-— FEATURES OF THE FAIR TRANSCENDENT MERIT OF THE VARIOUS BUILDINGS. They Are Beautiful Beyond Anything | Ever Seen in This Country-—The | Novel Fisheries Structure and Its Varied Exhibits — Singalese and Egyptians—A Huge Chunk of Coal. It is the transcendent merit of the bufld- ings of the Fair at Chicago, says a New York Bun correspondent, that they demand noth Their beauty of line, their harmonious proportions, their grouping which has brought so vast a into such unity that from every point @ eye delights in new views of a perfect whole, the lovely enrichment, the ennobling ing but to be represented as they are, GUARDS OX DUTY AT THE FAIR. He will grin familiarly at the sight of old friends, but if he does not get a new {dea of their meaning in this, their new place, he will be duller than most American boys who creep under circus tents and through cracks "1 A JAPANESE FISHING SMACK, in fences. One could wish for him no better introduction into the vast, fertile, and pleas. : ant fields of architecture and art than through | the Fisheries and their frogs, The only place on the vast | grounds where there {8 any more than two or three persons gathered to- gether 18 in the Government exhibit in the Fisheries, This consists of tanks ar the centre and circumference of the circulm wing, with a passageway between. These tanks are fitted up with such representation of the vasty deep and the mountain pools as are appropriate. The picturesque part is, in exposition Hero the pesple of the prairies see the strange inhabitants of the sea in their native Many of the fish seem their intro- duction into society, . | ward and press their noses against the glass, | and open their wide mouths in astonishment at the crowds in front, then look at one an- other, and plainly convey thelr sentiments, The tanks are supplied with air by ms ubber tubes, When the water gots stale 1s replenished. A newspaper man was taking a lady through, “Ugh, what ere that?" she exclaimed with a shiver, “That's no fish, It's aman in rubber b cleaning out the tank." “Oh,” she sald, element, ans of Mur THE BINGALESE AXD The m¢ Thei EGYPTIANA, hosts are the agreeable lesa, sense of largeneas, freedom, which is conveved | as they stand in their shining purity o gwin nothing, but lose, by the vag outline and atmospheric accessories t among the most com: studio ties. The Fair bai anything that we have ev try. This opinion has | vanced by foreign of their own ¢ ft appear native their beauty and is best frankly real, art beyond t! The comm dings are beautiful 5 LIOR, 1 heavy exterior proper- | Varietios | that, w v1 00) - A SECTION OF THE FISHERIES DOILDING, 111414 ut Building have been stoned ries, where the building and the Govern exhibit are two of the most attractive features of the Fair. The Fisheries consist of a central rotunda and two eolon- nades leading to two circular wings, It takes time to reach the wings, so interesting is the architectural detail. The beauty, the rich- ness, the novelty and the sportiveness of this ornament appeals to the least eye ofthe Governn for in the Fis The balustrades are flsh standing on thelr | heads in couples with fan tails expanded, One Is attracted by the beauty and then laughs to see thelr Tad Jotes follow one another in solemn lines be- ween raised spirals up the columns, and wiggle waggles knot their talls decoratively, and at regular intervals crabs escaping from nets and lobsters from wicker baskets form the capitals, shells and seaweed and flnny things unite in running ornament, days when elegant rusticity flourished in the gardens of the little Trianen and hoes, rakes, aning, pots, pans and baskets tied up among rib- ARLE BETWEEN AQUARIA, bons and flowers were (ntroduced into the we now eall Louls XVI, thore has is not a ragamufMn who the Fair grounds accustomed | of the curves | a red petti al to the sandals | though frantic the Turkish oafe flannel trousers, a skirts and a gay a ket The upper Egyptians are enviably sind in striped silk skirts and blouses, and Inacinating dandies, swinging along the Mid way Plalsanee smoking cigarettes, wear | dresses of pale green striped silks with long full back ulsters flung wide open of pale blue | #llk. All the charms of color and splendor of dress on this most gay of promenades belong {to the men. The women, In tallor-made gowns and shirt fronts and four-in-hand ties, look on them with smiling admiration