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popular and massive display of ores, building stone, commer-' 

 cial clays and other mineral products will be made. Models, 

 maps, and diagrams will be employed to show the progress 

 made in mining. These will be accompanied by historical 

 data and reliable information regarding the product and 

 formation of veins in the mining districts. In the display will 

 be the " Silver Queen," a beautiful statue of an ideal female 

 figure executed in silver, and valued at $7,500 to f 10,000. 



It is announced that the Virginia Exposition Board intends 

 to reproduce at the Fair, Mount Vernon, the famous home 

 and last resting place of George Washington. If this is done 

 a large and interesting collection of Washington relics will be 

 exhibited in the structure. 



A very interesting Exhibit which, it is reported, the British 

 Commission is planning to make at the World's Fair, is a 

 Large Scale Map, showing the discoveries which have been 

 made in North America by Englishmen. Though Columbus 

 discovered the West Indies, the credit of first sighting the 

 mainland of America seems — if we put aside the unrecorded 

 investigations of the Northmen — to be due to an Englishman, 

 Sebastian Cabot ; and the list of names of English explorers 

 of America, which is headed by his, is a very long and 

 distinguished one. Raleigh, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Hugh 

 Willoughby, Frobisher, Davis, Hudson, Baffin, in the seven- 

 teenth century, were followed, in the eighteenth, by Scoresby 

 and Cook ; while the work they commenced was carried 

 on during our own century by the Rosses, Parry, Franklin, 

 CoUinson, Maclue, McClintock, Nares and Markham. It will, 

 therefore, be seen that there is ample material for a map such 

 as that proposed. 



The American flaor now floats from the Administration 

 Building at Jackson Park to signify that the World's Fair 

 buildings and grounds are in the possession of the United 

 States government. Vice-President Morton accepted them 

 on behalf of the government on Dedication day, but actual 

 possession was not taken until Director-General Davis, the 

 chief government World's Fair official, moved into his offices 

 in the Administration Building. The raising of the stars and 

 stripes signalled that event. 



All of the World's Fair offices, except two or three, are 

 now removed to Jackson Park, and those will soon follow. 

 For nearly two years the offices have been in the Rand- 

 McNally building, in the centre of the city. Now, however, 



