Chicago Notes

Manawatu Herald, 16 August 1892, Page 3

Chicago Notes

. + . - A plan to utilise all the ichoolhousses in Chicago as dormitories for teachers visiting the World's Fair is being agitated. Mrg Solomon Thatcher, Jr., one of the Lady Managers, advanced the idea, which has been generally approved. She says there are more than 300,000 school- teachers in the country, who will probably attend thQ Fair, and that a nominal fee from a reasonable proportion of them would pay the ixpenses of transforming every school-house in Chicago into a lodg-ing-house and keep it in perfect order. There are nearly 250 public school buildings, all of them large structures, which could be thus utilized. It is believed that the majority of the teachers of the country will spend a portion at least of their vacation in viewing the Exposition. If they could be provided with lodgings as indicated, at a me 1 * nominal expense, they would , surely be greatly accommodated. A schooner is now being fitted outat Halifax to go to the arctic regions to g«t ten or twelve Esquimo families, fifty or sixty persons in all, for •exhibition at the World's Fair. :I)o#s, fishing implements, utensils and everything I ' necessary to show . E?quimo life, will also be procured >■•■■■■■ The World's Fair grounds and ■ buildings, now nearing completion, ! are So' renowned as a 'most beautiful and' interesting spectacle that not 1 only do from 5,000, to 12,000 people 1 a, day, at a cost of 25 cents apiece, inspect thorn-, but the great majority I' .of ; travel ler<f who pass" through Chicago devote a 'day or iuore to the tame purpose. Hundreds' of distinguished foreigners and thousands of prominent men from the various states of the Union have availed themselves of this privilege, and it is not exaggeration to say that all, without exception; have been most agreeably surprised at the splendor and magnitude of what they witnessed, and have departed very enthusiastic over the bright prospects of the Fair. Several hundred of the returning delegates of the late republican national convention at Minneapolis inspected the wonders of Jackson Park while in Chicago. Nearly all of the delegates to the democratic convention at Chicago have done the same. The Exposition authorities have committees to show visitors about and explain details to them. A solid gold brick, weighing 500 pounds and worth §150,000 will be exhibited in the Mines and Mining building at the World's Fair by a Helena, Mon., mine owner.