32 The Humming Bird. 



CHICAGO EXPOSITION. 



World's Fair Notes. 



An Ohio World's Fair commissioner has estimated that 

 the exhibitors from his State will spend upwards'of $5,000,000 

 in the preparation of their exhibits for the Exposition. 



The California building at the Fair will be an imposing 

 structure of the " old mission " type, no by 500 feet, with 

 a dome, and costing about $75,000. It will be surrounded 

 by a hedge of Monterey cypress. 



Denmark will spent about $5,500 in showing, as a lead- 

 ing feature of its World's Fair exhibit, a Danish dairy, 

 complete and in operation. The dairy interest is one of 

 the most important in Denmark, and the most approved 

 methods and mechanical appliances are utilized in the 

 dairies of that country. 



W. L. Libby & Sons, of Toledo, intend to erect, on 

 Midway Plaisance, a factory in which the manufacture of 

 cut glass can be seen, from the furnace, on through the cut- 

 ting, finishing and decorating departments, until the 

 finished product is turned out> The factory plans call for 

 a structure 125 by 200 feet, of stone, iron, and glass, and with 

 imposing dome. The firm intends to spend $40,000 on the 

 building alone. 



Italy will make no governmental display at the Exposi- 

 tion. The king, however, has recognized the Fair, by 

 appointing a commission, and Minister of State, Rudini, 

 has informed Vice-President Bryan and Director Higin- 

 botham, that the government will encourage individual 

 exhibitors in every way possible. He intimated that it 

 would even pay for the transportation of all exhibits. Mr. 

 Higinbotham reports that there is throughout Italy much 

 enthusiasm over the Exposition, and that the painters, 

 sculptors and manufacturers of artistic wares are hard at 

 work on intended exhibits. 



Baron de Berlepsch, German minister of commerce, has 

 written to the chamber of commerce of Crefeld, the principal 

 place in Prussia, for the manufacture of silk goods, that 

 the Emperor ardentty desires that there should be as fine a 

 display as possible of German silks and velvets at the 

 Chicago World's Fair. A majority of the silk and velvet 

 manufacturing firms in the Rhenish provinces will comply 

 with the wishes of the Emperor, whose interest in Germany's 

 share of the exhibition is having a stimulating effect in all 

 directions. 



