to it: (1) To sell its plant now on reasonable terms to the new company. If it is willing to do that it can probably get a good bargain, as it would be cheaper and pleasanter all around for the new company to get early possession than to be obliged to enter on a prolonged and expensive course of litigation. Or (2) the Citizens’ company following business principles can go ahead and develop its plant so as to get the largest returns possible from its investment for the rest of the life of its franchise. Grant that it has till January, 1901. It would be positively imbecile for it not to make improvements, which will greatly increase the earning capacity of the road. Tho groes earnings lart year were over $SCD,0fX). The company estimates that by using electric motive power on the whole system, the gross earnings could be increased to nearly $1,200,000 annually, while the percentage of expense to gross earnings would be reduced. The cost of making the change would not exceed $750,000. The increase in net earning power would he nearly doubled. The improvement would pay for itself in the seven years two or three times over, and at the end of that time the plant would be in a condition to sell at its full value. The present owners paid $3,250,000 for the property. It i>\ we repeat, absurd to suppose they are not going to make the most, of it for the time they have it. They want to get their money back. If they continue to operate the road, they can only get their money back by improving the property. In any event, therefore, we need have no fear that there js to be an indefinite postponement of improvements while men quarrel. Only children say they won’t play when things do not go just to suit them. That sort of spirit is not manifested by men in business.

“Yon* STBaar Railway” does not seem to be “to it.” , Tub whole town rejoices—that ia to say, every element in it but the Indianapolis Journal. It regards the cause of rejoicing— the offer for our street-car franchise—os a calamity. If ever a vested wrong or an ancient abuse is threatened, the Journal can he relied upon to defend it, every time.

The “unknown” had a very taking way with it yesterday; it even took some people’s breaths away. If the worst comes to the worst, anent the gold shipments, Marion county’s coroner might lend the Government some valuable assistance. « ^ . After their victories at Ft. Monroe, the Yankee tars are in high feather.

Hbbb Krupp hap presented his big gun to Chicago, and after the Fair it will frown on Lake Michigan front a fortification. Now let a cholera microbe Show himself.

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THE TRICK OF PHRASE. The fateful quality of words is so far removed from analysis that it is futile to attempt any close inspection of the laws which probably govern it and its employment A student may quickly separate into its parts a ringing line from a great poet; so far as the mere mechanics of letters is concerned he will be able to take sentences to pieces and put them together pgain. But he can not go much further; the question, why the words were put into the form in which he finds them leads him out of the field of syntax into a region which is only vaguely known. Great writers who have occasionally talked of their methods have shed little light on this subject Oftentimes their manuscripts havC shown that lines and sentences, which appear so felicitous, did not fiow readily and without effort It is possible to trace their uncertainties, and to see the pen pause doubtfully above a word or a sentence which has just been written, bnt which is not quite satisfactory. Some of Shelley's poems were left standing with lines uncompleted, an evidence that even hia ready thought was sometimes tardy iu performing its offices. The gift of curiosa felicita* was so marked in the case of Tennyson that an anecdote, now first related, bearing upon the element of inevitable expression, is of unusual interest At about the time of his elevation to the peerage he was engaged in conversation with a friend, who relates the incident He was asked for on explanation of what seems to be the happy luck of anthora in finding the fit word. "Tennyson panted,” says the narrator, “took hia pipe oat of his month, and then said, in hia deep voice, with peculiar solemnity: 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.* ” While this ie not very satisfactory to the student, it seems to be an evidence of Tennyson’s belief not only in inspiration, bat in inspiration by the Divine. The person who tells the story says that on the night before Tennyson wrote his name on the roll of peers, he was occupied in bringing to perfection a poem of four lines. This quatrain, Tennyson said, had given him as much trouble as many a substantive poem of length. The poet did not relax effort until hia mind and ear were satisfied that the stanza could not be improved. It has been discovered in the case of Walton, who, on the face of his writings was the woet artleee of com posers, that be made careful experiments in certain arrangements of words before finally acting a sentence. This would bo an art \ doth mend Nature -change it rather, hut, '■ itself is Nature. once re mark oil of Lovelace' thht s good things must have oven unconscious felicities; that he was building better than he knew whenever he did a really good piece of work. This amounts to a compliment, for if a writer’s iu.uivertenees form his greatest work, then he

