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Show i -nns The Umvc.-iii i ii-Aj, v.- I owi-look the hike and Use v:s-t buildings of the world's A WORLD'S FAIR ELEPHANT. The Coney Island AKiiir to Bo Outdone at Chieapo. The Colossal Elephant Company at Chicago announces that it will erect a huge elephant of iron, wood and steel which is to surpass the efforts in this lino of the Liverpool of America Xew York. Coney Island has an elephant the top of whose hodah rises to a height of 10J feet. That of Chicago is to go up id:) feet. J. Mason Kirby, of Xew Brooklyn, is described ia the prospectus of the company com-pany as "the only person who ever built, or can build, an elephant building." build-ing." He is an incorporator of the company, It. II. Benton, of Xew York, and F. IS. Benton, of Chicago, being the others. The company has secured the patent right for the colossal elephant business in Illinois. The capital stock, it is said, will be 5.V)0.0U0, the cost of the elephant to be f'J.M.OOO. The elephant is to be erected just outside out-side of the exposition buildings, its exact location being withheld for the I prener.t. The work upon the colossus will be completed before the opening of the world's fair. In the huge legs of the animal elevators will be run, the interior is to be divided into sumptuously sumptu-ously equipped apartments, parlors, -.'.i.-.iag-rooms and dancing halls. I loth io-s and bodv are to be illuminated in tiro day bv large plate glass windows, and at night by brilliant electric lights. Infttie back of the monstrous image will rise the hodah, tho carriage in which toe c-li-phe.nt in his native land carries the nabobs of the cast. It will be titled up for observatory- purposes, the trunk and tail will both be flexible, and machinery will work them after the natural movements: the floppy ears will also be full of vitality, and tire tusks will be molded in the exact form |