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 of solid masonry, will span a thousand feet of waterway, the largest ever included and utilized in an exposition site. It is an appropriate name for the bridge, because it will be the means of communicating with and seeing many nations that will be represented on the water.

“A definite proposition has been under consideration in reference to a village of real Filipinos. Three hundred natives will probably be brought over. They will be the real fresh article, and their trip to the States will be under Government sanction. No Filipinos that were at St. Louis will be here because the Igorrote and Moros have returned to their retreats in the island province. Northward from the Government reservation seven acres will be set aside for the dog-eating villagers and the peculiar Samal Moro fishermen, who build their thatched huts high on stilts along the edge of the water. And not alone will the life of a Filipino village be seen, but all manner of odd craft will be given abundant sea room on the lake, which will be a picturesque panorama of constantly shifting scenes,