The people are getting in their work up at Chicago before the law sets about preserving the sacredness of Sunday by locking them out of the beauties of Jackson Park on that day. Last Sunday twenty-five thousand people passed the turnstiles of the World’s Fair. The exhibits generally, of course, were not on view, but tho fisheries exhibit was measurably so, while the flowers have been planted and the beauties of the landscape are coming out in a way to gladdeu the eyes and hearts of the thousands who are shut in grimy rooms at hard work from Monday morning to Saturday night. And so they enjoyed themselves looking at the wonders of nature by water and land. Who will say that it is not an ennobling and elevating, and an altogether desirable thing to allow theso masses of hard-working people, on the only day of their lives that they have for such purposes, to see the fish, to see the flowers, to take in the beauties and wonders of man’s handiwork in art, architecture and manufacture? But the time is short; two morft Sundays, and the law to protect the Sabbath against man will go into effect, and the toilers of Chicago and the strangers w ithin its gates are to be shut out of the great Fair. They may wander, indeed, into Lincoln and Garfield and Washington Parks, where they may see trees, turf and flowers. But the superior beauties in Jackson Park are to be locked in. And this is in the year of our Lord, 1893!

The cyclone-infected constituents of Secretary Morton ^ould like him to throw bis weight on the wind valve.

Young King Alexander signalized his entrance into politics by capturing the primaries. Mr. Blount’s action in hauling down the American flag in Hawaii has aroused the old war feeling in that gallant veteran, Murat Halstead. The report that a syndicate has offered Dr. Keeley $10,000,000 for his gold cure makes clear one reason why the Doctor does not care to make his formula public. It certainly is a gold cure in one sense.

The visit of the old Independence Bell ought to give Indianapolis a patriotic tone.

We do not quite get the Journal’s point of view as to the bid yesterday. But as yearly as we can make out, it regards the offer of something like adequate returns to the city for the use of a valuable franchise as in the nature of a calamity. We are anxious not to misrepresent our gentle contemporary’s sentiments, so we hesitate to express an opinion as to what it thinks it means. We think it ought to make a diagram of its train of thought. It would be useful for future reference aftd comparison. All it seems able to see in the prospect is a “quagmire of litigation” and a postponement of rapid transit. Whence we infer that it thinks the city should hove accepted anything that their high mightinesses oi Pittsburg condescended to offer. Mr. Mason’s letter to the Board of Public Works is an able and interesting specimen of epistolary composition. Bnt it does not approach the high-water mark of excellence attained by that beautiful production, the first epistle general. A contrast: “Tho conditions are too onerous. We can not accept them.’'—fA. G. Mason,

President, etc.

“The city does not ask enough. We will accept all the conditions, and pay the city more nearly what we think it ought to have. We do not want the earth.’’-{Byron K. Klliott, attorney and agent. What really did Mr. McDonald, of Ft. Wayne, mean by all his brag and blaster and bluff and altitudinous talk? What is the use of blowing quite so “big” if, when the time to put up comes, one does the other thing? Elsewhere in this paper will be found the story of Bdwin Booth’s life and art, written by William Winter, taken from his admirable little volume “Shadows of the Stage,” published by Macmillan. Mr. Winter probably knows more of Edwin Booth’s temperament, the moods and springs of action that fora the outer life, than any living man. He has probably done more than say writer to bring to the contemporary generation an adequate knowledge of Mr. Booth. His own abundant knowledge, dsep penetration, and subtle appreciation of art added to his almost fatal facility of expression have given to this article, as they give, indeed, to much of his more serious work, rare value and interest. Tbr sun’s eclipse seems to have arrived on schedule time. - The Citizens’ company's troll sy ’s Chicago newspapers talk as if a person who drinks the lii£e water would never want any other. Doubtless. Dwight, Hi., has elected a license mayor. Boom the Keeley cure.

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There is a growing disposition on ths part •f too AmoHooa press to prod Me. Otoay.

