38 The Humming Bird. 



beginning to assume the character which in great part it 

 will have during the Fair — that of a gigantic flower garden. 

 Already the Floricultural Department has received 27,000 

 rose bushes and other plants, several thousands of which 

 came from abroad. These are being transplanted on the 

 island. 



New York has made a World's Fair appropriation of 

 $300,000. 



Dr. Bertolette, Commissioner to the La Platte Republics, 

 has informed the Latin-American Department that he is 

 endeavouring to secure for the Exposition a colony of lace 

 makers and gold and silver workers from Paraguay. These 

 people are ingenious, their product being equal to that of 

 the Brussels working women, and the fact that they use 

 vegetable fibre exclusively makes their work of even greater 

 value and interest. It has been planned by the Latin- 

 American Department to have a group of these lace-makers 

 on the Exposition grounds ; also a group of workers in gold 

 and filigree. 



The Great Western Railway of England will exhibit in 

 the Transportation Building the famous old locomotive, 

 " The Lord of the Isles," which was built at the Company's 

 works in Swindon in 1851, from designs of the late Sir 

 Daniel Gooch. This locomotive was a notable exhibit at 

 the first World's Fair in London in 1851. From that time 

 until July, 1881, it was continually in service, and ran 

 during that period a distance of 789,300 miles without being 

 fitted with a new boiler. As a pioneer of early railroading, 

 and as a contrast to the powerful " Mogul'' ; this old loco- 

 motive will attract much attention. 



The Washington State World's Fair Building will be 

 constructed in sections at Tacoma and sent to Chicago next 

 September. 



A number of owners of steam yachts in New York intend 

 to utilize them to transport themselves and their friends to 

 the Exposition by way of the St. Lawrence and Welland 

 Canal. They believe it will be of great advantage to live 

 aboard their yachts, and thus be independent of crowded 

 hotels. It is reported that the owners of many steam 

 barges in Canada will fit them with comfortable living 

 quarters, and carry Canadian visitors to and from the Fair. 



A 100-year-old bearing orange tree, from San Gabriel, 

 is one of the exhibits announced from California. 



Ostrich eggs, artistically painted in a prize competition, 

 are to be a feature in the exhibit made by Cape Colony, 

 South Africa. 



The main Exposition buildings require for their orna- 



