The Archive · 1892

WORLD'S FAIR NOTES

The great Manufactures Building unde the change of ph ently made, is ex pectul to cost fully $1,500,000, of which sui $460,000 will be required for the huge iron trusses which are to span the great al nave, Negotiations are service during the military band of the pending to secure fi position the English cuts Fusilier Guards, which is celebrated aso eat bands in the world, Cart Vogele, the ana Siemens & Lalske. the big elec tricity firm in Berlin, called on Director-General Davis and asked for space for a special building in which the firm might make a disphiy of its electriont machinery and appliances. Herr Yo, id his trin would expend rely $21, ruble that a special building cannot be granted, but that 30,000 square feet of space will be allotted in the Electricity and Machinery Build Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of the Beard of Lady Managers, his sent te Queen Victori:, the Queen Regent of Spain, the Queen of Ital it of France, and several others, letters asking them approve and become patrons of th cly Manage ent of a comniit their respective countries to provide for such exhibition at the Word's Fair as will ud fitly illustrate the progress wf the ievements of women. Through the courtesy of Secretary Blaine these letters have been engrossed und sent. through the State Department at Washington, with instractions to the United State Ministers to deliver them officially to the Prime Ministera of the several countries, One of the exhibits that the Bal and Ohio road expects to show the Electricity Building isa model of telegraph wire strung along that Morse. The line ne miles extended from Balt " Relay Station, The line was laid d pipe.

The Teel posed of id Germ Tr has decided to issue a for-

German setting forth the vyment to be derived from n visit to the States and the World's Fair in 1893, its assistance to German he society will un-drake the work of establishing German bureau ion and will furnish in Tt also conten receptions and useful to the Germents will be served, will occupy the roof of the Woman's Build 1 Phe Com preprinted $25,000 time of the d ation of the Exposir, 1892. i Mrs. Emily G. D. Stevens, of Kust j Orange, N. J., is the firse woman selected nnong hae "why are to represent the jof flats ut the dedi October, 1892. These chosen, if possible, from dire i Revolu: who troops in the for Independence Jerse

feet be 1 wing tips will perch above the main eof the Manufactures Bu sot the sculptured jh ment the same [of Asia," and the has accepted mem:

gress of the World's Congress Auxilia aby in the de px) lis, &e., vf subjects counvetadl dir ravings, paintings, pho

indirectly with the diseuvery ged copies of every Colunbus and of all of the many historic vcings in which lo la a figure will be he" Exposition is being tically of dollars in effected. Mou the of hundreds of expense is thus of engines, pumps, use because they 4 them in operation, y planta will bes: 7 perts call ed that they can be pla y inspected by visitors.

The ceremonies jeatory of the Expos ill continue throach three days, Oetoler 11 1392. Each will be a 1 the lagoons, and fireworks. banquet at Delmonieo's, New York, December 21, given by Ca missioner Chauncey M. Depew, Jo Thatcher and Gorton W. Allen, tended by about 100° of the intue:

of New York ud by a number of nm otheiats including

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