St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
THE WORLDS EXPOSITION.
Some of the Preparations Being
Made for the Great Event at
A New Orleans.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. ]


New YORK, Aug 3.-Mr. f. G. Moorhead,
commissioner general of the Worlds Indus
trial Centennial exposition, arrived here from
New Orleans yesterday and gave the follow
ing interesting information regarding the
exposition to the GLOBE correspondent:
Mr.. Moorhead said: Congress, as is well
known, appropriated 81, 900, 900 as loan to
the exposition, to be expended under the
direction of the board of management
appointed by the president of the United
States, pursuant to the provisions of the
charter granted to the National Cotton
Planters association. A special appropria-
ton of $500, 900 was also made to defray ex-
penses OF exhibit by the different depart
ments OF the government During this time
visited a number of the state capitals, and
secured appropriations for state exhibits. 1
also visited other leading cities, and put in
motion machinery for the collection and ex-
hibit of their respective industries Twenty
foreign governments have already signified
their intention to send exhibits, and we ex-
pect this feature will be one of the most i'm
portant of the exposition. We
have now number of representatives in
Europe and other foreign lands doing good
work. Men sailed last Wednesday on the
Oregon. Almost every department of in
dustry and art is being cared for by special
commissioners abroad. The original inten-
ton was that l should go to Washington,
and now that the interest in the exposition
has increased so much at the north, l have
come here to establish our northern head
quarters in this city and take charge of them
in person.
The exposition will be located in what is
known as the upper city park of New
Orleans, which is skirted on
one side by the Mississippi river
and contains 249 acres of ground, nearly all
of which will be available for exhibition pur-
poses. There will be four large buildings
besides annexes The main building is the
largest iron erection in the world, and covers
thirty-eight acres of ground, which is ten
acres more than the main building of the ex-
position at Philadelphia. The horticultural
building surpasses in dimensions any struc-
ture ever constructed for that purpose, and
is strikingly beautiful in its plan. In this
connection it may be proper to state that our
horticultural premiums alone foot up over
S35, 900. The United States government
building is $50 feet long by $50 feet wide,
and will be occupied by the exhibits, not
only of the national government, but of the
various states and territories, and / risk
nothing in saying that its contents win give
more comprehensive idea OF the vast ma
terial resources of this country than has
ever heretofore been presented. Every state
and territory of the Union will be repre-
sented, and some of them extensively, par
ticularly the southern and western states.
Our board in order to promote THE feature,
has appropriated $4,000 to each state and ter
ritory, to be expended under the direction
of the United states commissioners for the
exposition and the grounds of the respective
states and territories. The exposition will
open on December 2, and remain oper until
May 81, 1885, 1t will certainly be the
largest, if not one of the most important,
expositions on record.