People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1893 — EXPOSITION ET CAETERA. [ARTICLE]

EXPOSITION ET CAETERA.

In its exhibit at the world’s fair the government patent office will show upward of twenty-five hundred models, many of them being working machines The various transportation lines between the central portion of Chicago and the world’s fair grounds will be able to carry upwards of one hundred thousand people an hour. The last will and testament of Queen Isabella, in which she makes a number of references to the new world, will be a very interesting object in the Spanish exhibit at the world’s fair. The National museum at Washington, in its exhibit at the world's fair, will display a collection of coins and other metal money valued at nearly one million dollars. The women of North Dakota have arranged a novel exhibit for the state building. This consists of the cart in which the first settler of the county brought his bride to Pembina. Two white kangaroos will appear in the New South Wales exhibit. They are exceedingly rare animals. Only one other living specimen is known to exist, and that is an attractionin the Royal Aquarium in London.

The winning exhibitors at the world’s fair will each receive a bronze medal and a handsome diploma, setting forth the specific purpose for which the medal was awarded. Provision will be made, it is expected, for seventy-five thousand medals and diplomas. The exhibit of fine woods made at the world’s fair by West Virginia in the forestry building will consist of two hundred and fifty splendid specimens, finely polished and finished in a manner which will show the special characteristics and qualities of all growths and varieties to the best advantage. Allowing car-fare both ways, fifty cents admission to the grounds, a moderate lunch costing fifty cents more, a concert in the music hall, mineral water, care-fare on the electric railway inside the grounds, a ride on the electric launches, a glimpse of the Esquimaux and a catalogue of exhibits, the careful financier might see the whole show for about fifteen dollars, if he dispensed with such luxuries as peanuts, pop-corn and soda water. Visitors to the world’s fair who are infirm, crippled or simply weary, can do their sight-seeing in the various building by making use of rolling chairs. A company was granted the right, some time ago, of operating such vehicles, and by May 1 will have sixteen hundred young men, chiefly college students, in its employ to push them. The charges to visitors for making use of these chairs will be as follows: For chair carrying one person, seventy-five cents per hour, forty cents per half-hour; two persons, one dollar per hour, fifty cents per halfhour; one person, when chair is taken for a period of not less than ten hours six dollars for the first ten hours and forty cents an hour for the time over ten hours; carrying two persons, eight dollars for the first ten hours and sev-enty-five cents an hour after that.