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Chief, says that the Exposition will advance floriculture in this country fully twenty-five years. More than one and one-half mill John Thorpe, the atom iron pounds of steel and iron will enter into the construction of the Mines and Mining Building. The Royal Agricultural and Com mercial Society of British Guiana has decided to hold a local exhibi tion of its resources preliminary to the display it intends making at Chicago. The imitation battleship ‘Illi nois,” at the naval pier, in the Ex position grounds, is now rising from the water. Work is passin satisfactorily on the hull. ‘The deer will measure over all 348 by 694 feet. This structure is to cost $100, 000 and is the most original illus tration of naval architecture ever worked out. A company has been formed, em bracing several very wealthy men, to inaugurate and operate in Chi cago a permanent circus after the style of the Hippodrome in Paris. A building, with seating capacity of 5,000 and having a garden on the roof, will be erected, and the attrac tion will be in operation to enter tain World's Pair crowds. One of the largest bicycle facto ries in America has written to Chief Smith, of the Transportation De partment, that it will exhibit at the Pair “bicycles and tricycles of every style of the trade, showing the rise and progress of the art of maki ‘wheels,’ from the first ‘bone shaker’ built in this country up to the high ly finished ‘safety” of the present ay.” Chief Ives of the Art Department, now in Europe, writes most encour agingly concerning the prospects of the Art exhibit of the Exposition. He has conferred with artists and art societies in many of the principal cities of Europe and has found them greatly interested in the Exposition, and anxious to send paintings and other art productions for exhibition. He reports his success much greater than he anticipated.
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Prescott Arizona Weekly Journal Miner
Prescott, Arizona, US
Wed, Nov 04, 1891
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