104 The Humming Bird. 



Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the celebrated philantrophist, who 

 is at the head of the philanthropic section of the English 

 Women's Department in the World's Fair, according to the 

 London press, will cross the Atlantic to attend the Fair, and 

 will read an original paper on the subject of women's insti- 

 tutions conducted by women. 



Mrs French-Sheldon, the intrepid African traveller, has 

 applied for space for exhibiting at the World's Fair the fine 

 collection of curious and trophies she has gathered. 



From California is to be exhibited at the World's Fair one 

 of the famed huge redwood trees, or Sequoia gigantea. The one 

 selected is 300 feet high and more than 30 feet in diameter at 

 the base. A specially constructed train will be necessary to 

 carry the monster across the continent. It is the intention 

 to hollow the base into booths in which will be sold Cali. 

 fornia wines, fruits and curiosities made of polished redwood 



It has been explained by Director General Davis and other 

 World's Fair officials, who are inclined to favor Sunday 

 opening, that it is not the intention or desire that the Fair 

 shall be opened on Sundays in the "wide''* way in which it 

 will be on week days. On the contrary, they would have the 

 machinery stopped, all manufacturing processes at a stand- 

 still, and every description of work by employes reduced to a 

 minimum. Religious services and choral and other musical 

 entertainments could be held in the numerous halls and 

 auditoriums which the buildings will contain. The people 

 could stroll through the park, viewing its resplendent 

 beauties of nature and wonderful achievements of man's 

 handiwork ; could enter the buildings to enjoy the work of 

 painter and sculptor, and to learn and profit from exhibits 

 of innumerable description. Very few employes, comparati- 

 vely, would be required to remain on duty on Sunday, and 

 those chiefly for watchmen and guards. These would not be 

 required to work seven days in the week. To care for the 

 thousands of visitors at the Fair on Sunday, would not 

 require more persons to work on that day than would be 

 necessary were those same thousands to go elsewhere. Had 

 it been understood from the beginning that the Sunday ope- 

 ning of the Fair would be of the kind indicated, — orderly 

 and educational, instead of noisy and demoralizing, — - it is 

 believed that the petitions and protests against a Sunday 

 Fair would have been far less numerous. 