Death and the Flayer. 1 watched the playm playing on their stage; An oid, delightiuJ comedy was theirs, Tho very picture of a gallant age, Full of majestic airs. Wit, virtuoso, captain, stately lord— Each played his part with smooth, Augustan grace; And, grave and curled, th* Olympian perruque* soared O’er each fine oval face. Anon, young Colia, poised on high, red heels. Advanced with Chloe,thc discoeeteoubreite: Her laughter rings abroad in silver peals; Her courtiers fawn and fret One was a whiskered son of awful Mats; And one. the favorite, a thing ot spleen, Whose paaqnil jests, a stream of failing stars. Illumined all the scene. They trod a minuet, and evermore. Betwixt the curtseying lady and her thrall, A masked and shrouded dancer kept the floor. Unnoted by them alL Alas, noor player, that was Death’s dance in deed! * The curtain fell; the masker’s fleshless hand Compelled thee to bis chariot, which, with speed. Rolled home to his own land. And now with cheeks and eyelids that confess Grim stains of the last midnight’s gay dis-

guise, pre “

Waere tneir dead or other Ilea*

How strange a graveside—oh, how strange a

scene!

The player’s double life in such eclipse! What a morality would this have been On those once mocking lips! Bnt they are dumb, and there’s scarce time for

tears.

Back to the town! They’re clamoring for our

plays.

Tis good that arch-comedian Death appears

But once in many days!

-Hr. G. F. to Macmillan’s Magazine.

“SCRAJPS.”

Geese in migrating often travel over six

thousand milel.

The will-o’-the-wisp ia caused by the decay of vegetable matter. There are 18,000 typewriters at work in New York, two-thirds of the number being

women.

The gate receipts at the World’s Fair in Chicago have already amounted to nearly

$300,000.

A convict in the Vermont State-prison received $12,000 for a piece of real estate a few days ago. The most remarkable springs in the world are in California; they produce sulphuric acid and ink. When a man finds a woman that there is nothing too good for, he wants her to take him.—[Galveston News. A Russian immigrant arrived the other day, clad in a long coat made from the skin of more than 1,000 Russian mice. There are some eight thousand saloons, more or less, in the city of New York, ami 7,939 of these have little side doors. A ton of diamond* at the present day is worth exactly £7,000,000. No more and no less. Don’t be imposed npon and pay £7,250.000.—[London Tit-Bitr. Mr. and Mrs. Dolores Diaz, of El Monte, Cal., were married in 1828—sixty-five years ago. Mr. Diaz is ninety-two years old and his wife is four years his junior. A kite string one thoasand feat long blew and lodged against the rigging of the Baltimore schooner Souther when it was in the Atlantic thirty-five miles from land. “Bones,” a dog, helped materially in the capture of a thief in Jersey City on Saturday. The animal caught the burglar and held him hy the leg until the police arrived. A family consisting of five brothers and two sisters, whose combined ages amount to 549 years, an average of seventy-eight years and thrje months, are living at 8t. Ives, England. The value* of beer and other liquor annually consumed in Des Moines is $1,200,000. The value of liquors annually Consumed in Iowa is probably $20,000,000. Large figures for a Prohibition State. A man at Monistique, Mich., was so annoyed by an unruly cow that he chased her through the streets swearing “like a trooper.” Finally his conduct became so offensive that the police arrested and fined

him.

In California, Vermont, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Wisconsin days of grace on maturing notes, drafts, acceptances and'tulls of exchange have been abolished, unless there is express stipulation to the con-

trary.

