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TRAVEL MADE EASY.
H&W People Are to Be Moved
Around Jackson Park.
fflM World's Fair Electric Railroad—Elec
ttjc Laoncbes and Venetian GoudolM
If the Score —The Moving
Sidewalk and Chairs.
[Special World's Pair Letter.]
How to move people about in Jack
son park with safety and comfort was
for a long1 time one of the most vexing
questions that confronted the man
agers. The park includes in all about
700 acres and the land lies in such a
way that a person who walks from the
Iowa building, which is in the extreme
northeast corner of the grounds, down
to U» buildings where the mummies
It might appear that a company in
tending to charge but five cents for rid
ing from one end of the grounds to the
other would not be justified in making
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE.
such an immense outlay on a road that
will be used but six months. When it
is considered that this company surren
ders to the exposition managers one
fourth of its entire receipts, the figures
become still more alarming but those
who have built the road are confident
that it will prove to be a paj'ing invest
ment. The road is now done and cars
are ready to be raised to the track. It
is not likely, however, that trains will
be run much earlier than the opening
of the exposition. Six miles of single
track have been laid on a structure sub
stantial enough for permanent uses.
The road begins away down in the
southeast corner of the park over near
the buildings where Kmpp's immense
display of guns will be located. It
sweeps down past the leather and for
estry buildings and then turns toward
the main section of the exposition, run
ning around the end of Machinery hall,
across the roof of Transportation build
ing and then along the west line of the
park, past Horticultural hall and up
through the section devoted to state
buildings. Then it swings down along
the shore line again among a group of
foreign buildings and terminates near
Uncle Sam's big house. The track is in
the form of a continuous loop and the
cars keep running around all day with
out a moment's delay for switching or
making up new trains. The run will
be made from one end of the grounds
to the other in perhaps twenty minutes.
If a visitor prefers to make the
circuit of the grounds by water he can
do so by getting into one of the elec
tric launches that plow through the
lagoons interlacing the park from one
end to the other. There is a water
course within the grounds of almost
three miles, and a New York company
has contracted to put fifty launches,
operated by electric storage batteries,
on these waters. The launches are
now ready and all of them will be on
the lagoons several weeks before the
opening of the fair. The picturesque
features of the lagoons will be height
ened by a number of gondolas manned
by Venetian gondoliers in gay costume.
These gondolas carry but a few persons
each, in fact no more than half a dozen,
while the electric launches will com
fortably seat forty passengers.
Up on the boulevards a number of
interesting vehicles will be at the dis
posal of visitors. One company has
contracted to furnish 2,000 roller
chairs which are propelled by small
storage batteries fixed under the seat.
These chairs are to be leased at a fixed
rate per hour and it is expected that
they will be in great demand not only
among the aged people and invalids,
but also among younger folks who
may /get tired tramping over the
boulevards. In addition to these a
largo number of roller chairs, pushed by
athletic young men, will be at the dis
posal of visitors.
Ifat perhaps the strangest of all the
ways of getting about at the park
will be by means of the moving side
walk. This concern is just what its
name would suggest—a sidewalk that
travels along over a fixed course. You
simply buy a ticket, walk through aturn
stile and step on the walk, which is in
continuous operation. At one time it
was proposed to substitute this moving
walk for the electrical railroad, but
that project was abandoned. The mov
ing sidewalk has been brought into use
for carrying passengers from the end of
a long pier that extends far out iD Lake
Michigan to enable steamboats to un
load their crowds. This pier is more
WORLD'S FAIR ELECTRIC LAUNCH.
tnm Peru will crouch in the Anthro
pological building, would cover a dis
tance of almost two miles. Jt is a mile
in a straight line from the northwest
corner of the grounds to the Opposite
corner at the south end, but along the
lake shore the distance is double that
amount.
