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'•FT O W' S States Government Has Erected a o s
-At Structure Which is a Model of Grace -it
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^fct and Beauty.
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BY MARK BENNITT.
HE Government Building
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seuquural beauty. The architect is
Mr. James Knox Taylor, Supervising
Architect of the United States Treas
ury. Tlie sculptor is Mr. James Far
rington Early, the youngest pupil ever
admitted to the Loyal Academy.
The exterior of the building is clas
sic, stately and beautiful. The main
entrance consists of a portico of eight
Ionic columns, five feet in diameter
and forty-five feet high, surmounted
by an entablature and attic.
The attic is enriched by eight colos
sal female figures eleven feet high,
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GLIMPSE OF THE WORLD’S FAIR. SHOWING A BRANCH OF THE WATERWAY, THE EDUCATION PAL
ACE ON THE LEFT AND THE PALACE OF MINES AND METALLURGY IN THE CENTER.
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represeuting Music, Paintin < r ScuIp
furt, Architecture, Agriculture, Manu
laetures, Trttncpo “ itiou and Com
merce.
On each side of the central portico
and just above the top of the attic are
groups of four figures each. A seated
female figure, fourteen feet high, rep
resenting America, with a torch in one
hand and an eagle at her feet, is sur
rounded by three young athletes, each
ten feet six inches high, typifying the
youth and strength of the Republic.
Each lias a laurel wreath in his hand.
The dome is surmounted by a quad
riga, a Goddess of Liberty fourteen
feet high, bearing a torch in one hand
and an eagle in the other, standing in
tin 1 triumphal chariot drawn by foui
colossal horses. The horses are guid
ed by two nude male figures, each
twelve feet high.
Tiie Fisheries Building, which is con
nected with the United States Govern
ment Building by a colonnade, is se
verely classic in outline, lt is as sim
pie as the Greek temple of Poseidon,
which, still crowns “Sunium's Marbled
Steep.” Groups of naiads, mermaids,
mermen, sportive dolphins, sea shells
and tridents adorn every available
place. The friezes and crests around
I lie building all suggest the sea.
&UPC.RjT iTlONS O - MECHANICS.
.Some queer Beliefs That Obtain Among
Craftsmen.
Cal MeSimms, of the Bricklayers'
Union, speaking Of superstitions
known among his craftsmen, said;
•'Should a bricklayer drop a brick
from a wall while at work and break
it lengthwise it is a sure token of great
luck, and that the man will get-money,
but if it falls and alights on its end
and stands in that position for a mo
ment, he is sure to die in a
“'The nainters have only one real km
perdition, and that is that, if while
mm of their number is at work littiuk
a pane of glass he lets it fall, and it iA,
broken into thirteen pieces, he will
meet with ill luck ai .01,511 the next
twenty-four hours.
Many of the waiters in the restau
rants believe if the first order they
take in the morning is for ham and
eggs they Avill have good luck all that
day. It is a common superstition
among the barbers that if a man
comes into the shop and has a I
beard removed there Aviil be a marriage i
among the barbers in the place soon.
Kansas City Journal.
The central ornament for the United
States Government Building proper is
the statue of “Armed Liberty.” The
first plaster cast of this statue was
made in Rome by Thomas Crawford,
the sculptor. It was used by Clark
Mills in I860 for making the mold in
which he cast the bronze statue sur
mounting the dome of the Capitol in
Washingto . The height of this sta
tue is nineteen feet six inches. The
Government Board appropriated $15,
000 for the interior decoration of the
Government Building. This work
was under the immediate supervision
of Miss Grace Lincoln Temple, Avkose
plans, however, were subject to the
approval of the members of tbe United
States Government Board.
A m \\ OSLO’S FAIR FEATURES.
