July 19, 1898

Work on the Minnesota Building being pushed night and day... they promise to have it ready.

"Barney the Buffalo" arrives from Montana... to be followed by a Moose...

Tanks 18 ft. X 30 ft. X 2 ft. deep are being put in for Indians to wash clothes and bathe. They will be kept full with running water from the city.

Those connected with the Indian Congress given a magnificent badge of a gold or silver plated tomahawk appropriately lettered.

Parasites wreck havoc at fish display in Gov't Building... surplus fish put in lagoon as more arrive... most from Lake Michigan.

Brawl at the Pabst Building....

Music- Monday evenings will be devoted to popular music, no overtures or classic selection, but catchy new airs and old songs that have a warm place in the publics estimation for a generation or more. Thursday evenings concert in the Grand Court. where the Expo Chorus will have full swing and various novelties of Greek-fire illumination will be blended with music. Friday evenings will be given entirely to request programs. A new feature, introduced last evening... has the band stationed in the outside gallery at east end of Agriculture Building to make it more generally heard in the Grand Court as well as on 20th Street, north of the Adm. Building.