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#002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, p. 039
Charles W. Rolfe, of the Illinois Uni-
versity, at Champaign, has been elected
to take charge of the relief map of
Illinois, which is to be a part of the
state exhibit. He will be assisted by
a corps of ten engineers, who will go in
the field soon. The map is to be made
on a scale of one inch to three miles.
It will be six by ten feet and cost
$15,000.
One of the largest bicycle factories in
America has written to Chief Smith, of
the Transportation Department, that it
will exhibit at the Fair "bicycles and
tricycles of every style of the trade,
showing the rise and progress of the
art of making 'wheels,' from the first
'bone shaker' built in this country up
to the highly finished 'safety' of the
present day."
Chief Ives of the Art Department,
now in Europe, writes most encourag-
ingly concerning the prospects of the
Art exhibit of the Exposition. He
has conferred with artists and art
societies in many of the principal cities
of Europe and has found them greatly
interested in the Exposition, and
anxious to send paintings and other
art productions for exhibition. He re-
ports his success much greater than he
anticipated.
A stock company with a capital of
$100,000 has been formed to place a
paper exhibit at the Columbian Exposi-
tion. Every American paper maker or
American manufacturer of paper-mak-
ing machinery will be allowed to take
stock. The entire capital has already
been secured, but the pledges will not
be called for until the outsiders have
been given a chance, in order to do
away with any idea of a money-making
scheme. A Committee of Five has
been appointed by President M. J. Fitch
to take the matter in hand and to send
a representative to the meeting of the
Boston Paper Trade Club on the third
Wednesday in November.
All of the restaurants in the Mines
and Mining and Electricity buildings
will be in the galleries. This was deter-
mined in order to leave the ground floor
free as far as may be for intending ex-
hibitors. It is thought also that restau-
rants on the second floors of the build-
ings would prove an attractive feature.
It was also decided that the restaurants
in the Electricity building be located
in the two bays at the north end of the
hall. In each bay there is to be one
large dining-room, surrounded by
several smaller rooms twenty-three
feet square. The balcony connecting
the two is to be fitted up for serving
temperance drinks and ices. In the
great Manufactures Building about
40,000 square feet have been set apart
for restaurants.
The President of Uruguay has desig-
nated the Association Rural of that
country as the National Commission to
have charge of Uruguay's exhibit at
Chicago in 1893.
Valmorine & Co., of Paris, who made
the largest horticultural exhibit at the
Paris Exposition, have had a representative
in Chicago conferring with Chief
Samuels and perfecting arrangements
for making a similar exhibit at the
World's Fair.
A $10,000 model of a stamp mill for
reducing copper, now the property of
the State Museum of Michigan, will be
shown at the Fair. This model was
made and presented by the Calumet
and Hecla Copper Company.
There have been distributed 10,000 of
the lithographs of Machinery Hall, of
which New York City and State have
received the largest number. Over
1,000 requests are now on file from
leading manufacturers, merchants and
importers of New York City and
Eastern States.
The Atlantic Transport Company,
operating a line of steamers between
London and New York, has agreed to
carry exhibits from London to either
NewYArk, Philadelphia or Baltimore
free of charge, except the actual expen-
ses of loading and unloading. This
generous proposition makes it possible
for European exhibitors to have their
displays brought to the American sea-
board practically free of charge.
The Minnesota World's Fair Com-
mission is determined to increase in
some way the 850,000 which the legisla-
ture appropriated for Exposition pur-
poses, as it believes a much larger sum
is necessary if the state is to be credit-
ably represented. It has issued an
address to the counties urging each to
raise its proportion of $100,000, and has
pledged its members to go before the
next legislature and endeavor to secure
the passage of a bill refunding the
amounts thus raised.
J. Allen Hornsby, Secretary of the
Department of Electricity, who was
sent to Frankfort-on-the-Main to study
the Electrical Exposition there, has
made a report, which shows that out
of compliment to the Columbian Ex-
position the Frankfort Exposition was
kept open a fortnight longer than was
originally intended, in order to give
Mr. Hornsby a chance for thorough in-
vestigation. Secretary Hornsby writes
that there is electrical apparatus on
exhibition at Frankfort which, when
put in operation, will cause the eyes of
American electricians to open in won-
derment.
The Department of Publicity of the
Exposition sent out during September
253,566 separate pieces of printed mat-
ter concerning the Fair, an average of
9,762 pieces for each of the twenty-six
working days of the month. Of this
matter 199,267 pieces were in English,
3,549 in German, 3,582 in Spanish, 2,550
in French, 1,040 in Portuguese, 1,144 in
Swedish, 899 in Danish, 214 in Italian,
100 in Dutch, and 24,257 printed pictures
of buildings and ground plans of Jack-
son Park, and 2,678 lithographs of
Machinery Hall. There were also sent
out 888 electrotypes for use in various
publications in different parts of the
world.
At the Eisteddfod, which Welsh socie-
ties will hold at the Exposition, the
finest choruses of Wales will be present
and prizes amounting to $30,000 have
been offered in connection with the
contest. For the finest Welsh chorus a
prize of $5,000 is to be given. Another
of $4,000 is offered, and so on in smaller
amounts until the limit of $30,000 shall
have been reached. The famous Dowlais
Harmonic Society, 250 voices strong,
will be among the contestants. It has
won many prizes in Europe. Its trip to
the Exposition will cost about $25,000,
which sum it hopes to regain by giving
a series of concerts in the United States.
