RT Ts a ot Wesabe ~~ Se wane — = Naval. Casino and Pier. ; A Illinoi Fisheries. U. S. Government. Manufactures and Liberal Arts. J ! Agriculture. Forestry. Dairy. anole Electricity. Administration. : hr Woman's. Horticulture. Transportation. Mining. R. R. Approaches. Machinery. Live Stock. abreast. Flanking this quadriga are statues | power. It is asserted by those in‘ charge o iture and forestry are apart. Electricity, THE FAIR FULL-BLOWN. CHICAGO NOW PREPARED TO ENTERTAIN THE WORLD. Her Columbian Exposition a Polyglot City With Over 100,000 Inhabi- tants and a Municipal Government —Sights That Thrill the Visitor— Midway Plaisance. A little over two years ago the site of the World's Columbian Fair at Chicago was practically a wild marsh. To-dayit contains several hundred buildings, and Director- General Davis estimates the wealth repre- sented by the buildings and exhibits as some- thing like $150,000,000. Fifty Nations and thirty-seven colonies are represented. Added to these are the United Btates Government and the various States and Territories of the Union. Roughly speaking, the grounds contain six hundred acres. They are a mile long and about half a mile broad at the widest part. representing the States and Territories. The peristyle connects the Music Hall and Casino, where Theodore Thomas will storm the gates of heaven with harmony. On either side of the basin are the facades of the Agricultural Building and the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The principal corners of the Electricity Building and Machinery Hall are projected into this grand court of honor. Between them is the Administration Build- ing, which serves as a vast vestibule. The pomp and splendor of this structure are be- yond description. It is in the form of four massive pavilions, united and crowned by a mighty golden dome that flashes 250 feet above the ground. Each of the pavilions is eighty-four feet square and the dome is 120 feet in diameter. The colossal entrances are rich in sculptures and the piers of the pavil- ions are crested with statuary. At every point the eye meets with some striking group. The interior of the dome is lit by an opening of fifty feet, the light disclosing panels en- riched with sculpture and vast paintings, representing the arts and sciences. Mr. Dodge's great fresco occupies the upper rim of the dome. This is the seat of government. In the four pavillions are the headquarters of the Direc- tor-General, the Foreign Department and the Department of Publicity and Promotion. Here the purely executive work is carried on, the construction headquarters being in the Service Building. During the construction period Director-General Davis has command- ed more than fifteen thousand men at a time ’ and Major Handy, of the Bureau of Publicity, ANN ATS LAN GRRS NN EN NM amine NN a2 ANN RN this light that people sixty miles away can easily read by the reflected illumination at night. Following the canal, which is spanned by graceful bridges, on which are life-sized sculptures of American animals, one skirts the Electricity Building. On the other side of this is the Mining Building, and still be. yond is the monstrous Transportation Build: ing, the decoration of which alternately sug- gest a kaleidoscope and the band wagon of a circus. Leaving out the State buildings there are only three conspicuous blotches on the beauty of the exposition as a whole. They are the Transportation Building, the Illinois Building and the United States Government Building. The first is a burlesque and the latter two are simply shabby. A remarkable thing about the exposition is the number of interests that have been given separate representation. The oman’s Building is an instance of this. Edueation is illustrated in a thousand forms. In fact, this element is likely to bore the public. It is too elaborate. Almost every Government has turned its educational department loose, and the result is a wilderness of charts, models, books and statistics that confuses and overwhelms the spectator. Provision has heen made for the trans portation of sixty thousand persons an hour to and from the grounds. The elevated rail- way, the Illinois Central Railway, the { ordinary street cars and a fleet of steamboats | have been organized into a complete system. Passengers who travel by water are landed at i ke . 