WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3843, 27 June 1891, Page 2

WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

France, Great Britain, Bpain ? Venezuela, Mexico, Salvador, Guate» mala, Nicaragua, Honduras, San Domingo and Colombia have formally accepted the invitation to participate '- *ii« .Exposition. Informal in-formation-has' been reived of the acceptance of Russia, Japan, Peru, and a number of others. ' Theodore'TDbomasJ it is announced; iwjflbe musical director of the Exposition, and Prof, tomlins,'"choral director. - .. ■ ;

W.'T. Baker, who succeed? L. J. Gage, as president of the Local Directory, is president also of the Chicago Board of Trade. He is a democrat in politics. His enthusiastic work duting the last year in behalf of the Exposition, together with his recognised ability secured his election as head of the Directory.

The Art and Trades Association at Vienna has declared in favor of the artists and manufacturers of Austria making a creditable exhibit at Chicago, and has urged the government to assist them to do so. Dr J M Fox, Member of Parliament for King County, Ireland, visited Exposition headquarters recently and assured the officials that there will be a fine exhibit from the Emerald Isle at Chicago in 1898. Peru will hold an exposition at Lima in July, 1892, and transport the greater part of it to Chicag6 in 1893.

Japan will spend 500,000 dollars upon its exhibit. Its trade with the United States amounts to 25,000,000 dollars anually. Abraham Monakad, a Syrian residing in Damascus, wants to reproduce at the Fair a portion of "The Street called Straight," and the house of Cornelius, in which the Apostle Paul was converted, and to exhibit a dozen of his countrymen, engaged in embroidering, playing and singing national airs, and making and serving coffee in Syrian style. The department of Publicity and Promotion, of which M. P. Handy is chief, is sending out in six or seven languages between 3,000 and 4,000 separate"" pieces of World's Fair literature daily. They go to about 20,000 newspapers and 5,000 individuals and commercial agencies, etc., in nearly every nation on the globe. . It is announced that the Lady Managers will soon send.Miss M. B. Schiller, of Pittsburg, to Columbia* Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil: Miss! Ellen A. Ford, of Brooklyn, to Chili, Argentine Republic, Paraguay and Uruguay: and other women, yet to be selected, to Mexico and Central America. This is in accord with a recommendation of the committee of the' Board of Lady Managers.

Chief of Construction Burnhaui has appointed Dion Geraldine superintendent of buildings of the Exposition. He expects soon to have 100 draughtsmen and 50 surveyors at work. ,

A Boston orchestra, composed of young women, has offered to furnish music at the Women's building during the Exposition. Kearney, Neb., has an incorporated "World's Fair Excursion and Investment Company," with capital stock of SIOO,OOO. It invites persons ;to pay to it .$52 in instalments of 50 cents a week and agrees for that sum to take them to and from the World's Fair in special trains, pay for their meals en route, and their living expenses for a week in Chicago at the best $8 per day hotel, and furnish .them tickets of admission, guides and printed information.