The festival is to last five days and be
held in the Music Hall of the Exposi-
tion. One concert is to be given free of
charge to the general public.
F.216. Oct. 22.
Object Description
| Title | World's Columbian Exposition 002 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCE 002 |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
Description
| Title | 0039 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCE 002 |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
| Transcript | #002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, p. 039 Charles W. Rolfe, of the Illinois Uni- versity, at Champaign, has been elected to take charge of the relief map of Illinois, which is to be a part of the state exhibit. He will be assisted by a corps of ten engineers, who will go in the field soon. The map is to be made on a scale of one inch to three miles. It will be six by ten feet and cost $15,000. One of the largest bicycle factories in America has written to Chief Smith, of the Transportation Department, that it will exhibit at the Fair "bicycles and tricycles of every style of the trade, showing the rise and progress of the art of making 'wheels,' from the first 'bone shaker' built in this country up to the highly finished 'safety' of the present day." Chief Ives of the Art Department, now in Europe, writes most encourag- ingly concerning the prospects of the Art exhibit of the Exposition. He has conferred with artists and art societies in many of the principal cities of Europe and has found them greatly interested in the Exposition, and anxious to send paintings and other art productions for exhibition. He re- ports his success much greater than he anticipated. A stock company with a capital of $100,000 has been formed to place a paper exhibit at the Columbian Exposi- tion. Every American paper maker or American manufacturer of paper-mak- ing machinery will be allowed to take stock. The entire capital has already been secured, but the pledges will not be called for until the outsiders have been given a chance, in order to do away with any idea of a money-making scheme. A Committee of Five has been appointed by President M. J. Fitch to take the matter in hand and to send a representative to the meeting of the Boston Paper Trade Club on the third Wednesday in November. All of the restaurants in the Mines and Mining and Electricity buildings will be in the galleries. This was deter- mined in order to leave the ground floor free as far as may be for intending ex- hibitors. It is thought also that restau- rants on the second floors of the build- ings would prove an attractive feature. It was also decided that the restaurants in the Electricity building be located in the two bays at the north end of the hall. In each bay there is to be one large dining-room, surrounded by several smaller rooms twenty-three feet square. The balcony connecting the two is to be fitted up for serving temperance drinks and ices. In the great Manufactures Building about 40,000 square feet have been set apart for restaurants. The President of Uruguay has desig- nated the Association Rural of that country as the National Commission to have charge of Uruguay's exhibit at Chicago in 1893. Valmorine & Co., of Paris, who made the largest horticultural exhibit at the Paris Exposition, have had a representative in Chicago conferring with Chief Samuels and perfecting arrangements for making a similar exhibit at the World's Fair. A $10,000 model of a stamp mill for reducing copper, now the property of the State Museum of Michigan, will be shown at the Fair. This model was made and presented by the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company. There have been distributed 10,000 of the lithographs of Machinery Hall, of which New York City and State have received the largest number. Over 1,000 requests are now on file from leading manufacturers, merchants and importers of New York City and Eastern States. The Atlantic Transport Company, operating a line of steamers between London and New York, has agreed to carry exhibits from London to either NewYArk, Philadelphia or Baltimore free of charge, except the actual expen- ses of loading and unloading. This generous proposition makes it possible for European exhibitors to have their displays brought to the American sea- board practically free of charge. The Minnesota World's Fair Com- mission is determined to increase in some way the 850,000 which the legisla- ture appropriated for Exposition pur- poses, as it believes a much larger sum is necessary if the state is to be credit- ably represented. It has issued an address to the counties urging each to raise its proportion of $100,000, and has pledged its members to go before the next legislature and endeavor to secure the passage of a bill refunding the amounts thus raised. J. Allen Hornsby, Secretary of the Department of Electricity, who was sent to Frankfort-on-the-Main to study the Electrical Exposition there, has made a report, which shows that out of compliment to the Columbian Ex- position the Frankfort Exposition was kept open a fortnight longer than was originally intended, in order to give Mr. Hornsby a chance for thorough in- vestigation. Secretary Hornsby writes that there is electrical apparatus on exhibition at Frankfort which, when put in operation, will cause the eyes of American electricians to open in won- derment. The Department of Publicity of the Exposition sent out during September 253,566 separate pieces of printed mat- ter concerning the Fair, an average of 9,762 pieces for each of the twenty-six working days of the month. Of this matter 199,267 pieces were in English, 3,549 in German, 3,582 in Spanish, 2,550 in French, 1,040 in Portuguese, 1,144 in Swedish, 899 in Danish, 214 in Italian, 100 in Dutch, and 24,257 printed pictures of buildings and ground plans of Jack- son Park, and 2,678 lithographs of Machinery Hall. There were also sent out 888 electrotypes for use in various publications in different parts of the world. At the Eisteddfod, which Welsh socie- ties will hold at the Exposition, the finest choruses of Wales will be present and prizes amounting to $30,000 have been offered in connection with the contest. For the finest Welsh chorus a prize of $5,000 is to be given. Another of $4,000 is offered, and so on in smaller amounts until the limit of $30,000 shall have been reached. The famous Dowlais Harmonic Society, 250 voices strong, will be among the contestants. It has won many prizes in Europe. Its trip to the Exposition will cost about $25,000, which sum it hopes to regain by giving a series of concerts in the United States. The festival is to last five days and be held in the Music Hall of the Exposi- tion. One concert is to be given free of charge to the general public. F.216. Oct. 22. |