3 eo % . N THE GEM OF THE FAIR—THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. The distance from the middle of Chicago is soven miles. One side of the grounds runs along the great lake and the other side faces hundreds of hotels and stores hurriedly erected at the smallest possible cost. There is a strip of land six hundred feet wide and a mile long extending from the main grounds eastward, and this is the Midway Plaisance, which contains the sideshows and private enterprises. The whole exposition will be open from an early hour in the morning until ten o'clock at night and the price of admis- sion {fifty cents. The exposition is marked off into three great divisions. At the north end is the Art Palace, surrounded by the separate buildings of the States, Territories and foreign Gov- ernments. This is the social department,and millions of dollars will be spent in the enter- tainment of visitors and in formal banquets. Going southward are to be found three- quarters of a mile of structures representing manufactures, machinery, electricity, mining, sgriculture, horticulture, forestry and minor material interests, with buildings here and there representing woman, music and the government of the grounds. The third divi- gion is the Midway Plaisance, dedicated to Oriental villages, dancing girls, balloons, bear pits, glass blowers, panoramas, barbaric theatres and everything that goes to makeup the side show life of an international exposi- gion. Here alone will the visitor be forced to pay extra. Outside of the Midway Plais- ance everything is free after the general ad- mission fee is paid, with the soleexception of the Esquimau Village and the Cave of the Cliff Dwellers. it was the genius of Frederick L. Olmstead that turned the waters of Lake Michigan into lagoons, ponds, basins and canals with bridges and terraces to beautify the place. J¥very main building can be reached by water. ‘There are fifty electric launches and scores of » gondolas oared by picturesque Venetians. It costs twenty-five cents a trip on the launches and the gondolas can be employed at so much an hour. An intermural elevated electric railway penetrates to all parts ot the grounds, and visitors can make their rounds with great rapidity if they do not care to walk. Around the great basin is grouped the for- mal architecture. At one end is the noble peristyle with its Corinthian columns, pierced in the middle by the great Columbian portal, on the top of which is a magnificent group representing a chariot drawn by four horses has supplied & list of 70,000 correspondents. the portal of the great water court, while all From this building messages are going out constantly to the most remote corners of the world. It must be understood that the exposition is a city, with a complete government. There are over fifty thousand exhibitors, and two persons for each interest represented would give a fixed population of 100,000. There are well organized and equipped police and fire departments. The Columbian Guard is an independent body of police numbering in the neighborhood of two thousand men, largely made up of ex-soldiers. This body is com- manded by Colonel Edmund Price, of the United States Army. and all of its superior officers are detailed from the army. The men are uniformed like soldiers, wear short swords and are under strict military disci- pline. They present a fine appearance scat- tered about the grounds. Police and fire stations are placed at stragetic points, and the floors of all the buildings are patrolied night and day as a protection against fire. Standing at the foot of the Administration Building the visitor is thrilled by his sur- roundings. Beside him, in the main en- trance, is St. Gauden's fine statue of Colum- bus. In front of him is the wonderful Me- Monies fountain, and on either side of it the big fountains that throw up masses of elec- tric lighted water in thousands of tints at night. Beyond is the smooth basin, crowded with gondolas and launches. Further on is the huge figure of the Repub- lic rising out of the water on a pedastal with the peristyle as a background. To the left are the towers and recessed pilasters of Ma- chinery Hall, the obelisk and the small peris- tyle. The water that flows in front of Ma- chinery Hall divides it from the Agricultural Building, whose fiorid capitals, masses of statuary and gilded dome, surmounted by Diana, add an indescribable richness to the general effect. On the north side is the grand facade of the largest building in the world, whose thirty acres are devoted to manuiac- tures and liberal arts. The walls of this edi- fice measures almost a mile, and the stupen- dous hinged arch spans the main floor at a height of 150 feet. Yet its fluted columns, triumphal arches ana vast loggia have con- verted this architectural leviathan into a thing of beauty. From the roof of this huge building beams the biggest electric search light ever con- structed. It has reflectors six feet in diame- ter, and give a light of 194.000.000 candle the railways terminate in a beautiful build- ing on the grounds. : On the steamboat pier are moving side- walks. The outer sidewalk moves at the rate of three miles an hour, so that passen- gers can step upon it while it is in motion. They can then step to an inner sidewalk which has a speed three miles faster, so that they are carried along the pier at the rate of six miles an hour and can get on or off at will without inconvenience. Close by is a fine harbor for visiting yachts, and it is known that there will be a fine attendance of yachtsmen from all parts of the country and from Europe. Lines of coaches will be run to and from the exposition, and the glorious outdoor sport will be revived in royal fashion. Fifty thousand people can be fed. And the mothers, too, have been provided fox. There is a building where babies can be checked just like a hat or coat or umbrella. he charge is moderate and the nurses are good. Aside from the cost of the great buildings the following are among the sums which have been spent in preparation of the ex- position grounds: Grading and filling, $450,000 ; landscape gardening, $323,500; viaduct and bridges, $125.000; piers, ®70,- 000 ; waterway improvements, $225,000 ; rail- ways £500,000 ; steam plant, $800,000 ; elec- tric lighting, $1.500,000; statuary, $1.000.