In a short article such as this, one
can only refer to such gr°at features
as the Philippine exhibit, covering
forty acres and containing more than
1090 natives from those far off Pacific
Islands; the United States Government
Indian exhibit, covering many acres
and occupying a large building; the ex
hibit of the United States Bureau of
Plant Industry, consisting of an out
door map of the United States, cover
ing four acres; the great Athletic
Field, where the Olympian Games of
1904 will be held; the Aerial Concourse
where the airship and balloon contests,
,laving prizes aggregating $200,000, will
rake place; the Anthropology exhibit;
he forty or more State buildings; the
jutdoor exhibits of the Departments of
Agriculture and Horticulture, covering
many acres; the Palace of Horticul
ture, 400 by 800 feet, containing the
largest exhibits of horticulture ever
brought together; the beautiful Temple
of Fraternity; the magnificent build
ings erected by foreign nations; the
great Inside Inn. where 0000 guests
may find accommodation at rates from
$1.50 to $5.00 per day; the extensive
Live Stock Pavilion; the great land
scape clock, made of flowers.
Trie. Cr.OvvS AND 1 He BALL.
An Invincible Rgg That Baffled All
Their Attacks.
During a piazza game of ping-pong
one of the bails was sent quite a dis
tanee out over the lawn, where a crow
seized it and bore it off in triumph,
evidently thinking it was an egg. After
much peeking, from all of which the
frolicsome little ball bounced away un
broken, the crow had an excited con
sultation with several of his fellows,
and then deliberately carried the ball
to the top of a high tree and let it drop.
A » aiu tht ‘ :lsseml)1 *’', of b la(>k ^athe'-ed
experimenters gathered l around in
amazement. Mas there over such a
remarkable egg? H had fallen from
a height that played havoc with their
and their little ones as well and
Act survived intact! Then one after
uno-filer tramped on it, cawing loudly
all th*e while.
At lastj. hi sheer exhaustion and dis
gust, they ; ill gave it up, flew to the
top of their favorite tree, and, still
cawing loudly. Avatched one of the
player. s came out from the
house and carry the invincible egg
that had baffled till®* 1 ' boldest attacks.—
Boston Wi chmai
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AUTHOR OF TH2 ,
WORLD’S FAIR HYMN
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The selection of the veteran poet,
Edmund Clarence Stedman, to write
the World’s Fair hymn, seems to have
been a popular choice, When tbe
question was asked who should be in
vited to undertake a work of such mo
ment, the name of Mr. Stedman was
suggested from many quarters.
The poem has now been completed
and set to music by Mr. John Iv.
Paine, of Harvard University, The
title is the “Hymn of the West.” Per- l
mission to hear this notable composi
tion is withheld from tbe public until
the opening day of the Exposition,
but that au unusual treat is in store
for them is assured.
Poems by Mr. Stedman have been
used for musical settings of several of
the most distinguished American com
posers, and he is especially gifted in
lyric composition. The song for the
World's Fair is considered his best ef
fort.
Mr. Stedman was born in Hartford,
Conn., in 1833, and was graduated
from Yale in the class of 1853. He be
came editor of the Norwich (Conn.)
Tribune and the Winsted (Conn.) Her
ald, and in 1859 joined the staff of the
New York Tribune. He was war cor
respondent of the New York World
from 1831 to 1863. After the war lie
purchased a seat in the New York
Stock Exchange, and while devoting
his life to literary work, has also car
ried on a successful business. He has
published many volumes of his own
poems and is the editor of several col
lections and libraries of poetry and
literature.
Frank Vanuerstuken, director of tbe
Cincinnati Orchestra, has written
"Louisiana,” tiie World's Fair march,
and Henry K. Hadley, of New York,
i has written the Exposition waltz,
! “Along the Plaza. it
DIGGING UP GREECE
Studying Archaeological Remains to Find
How the Ancients I.ive<l.
They are digging up Greece to find
out how* the men of olden times lived,
carried ou business and died. Accord
ing to a dispatch from London, a large
number of expeditions under the lead
ership of scientific men are at work
studying archaeological remains.
The American school under the di
rection of T. \V. Heermance will con
tinue its excavations at Corinth, where
the difficulties in connection with the
expropriation of landowners stopped
the work in 1903. These have now been
settled.