An interesting variety of schemes
was proposed by inventors and adven
turers for covering the magnificent dis
tances for it was apparent from the
start that visitors would demand trans
portation facilities far better than those
of any prevous exposition. The enor
mous area of the grcunds made them
necessary. From the many different
schemes proposed managers of the ex
position have selected half a dozen or
more which they believe will answer
all the demands that will be made upon
them and at the same time bo of inter
est to the crowd. The most important
system in the park is the electrical ele
vated railway built and equipped at a
cost of nearly §700,000.
than a quarter of amile long and it was
argued that many visitors would rather
pay a small fee to ride from the end of
it down to the shore line than walk.
The traveling sidewalk is now com
pleted and, like all other schemes con
nected with the fair, the managers ex
pect to reap a rich harvest from those
who may be attracted by its novelty.
WILLIAM IGLEHEABT.
EXPOSITION NOTES.
WRIGHT & SONS, an English firm,
have sent 120 anvils for exhibit in the
machinery department.
MASSACHUSETTS has been assigned 500
square feet inside the Horticultural
building and 1,000 feet of the wooded
island for plants and flowers.
THE Dudley Buck glee club, of Pu
eblo, has been chosen to represent Col
orado in a musical way at the world's
fair. The club is composed of twenty
members.
TnE reproduction of the Yucatan
ruins is completed. The structures have
been painted the exact color of the orig
inals, which were for many centuries in
the tropical regions.
THE German empire will exhibit in
the Horticultural building 1.000 square
feet of azaleas, 1,000 of caladiums, 10 of
pelargoniums, 200 of asparagus plums,
2o0 of lilies of the valley, and 200 of cy
clamens.
FIFTY men in uniform of the Royal
Engineers, of England, will be sent to
Chicago next summer to represent the
leading artillery and other regiments
of Great Britain. Their expenses will
be paid and a bonus of §10 granted for
their time.
IOWA will make a showing in the
Mines building. Her exhibit will show
a coal mine from both an interior and
exterior point of view. Coal will be
placed inside a shaft in natural posi
tions with figures of miners and all
mining appliances. Another exhibit
will show the mouth of a shaft with
hoisting machinery.
THE offices of the bureau of urnisic
announce that the famous conductor,
Hans Richter, of Vienna, has been se
cured to conduct a series of Wagner
concerts in Music hall. Hans Richter
may be said very justly to be the first
great orchestral conductor in the
world. He is the master spirit of the
annual Wagner performances at
Baireuth.
WOMEN in Pennsylvania made a table
for the fair. It was composed of his
torical woods—timbers from celebrated
localities and famous buildings. It is a
sort of "crazy quilt" in furniture. ThilJ
table is now at the park. It came the
other day, but has not been unpacked.
When the Woman's building is dedi
cated Mrs. Palmer will stand behind
the Pennsylvania table.
THE Isabella coins, issued to the
board of lady managers, will be ready
for distribution with the opening of
the fair. The souvenirs are of artistic
design. A vignette of Queen Isabella
appears on one side and an appropriate
inscription on the other. Forty thou
sand of the quarters are to be minted,
and Mrs. Palmer has been offered $40,
000 for them. The offer was refused,
as the lady managers will not sell the
issue to speculators.
IDAHO intends to have a mineral
shield at the fair which will represent
the mineral products of the state. The
shield will be shown in the Mines build
ing. Some Idaho stone chiselers have
been working upon it for months, and
have developed with perspective ac
curacy the typography of an Idaho
canyon, a stamp mill, sunrise scene, lone
pine trees, farmer's boy plowing in the
valley, a delineation of justice, and a
few Idaho animals. The ground work
is of magnesia, and the various marbles
of the territory have been employed in
lending colors.
Isabella's Original Will.
Queen Isabella's original will may
be seen at the fair this year. The
precious document is regarded as the
most interesting one owned by the
Spanish government. It contains in
structions as to the treatment of the
natives of America. Along with the
will is shipped the original portrait of
Columbus in Jthe National gallery.
Visitors will be given an opportunity to
see the face of Columbus as pictured by
his patrons. The shipment is being
made on the United States steamer
Newark.