“Why do yon apply for this position when 1 advertised for a French nurse? You are Irish.” “Thrue for yez, mini. But I thought mebbe yez didn’t know that th’ Oirish puypel shpnkes betther English than thim Frim-n.”—[Harper’s Bazar. A curiosity of journalism is established on the top of Mt. Washington, the highest peak of New England, where an eutelWis* ing printer has built an office, from which he periodically issues a newspaper named, with much truth, Among the Clouds. A church committee in Pittsburg, appointed to secure a eornetist who was a church member and a Baptist, reported that it had experienced great difficulty, as most of the eornetist# seen not only were not Baptists, bnt actually did not belong to any church at all. The business of colonizing Africa with white people goes on apace. An expedition left England some’two weeks ago for Mozambique as advance party of settlers who are to colonize some three hundred square miles of territory between the rivers Zambesi and Sabi. The privilege of sunpiying cold air in West Washington Market, New York city, will be sold at public auction on April 24. The price for the cold air is not to he more than 3 cents per cubic foot per month, and a bond for $10,000 must be filed for the completion of the work. Graduate—I waut work, and am willing to do ’moot anything. Merchant—Are you athletic? Graduate—I was champion boxer of,my class. Merchant—Well, we’ll give yoii a show in our boxing department. James, take this young man up to the pack-ing-room and set him to work.—[Harper’s Bazar. John W. Crisfield is perhaps the only man in this country who has been married to his third wife for a half a century. On Thursday he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his wedding, and among the guests was an old friend who had been Mr. Crisfield’s best man at his first wedding.—{Philadelphia Ledger. A dispatch tells of the remarkable fatality of a family named Seagers, who live near Deatesville, Ala. Less than two weeks ago the entire family, which consisted- of ten persons, were apparently enjoying the best of health, while at the present time there are but three living, two of whom are expected to die shortly. They were talking about the beef, which was very tough, ot the boarding-house table. Some one suggested that it was from an old cow. “It seems strange,” said Mrs. G., “but the tenderest beef I ever saw was from a cow fifteen or twenty vears old.” “That’s easily explained,” saitf a big Irishman at the foot of the table; “tiie cow was so old she was childish.”—f Harper’s Bazar. Speaking of novel scarf-pins, there is a little man living at Eighth and Vine who is learning to sing. He has plenty of money and does nothing the live-long day but play on hia voice and exercise his piano. He wears a fine silk four-in-hand, into which is thrust a gold pin. To the pin is fastened a fine chain, and on the end of the chain is a chameleon—a beautiful creature that changes its color to suit the shade of the necktie on which it rests. When notin use the little lizard is fed on milk and music in the singer’s den.—[Cincinnati Times-Star. *• It is true enough that one-half of the world doesn’t know how the other half lives and it is likely that some residents of the Brooklyn Highte are unaware of the cave-dwellers who eat and sleep within fifty feet of their back windows. In cutting down the hill front to lay out Furman street a precipitous face of gravel was left, and, instead of making an easy slope from the crest of the flights to the water’s edee, the gravel was kept in place by a heavy retaining wall. This wall has been piefeed in several places, however, so that it has become the front of a row of underground houses, Veritable eaves, that extend back for abootithirty feet into toe hilt toe lawns and gardens of the rich people overhead constituting the roof. In these caves there are saloons, shops, store-rooms and tenements. They are dark and rather damp as they have no light or air except on the street side.—[New York Snn. Art Gulbs—Eastman. Schleicher 4 Leo.

NEWS OF THE WORLD’S FAIR

EXHIBITS THAT ARE NOW BEING PUT IN PLACE.

Wonderful Displays From Every Department of Hmnan Achivement —The Pisheriea Exhibit — Tho Great Organ of Festival Hall.

[Chicago Herald.1 Colossal, and yet symmetrical in design, scope and proportions, the msnnfacturee exhibit at the World's Fair is the crowning glory of the material fide of the great Ex* position. Whether handiwork or the results of intricate machinery, the display of the product of skilled labor will here reach its culminating point. * No comparison with previous expositions can be drawn in the case of manafactnres, because none other has ever had such space, such a setting, or such magnificent sur-

bali, and will be operated by 300 feet of electric cable. Marvelous effects will be possible between the main and echo organa. The periomer can l»e playing on the greater instrument and in an instant carry his listeners to toe lurther end of the building. Diminuendos can be made to die away effectively with the aid of the echo organ. The pipes ate to be elaborately decorated Mid supported by female figures.

New York City’s Rare Embroideries. [New York Sun. } The exhibition of art embroidery for the World’s Fair will consist of ten large and

s, panels and sofa pillows, which were made ’ expressly for the Fair. Besides these are numerous small novelties and a collection of mounted samplie pieces displaying every kind of work that is taught by the Society of Decorative Art. and from which orders are taken. One ot the most elaborate and unique pieces is a bedspread, Portuguese in design, rtyle of work and coloring. It is made of pile gray and green changeable silk, and is so closely covered with the embroidery that it has an enamel effect rarely seen in needle-work.

THE STATE BUILDING OF MICHIGAN.