- 000 ; vases, lamps, ete., $50,000; lake front adornment, $200,000; water supply and sewerage, $600,000 ; other expenses ; $1,000,- 000. Total, $5,943,500. The total expense of organization, administration and opera- tion of the exposition is estimated at $5,000.- 000. This takes no account of the sums spent by the Government, the States or foreign Nations. One hundred and twenty car loads of glass, enough to cover twenty-nine acres, were used in the roofs of the various exposi- tion structures. More than forty-one car loads, or eleven acres, were required by the great Manufactures Building alone. A thing that will impress itself upon the thoughtful observer is the fact thut every branch of science and industry has been split up into minor departments. This is the age of the specialist. Each separate thread is taken by an independent division of workers and followed out minutely. Visitors to the exposition will be confused until they recoenize this fact Acrienlture. horticeni- | A Schooner Lost at Sea, | The schooner Esperance, Captain Rich. ards, which sailed from the Magdaler Islands six weeks ago with a crew of 10 be pides the captain, on a sealing voyage ir the Gulf of St. Lawrence, has been los with all on board. | Two Girls Roasted to Death. Two 6-year-old girls were burned to | death near Amherst, N. 8, while playing | in fields where fires were alight to burn up | old grass. ! A Family of Five Burned to Death, The village of North Galveston, 10 miles northwest of Warsaw, Ind., was almost to- tally destroyed by fire. —Four HunpreD Chinamen were refused a landing at Portland, Ore. The vessel left for Victoria. Other ships laden with China: men are expected there daily, J. J. Jackson, his | | wife, two sons and a daughter perished in | i the flames. Several other persons were bad- | ly burned. The material loss is $75,000. | Blount Named as Minister. | The President has appointed James H. Blount of Georgia, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Hawai- jan Islands, succeeding John L. Stevens, re- signed. The transfer of Mr. Blount from the post of special commissioner to make | report on the advisability of annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the position of Minis- ter was decided on ata cabinet 1Imeeting ‘Wednesday. The salary of the position ie $7,500. mining; steam machinery and artillery en- gineering are divorced from each other. The artist and the merchant are no longer under one roof. ’ This impressive lesson is, of course, only to be learned in the departments of the greater Nations. The old style still holds with the Japanese, the East Indians. the South Amer- [cans and the South Sea Islanders. And after the student has spent weeks in the various buildings he can sit down in the open air and watch the world pass before him—Turks and Russians, Greeks and Bul- garians, Japs, Eequimaux, Indians, Britons, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Italians, Dutchmen, Switzers, Peruvians, Chileans, Prazilians, Moors, Swedes, Danes, Cingalese and the people of all lands come to honor the mem- ory of a man who built his fame on faith and courage. For a mile around him will be palaces, flower gardens and the wealth of civilized man in its highest form challenging criticism. Here Saint-Saens and the Garde Republicain Band will pour out harmony ; there the wand of Theodore Thomas will wave over an army of fiddlers. Great chorals will swell from the lips of innumerable sing- ers. A hundred thousand armed and uniformed soldiers will be massed in Chicago this sum- mer. This great camp of American warriors will be in August. Militia organizations from every State in the Union will be press ent, besides a large representation of troops from the regular army. To these must be added military companies and perhaps regi- ments from foreign countries. The military display will probably be the grandest ever seen in this country. MANY SHOCKING DEATHS pr TEN MINERS FALL 2,000 FEET. Steamers Collide at Sea With Fatal Results. Other Fatalities on Land and Water. The captain of the steamship City of Hamburg, which arrived at Swansea from Hamburg, reportsthat at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon his vessel collided, in a fog, off Trevose head, c¢ ast of Cornwall, with the ship Countess Evelyn, bound, with passen- gers and iron ore, from Bilbao, Spain, to Newport, Wales. The captain of the Coun- tess Evelyn jumped aboard the City of Hamburg and Mate Richards crawled to her through a hole in the Countess Evelyn's quarter. 