2 The Humming Bird. 



THE WORLDS FAIR. 



International Exposition of Chicago. 



After all, it appears that the Americans have made their 

 mind up to beat all preceding International Expositions. It is 

 a 'fact that they are spending enormous sums to that purpose. 

 It is stated that the expenses to be made reach already the 

 enormous sum of six millions, seven hundred and forty thousand 

 dollars, for the Exposition buildings only. In addition to that 

 the company will have to spend another ten millions of dollars 

 for the grading, filling, landscape gardening, viaducts and 

 bridges, piers, etc., etc., so that the total amount is expected 

 to reach, at least, the stupendous sum of seventeen millions of 

 dollars. 



Besides that, the States and Territories are expected to spend 

 about three millions of dollars. Then come the foreign 

 nations. Fifty-one have already accepted the invitation of the 

 American Government, and the amount known to be spent by 

 twenty-eight of them reaches the nice total of nearly five 

 millions of dollars. 



Thinking that the readers of the Humming Bird will be 

 glad to know how this gigantic industrial enterprise is going on, 

 I will reserve a space in each number of Vol. II. of this 

 Journal, in which I will give all the latest information about it. 



It appears that the Americans want to celebrate the fourth 

 hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, by 

 Christopher Colomb, in a manner which could not be sur- 

 passed. 



The Editor. 



World's Fair Notes. 



Virginia's building at the Exposition will be of the old 

 colonial type, measuring 33 by 76 feet, two stories high and 

 surrounded by a piazza, fifteen feet wide. Its cost will be 

 $20,000. 



The nine Lady Managers resident in Chicago, called 

 together by Mrs. Potter Palmer, have decided to establish a 

 model sanitary kitchen in the Woman's building at the 

 Exposition. An effort will be made by a special entertainment 

 or otherwise, to raise the $4,000 necessary for the purpose. 



Dr. John E. Owen, the Medical Director of the Exposition, 

 has promised Mrs. Potter Palmer that women shall receive 

 official recognition upon the medical staff. The number to be 

 appointed has not yet been announced, but assurance has been 

 given that women physicians will professionally rank equal with 

 men, and share the duties of the Exposition hospital. 



