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duction of one of the streets of Cairo. There is 

 to be also a special Corean exhibit. An exhibit 

 of the products of Java and the South Sea 

 islands will include a spectacular representation 

 by natives. All private enterprises will be con- 

 fined to Midway Plaisance. No sales of mer- 

 chandise for immediate delivery will be per- 

 mitted in the exposition buildings, nor any where 

 on the grounds unless the privilege has been 

 obtained from the Committee on Ways and" 

 Means. Among the concessions granted, one is 

 for a moving sidewalk, another for a hydraulic 

 sliding railroad running the whole length of 

 Midway Plaisance, a third for a glass furnace 

 to illustrate the processes of making American 

 glassware, and others for observatory towers 

 and a multitude of other objects. The com- 

 mittee have approved a plan for the erection of 

 a tower modeled after that of Eiffel, but nearly 

 a hundred feet higher. By means of the tracks 

 of the Illinois Central Railroad, lake steamers, 

 elevated railroads, cable roads, and other vehicles, 

 it is expected that 100,000 persons an hour can 

 be carried to and from the exposition. Although 

 the grounds are much more extensive than those 

 of previous world's fairs, there will be abundant 

 facilities for transportation. All the buildings 

 are accessible by water, and on the water-ways, 

 which have a total length of 3 miles, will be 

 gondolas, steam launches, and all kinds of boats. 

 They are equally accessible by means of land 

 vehicles, and tramways and carriages of all 

 kinds will enable visitors to pass from one part 

 of the grounds to another with ease and speed. 

 Goods imported for exhibition and not entered 

 for consumption pay no import duties, and are 

 forwarded to the exposition from any port of 

 entry without examination. The railroad com- 

 panies have adopted in concert a rule by which 

 foreign exhibits pay the usual freight rates from 

 the seaports to the exposition, but will be re- 

 turned to the seaboard without any charge tin- 

 less the ownership has changed. The admission 

 fee will probably be 50 cents, to be paid at the 

 turnstile, without the intermediary of a ticket, in 

 a coin of that denomination. 



It is intended to have women and their work 

 and occupations more largely represented than 

 at previous world's fairs. The women's building 

 will contain special exhibits of their handicraft 

 and accomplishments, and there will be examples 

 of training schools for nurses, women's hospitals, 

 kindergartens, cooking schools, educational and 

 literary work of women, their charitable organi- 

 zations, ete. In the assembly room of the 

 women's building eminent ladies and represent- 

 atives of ithe professional and public work of 

 women will give addresses. Conventions and 

 reunions of a majority of the military and civic 

 societies of the country, of the secret orders, and 

 of many of the religions bodies and humanitarian 

 associations, are arranged to be held in Chicago 

 while the exposition is going on. The World's 

 Congress Auxiliary is a board that has been 

 organized for the purpose of inviting to Chicago 

 during the exposition international conventions 

 of the leading representatives in all departments 

 of knowledge, .progress, and public activity. Its 

 circular announcement was forwarded to foreign 

 governments by' the Department of State, and 

 an appropriation .was made by Congress for the 



promotion of its object. The following are the 

 officers of the World's Congress Auxiliary: 

 President, Charles C. Bonney; Vice-President, 

 Thomas B. Bryan ; Treasurer, Lyman J. Gage ; 

 Secretary, Benjamin Butterworth. There is a 

 women's branch, of which the president is Mrs. 

 Potter Palmer and the vice-president Mrs. 

 Charles Henrotin. In many of the departments 

 there are both a committee of men and one of 

 ladies. There are, besides the executive com- 

 mittee, committees on arrangements, places of 

 meeting, education, science and philosophy, 

 literature, the public press, music, artists, com- 

 merce and finance, engineering and agriculture, 

 government and law reform, religion, moral and 

 social reform, temperance, labor, and public 

 health and medicine, and these committees are 

 subdivided into as many special committees as 

 there are subjects suitable for a world's congress. 

 In all there are 95 general and special com- 

 mittees. Each committee has issued an address 

 setting forth the objects of the World's Congress 

 Auxiliary and its own special object, and each 

 chooses advisory and corresponding members 

 among leaders in its branch in various parts of 

 the world, and invites their co-operation in 

 organizing a congress and arranging its pro- 

 gramme. The active members of the committees 

 are persons who live in Chicago, or near enough 

 to be present at the meetings. The officers of 

 the Board of Lady Managers of the World's 

 Columbian Exposition are as follow : President, 

 Mrs. Potter Palmer ; Vice-President-at-Large, 

 Mrs. Russell B. Harrison : Vice-Presidents, Mrs. 

 Ralph Trautmann, of New York ; Mrs. Edwin 

 C. Burleigh, of Maine ; Mrs. Charles Price, of 

 North Carolina ; Miss Katherine L. Minor, of 

 Louisiana: Mrs. Beriah Wilkins, of the District 

 of Columbia : Mrs. Susan R. Ashley, of Colorado ; 

 Mrs. Flora Beall Ginty, of Wisconsin ; and Mrs. 

 Margaret Blane Salisbury, of Utah. The Board 

 of Reference and Control' is under the presidency 

 of Thomas W. Palmer, and the Chicago Local 

 Board has Lyman J. Gage for president. 



UNITED STATES 'CENSUS. The article 

 on this subject in the " Annual Cyclopaedia " for 

 1890 gave a general outline of the work pro- 

 posed, with the titles and functions of various 

 divisions organized for systematic execution of 

 the programme laid down in the act of March 1, 

 1889. General statistics of population were given, 

 with tabular exhibits showing population and 

 rank of States and Territories, together with fig- 

 ures giving comparative statistics concerning 

 population of many cities. Tables summarizing 

 the number of teachers and pupils in public 

 schools for certain of the States and Territories 

 and also for numerous cities were inserted. The 

 number of convicts in penitentiaries, Indians on 

 reservations, the finances of States and cities, 

 colored population of the South, length and mo- 

 tive power of street railways in principal cities, 

 production of pig iron and steel by States, and 

 the coal product in Alabama, Maryland, Penn- 

 sylvania, and west of the Mississippi river were 

 included in the article. 



Population. Bulletins have been issued from 

 the Census Office to show the population of mi- 

 nor civil divisions in each of the States and Ter- 

 ritories. The only one that needs mention here 

 is that reporting the official count for Alaska. 



