The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-07-24
DELEGATE CONVENTION.

The Minnesota Board of Managers
of the Worlds Fair having determ-
ined to issue call for delegate con-
vention to be held at the capitol
building in St. Paul on the 18th of
August, for the purpose of discussing
and arriving at the most feasible and
equitable plan of raising additional
funds with which to prepare thor
oughly creditable exhibit at the Fair
in '93, it should be the pleasure of
every organized body in the various
cities and villages of the state to join
in hearty cooperation and send as
delegates thoroughly representative
men-men whose opinions will be
sought and whose judgment can be
relied upon to assist in solving the
problem of how to raise the money.
The Board of Managers felt delica-
cy about promulgating plan, deem
ing it altogether more eXpedient that
convention of citizens direct from
the people, should, if possible, agree
upon the course to be pursued.
Within day or two the Secretary
will issue the call for the meeting,
and the mode of selecting the dele
gates will therein be set forth. All
the states are now taking active steps
looking to the erection Of building
on Jackson Park. Several of the
commemorative, laboring under like
disadvantages with Minnesota, are
discussing various plans by which
needed funds can be secured, and it is
not too much to say that every state
in the Union will have its building
dedicated for exhibition purposes and
for headquarters for those who visit
the Fair. South Dakota, whose legiS-
lature failed to make an apprOpria-
tion of any sum for the Fair, will like
ly have special session of the law
makers called. TwO-thirds of the
members of the legislature have
signed a petition to the governor ask
ing for special session, and agree to
serve without mileage or per diem.
Wisconsin is already moving with her
building project. It's announced from
Milwaukee that the structure decided
upon will be two stories high, with
not less than 10000 feet of floor space
exclusive of porches. The whole
structure is to be built of Wisconsin
material. The exterior walls are to
be of stone, brick and terra Gotta, and
the roof of slate, tile or iron made ia
Wisconsin. The interior is to be or,
namented and furnished with plate,
beveled and mirror glass, Wisconsin
pine and hardwood, land encaustc tile.
The cost of the building is estimated
at $50, 1000. The commission has ad-
vertised for plans and offers prize of
$500 for the accepted design and 5000
for the next in merit.
During last week Wyoming, Texas
Washington and South Dakota were
each granted sites for state buildings,
and there now remains but a very few
states that have not formally applied
for and been granted grounds.
Foreign countries are exhibiting in
creased interest in the Worlds Fair,
and it is every way likely that all gov
ernments and principalities will be
represented on an elaborate scale.
The British government has decided
to appropriate 1925, 900 to be expended
by the commission. 1t made no ap-
preparation whatever for the Paris
Exposition. British merchants, how
ever, expended S75O,O0O at that fair,
and it is predicted they will contrib
ute at least 81, 900, 900 towards the ex-
pense of an exhibit at Chicago.
Minnesota, one of the greatest
states in the Union, with an aggrega-
tion of wealth surpassed by few Of the
older states, with unequaled natural
resources, and an area of agricultural
lands inviting settlement that can
not be eXcelled by any commonwealth
under the broad canopy of heaven,
presents features of attractiveness
that should be an incentive to every
resident to make her worth known to
the people of the world, and to let no
opportunity pass unimproved that
will give her deserved prominence at
the approaching exposition. Let
every Board of Trade, Chamber of
Commerce, city and village council,
and the commissioners of the various
counties see to it that delegates to
| the peoples convention on the 18th of
August be selected in good time.
And choose only such men for dele
gates as will attend in person.
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