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roundings. The leviathan building of the Fair houses the manufactures exhibit. Forty acres of floor space are here devoted to the most representative

products of the world’s skilled labor. w i Great a.s the space is it has proved scarcely 1 oRy j^autiftti 1 panel^for^wa^chMioratiMi one-tenth the amount that would have been OIie in R oeoco stv i e 0 f embroidery, in a necessary to satisfy the demands of would- [ ve ry antique pattern, on green satin, and a

Four persons were four months completing this artistio piece of work. Another spread is of white silk covered with an intricate pattern of Italian design and embroidered with one shade of old gold silk, inlaid work

be exhibitors. The rush of applications in j larger one of cream white satme. on which ’es department has far ex- | is an ancient motive carried out in applied

: any other portioi

World’s Fair, and the problem hai

partment nas iar ex- ; is an ancient motive carried out m applied

(•ceded those of any other portion of the j work, and partly painted and embroidered ’ TT ’ 1 ’ i problem has been to < flowers. Among the other choice pieces

’ worthy of mention are

discriminate in iavor of ^quality rather than quantity in every instance. The amount of space granted to foreign governments was necessarily so large that the monster floor of Manufactures Building has little more than one-lourth of the entire

space left for United States exhibits. DOMESTIC EXHIBITS CUT DOWN.

Domestic exhibitors have not received much more than one-tenth of the space they asked for. Nevertheless, it will be the greatest showing in manufactures that the United States has ever attempted, and the condensation of exhibits into the smallest possible space will not be without certain beneficial results when compared with the

compact foreign exhibits.

Grand beyond the power of description is the temple devoted to the exhibit of manufactures. Its exterior architecture has been so often described that the public is familiar with its vast proportions and symmetrical appearance from the outside. Inside, the view to the visitor, when the pavilions are all completed and the decorations in place, will be a revelation. Streets and avenues are laid out in the usual rectangular form oi a model city. Along these interior thoroughlares specimens of architecture by the world’s most famous designers vie with one another at every step. Miniature temples, kiosks, pavilions of modem design, columns and arches of every conceivable quality of architecture meet the eye at every point. Many of these are so striking and unique in design as to make them a model for much

larger structures.

THIRTY-Four. GREAT SUBDIVISIONS.

On the mammoth floor of the Manufactures Building are collected thirty-four large groups, or subdivisions, of the department. These are divided into more than two hundred classes of leading industries. These figures are given to show the scope of the department, which embraces the entire product of modern machinery and the skillful handiwork of man in every design ^nd form. In finish, and especially in the patient, laborious processes of manual

labor, it is conceded that tl

pieces

a. pale blue satin

portiere, with a Chinese design most exouisitely worked in an infinite variety of delicate colored silks, a fire screen in French ribbon-work on white satin, and a pale green sofa pillow, covered with Persian drawn work of wonderfully fine and

lace-like stitches.

labor,

hibitors

that the foreign ex-

may excel at the World’s Fair.

But in variety and in originality it is just as certain that the United states exhibit will surpass those of foreign countries. Keen rivalry has led to many competitive exhibits from the leading manufacturers of the United States. The department oflicials have insisted that each exhibit from domestic houses shall typify some special industry and that there shall he no huge displays which depend for merit on the amount of

space occupied.

The Fisheries Exhibit.

[Chicago Times.]

There will be fourteen car loads of live fish in the Fisheries Building, and three of them are already in place. Not that each car load in this instance contains a > million fish. The offspring of “fountain’ stream and sea” gave up being fry years ago and turned to eight-pounders or more. Big truculent monsters are banging their noses against the plate glass of the tanks and growing impatient for the opening of the Fair to give them a chance to see somebodv. For the most part they are natives of Washington, reared iu captivity. The untamed inhabitants of the ocean and lake have not yet put in an appearance. The present galaxy is almost ready to respond when Professor Jones calls its members by their Christian names, so tame and horoe-loring are they. The cars on which they reached Chicago are specially constructed for their transport, and a model of the vehicle is on view in toe Government Building. The men who had them under care during the journey spend their lives on the ears. Year in and year out they travel all over the country in charge of cargoes of spawn and fry. On this account but slight loss was experienced during the trip from Washington, and the fish are now in a most healthy condition. Of the fifty-four tanks in the aquarium building two-thirds will be filled with fresh water and one-third with salt water. Of the latter, 76,000 gallons have been shipped to Chicago and are now in a big reservoir underneath the main Fisheries Building. Thence toe liquid is forced by electric pumps to a reservoir above toe sqaunam annex, and a constant current is kept in motion through the tanks. Rubber tubes perforated with holes carry compressed air into the tanks, producing an additional current and keeping the water fresh.

