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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1893
Page
7
Description of through service from Butte to Spokane Tacoma Portland St Paul and Chicago with upholstered Tourist Sleepers free Colonial Sleepers elegant day coaches and dining car service on all through trains.
A fleet of palatial pleasure steamers will depart New York in late September for a voyage around the world. Headed by the Vanderbilt yacht Valiant, the group will stop at Palos and England, entertaining English nobility and select American guests.
From Far Siam the Siamese sections at the Chicago World’s Fair draw attention for gilded glass pavilions and elephant tusk fronts valued at 2000 each. Features include gold and silver cuspidors, a 2000 silver rice bowl, papier mache dishes, mother of pearl, and Buddhist artwork. Agricultural displays show preserved fruits and carved deer heads. Transportation building highlights Siamese vehicles while Forestry features teak wood, and Woman’s building displays embroideries in gold and silk with tapestries.
The piece profiles prominent women and social figures including Mrs J W Mackay known as the silver queen in England, Mrs Waldorf Astor for her hostess style, and the Pullman daughters linked to palace cars. It notes Duchess of Devonshire anonymity, Mrs Mattie Wooten’s 3102 piece quilt, and various fashion and public roles across New York, Paris, and Narragansett bay lighthouse keeper Mary Salisbury.
The report notes South American nations moving into position for the fair with Uruguay joining the display. Colombia presents a pretty building near the lagoon and shows many curios including the name of a prehistoric inhabitant.
The explorer Dr. Carl Peters, 36, Rudolph complexion and medium height, attends the African congress at the fair. Born in Newhans Hanover in 1857 to a clergyman, he founded the German East Africa Company in 1884 and has remained involved in African ventures. The 1889 massacre of his expedition aroused little global interest.
The Agricultural building features a South Dakota display with tree trunk columns at the corners. Some trunks sprout green shoots promising branches though lacking sunlight, while onlookers carefully guard the tender growth to prevent breakage.
The German empress loves pale blue surroundings and owns a small weakness for them. Italy sent seven hundred livelarks as a quirky gift to the German emperor. The queen of Greece leads a sisterhood reforming criminals and visits prisons personally. Queen Victoria locks rooms where relatives died. Archduchess Stephanie keeps a locket with her daughter's and the Belgian queen’s portraits. The Austrian empress must receipt state jewels whenever worn, so she favors her private collection worth about 1.5 million dollars. Princess Maud is a noted punster and mirrors her father the Prince of Wales in joking habit.
Mrs Mary Hall conducts a civil government class at Woodside Seminary in Hartford. Doctors at Johns Hopkins will wear black gowns with scarlet silk hoods edged in gold for state occasions. Mrs Magnusson heads a girls school in Iceland, the only one among 70,000 inhabitants. Swarthmore College lists four women on staff led by Susan J Cunningham and Marie A Kemp. Tennessee’s state university admits women as faculty, while women’s clubs plan a women’s building on campus.
An assortment of maxims on light, faults, action, money, approval, marriage and love. The lines urge prudence, effort, and genuine affection, highlighting human frailties and social manners with concise, sharp observations.
The report notes petroleum engines of thirty horsepower without boilers operate successfully. A weldless chain shows breaking strain about twice that of its steel. Corn husks boiled in caustic soda form a spongy paste for paper making, leaving gluten fiber. A benzine powered four wheeled wagon tested in Germany may carry passengers at half a cent per mile.
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