The British school will now resume
its excavations at Palaeoeastro, East
ern Crete, where a rich series of My
cenaean vases and terra cottas have
been discovered. Trial excavations
will be made at Laconia. The first
site will be tbe Temple of Artemis, at
Kary.
The French school will continue
more completely ami more systemati
cally the Delos excavations of 1903,
which have already revealed interest
ing traces of the commercial activity
of Roman republican times.
tow IN NICARAGUA.
British Threaten to Bombard Blae
fields on Account of Arrest of
Fishermen.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
says: The British cruiser Retribution,
which under instructions from the im
perial government sailed from King
ston, April 11 for a Nicaraguan port in
connection with the seizure of six Cay
man turtle schooners and the arrest
of their crews by Nicaraguan officials,
returned to Port Royal from the Nic
araguan coast Thursday, after ascer
taining that the vessels and crews nad j
been sent to Bluefields.
The captain of the Retribution ac
cased the Nicaraguan commandant,
under whose orders the schooners
were seized, of piracy. There is con
sternation among the Nicaraguan of
ficials over the affair.
It was necessary for the Retribution
to return to Port Royal to coal, &uc
the cruiser will sail for Bluefields im
mediately to demand the release of the
prisoners and the boats and also cam*
pensation for their illegal seizure and
detention.
It is rumored that should it be found
necessary, the Retribution will bom
bard the port of Bluefields.
British Flag Raised.
A. special from Managua, Nicaragua,
says: The five tortoise-shell fishing
schooners captured recently while in
Nicaraguan wateis and taken to Blue
fields had hoisted the British flag on
one of the small islands off Cape Gra
cios-a-Dios, Nicaragua. The fishermen
claimed they were encouraged to do
so by their colonial employees.
The British representative at Man
agau in an interview is quoted as say
ing in regard to the visit of a Brit
ish man of war, tnat she is going
to Bluefields on a friendly visit to in
vestigate certain events.
Arms for Nicaragua.
The Nicaraguan steamer Omerepe,
from Havana, has arrived in Nicara
guan waters with a consignment of
-war munition*! purchased in Cuba.
It is rumored that another confer
ence will take place shortly at Azna
pala, in the Gulf of Fonseca, between
the presidents of Honduras, Nicaragua
and San Salvador.
It was announced from Havana,
March 30, that the filicaraguan govern
ment steamer Ometepe had sailed for
Bluefields that day with 5,000 Rem
ington «r;fles purchased from a Span
ish hardware house in Havana.
GEORGIA TO GET WAR-CLAIMS MONEY.
Bill Relating to Reimbursement of State*
is Passed in the House.
A Washington special says: The
house Thursday afternoon passed the
bill amending the existing law rela
tive to the reimbursement of the dif
ferent states for certain expenditures
they made in the payment of troops,
which volunteered for the war with
Spain.
Owing to some misunderstanding
relative to the decisions of the
comptroller of the treasury concern
ing these claims, the officials of some
states failed to file their claims with
in the original time limit.
It was for the purpose of correct
ing this and securing to the states the
return of all the moneys due on this
account that the bill which passed
was introduced. It is understood that
under it Georgia will get between $15,
000 and $20,000.
Governor Terrell has appointed
Judge Janes, of Cedartown. to repre
sent the state in the collection of the
money.
MOVE TO STOP LAWLESSNESS..
Mississippi Negro Found to Give Testimony
Against Gang of Whitecappers.
Thursday afternoon detectives plac
ed in jail at Jackson, Miss., a negro
by the name of Sam Jones, who is
wanted as an important witness
against whitecappers in Lincoln coun
ty. Jones is an employee of the Pearl
River Lumber Company, near Brook
haven, where the whitecappers have
been at work firing into houses and
terrorizing negroes. A Chicago detec
tive was employed by the law abiding
people of Lincoln county to break up
this form of lawlessness. Jones knows
the white men who have been engaged
in whiteuapping.
