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garden on the roof, will be erected, and the attraction will 

 be in operation to entertain World's Fair crowds. 



Charles W. Rolfe, of the Illinois University, at Cham- 

 paign, has been elected to take charge of the relief map of 

 Illinois, which is to be a part of the State exhibit. He will 

 be assisted by a corps of ten engineers, who will go in the 

 field soon. The map is to be made on a scale of one inch to 

 three miles. It will be six by ten feet and cost $15,000. 



One of the largest bicycle factories in America has written 

 to Chief Smith, of the Transportation Department, that it 

 will exhibit at the Fair " bicyles and tricyles of every style 

 of the trade, showing the rise and progress of the art of 

 making 'wheels,' from the first ' bone shaker' built in this 

 country up to the highly finished ' safety ' of the present 

 day." 



Chief Ives of the Art Department, now in Europe, writes 

 most encouragingly concerning the prospects of the Art 

 exhibit of the Exposition. He has conferred with artists 

 and art societies in many of the principal cities of Europe 

 and has found them greatly interested in the Exposition, 

 and anxious to send paintings and other art productions for 

 exhibition. He reports his success much greater than he 

 anticipated. 



A stock company with a capital of $100,000 has been 

 formed to place a paper exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. 

 Every American paper maker or American manufacturer of 

 paper-making machinery will be allowed to take stock. The 

 entire capital has already been secured, but the pledges will 

 not be called for until the outsiders have been given a 

 chance, in order to do away with any idea of a money- 

 making scheme. A Committee of Five has been appointed 

 by President M. J. Fitch to take the matter in hand and to 

 send a representative to the meeting of the Boston Paper 

 Trade Club on the third Wednesday in November. 



All of the restaurants in the Mines and Mining and 

 Electricity buildings will be in the galleries. This was 

 determined in order to leave the ground floor free as far as 

 may be for intending exhibitors. It is thought also that 

 restaurants on the second floors of the buildings would 

 prove an attractive feature. It was also decided that the 

 restaurants in the Electricity building be located in the two 

 bays at the north end of the hall. In each bay there is to 

 be one large dining-room, surrounded by several smaller 

 rooms twenty-three feet square. The balcony connecting 

 the two is to be fitted up for serving temperance drinks and 

 ices. In the great Manufactures Building about 40,000 

 square feet have been set apart for restaurants. 