and wonder how much they paid a yard for such lovely silk, its ueere wn pleturesque pasaerdhy to loss red changes mind nes tr at, | ] ve the knew 3 do ASS Since the | A XGYEL A novel excursion was given by the Intra mural Elevated Rallroad, At § o'clock a the officers of the road, which encircles the grounds on the inside, had a train of four | ears brought to the Midway Plaisance gates, and in re¢ponse to invitations the population of that cosmopolitan quarter embarked for a ride about the grounds, Tho first car was given up to the Iowan State Band, and Baud EXCURSION, | master Phinney and his men were kept busy | tooting the airs of all Nations and varied war | dances during the trip, | show sent forty men, Hagenbeck's animal land village, came on with the party, and sat | side by side with three swarthy seven-foot | Zulus, who wers playing jackstonss with the i patives of the Dahomey village on the seat opposite, “Buffalo Bill's” Indians, in their gaudy trappings, filled the last car. Nearly every Nation on earth was represented, and aa they wont around the park they sent up a conglomeration of cheers and yells that al- most eanusod the statues on the Gig baildings to crumble, The train finally stopped st the south end of the grounds, where the party | was photographed, and after a luncheon ro. | turnad to the starting point, A MUGE CRUNK OF COAL. The foundation of the Washington State ber, each of which is 125 feet long, three feet six Inches by threo feet in breadth, worn out from trees 340 [eet in length, foot six inches in diameter at the base, This tree was out In two sections in order to aoe som fish in Jodcnay trom on, From the top of th ut float & ington also has the honor of King Ball, of the Lap- | Bullding is made of huge logs, ten in nume i largest chunk of coal over handled or mined by man, It {sin the north wing of the State Dullding, and bears this inscription ; passer rinn » . I am the largest Jump of coal ever handled, I weigh 50,250 pounds, I ° am 26 feet long, 5 fect 4 inches high and B feet 8 inches wide, I came from the Roslin mines, Kitiina County, Washing- ton, I was brought out of a slope 1070 : feet long with a dip of 18 degrees, I am * not anthracite ; I am somi-bituminous in character, My Stato has a coal area of 1,000,000 acres, Beat me if you can and you are entitled to the broom, BOUTH DAKOTA'S M!'ZERAL COTTAGE, An interesting exhibit is the mineral cot- tage in the Bouth Dakota Building. It is gonstructed entirely of minerals, is unique . design and tasty in execution, | the Indies of that district, and almost overy useful mineral known, The roof is of mies, from the mica mines, the walls are of gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, comprise aonsclousness of | fact, exceedingly attractive, and seems to con- | tent the inmates, who appear to feel at home, | A XORWEO!L y and nick atl for whi zine fosnind iouna "ve 8 ne two larg AT the oper Machinery HI pittu New ents -. KR Ham! al Ox Juans held its open corporate similar to t ti Frax n Manufactures Ha Ew is % | trical Ball — " fra | wag n we Mow, | aluminia | Tus | has its | ina ia the gr A LARGE Lie historical relics swords and valuable old letters | placed in the U »] States Bul now on exhibition Tux National League for Good R an exhibit in the Agricultural Bu road making materials and fon | ples of approved roads ing different kinds of r Miss Kare Mansons re the Maedieal among the lepers of Ril Lennan, of i nolula rosy in the Hawallan Islas read I'nx changing great tower in the Are v - it the from ROW] strains the opening Tux Wonder tree 8 4 camera : which was exhibited at the Paris Expositd it has now been sot up In Midway Plalsanms It gives the visitor the Impression that he has climbed a tree and Is looking down on th crowd beneath Hexny B. Frirea, suthor of the "Chey lier of Pensleri-Vanl," in reviewing the mi architecture of the Exposition, pronoun the Merchant Tailors’ structure “the rival, in nindature, of the Art Palace itself, in the » vere beauty of its proportions, Ix the New England log cabin in Midway Plaisance the ceremony of ‘Hanging the Crane” took piace, the crane being fixed tuto the fireplace while Longfellow 's poem “Hang ng the Crane” was recited. This was the formal opening of the log cabin, Evxuxp Ressxct, the Delsartean sor, Is decorating a room for the Ban Fran elsco women in the Caltfornia Building. The room is formed by