Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-05
NEW ORLEANS ExrosIrIor
em9nfcation from Mr.. n
Special N. z. Commissscn:- roee,

IHE AUGUSTA HOUSE,, Jan. 2, 1884.
1d'tor Rennebee journal:
! notice the New Orleans dispatch in vo,,
es'eemed paper says Vermont ha. a .n.c.
aiiotted but has not an exhibit in n,.oa :
A'n not quoting the language, but the .ub-
stance of what you print. It i, true. and
still 1t conveys a false impression. Permit
me TO correct it, both for the sake Of nm,
sister State, and also in behalf of the p,ea.
enterprise that will certainly advance the
prosperity of every New England State.
vermont, - everybody knows, i. the most
conservative State in New England. Be-
cause OF this, il was behind ali the other
slstefhood OF the six New England States in
commencing 60 work for this grand enterprise.
Al Hovemoer the legislature met and heard
.ne inaugural OF Governor Pingree. In that
message the governor set forth the bearing
OF the Worlds Exposition upon the indus-
tries OF his State. A SPECIAL committee of
the legislature was appointed to consider 40
much OF the governors message as related TO
that subject. That committee made an
unanimous report in favor of an appropria-
ton OF $1,000 from the State TREASURY to
enable the State to be properly represented
In It's natural resources, and in the iudus
tries that occupied its people.
Bear in mind, Mr.. Editor, that other States
had been At work since May last. Gov, Pin
gree appointed most excellent commission
er-Col. JnO. b. Mead-and told him to 90
ahead. He has now ten carloads of stnff
en- route to New Orleans. Some of it wa.
forwarded three weeks since, some later. but
all Is under way. With great diligence, with
rare wisdom, and acting under the advice of
his governor and the advising council, made
necessary by the legislative grant, Col.
Meade has procured and shipped to New
Orleans, splendid representation of the
only New England State without a seaboard
All these things will in due time be put in
place in New Orleans, and one of the most OF
the many attractive features of the exhibit in
the so called government building, will
have been made by Vermont
Permit me to say further that
Hon. J. B Ham, the first Mayor
of Lewiston, has made an exhibit fol
Maine, the most unique of its kind that comes
from this section, and one that will return Ia
this State ten thousand times it's cost within
the next FIVE years. Mr.. Ham is working
without pay, and all he has done up to the
present moment has been because Of his
enthusiastic devotion to the best interests OF
the DirigO State, in which he was born and
to which he is deeply attached. His expense,
in preparing and forwarding the exhibit, and
in setting it up there, have been paid for GU,
of the government loan to the Exposition
authorities. 1t was a voluntary offer or
their part which Commissioner Ham wisely
accepted Now it depends upon the State O
Maine, as represented by its legislators. tC
say whether the splendid efforts he has made
shall be successful. If the lawmakers o
Maine shall decide to furnish him with fund.-
sufficient to meet the six months expense
that close on the last day Of May, 1885,
am persuaded that at small cost to the State
not exceeding s. ,000-there will be returned
to it directly within ayear at least $500, 900
and an annual income thereafter.
BENZ. S. PARDEE,
Special New England Commissioner.