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feel like giving prizes to the bowlers 

 and shooters, but encourage similar 

 donations for horticultural displays. 

 The bowling feature has not inter- 

 fered in the least with the sessions 

 or aims and objects of the convention, 

 and the interest taken in them brings 

 at lea.st seventy-five people to the con- 

 vention who would not be there other- 

 wise. 



The love of sport and athletic games 

 is most prominent in the life of the 

 greatest and strongest nations of the 

 world, as well as in the character of 

 the people. Lord George Bentick, the 

 greatest racing man the world ever 

 saw, dropped it suddenly to fight the 

 repeal of the corn laws, and became 

 the most eloquent and able champion, 

 but, thank God! free trade prevailed: 

 Lord Palmerston after one of his great 

 speeches used to retire to the lobby 

 of the House of Commons and have a 

 fifteen-minute chat with John Day, his 

 trainer, about what horse he was going 

 to start for the Goodwood stakes, Ches- 

 ter cup or Doncaster St. Ledger. 



You must have some game and sport 

 in you or your character is lop-sided, 

 or rather top-heavy. The man who 

 has no liking for sports deserves sym- 

 pathy as much as the poor fellow who 

 lets games and gambling occupy his 

 whole thoughts. w. S. 



Pan-American Progress. 



The weather for the past month has 

 been rather dry on the whole, yet it 

 has been very favorable for the de- 

 velopment of the ground. But few 

 hours have been lost since opening of 

 spring on account of wet weather. 

 Since my last notes a great deal of 

 finishing has been done to that por- 

 tion of the ground lying south and 

 east and west of the Mirror Lakes. 

 Mafay acres near the Elmwood avenue 

 entrance are now in a most complete 

 state. Flower beds are prepared and 

 the grass, the sowing of which has 

 been going on every day this summer, 

 now gives this portion of the grounds 

 a most finished and beautiful appear- 

 ance. The rapidity and luxuriance 

 with which the grass grows has been 

 a revelation to our citizens and all vis- 

 itors. Mr. Rudolph Ulrich has a large 

 staff of men constantly seeding, and 

 another gang continually following 

 with the hose, and their labor is well 

 rewarded. 



People who doubted that the im- 

 mense amount of work to be done and 

 the large expanse of territory could be 

 finished now feel assured that there 

 will be no difficulty in getting all of 

 the ground in order by the opening 

 day. The Sunken Gardens in front of 

 the Horticultural and Government 

 Buildings respectively are excavated. 

 The fancy garden on each side of the 

 large basin, known as "The Cascades" 

 is now surfaced and the banks will 

 soon be green. This is in the very 

 center of the building region. The bot- 

 tom of the Canal and Lakes have been 

 covered with two inches of broken 

 lime stone, which insures their being 

 what their names implies. "Mirror 

 Lakes," and not muddy pieces of 



water. The United States Government 

 is making a large display of ornamen- 

 tal and economic grasses that are use- 

 ful and hardy in this latitude. Several 

 of our leading seed-houses have se- 

 cured plots of ground varying from 

 1-8 to 1-2 an acre and are having them 

 seeded and will ornament with floral 

 beds. 



At the south border of the Mirror 

 Lakes and also in the many inlets and 

 bays on both sides of the fore court 

 and grand approach are planted l,4iiO 

 nympheas, with a few groups of ne- 

 lumbiums. Clay banks, or dams, have 

 been made to retain 18 inches of water 

 for the accommodation of these aquat- 

 ics. They are the exhibit of Mr. Henry 

 A. Dreer of Philadelphia and if in one 

 area would cover about an acre and 

 a half of water. They must make a 

 magnificent appearance from the 

 banks on both sides of the lake. They 

 are already making good growth, 

 which assures us of a magnificent dis- 

 play next year. 



Work is progressing finely on all the 

 buildings. The Propylaea, the most 

 northern direction of the grounds, is 

 nearly completed. The Electricity 

 Building, Agricultural Building, 

 Graphic Arts, Forestry and Mines, 

 United States Government Building, 

 all are going up. The two largest 

 buildings, which are the Machinery 

 and Transportation and Manufactur- 

 ers and Liberal Arts, each 350 ft. by 

 500 ft., will soon be roofed in. 



A remarkable feature of this Ex- 

 position is the immense interest and 

 confidence displayed by the leading 

 amusement people of the world. It is 

 a fact that the amusement, or Midway 

 features, will entail a larger outlay of 

 money than the whole of the Exposi- 

 tion at Omaha cost. To accommodate 

 the many remarkable novelties that 

 will be exhibited they will now occupy 

 the grounds to the south of the Mall 

 and extending south below the Horti- 

 culture Building. Many of these at- 

 tractions and features of amusement 

 are to be on a most extensive scale, 

 and this is at the risk of the conces- 

 sionaires. It shows what confidence 

 they have in the prospective attend- 

 ance. 



The half million dollar Art Gallery, 

 the gift of Mr. J. J. Albright, is going 

 up rapidly. This is situated in the 

 park proper overlooking the lake. The 

 New York State Building is also in the 

 park at the northwest corner and is 

 also being rapidly built. A magnifi- 

 cent new boat house and refectory will 

 be built in the park proper and a new 

 bridge spanning the lake between the 

 north bay and the large bay, at a cost 



of $.5(1,000. These are permanent im- 

 provements. Beautiful as the grounds 

 of the Pan-American Exposition al- 

 ready appear, the visitor can form but 

 little idea of what it will be, because 

 there is at present a high board fence 

 separating the acquired ground for the 

 Exposition proper from the park 

 When this is torn down and the one 

 hundred acres of beautiful park scen- 

 ery IS part then of the whole, it will be 

 seen what an immense advantage it is 

 to have the park a part of the exposi- 

 tion, -^yjj SCOTT. 



KANSAS CITY. MO. 



For the first time this year we are 

 no\v having a severe dry time of it 

 and with the increase in temperature 

 ha« almost paralyzed business 



The present month of all months 

 would seem to be the most unsatisfac- 

 tory for the florist. There are but few 

 good flowers of any kind in the mar- 

 ket; among the best are field grown 

 carnations, which retail as high as 50c 

 per dozen. Asters are beginning to 

 make their appearance. A box of 

 these flowers recently received by 

 Arthur Newell from New York state 

 did not average better in quality than 

 those home grown. 



There is no lack of enthusiasm 

 among the boys over the coming con- 

 vention, and many would go if the dis- 

 tance were not so great. We intend 

 to have at least one good representa- 

 tive there from Kansas City. Arthur 

 Newell, wife and family, will leave 

 here Wednesday for Chicago, where 

 they will take the boat for Mackinac. 

 Mrs. Newell and children will remain 

 there while the "old man" goes to 

 New York to attend the convention. 

 Always keenly alive to grasp the 

 latest improvements in floriculture, we 

 shall expect to see great results from, 

 this trip, next season. 



Several years ago a few ranges of 

 greenhouses were built here for the 

 forcing of early vegetables. These 

 products have of late years been 

 shipped in here from Texas and other 

 points in such large quantities, ren- 

 dering the further production under 

 glass unprofitable. August Luther, 

 who has supplied this market with 

 table delicacies for the past twenty 

 years, will remodel his 10,000 feet of 

 glass and hereafter grow cut flowers. 

 Arthur Thornhill, another gardener, 

 will do likewise. These gentlemen 

 are enterprising and their decision is 

 a wise one, as good revenue awaits 

 those who can produce good cut flow- 

 ers for this part of the country.' 



H. J. M. 



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