partitions of red wood the general tone is a dull supper ; one end devoted to California's musioal instruments portraits adorn the wall Ix the Pennsylvania exhibit in the Mining Building is a pavilion every use to which siate oan be pat ton of seventy-cight varieties stone in the State, samples of glass sands are shown, and a pricaitive furnace used in the infancy of the fron business, Tre Javanese orchestra (2 largely made up of balls, The players sit in front of a blue and goid stand holding a dozen gueer shaped bells, made of brass and with a round pin. nace at the top of the dome and on this the musician pounds, There ate deep brass hells on big stands and high treble bells on small stands, A big yellow and green dram and a | pair of huge cymbals accompany the bolls, Tux Samoan colony tn Midway Plalesnce contains an old houss which belonged to Matania, tio king whose cause Hobert Louis Stevenson ia championing, It bs built of bread fruit wood, the only wood which the pay Tur nade me of ti { Englisl tes de GINS S bed or wria sont “ pr 0 fn solles The | fir tree mast, or flagpole, st the Washington | Htate exhibit Is 215 feet high and is only three | The |} minerals werns gathered in Custer County by | | testified RDN MURDER CA CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL AT NEW BEDFORD. Daily Progress of the Attempt to Prove That the Daughter, Lizzie, Killed Her Father and Step. Mother at Fall River Her Testl- mony at the Inquest Excluded. loss of Tharo was & rush of spectators to the Borden murder trial on the sixth day than usual, the muggy. The first tenant F. LL E Ho testified search the Borden handle sworn to examination he | search of the and said Robinson | all the Fal day witness opening warm and called was Liou is to m, of the Fall River Police, ineffectual cellar for the hatohet by Mullaly, On or described the cellar after the saw no looss brought out the | River polio case have Ot Mullally who Benjamin | an attomn to Le thorough wurder he hat fart bisvenn nro { 3 pro Fall River {nstone sialrs w nent Maodioal College, then sions of the stomachs tn indicate wid thelr nlents ah wir and a half in Examination showed no ham rod hatehet or Ih und on Ih ! 1 Harvard the examin und nothing in oither wod a differ. the time of lond the axe or onthe bine this hatohet was pot on white ame from outside and was The handleless hatohet had break in its handle contained had dust like ashes on the adhering. Under defendant's exveption Professor Wood the handieless hatohet have beet cleaned of blood before the handle was hiroken off, The Professor of Burgery ‘ua the Harvard Madioal Bohool, Dostor DD. W. Cheever, was the inst witness of the day. Ha has been In praction for thirty-five years, He thought that Mm. Borden had been dead for an hour or more longer than her husband, He thought that the wounds were inflicted with a hatehe When the ninth day ofthe Borden trial was lomoribad Ho & Isoase or irritat « ¥ an nh i) os hair t the ! ood The no dust, hat binde tightly and that ohjestion mig | openad promptly at 9 o'clock, every seat In i Fall River constructed to show | | prisoner, of butiding | | son, and swore that the search of the Bordon ] i rs sarnestly and frankly In conversation | the « nama our room was occupied. The first wit. called was Clty Marshal Hilliaed, of He deseribed his visits to the house, his conversation with the in which she was told that ghe was susportad, and sald that she was in the barn when the murders were committed, Heo was srossexamined by Governor Robin. Borden houses was thorough, and that the defendant gave him all the articles he asked for and i wut the susploion of her, The naxt wit nose was Mayor John W. Coughlin, of Fall River. He deseribad Ys visit to the Borden house with Marshal Hillined and corroborat. od the Marshal's testimony as to the conver. sation with the defandant, with her when she could help it, orer's color ross as this testimony was Lucy Collet teatifiod that she sat on [8 i | ston | little ! Emma | Ananclers of the World's ¥ John Denny testified that they worked in the Crowe yard all day on the day of the murder and saw no ons go or coms between that and | the Borden yard, The cross-exsmination of { thess last fow witnesses tended to shows | man might have gone out of the Borden yard without being seen. Hannah Reagan, matron ut the police station, Fall River, testified to an excited conversation