GUATEMALA'S EXHIBIT.
The Little Republic Will Have tflat
Home at Jackson Park.
The Guatemala, building at Jackson
park will be finished soon and the ex
hibits that have been collected for
warded to Chicago. The building it
self is an interesting one, but the gar
den that surrounds it is much more so.
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THE GUATEMALA BUILDING.
To the left a coffee plantation, small,
of course, but large enough to show
how the berry is cultivated, will be
laid out and worked during the fair by
natives. Plants in different stages of
development have been gathered, so
that the crop will not ripen at the same
time. Around the building and scat
tered through the tropical garden a
number of thatched pavilions will be
raised, just as they are down in the
coffee fields, and from these steaming
cups of the most fragrant coffee the
country affords will be served to visi
tors. Palms, cacti and all the beauti
ful flora of that tropical country will
dot the garden.
The lumber and mining industries o
the country are next in importance to
coffee growing and these are to be well
represented. Mahogany in every form,
from the log to highly finished furni
ture, will form this exhibit. Pine,
ebony, cedar and other lumber will be
treated in the same way. The mining
interests have also received due atten
tion. Gold, mercury, silver and other
metals will be shown in many attrac
tive forms.
STATUE OF COLUMBUS.
Lawrence's Work to
Aim the
World's Pair Grounds.
The statue of Columbus made by
Miss Mary Lawrence is six feet high,
representing Columbus just setting foot
on land, lie holds the standard of
Castile and Aragon uplifted in his left
LAURENCE STATUE OF COLUMBUS.
hand, while with his right he points his
sword heavenward, as if invoking a
heavenly benediction. The head is
thrown back. The face is deeply lined
and looks careworn.
On the suit of armor is thrown the
martial cloak of that day. The hands
are incased in gauntlets and falling
from the cuirass are the tassels or
skirts of sliding splints of steel.
Cast in bronze the statue will adorn
the plaza fronting the Administration
building at the fair.
Germania Statue Coming.
The statue Germania, which is to
adorn the imperial portal of a new Ger
man parliament building in Berlin,
will be shown at the world's fair.
Through the efforts of nerr Wermuth
and the consent of Emperor William,
this masterpiece of German sculpture
will be brought to Chicago. It will be
placed in the Manufactures building
as the crowning piece of the German
section there. When Germania is in
place there will be seen represented a
typical German mounted on a war
horse, with an imperial flag in the right
hand and an old German shield with
the war eagle in the left. A youthful
warrior, with sword and laurels, shows
himself to be the recipient of the gifts
of the goddess of victory heralding
the glory of victorious battles. These
are stationed on either side of the
figure.
Two Venerable Locomotives.
Some rare old relics will come from
Canada to the fair in the shape of two
of the first locomotives constructed in
Europe. They were built in Durham
England, in 1837 and 1838, and came
from France, where they were on ex
hibition. The French government has
kept these locomotives since the Paris
exposition, and it was with much diffi
culty that they were secured for the
fair. They are queer pieces of mech
anism as compared with those at pres
ent in use, having vertical cylinders
and connecting rods, with fire boxes
and smoke boxes in front. The loco
motives are accompanied by a tender
and an old-fashioned passenger coach
upholstered in satin.
Spain's Gift to America.
The government of Spain has official
ly tendered, as a gift to the govern
ment of the United States, the Santa
Maria, which is now on its way to
America to participate in the naval re
view, and which will form a part of the
Spanish exhibit at the fair. The cere
monies of the presentation will take
place on some date near the close of the
exposition. It-is the intention to take
the Santa Maria to Washington for pei
raanent exhibition.
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBIT.
Finest Display of I to Kind
Ever Seen.
Flowers from Every Clime Will Bloom at
the Columbian Exposition—Work of
tlie Department of Viticulture
—Pomological Treasures.
[Special World's Fair Letter.]
