The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-05-19

l06I6 Was uOtaDiO party VI hSA
In Sedalia yesterday afternoon, the
names of whom are rapidly becoming
household words all over the country.
They we're:
Col. Geo. r. Davis, director gen.
eral of the worlds Columbian exposi-
ton.
Hon. Moses P. Handy, chief of the
department of promotion and public
ity, worlds Columbian exposition.
Hon. Leroy ID. Tboman, president
of the states association of the worlds
Columbian exposition.
Mr.. Ebert Z. Jaycox, traffic man.
ager of the exposition.
Hon. Matthew B. Harrison, worlds
fair commissioner from the state of
Minnesota.
Col. John T. Dickinson, secretary
wo-ld's Columbian exposition and
worlds fair commissioner from the
state of Texas.
Col. Fred. Handy, press represent
alive.
The party is en- route to Fort
Worth, Texas to attend the Texas
worlds fair convention to be held In
that city on Tuesday, May II, and
travel in the special car Newport.
General Davis is of course the Gen.
ter of attraction of the party. He is
a fine looking gentleman, just beyond
the middle age of life. He looks very
much like our own Congressman
Dockery and is an exceedingly fine
entertainer, and especially SO when
talking of the worlds fair.
1.-The people of this country have
little conception of the magnitude of
the undertaking." said he "why the
$40 acres which we now have will not
be large enough by 80 acres. The
plans of most of the buildings are
nearing completion and before sixty
days there will, be $1,000 men at
work. We have not had much of in
terest in the matter Of news hereto
fore, as we were just organizing our
departments. Now that these are
completed, the country, in fact all the
countries will be flooded with matter
descriptive of the progress and char
acter of the work being DONE"
Referring again to the magnitude
of the enterprise General Davis said :
"The power plant will be one of the
grandest things ever conceived. The
batteries will have capacity of o.
900 horse power and will be massed
together under one roof. The cleo
trio plant alone will require 1900
horse power.
''The display promises to be the
grandest In the history of the world.
All the nations of the earth have re-
sponded that they will be represented
and handsomely, Mexico will spend
81, 100000 in her display alone. We
are DESTROYS of getting the states
of our own country into line and this
is one of the main reasons of our pres
emit trip. Many of the states have
done handsomely and before the fair
is opened they will do even better.
In many of the states the constitution
is such that the legislatures sliced on
to the technicality to refuse an appro-
priation. The people of those states
are now protesting with such vehe-
mence that there is no doubt but that
all will be represented. Texas, one
of the grandest of States, failed to
make an appropriation and now her
citizens are preparing to hold grand
mass meeting Tuesday. We 60 there
to give them the best idea of the
affair We can, and have no doubt but
that we will be successful in having
Texas represented as she should be. !"
"Uur art department will be one of
the grand features. [ have Just
learned from Russia that they will
send us collection of their finest
paintings and works of art and Scan
dinavia has promised to do the same.
five cannot obtain originals we will
have true copies made of them by the
best artists obtainable. Of course
the copies will not cost nearly so
much as the originals and will only be
made to last as long as the exposition
runs"
"How do I manage to keep the
run of affairs ? Easy enough. /
have my heads of departments and
hold them responsible for the success
or failure thereof. They have
their men for the different divisions
hold them responsible, the heads of
the division hold the foremen respon-
sible and the foremen holds the work
men responsible. We have a COM
plete system which is just as easy to
manage as if the undertaking was not
one.eighth as large as it is" Speak
ing of Missouri, Col. Davis said it was