Show WORLDS FAIR NOTES Several Australian cyclists are comine to the Worlds fair to engage in tho cycling contests which are being arranged A heroic statue of Hendnk Hudson tho discoverer be I of the Hudson river will placed In New Yorks Worlds fair building build-ing A Swedish Worlds fair club has been incorporated with the object of furnishing information assistance and entertainment to Swedish exhibitors and visitors at the exposition Miss Elizabeth Ney of Hempstead Tex n descendent of Marshal Nay of France will execute in marble the statutes of a number of Texas heroes for exhibition at the Worlds fair During his visit to Chicago at the time of the dedication of the Worlds fair buildings in October President Harrison will be the I guest of Harlow If HIgmbotnam president presi-dent of the exposition The Southern Pacific railway haa recently re-cently subscribed for 20000 of Worlds fair stock The various transportation lines of the country have tascen an aggro gate of about 1000000 of the stock New York state proposes to exhibit at the Worlds fair a complete data Including photographs of all the monuments which have been erected to soldiers of that state who served in the war of the Revolution the war of 1812 or the war of 1801 Tho United States ship Constitution is about to start for Italy to collect works of art for the Worlds fair These art treasures treas-ures will remain in constant custody of the government and will be returned after the fair in the sahie manner as brought More than 10000 men arc now at work insetting in-setting the buildings and grounds ready for tho great exposition of 1893 On a number of the structures work proceeds day and night Wonderful progress is being made and it Is assured all will be completed in time for the opening Arrangements have been completed whereby excursion trains to the Worlds fair by whatever road they may arrive In Chicago will run within the exposition grounds and discharge their passengers there No transfer of passengers at any point will bo necessary Carl Hagenbeck the celebrated German collector and tamer of wild animals Is in Chicago to arrange for the extensive zoological zoo-logical exhibit which he will make In Midway Mid-way Plaisance at the Worlds fair Ho will exhibit lions tigerspanthersleopards bears monkeys etc In great numbers and will show the largest happy family ever seen According to the present plans the Ohio I state building at the Worlds fair will be II dedicated at the same time as are the general r gen-eral exposition buildings Speeches will be made by Governor McKinley exGovernor Campbell and Senators Sherman and BrIce President Harrison is expected to deliver an address at the unveiling of Re bissos equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison which will stand In front of the Ohio building The pupils ot the high school of Salem I Mass are preparing an interesting memorial memor-ial of that ancient town for the Worlds fair The amateur photographers of the school are engaged in the preparation of a series of viowsof the many points of historic his-toric Interest in which the town abounds These are to be finished by tho pupils themselves them-selves and are to form the illustrations of a handsome album The descriptive letterpress letter-press of the book also the work of the pupils is to bo neatly written on a typewriter type-writer so that the whole volume will be literally the handiwork of the children of Salem Members of the North American Turner Bund are making elaborate preparations for their exhibit at the Worlds fair They will occupy 4500 square feet in the liberal arts building and 112500 square feet for outdoor drillin which probably 5000 adults and several thousand children will participate partici-pate In the covered space the Turners will have moael classes taught gymnastics in accordance with their system now in vogue in their societies and the Chicago public schools The exhibition represented by their commission includes 350 societies with a membership of 50000 of whom 5000 reside in Chicago In 182 a patent was issued to Jeremiah Bailey Pennsylvania for a mowing machine ma-chine and he constructed two machines the same year It is believed that these were the first ever made A number of years later u patent for improvement on this machine was secured and some fifty of the Improved machines were built Only two of tee original pattern were ever mado and one of them is still in existence owned by Samuel Worth of Marshaltown Pa He will exhibit it at the Worlds fair whereas where-as a pioneer in agricultural machinery it will attract much attention The knife of the machine is circular and had a combined rotary and forward motion I A very interesting exhibit in the transportation trans-portation department of the Worlds fair will bo made by the steamship and railway companies of England The collection of models of battleships yachts cruisers steamers and merchant vessels will be more complete than was ever before exhibited The London Northwestern railway will send over a complete train of cars headed by a great compound locomotive named Great Britain This will afford an opportunity I op-portunity to compare the English compartment compart-ment cars and sleepers with American coaches The Great Western railway will exhibit the antiquated locomotive Lord of the Isles one of the first used on that road Several of the railways will show their signaling systems The Worlds fair board of lady managers has issued a circular which is being sent to all the womens organizations in the country coun-try for the purpose of securing information to be used in a catalogue of the organizations organiza-tions conducted by women for the promotion promo-tion of charitable philanthropic intellectual intellect-ual sanitary hygienic industrial or social or moral reform movements The idea is to secure Information sufficiently elaborate to base conclusions on regarding tho growth of womens work In the way of organized societies and tho good accomplished accom-plished by the same All this from the various stales will be duplicated from the encyclopedia being prepared under tho auspicies of the lady managers for the womans buildlnar Tho statistics collected through their efforts from avery country in the world will form a most voluminous mass of valuable Information It is tho intention in-tention of the lady managers to publish I these statistics of womens work throughout through-out the world in a convenient and Inexpensive Inex-pensive form The volume will be given away or sold for a nominal sum as may be advisable in the woman building during the exposition |