3 Ninety seconds later the Countess Evelyn went under with her crew of 16 and nine passengers. Boats were lowered at once from the City of Hamburg, but the search in the fog proved almost useless. Seaman Jarbin was picked up. but he died in a few minutes after having been brought aboard the steamship. The dead body of a little girl was also found. Otherwise the attempt at rescue was without result. The lost nassengers were the English wife and the son and daughter of a Spanisn gen- tleman in Bilboa. Mrs. Williams, her son and infant daugehter; two men named Dar- ton and a Londoner whose name has uot been ascertained. The steamship Ataka which arrived at Cadrift was damaged yesterday in a coliison with an unknown ship off Lundv Isle. The Ataka's captain thinks that the other vessel went down with all on board. SCORES ARE DROWNED. St. PETERSBURG.—A small ferryboat ou the river Vesta, near Borovitchee. Govern- ment of Novgarod, became unmanageable in midstream and was swept from her course by the current. The passengers, who filled her decks, were panic stricken. Dozens of persons are known to have been drowned and many are missing. MINERS FALL 3,000 FEET. A fatal accident occurred at the Red Jacket Dorpendening shaft of the Calumet and ecla mine near Houghton, Mich., by the talling of a carriage. Ten men were par- ticipated to the bottom. a distance of over 3.000 feet. There were six natives of Corn- wall, two italians, one Finn, and one Irish- man, and the acciaent was caused by the indicator giving the wrong signal to the en- gincer. The killed are: Joseph Pope, John Hicks, John Odger, James Cocking. Andrew Edno, Con J. Sullivan, James Tresni, Mich- eal Levitto, TLousands of excited people congregated around the mouth of the shaft all day and the cries and sobs of the wives and mothers of the miners were pitiful. The miners are indignant and will demand a rigid exami- nation intothe accident by the Mine In- spector. Upto a late hour none of the miner's bodies had been recovered. TWO KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED. LEBANON, PA—A locomotive on the Le- tanon valley branch of the Philadelphia & leading railroad exploded Saturday, and Levi Yocum, engineer, of Reading; ~ Jobn Yocum of this place, aged i4. were killed. George Sallada, conductor, of Reading: W:l- liam Anspach, crossing watchman, and the latter’s 16 year old daughter were fatally injured. Grant Seiler, a boy of Lebanon, and Isaac Blaid. front brakeman, of Read- ing, were seriously injured. Several per- sons a square away were injured. THREE LIVES LOST IN A RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN ILLINOIS. Maxcovran, Inn—A westbound freight train on the Louisville and St. Louis Air Line ran into an open switch near West Belleville, Fireman John Menker and a brakeman were killed outright. Engineer Mahaffey sustained injuries that will likely prove fa- tal. The engineer saw the open switch too late. He reversed his engine and jumped, but was caught under & car load of ties. The victims resided at Huntingsburg, Ind. dicot amram. Base Ball Record. The following table shows the standing of the different base ball clubs up to date: Ww. L. Pct. w. 1, Pel. St. Louis... 8 4 .667/Philadel’a 6 6 .500 Clevel’'nd. 6 3 .667|Boston.... 6 7 .462 Wash’n... 9 5 .643 Baltimore 6 8 ,429 Pittsburg. 7 4 .636 New York 5 8 .385 Brooklyn. 7 5 .583|Chicago... 4 10 .285 Cincin'ti.. 8 6 .b71|Louisv’le. 2 8 .200 COLUMBIAN FAIR NEWS ITEMS IT WILL BE OPEN SUNDAYS, le The Buildings Containing Exhibits Will Be Closed. But Everything Else Will Be Wide Open. reine Un and after May 21 the World's Fair grounds will be open every Sunday. This decision was reached at a meeting of the directors of the Expesition at Chicago on Friday afternoon. President Higinbotham had called upon Edwin Walker, who is chairman of the Committee of Legislation to submit an opinion whether or not the Exposition can be opened on the seventh day, in spite of the restriction placed upon this feature by Congress when the appropri- tion of &2,500,000 was granted. Mr. Walker presented his official and long interpretation before the directors, which is to the effect that the law passed by Con- gress, stipulating that the Exposition should be closed on Sunday, applies only to the buildings containing exhibits. mr. Walk- er’s construction of the act further says that the buildings erected for other uses, the grounds, the Midway Plaisance, with its varied human panorama, and things per- teining thereto, may be thrown open to public inspection. After considerable discussion a resolution was proposed to open the gate$ every Sun- day on and after May 21, and to close the main buildings containing the exhibits. The resolution was carried by a vote of 22 to7. Of the seven who voted nay six were in favor of opening the Fair