2S The Humming Bird. 



which is going on tis simply astonishing. Hundreds of 

 structures to meet World's Fair demands are being erected. 

 Some of the new hotels are large enough to accommodate 

 several thousand guests each. By the time the Fair opens 

 Chicago will have living accommodations for not less than 

 300,000 strangers. Connected with the Exposition Manage- 

 ment is a Bureau of Public Comfort, through the agency of 

 which many thousands of visitors can be directed to hotels, 

 apartments, boarding houses, furnished rooms, etc., where 

 they will be comfortably cared for at moderate prices. 

 Eating facilities, both outside the Fair Grounds and in the 

 numerous restaurants in the Exposition Buildings, will be so 

 extensive that no one need fear that he will not be able to 

 get all he needs to eat, and at reasonable charges. 



An effort is being made to arrange for a grand reunion, at 

 the World's Fair, of surviving '' 49-ers "-^the men who left 

 their homes in the East in 1849 ^^ become gold-hunters in 

 California. It is thought that several thousand of them are 

 still living, and that all would make an extra effort to go to 

 Chicago this year, were a reunion arranged as is proposed. 

 Many of them remained in California, but the majority 

 returned and are now scattered throughout the States east of 

 the Mississippi. 



The most approved methods of Artificial Ice Making and 

 Cold Storage will be exhibited at the World's Fair. These 

 processes will be shown in a very fine building, 130X255 feet, 

 and five stories high, with observatories at the corners and a 

 lofty tower at the centre. About eighty tons of ice will be 

 manufactured daily, three methods being employed, namely, 

 the plate system, from filtered water ; the can system, from 

 condensed steam filtered and purified ; and the can system 

 from de-aerated water. Three different processes of cooling 

 rooms will also be shown. 



Ohio will erect a Mineral Cabin in the Mines Building at 

 the World's Fair to illustrate its mineral resources. The 

 Cabin will be 32X61 feet in dimensions, and twenty-three feet 

 high, and be constructed entirely of Ohio mineral products. 



The section from one of the big California redwood trees, 

 which the government will exhibit in its building at the 

 World's Fair, has arrived at the Fair grounds. Eleven freight 

 cars were required to convey it across the continent. It 

 measures thirty feet long by twenty-three feet in diameter. 

 The section is hollowed out, and when placed on end, divided 



