The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-04
WORLDS FAIR.
Character OF Exhibit That Can b,
Made in the Texas Ruildinr

We beg to call your attention, and
the public generally. to the accom-.
panying letter of Director Gener Il
George S. Davis of the Columbian
Exposition, which is a strong indoss,-
ment OF the Texas Worlds Fair Elk.
hibit association. and defines very
clearly the kind and character Of ex.
hibit that can be made in the Texas
building:
Chicago, IL, Nov. Q, 1891 Hon. Thos J. Hur.
ley, etehGent Texas Worlds Fair Exhibit
Association, Fort Worth, Tex.
Ny DEAR SIR have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt Of your esteem
ed favor of the 4th inst, submitting the
following questions which 1 take
pleasure in answering fully and d.
rectly, as desire to aid your associa-
ton IN every way in my power the
said association having been recoc.
nIzsd by the management OF the
Worlds Columbian Exposition as the
organization through which the state
OF Texas and its various counties eau
be represented at the Worlds Fair in
1898.
Replying to your questions;
ist- Can county exhibitors Of
farm products secure one and ore-hai
acres of floor space in departmental
building for a collective county ex-
hibit"?
Cd. win they be permitted to
distribute printed matter to the vlsi-
torsP"
Sd. II not permitted to make col
lective exhibit in departmental build
ing. can they not make such display
in the Texas building under the head
OF natural resources?n
have the honor to state that neither
a county nor a state can be given
space in any OF the departmental build
ings erected by the management here.
in which to make a collective exhibit
Of the different resources OF such a
county or state. An immense sum of
money. aggregating many millions of
dollars. is being expended here for the
Worlds Columbian Exposition. to be
held in this city in 1898, in the con-
struction of departmental buildings in
which will be exhibited the arts. in.
dustries, manufactures, and the pro.
ducts of the soil mine and sea.
Everything pertaining TO agriculture
will be exhibited in the departmental
building devoted to agriculture, food
and food products, and kindred arti-
cles and the same with horticulture,
mines and mining forestry and fores-
try products, manufactures live stock,
fine arts, electricity, iish and fisheries,
means of transportation. and SO on;
each great product or art or science.
having building devoted entirely to
the various specimens throughout tho
world OF that product. or that art or
that science. Every individual in
Texas can make an exhibit Of pro-
duet or an article that may be deemed
worthy of being exhibited and for
which we have space and it will go
into the proper departme ntal bu lding
where it belongs. The individual can
make his application to exhibit his
product or article through the Teas
Worlds Fair ExhiAt soc,ation. where
TIC - p44Cat4On can ue registered and
hen forwarded to this office. or he can
make application direct, in which case
copy OF the same will be sent to your
association.
No provision has been made for any
state or county to make a collective
exhibit of its natural products and re-
sources. except in The state bui ding,
in conformity with the rules and regu-
at ons that have been issued from this
office. 1t appears to me that the rules
issued. stating the manner in which
state exhibits can be made, as per cir
,ular of MAY /. 1891. are broad
enough to cover the point you raise,
and they will certainly be construed
as literally as the best interes of the
exposition taken a. whole. viii war;
rant. In conformity with the piovis-
ions of these rules. Texas which is
largely an agricultural state in its
oroadest sense, .nd is also a timber
producing and fruit raising state, can
display a series of county collective
exhibits in the stale buildings many
Of which may surpass the collective
exhibits in other state buildings. on
account of the immense variety of
natural products and resources to be
found in the state OF Texas.
In answer to your inquiry as to
whether or not printed matter will be
allowed 10 be distributed for advertis-
ing purposes upon the Worlds Fair
grounds. l have to inform you that it
is too early to really decide this mat
ter. It will probably be permitted
under proper restrictions IN the state
buildings, under the supervisions Of
the state board or association having
charge of the STATE building.
Trusting that your people may un-
derstand fully the advantage o. ,lng
a state building on the grounds. in
which they can place. eounty ooIlectivs
exhibits OF natural products. in addi-
ton to exhibiting their separate pro-
ducts and articles in the various de.
partmental buildings and assuring
YOU of my hearty cooperation at all
times in the grea: work which you
have before you am.
Sincerely yours
lSigned. GEO. S. DAVIS.
Dire Z r- enerIl.