in every de- partment, and the seventh was opposed to opening the gates under any consideration. Thus, upon the technicality named, the Columbian Fair, will to all intents and pur- poses, be open, leaving the public to visit throughout the grounds, to ride on the electric launches, to enjoy the novelties of the Venetian gondolas, to patronize any of the booths or varied attractions of ~ the Plaisance and to have a good time generally. The price of admission on Sunday will be reduced to 25 cents. SUNDAY AT THE FAIR. The Sunday closing rule was rigidly car- ried out on Sunday and the gates to Jackson Paik were barred to all sightseers. Inside the grounds 4.000 men were at work on the roadways and buildings. A large crowd thronged the neighborhood of the Exposi- tion, attracted by the various mu-eums and side shows which abound in the vicinity. Thousands of Chicagoans took in Buffalo Bill's “Wild West,’ to-day. The c'ty parks were thronged ail day with happy, prosper- ous, well-dres-ed, well-behaved people, who worked all week, but are barred from the Fair on the only day they have time to visit it. These people were quiet and order- ly and the gray-coated park policeman had absolutely nothing to do. Comments not at all favorable to the Sunday closing were heard on every hand. The day was a beautiful one and the lake was full of pleasure craft. It 1s estimated that 100,000 people would. have passed through the gates of Jackson srk on Sun- day had they been open. THE ATTENDANCE. COMPARATIVE TABLES SHOWING THE GAIN IN ATTENDANCE OVER THAT OF 1876. A good deal of interest is being taken in the number of visitors who have paid ad- mission daily since it started as compared to the attendance during a similar period at the Centennial at Philadelphia, The daily attendance, authoratively furnished by the Bureau of Admissions, shows that al- ready it is much larger that that of the Centennial at the commencement of the season. The attendance at the Columbian Exposi- tion up to date is shown in the following table 1st day....... 129.200 7th day........ 21,701 ond day...... 14,282 Bthday....... H ard day...... 116.459 9th day... : 4th day..... . 20.466 10thday....... , 2 5thday.... . 11,944 lithday.... . 30,129 6thday....s.. 17,149 The attendance at the Centennial was as follows: 1st dav...... +. 76,172 7th day...... » 12177 2nd day...... 14722 Sth aday....... 11.054 3rd day. ...... 10952 9th day. ....... 16,100 dth day. ...... 11.658 10th day ...... 12,403 5th day....... 10,896 11th day...... 20,871 3 7.058 By this it will be seen that the total at- tendance at the World's Columbian Exposi- tion during the first 11 davs is nearly 219-, 000 greater than at the Centennial during the corresponding period. FIRST LEGAL STEPS ON THE CLOSING, The first legal steps in the World's Fair Sunday elosing question were made Satur- day afternoon. Charles W. Clingman, an attorney who represents that he is a stock- holder in the Columbian Exposition, per- sonally and by proxy to the extent of §100,- 000, filed a bill in the Supreme Court, pray- ing for an injunction restraining the directors of the Exposition and the South Park commissioners from closing the gates of the Fair on Sunday. Clingman claims that the ground upon which the Exposition stands was given by the State to the people for park purposes only, and that the Park Commissioners had no right to use it for any other purpose, or deprive the public of the enjoyment of the park. It is also claim- ed that the National government has no right to interfere in any matter which is covered by the laws of Illinois. An early hearing on the application for.an injunction is expected. THE AMERICAN ART EXHIBIT, Second to the French exhibit in the Fine Arts building, the thousands of people at the Exposition on Thursday seemed to con- centrate in the United States section, which was opened to the public. The American sa- lons were crowded all day and nearly every- body was interested sufficiently to have a catalogue. There was no hurrying, and the praise bestowed upon the works of Amer- ican painters, many of them prize winners from Paris and London exhibitions, was not undeserved. There are 2,800 pieces in the United States art exhibit, far exceeding in * against 92.8 last year. number the contributions of France, Great Britain, Germany and Italy. BLAKNEY CASTLE OPKNED. The green tlag of Ireland and the stars and stripes floated from the battlements on Blar- ney Castle on the occasion of opening the Irish village, in the Midway Plaisance, over which the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen preside. The center of attraction was the concert hall. where Lord and Lady Aber- deen addressed the assemblage on the phil- anthropic subject of the village and the commendable purpose of the Irish Indus- trial Association. A real Irish musical pro- gram was carried out, all the musicians and singers, pipers and jig dancers being from the *‘Ould Sod.” VERMONT'S BUILDING DEDICATED. Vermont's building was dedicated