Flowers from every clime, wines from
all nations, fruits from the four corners
of the earth—all may be seen in the
•horticultural department of the world's
fair. The building set apart for this
exhibit is a noble structure nearly 1,000
feet in length, 250 feet wide and sur
mounted by a graceful glass dome. The
structure is built largely of iron and
glass and cost §300,000. The plan is a
central pavilion with two end pavilions,
each connected with the center by front
and rear curtains, forming two in
terior courts, each 88x270 feet. These
courts are planted with shrubs and
orange and lemon trees. Under the
great dome rises a miniature mountain
covered with palms, tree ferns, India
rubber trees and other tropical foliage
and flowers, with a cascade of water
tumbling over its sides to the fountain
pool below.
The arrangement of this central court
is very beautiful as well as novel. Great
curtains of green vines shut off one de
partment from others, and everywhere
the visitor is surrounded by green walls
that appear as firm as a vine-covered
mountain side. The vine known to bot
anists as cobea scandens was chosen for
these curtains, because of its hardy
character, rapid growth and luxuriant
foliage. These dainty vines clamber
everywhere over the architectural iron
work of the interior structure, reaching
even to the apex of the dome and mak
ing of the balconies bowers for fair
Juliets who may gaze on the scene be
low. Hanging baskets of odd shapes
and all manner of material are sus-
MAIN ENTRANCE TO HORTICULTURAL BUILDING.
pended everywhere, their contents dis
playing rare bits of color against the
green background of the vine curtains.
Within the central portion of Horticul
tural hall all the tropical plants are
stored, together with many delicate
flowering plants that cannot withstand
the sudden changes of temperature so
often noted in Chicago.
Quaint shrubs, that one would in
stinctively guess come from Japan, form
a part of the collection in the north
wing. Dwarf pines and cedars, hun
dreds of years old, and not more than
four feet high, attract much attention.
Like most human dwarfs they are ugly,
showing their deformities plainly. The
secret of dwarfing trees has been known
to the Japanese for centuries, and, like
their forefathers, the Japanese garden
ers at Jackson park are not willing to
impart their secret to others.
The greenhouses have been filled with
blooming plants all winter, and Super
intendent Thorpe is awaiting fine
weather to make an out-of-door display
that will astonish the world. When the
exposition opens there will be thou
sands and thousands of violets arranged
in beds about the Horticultural build
ing The pansies, too, will then be in
bloom, 270,000 of the plants being
placed in one big bed. They are of
every variety and every color, and the
collection will be the best ever shown.
Holland will be outrivaled in the tulip
display, 200,000 bulbs now being ready
to put out. There will be forty beds of
cannas, blushing from their great
stalks in front of the Horticultural
building, while the display of
hyacinths, rhododendrons, narcissi,
azaleas and other early summer flowers
will make the grounds about the big
glass dome very attractive.
Then will come the roses. These will
be placed mostly on the wooded island.
They are of every color and variety and
will bloom along throughout the sum
mer until frosts appear. There are thou
sands of rose plants scattered every
where on the island. Then will come the
display of orchids. There are hundreds
of varieties and they will bloom through
out the summer. Most of the plants
come from Mexico and South America.
One single florist will make an orchid
display costing $40,000. At other times
during the summer there will be special
shows of petunias, begonias, clematis,
azaleas, all varieties of lilies, sweet
peas, peonies, iris, carnations, phlox,
asters and other varieties of plants. The
jwiPPiiliBlsji
display of aquatic plants will be es
pecially complete and valuable. Toward
the fall will come the chrysanthemum,
the close of the fair to be marked by a
display of these flowers. Every week
during the exposition there will be a
cut flower display on tables reserved
for this purpose in the balconies of the
building.
The department of viticulture prom
ises the largest and finest exhibit of
wines ever got together. Every wine
growing nation of the world is repre
sented. Naturally America has the
largest representation, but the vine
yards of Germany, France and Spain
are not far behind California in making
a complete display. At a rough esti
mate nearly twenty million dollars of
capital will be represented in the wine
exhibit, which is located in the south
pavilion of Horticultural hall. Within
this great pavilion are scores of smaller
structures put up by the various nations
and firms making displays. Germany
has what may be termed a cellar above
ground stocked with the choicest prod
uct of the vine and some of it of great
age and almost priceless value. The
framework of the structure is of iron
and the panels are covered with mural
paintings showing important wine
growing districts of the fatherland.
