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—TWO PARTS—TWELVE PAG!NWORLD’S FAIR MEDALS READY.ieThe OistrI1utiun to Uc^iti In WiikU-Ington To-diij'.Washington, April 27.—The distribution of the diplomas' ami medals awarded to exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago will begin to-morrow. The delay of three years has seemed long to some of the exhibitors, but the Government has made all the haste possible in order to afford tliose until led’ to the evl-donees of merit to hold the parchments 0 and bronze dislto which will now be put In their possession.Each person or firm entitled to a medal and diploma will receive a box three feetlong and six inches wide. It will contain a«r roll, or two rolls, according to the number of diplomas to which the recipient is entitled. At one end of the box will be found a thin pasteboard box. Within this Id box Is a box of wood, with a sliding cover.lfi In the inner box there is a glittering caseof aluminium, and In this aluminium cover is the medal.it is a large bronze medal, hung in a panel ot crimson velvet, so that it can be 3- swung both ways to show the obverse andreverse sides. The diplomas will be admired by all who cun appreciate the dllil-y cultles of steel engraving and the task imposed Upon the artist required to produce so large a plate. The engraved part of the diplomas Is iy by 24 inches. It is printed ?e on a sheet 20 by 30 inches,ie When the design of Will H. Low was ac-,(1 cepted for the diploma, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing engaged Charles !C Schlccht of New-York to execute thek work. He began the middle of August, Ibiijl,and completed his work Jan. 1, IMXj. It is all line work. There Is much detail care-fully wrought out, and the manner in is- which it was done drew from Mr. Low there compliment that the plate was. in his opinion. “ the besL plate which has been executed by an American engraver.”When the plate was completed, 5t was k necessary to reproduce it by electrotype process, as the number of impressions to be taken was so iartre that it was out of ie the question to subject the original plater- to the ordeal. Fifteen plates were made,and the peifeetion ot these reproductions was rpgarded as another proof of thd excellence of the line work by the ongrav-er. Then 24,‘JHS impressions were taken, ie As each diploma was awarded to a dlf-ferent person, and the designation must be changed for each award, it was necessary to fill up the panel provided for that pur-;y pose by the use of letter press. That hasbeen accomplished skillfully by the use of hairline and light-faced type, the iinprcs-shr .lt; from which harmonize admirably with 11 tfc „ engraver's work..*r\’-ted ABDUCTED HIS TWI3T BABES.c-QmAllailiethafwlmiprbaseihaMlt;■Awcst;w;mlonspvilt;taticanlu iWsuIop*topaoftoin;ehsitM-In?do
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