Thurs- day in the presence of the Governor and many prominent citizens. Governor Fuller made a short speech, and ex-Governor Dil- lingham delivered the oration of the day. The building is a Vermont product i out, floored with Rutland marble and tiled with material from Swanton. Itis in the Pompeian style and occupies a charming tite on the lake shore. THE MUSIC AGAIN A FEATURE. The sudden change in the weather from winter's chill to summer's warmth, brought the musical features of the Fair again into prominence Wednesday morning. The open air concerts began at 9 o'clock, in Ad- ministration Plaza, and were continued by the Chicago and Cincinnati bands until 5 o'clock in the evening, before large crowds. The orchestral concert at 11 o'clock filled Music Hall, THE ART PALACE OPENED. The new memorial art palace on the lake front was thrown open to the public on Saturday. The builaing when finished will cost $600,000. Of this amount £200,000 has been paid by the world’s fair. The art congresses will be held in this building. . The entire electrical display was brought into play for the first time Saturday night, and the two electric fountains on either side of the great MacMonnies fountain in the grand court were in full operation. Visitors found the doors of all the exhibition build- ings open, and were entertained with the music of three bands. The glare of thous- ands of electric lights was reflected from the waters of the lagoons. A powerful search light scattered the shadows of the early evening. From the roof of the peristyle flickered ribbons of light, and on its center piece rested the monster search light that threw out over the lake great silver bars of light. The gilt dome of the Administration building was studded with electrical gems, and the effect, as viewed froin the west front of the peris- tyle, was gorgeous. GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. The Figures on Winter Wheat Show a Very Poor Average. The May returns of the department of" agriculture at Washington, on the condition of winter wheat shows a reduction of 2.1 points from the Apnl average, being 75.3 against 77.4 last month and 84.0 in May, 15392. The average of the principal winter wheat states are: Ohio, 83; Michigan, 71: Indiana, 79; Illinois, 62; Missouri, 72; Kan- sas, 51. The average of these six states is 68.3, against 74.2 in April, being a decline of 5.9 points since the first of last month. It is 88 in New York and Pennsylvania, against 87 and 88 respectively, last month; 97 in Maryland and 85 in Virginia, In the sonthern states the averages range from 74 in Texas to 96 in North Carolina. The conditions have been favorable to the growth and development of wheat in the New England, Southern and Pucific states. In California the condition has advanced ten poiuts, while in theprincipal wheat-pro- ducing states there has been considerable deterioration. In Kansas, Colorado ana Nebraska, where planting was backward and germination slow owing to continued drought and much of the plant being winter-killed, large areas have been plowed up and devoted to other crops. The sanie has been done in Missouri Indiana and Illinois, where the plant was badly winter-kitled and greatly dainaged since by the continued wet weather, In Michigan the severity of the winter great- ly damaged the plantand the weather since has been too and backward to admit of re- cuperation. Damage from Hessian fly in some of the counties of the latter State and Indiana and Ohio is reported and from the chinchbugs in Kansas, In some of the principal wheat states the plant on the uplands is reported in good condition, while on lower and un- drained lands the conditions are poor and much of the crop destroyed by drowning. Winter rye, like wheat, has suffered a de- cline in condition since last month. Its average for May 1 being 82.7, against 85 for same late in April. The percentage of New York is 97, Pennsylvania 92, Michigan 80, lilinois 72, Kansas 50. The conditions have been favorable to germination and growth in the Eastern states, but have been the re- verse in the Western and Northwestern. The average condition of barley is 88.0 In the states of prin- cipal production the averages are: New York, 95; Ohio 94, and California 87. The lowest conditions are in Illinois, Mis- souri, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. In California the crop has been damaged by overflows and wet weather. The condition of spring pasture is 87.2 of mowing lands 89.2. The proportion of spring plowing done) ay 1 is reported as 73.4 per cent again- st an average of 77 per cent for a series of years. Eee lem STATE OF THE CROPS. Taken as a Whole the Conditions Are More Favorable, The weekly crop report, issued at Wash- ington, is as follows: This is the fourth continuous cold week throughout the cen- tral valleys, including both the winter and spring wheat regions and the greater portion ol the cotton region. While the week has been generally unfavorable to cotton, on ac- count of extes