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The great organ for Festival Hail, which is almost completed, will be a wonderfal piece of workmanship. It will have 4,014 pipes and 63 speaking stops—not to many as there are in the organ of the Chicago Auditorium, but in respect to power the World’s Fair organ will bo superior, ‘ipeing voiced and put on as high a wind-pressure' as the pipes will permiL” In the matter of room the builders have not been stinted, which was toe case when they constructed the Auditorium organ. Sightseers will have access to all parts of the Festival Hall instrument The echo organ will be placed at the extreme end of the

Bethlehem’s Stenm Hammer* [Chicago Record.] Astride the center aisle of the Transportation Building, dwarfing everything in the south end with its cyclopic proportions, the great 125-ton hammer of the Bethlehem iron-works arises to the roof beams. It is a full-sized model of the largest steam hammer in the world, and is built of wood and staff, for its original in Bethlehem, Pa., weighs 2,386 tons, and two years was spent in building it. To all appearances the model is solid iron. In size, shape and valve fittings it is a faithful reproduction, with the exception of the anvil block, which will not be shown in place, as it would obstruct the passageway. It is exhibited in the Transportation Building because the Bethlehem hammer forges steamship shafts and cranks, as well as guns and armor plates. John Fritz, chief engineer and superintendent of the Bethlehem iron-works, designed the hammer. It is shaped like a letter A. Its highest point stands 90 feet above the floor line and it is 38 feet wide. The housings or supports are each composed of two parts, the uper ones weighing 71 tons each and the lower ones 48 tons each. These are bolted together and are surmounted by an entabulature weighing 61 tons. This carries the cylinder, a leviathan casting, 76 inches inside diameter and 24 feet nigh. The housings are clamped to base plates each 10x8 feet in area and weighing 56- tons, giving a forty-two-foot longitudinal width of frame and a working floor twenty-two feet wide. At its lower extremity is the enormous “tnp,” which is made in three pieces, two forming the ram and a third the die. It is the tup which strikes the blow. The hammer is single acting. That is the tup, piston and rod, which weight 125 tons, are lifted by steam, and fall a distance of sixteen and a half feet Ths full stroke produces the maximum power of the hammer by gravity alone, as no steam is ased to drive it down.

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World’s Fair Notes. More than $16,000,000 has been paid out thus far by the Exposition Company alone in preparation of the Fair. An expenditure of six or seven millions more wilfbe made. urwrKs .ssiiis from a common kitcheu, situated in the 125 b* 32^ °t tbe grouncls ’ Mid measuring The World’s Fair will be opened promptly on May 1, and, notwithstanding many reports to the contrary, everything except, possibly, a few minor details, will be completed and in readiness for inspection by the public. Tjeldie, the Norwegian sculptor of Minneapolis, will represent Hiawatha bearing Minnehaha in his arms across wild and rushing rivers. This is to be m the form of a statue for the Minnesota Building at the Fair. The women of the State pay for it Italy, which for a long time declined to participate in the World’s Fair, has made or about rtslljm and other financial interests have also supplied funds with liberality. Forty-five precious historical documents relating to voyages and discovery of America are to be exhibited at the World’s Fair. The Duke of Yeragna, the living descendant of Columbus, has agreed to Tend them. The forty-five papers form almost a history of Columbus’s career as discoverer. In the list is the original commission given to Columbus by Ferdinand and Isabella upon his departure for the first voyage, it is

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The statue Germania, which is to adora the imperial portal of a new German Parliamentary buildingin Berlin will be shown at toe World’s Fair. Through th* efforts of Herr Wermuth and the consent of Emperor

to be I .u v-ia-icu . JL». V . U, V W.. who also publish the official catalogue of the Fair, promises to be a most sttractiv# and useful book. It wili virtuallv be the “Bine Book” of the Exposition, and will contain, besides many fine illustrations, a vast amount of reliable information relative tlte Fa’ * r * nt dcpart,neIlts and * eatar * a ot The women of Mississippi, who are patriotically endeavoring to have their State creditably represented at the World’s Fair, will build a fortification of cotton bales on the grounds, representing Vicksburg during the siege. One hundred bales of cotton wifi be usea in building the fort, and on the inside will be exhibited all the products of toegreat staple. The women will ornament their cotton fort with nunibers of historic cannon, nags and other relics of the war. Bretros Effendi Heiweh, the famous o$ental decorator, has arrived ia Chicago from Paris with forty large boxes, eontainiug the parts of a wondorml work which is to be displayed at the Worlu’s Fair. It is to represent the luxurious splendor of a o» ®n eastern sultan. It is madepf 2,006,000 pieces of mosaic and took ten

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