in the station August ith between the prisoner and Emma, her sis ter, in which the prisoner said: “You me away, Emma. and I will Jet you see |] won't give In one neh” Emma said No, lizzie, 1 They then speaking and part Bridget Bullivan was Moody showed her the bloc kerohiof which was kel up by | den’s body, Bhe identified it as on sort of handkerchiefs that Mr. Borden used as pocket handkerchiefs and Mrs, Borden used os dust rags. Then came Ell Bense, the drug clerk, who was to open the most impor tant question of the day--whether 1} prisoner's effort to buy prassi ned was to be admitted or not H gave his name, and said he had Ix drug business thirteen or fourtes had be went « Smith, about At 1 ' IAW Years exprossed their determination argue for and against the admis . mony. The witness was sent ry was directed to retire, umaent Court nearly an 1 ‘ wl the ( wit Mer four vo % the ase and 3 nent told AWLY ory testilind Buck that the denis AWAY story was tras 1 sign it if the marshal did R. Caldwell testified that Hilliard told Mrs signed the denia i ERve me Away would bo against his « xpress orders E. Brigham testified that Matron Reagan said about the story, “It is all a lie from be ginning to end I was willing to sign that sper, but the marshall would not Jat N Rita L. Borden, defendant's sister sald there wore oightesn dresses {n the closet on the day of the search, of which oharht blue dresses belonged to the defendant Emma denied alwolutely the “vou Kave me AWAY story, and swore no quarrel took place betwosn the sisters in Matron Reagan's rom Mr. Knowiton cross-cxamined her with refer. to the family relations, but learned that prejudiced the defendant’ case testified that her father's gift of the house to the stepmother made trouble be. tween Lizzie and the stepmother, and Lizsie Wit 1 owe i 1st Reagan the it Mary story Mm" | ooasnd to call her mother and called her Mrs. | Borden, but that for two or three years be. fore the murder the relations between Lizzie | and Mra, Borden were entirely cordial, i i AUDITOR ACKERMAN ide a statement to alr that almost took their breath away He told them that the salary list for May reschad the total of #850,000, nnd that more than 6000 employes wero on the pay roll during that period, There was o general exclamation that the ning axpenses wars at least $400,000 a month high, and the announcement was made that Director of Works Burnham had dealded to drop 3000 men from the mils, Oxe of the claims for gave | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Crass Day exercises wers held st Prinos. ton, 8. J. Major-General 8chofield de ered the diplomas 10 the members of the grads. ing class at West Point ex-Beeretury Valr- child made the address to the i iv hu Jous Lewis City, shot to de paramour, was st south Prison leath was instant wittisssed for; mn “H Ossonp it} who, In N i his wife and ber ¢ eked t in the re pposed oath in the ox x. resent ing ¥ ) et syn Tay quarter Btates Mint doll Tue Vikin in tow of Be veral yact South and West aon Washingt that HH T 1 ANE 3 ments {ol mes Assistant Attorne Mars? gon: Daniel R Mur torney for the Distr United States Banox Fava was lent Secretary title as Ambassador felirftous speeches wore ex by Cuter Josm Supreme asked for oinred the coroner 3 Foreign. Tuner Italian w New York to mak The new battlos for New York in Ju Duse Mazimivias Empress of Austria, } rapture of a cardia Arsh pes wy ’ Bevex n curred In 8S A DRRADIFUL ham, Engiand boationd of so drowned and several maimed Doctor MoGLyxy has hoon in Rome had a long sudisnce with the Pope. who ceived him cordially, as did other occiesiastion! dignitaries Dostor MeGiyan then left for home, and Is reported as being highly delighted with his rece Tux eclections in Germany | uietly ; retallote will be necessary districts, Af two o'clock on the ruing after the election the returns foreshadowed defeat for the Army MIL Every candidate in Berlin pledged to support the Army bill was defosted The provinces also seem to be very amphatic against it. The Socialists made great gains and thelr success created & sensation, ———— MURDERED HER CHILDREN. A Woman Kills Four of Eight and Ends Her Own Life Mra, Kate Kerch, living ten miles from Parkersburg, W. Va, having lost har reason, poisoned two of ber young obildren, threw re donths fr ithern Fra ant He oa. Lah igh assnl off Any
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