CASE GF BROKERAGE FIRM DISMISSED.
Judge Newman Decides That His Court Has
No Jurisdiction.
Judge William T. Newmaii, in the
United States court, at Atlanta, Qa.,
.
signed an order dismissing the bank
ruptcy proceedings in the case of A.
B .Baxter & Co., the defunct brok
erage concern, and discharging the
federal court receiver.
This was done on application of
the defendant company on the ground
that the United States court for the
northern district of Georgia is with
out jurisdiction in the matter
STATEHOOD
BILL PASS
By a Strict Party Vote JfcjJ
Adopted in the House." |
DEMOCRATS MADE j[|
Dut of Four Territories, Two Sir
Oklahoma aad Arizona Will i
Made According to the Bill.
A Washington special says;
1 ter a debate extending through
thi
tire session the house, Tue:
passed the statehood bill, provi
for joint statehood of Okln.iiomi
Indian Termor yuntier the naai
taiioma aad of Arizona and Mex
ico under tne name Arizona,
in discussing the rule which!
beau reported by the committa
rules, providing ior the consider)
of the bill, Mr. Williams, me min
leader, declared that no
had any iuea that the bill
eoaia a law at this session.
In opposing the rule, Mr. Moo
Tennessee, declared that the biin
an intensely wicked a»d par
measure, which, if paeaed, would honj
late the plighted faith and
the United states to the five matte] civ]
tribes of Indians in the
treaty obligations.
He- Inquired of the republics
they were going to pass the oil]
olatiom of their party pratform a;
treaty obligations. The territorial
egates in the Louse, he niainta
had protested "until the hour o!
cion by the republicans to meei
litical exigencies. ft
Denying that the
been guilty of bad faith, Mr.
said the bill would take its
a party measure because !;
ported by the majority of the
tee, submitted to a party
brought into the house
rule adopted by that caucus,
tified the measure on the ground
we are endeavoring to sustain
ative power of the tenate and
of representatives in
The rule was adopted lad to
strict party vote. The
was taken up. Speeches *.vs -
for the bill by Messrs.
North Dakota; Sterling, of
Curtis, of Kansas; McGuire,
homa, and R-ody, of New
against the bill by Messrs
of Ohio; Reid, of Arkansas;
of Missouri; Needham, of
Russell, of Texas, and
Arizona.
The third reading of the
been directed by the speaker
one of the most amusing
the session occurred. Mr.
qulred if the third reading of
was to be by title only. In
of an elaborate decision tbe
turned to the parliamentarian.®
Hinds, for further advice,
announced fhiirTie would re
question in favor of the
privilege of each member,
of whom could demand the
Mr. Williams, the minority
jocularly inquired of the
his decision had been arrived
consultation
The speaker promptly
it had 1 been and he set the bo
an uproar -when he added:
"The skilled parliamentarian
has been at this desk for many
can give the chair,” and after a
“and the gentleman from Miss'
cards and spades, and then
fountain of parliamentary K; - ®
left. * > It was some moments
the applause and laughter which
ed this sally subsided. Mr. Madi
Georgia, demanded the readm
the bill, which was begun, bid
he withdrew his request.
Speaker Cannon further c° n
the house when he asked:
»• Ts there an other genOemai
desires the bill read?”
I*o one responding, the bid ■
upon its passage, the democra
mending the yeas and nays.
The bill was parsed 147 t0 1
3trict party vote.
| DELEGATION SELECTED E0K 09
Massachusetts Democrats Act
Convention Held in Boston.
The Hearst men were dei*
the democratic convention at
Thursday. The Olney leaders «|
complete control and alter -p 3113 '
olutions indorsing him iasriu Cl
delegates .to vote for Olney a ‘ J|
the unit rule.
Colonel William A. Gaston.
Patrick A Collins, of Boston;
L. Douglas, of Brockton, m
gressman John R. Thayer, of
ter, were chosen delegates at