There are pictures of the Rhine, with
its terraced vineyards, of the districts of
Moselle, Alsace-Lorraine, Strassburg and
the famous river Neckar. Thousands
of bottles (three of each kind of wine),
are arranged in artistic groups about
the Rathskeller. France has about one
half the space occupied by Germany,
but the display of champagne is said to
be the finest ever got together. Every
process of wine-making is fully illus
trated. Russia, Austria, Canada, Spain,
New South Wales, Mexico and other
foreign nations have a splendid show
ing of good things in liquid form, some
of the rarest and most costly vintages
being exhibited.
Wonderful development in the na
tive wine industry is shown in the do-
mestic exhibits, which are made od a
lavish scale by some of the great Amer
ican wine growers. Senator Leland
Stanford's monster vineyard of 7,000
acres in Lower California has a splendid
representation in the pavilion that is
typical of the state in both size and
tropical appearance. A fountain spout
ing wine is one of the attractions of
this pavilion. The fountain is inclosed
in a glass case to preserve the wine
from atmospheric contamination. Na
tional vineyard scenery and the processes
of wine manufacture are also shown.
Other great wine-growers of California
make a collective exhibit, showing coal
grottoes filled with wines, storage cellars
and actual working scenes showing the
processes from the handling of grapes
to the bottling of the sparkling juices.
One coppersmith has an ingenious ex
hibit of a continuous still, consuming
grapes at one end and pouring out wine
at the other. One wine-grower shows
a fermenting tank, 20 feet deep and 16
feet in diameter, made of a single red
wood log. New York wine-growers
make a collective exhibit in an artistic
pavilion, showing dry and still wines,
champagne and brandies. A pyramid
of bottles filled with vinous products of
the state stands in front of the entrance.
Ohio and Lake Erie growers also com
bine in a collective exhibit, their pavil
ion being ornamented by a huge Cor
inthian column made of wine bottles
and surmounted by an eagle, the col
umn slowly revolving and being orna
mented by clusters of grapes. Missouri,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey
and other states will also make exten
sive displays. One eastern wine-grower
makes an extensive exhibit of wines
made from grapes grown on the battle
field of Bull Run.
The department of pomology will be
conducted on liberal lines, most of the
displays of fruits being made by means
of drawings, paintings and wax models.
It would be impossible to make a good
showing of natural foreign fruits, and
even domestic growths would soon de
teriorate. The collection of domestic
fruits will include models of products
of all states, from the hardy small ber
ries of the north to the mangoes and
sapodillas of Florida. The raisin indus
try will also have a splendid representa
tion in the department, while the col
lection of native nuts will be complete,
from the common Georgia "goober" to
the cultivated almond and cocoanut, as
well as the common wild nuts.
PAUL DE H. SWEKNKY.
ma. mm.
WORLD'S FAIR .GOSSIP.
DUKE EBNST GUENTIIER, of Schleswig
Holstein, will visit the fair in May.
THE Due de Talleyrand of Paris has
consented to loan for exhibition at the
World's Columbian exposition his por
trait of Chirstopher Columbus.
LAIBD BROS., of Birkenhead, who are
among the leading ship-builders of
Great Britain, have sent to the fair six
ty-five cases of models of ships, includ
ing sailers and steamers.
BESIDES citrous fruits from California
there will be at the fair the opening
day oranges and limes from Cuba and
Mexico, and fresh fruits from cold stor
age from New York and New Jersey.
THE queen of England has decided to
send to the exposition the picture repre
senting the christening of Prince Don
ald, of Battenburg, the youngest son of
Princess Beatrice. The picture is by G.
