People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — WILL NOT CLOSE THE GATES. [ARTICLE]

WILL NOT CLOSE THE GATES.

Jackson Park Will Be Open to the Public Through April. The idea of closing Jackson park to visitors from April 1 to May 1 has been abandoned. The failure of congress to make an appropriation for the benefit of the judges of awards has made the local officials feel poor, and they are loth to part with the revenue that now comes from the gates. All of the great exhibit buildings will be closed while the installation proceeds and between March 15 and May 1 will not open except to those holding passes signed by Director General Davis. The first five million of the souvenir tickets will be turned over to Superintendent Tucker of the bureau of admission April 1. Already many orders for tickets have been received, and it is thought that at least eighty per cent, of the lot will be sold to Chicago merchants for distribution among their customers before May 1. Superintendent Tucker figures that many of these tickets will be retained as souvenirs of the fair. President Higinbotham also expects many of the tickets to be held back and estimates that of the first five million at least one-half will never be presented for cancellation.

Vermont Sheep and Sugar. Vermont is aiming to make the finest maple sugar display ever seen. Not less than one thousand dollars will be spent on the pavilion in the Agricultural building within which the sugar will be exhibited. A communication from the Vermont executive committee announces that in addition to the displays within the Agricultural and Mines building much will be done. The dairy exhibit will be of general interest, as there will be at least fifty exhibitors. Fifty Morgan horses will be shown, including Gillig, Mack and Thought. A selected flock of one hundred sheep will also be shown, together with twenty-five head of Jersey and Ayshire cattle. Work of Japanese Women. The Japanese commissioners have presented to the board of lady managers statistics compiled at the request of Mrs. Palmer of the work of Japanese women. It is a voluminous document of many pages, written in the Japanese language, and gives interesting facts and figures of what the women of Japan have done and are do ing along industrial, educational, charitable and philanthropic lines. The compilation of statistics will be furnished in translation for the encyclopedia being prepared by the board of lady managers. The 'original manuscript, in a handsome portfolio, will be shown as an exhibit in the Woman’s building