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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
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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
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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
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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,
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The Buildings Containing Exhibits Will
Be Closed. But Everything Else
Will Be Wide Open.
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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.
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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<ive rains and cold, the weath-
er has been more favorable inthe wheat and
corn regions ot! the northwest, where seed-
ing, although late, is in general progress.
and it is nearly completed in the Dakotae,
The detailed crop condi:ions in this and zd-
joining states. taken as a whole, are more
favorable than those of the previous week.
Pennsylvania—Farm work 1s at a stand-
still; ground thoroughly soaked; no corn
planted; ver on=-haif cat crop, and pota-
toes yet to be sown; winter grain and grass
in fair cendition.
Illinois—Conditions beneficial to wheat,
but retard-other crops; plowing and corn-
planting making fair progress; thousands of
acres of wheat still submerged and wil
probably be a total loss; season about
ten days behind.
Indiana--Weather more favorable for
plowing and planting; crops on uplands
look well, low'ands yet inundated,
West Virginia—Wet weather hindered
planting and plowing; low temperature re-
tarded growth of vegetation; wheat, oats
grass, rye and tobacco growin: finely. ?
Ohio—High water caus: d great damage to
crops on bottorn lands; wheat, oats; orass
rye, barely and tobbacco made slow growth
early potatoes rotting: farm work delayed,
Michigan—Crop conditions continue back-
ward owing to wet weather.
—_—
—BEcAuse Thomas Hefferman besought
his w
i ife to leave another man and live with
him, she shot and instantly killed him, The
woman and Edward Russell, the man for
whom she forsook her h
§ usband, were 4
arrested. i
i — ig
—A COLORED women cut off the ears of
another colored women in Newberry
county, 8. C, during a dispute over the pos-
Session of a negro who was claimed as 8
tusband by both women,
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