O. Reed.
UNITED STATES MINISTER HICKS, at
Lima, has been assured by the Peruvian
government, in a late official dispatch,
that only the low state of national fi
nances keeps Peru from taking part of
ficially in the Chicago exposition.
THE Columbian guard at present
numbers almost much as the police
force of Boston. This is an expensive
adjunct, but when it is considered that
this guard has put out nearly 300 fires
and taken in close to a quarter of a mil
lion dollars at the gates it has demon
strated that it is useful.
FRANK D. MILLET, the great artist,
will contribute a large canvas to the
artistic features of Manufactures hall.
He has chosen for his subject: "Penelope
at the Loom," as illustrative of the tex
tile industry. L. C. Earle will also con
tribute a canvas illustrative of the
pottery and glass industries.
THE Russian government has aban
doned its intention to erect a character
istic national house at headquarters for
its commission, on account of the ice
blockade in the Neva. The house was
entirely framed in St. Petersburg and
ready to ship, but time did not permit
of its reaching Chicago before May 1.
PENNSYLVANIA'S "anthracite needle"
has reached Jackson park. The needle
came on two flat cars, fastened together
in the form of a pontoon train. When
the needle is completed it will be about
115 feet high. It is to stand in the cen
ter of the Mines building, on a huge
base of anthracite coal. The shaft is
about 9 feet square at the base.
IN addition to the 2,GG0 square feet
assigned to German plants inside the
Horticultural building 32,234 square
feet have been given to that country
outside for plants and flowers, as fol
lows: Two thousand feet for standard
roses, 0,000 for dwarf 1,000 for carna
tions, 290 for begonias, 100 for cannas,
20,000 for dahlias, G30 for chrysanthe
mums, 610 for asters, 20 for zinnias, 200
for summer flowers, 250 for clematis,
1,000 for herbaceous plants, 90 for tri
tonia uvaria, 90 for lily of the valley,
and 50 for rochea falcata. In all the
German empire has been given space
for 35,000 square feet for its floriculturai
exhibit.
NORWAY'S BUILDING.
It Is Small, Bat Will Attract Coul4«r*
ble Attention.
From the land of the fjord and the
Norseman comes a little building of
lofty pinnacles. Distinctly Norwegian
in its idiosyncrasies, the pavilion will
be built in what is known as the Stav
kirke style. In effect the 'edifice por
trays a quaint old church, a maze of
gables, on which decorative figures rep
resent the defiant ornamentations of
the bows of viking ships. The whole
composition is most romantic in its
conception. The material used is the
Norwegian pine wood, and the cost
will be in the neighborhood of $10,000.
Little will be attempted in the way of
a collective exhibit, but in the various
buildings, and more especially in the art
gallery, Norway will be fully represent-
THE NORWEGIAN BUILDING.
ed. Werenskjold, Eifif Peterson, Otto
Sinding, Thowlow Krogh, Smith Hold,
Arbor Hans Dahl, and other artists of
European renown will be known by
their works.
It has been hoped that a precious
curio in the possession of the Norwe
gian government, a ship unearthed at
Sandefjord in 1880 after a burial of
more than 1,000 years, would have been
carried across the ocean for the gaze of
the curious on the other side of the
world. The risk was, however, re
garded as too great, and only a repro
duction of the original will be visible in
Chicago.
Mr. Ravn, the commissioner gen
eral for Norway, was born in Bergen
forty-three years ago, has for several
years been engaged in commercial pur
suits in Boston, and was appointed vicc
consul for Norway at New York in
1879. The appropriation of the Nor
wegian government amounts to 210,000
crowns, or $09,000.
Rajah of Kapunthala Coming1.
The rajah of Kapunthala, wha. is a
big man in his own country, is on his
way to America with a large retinue of
servants, and will visit the exposition.
He will get heie a few weeks before
the sultan of Joliore, who wears $10,
000,000 worth of diamonds when he puts
on his full regalia. The sultan made a
tour through Europe several years ago
and left a crimson streak in Ida trail a*
wide as Midway Plaisance.