Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-31
THE WORLDS FAIR.
How tho Vermont Com issioners Hope
to Secure the Funds for u state Build

How tho Vermont Com m issioners Hope
to Secure tho Funds for u state Build
Ing.
The worlds Columbian commission Of
Vermont, by Its executive commissioner,
II. II. Mcintyre of West Randolph, is NOV
ing energetlcally and practically toward
securing the erection Of a creditable State
building at Chicago. 1t has recently asked
the architects Of Vermont to submit designs
for stone structure to be built wholly OF
Vermont stone and now proposes that lOo
Vermonters shall each guarantee the pay
ment OF 500 toward its cost, provided the
next Legislature fails to appropriate SlO,-
600.
The following appeal and guarantee pa
per will soon be sent to the distinguished 100
who have been selected by the commission
as having the requisite wealth and gener-
osity to enable them to take pleasure in
signing. The commission feel assured that
no one in the list will fail to respond favor
ably to the appeal.
To the Sons and Daughters of Vermont:
The Green Mountain state was in 1880 tine
ate for the worlds Columbian exposition of
1873. Littlc was then known of lhe exposi-
tons scope and plan, and our Legislature,
falling to appreciate the magnitude and re-
quirements of the enterprise. appropriated on
~ the small sum of 5000. At its next session,
with more knowledge and it more generous
spirit, 1t increased this amount to Sl5,WD.
But with this larger surn at their com Nand.
your commissioners md themselves h8ndl-
capped at the beginning of the competitive
race with our neighbours and urgently appeal
to you for assistance.
New Hampshire has appropriated $4,000,
ana set apart $1,000 for her State building.
Maihes Appropriation is $4,000, Of VIII CHI Sl5,
0CO Will 90 into her buildings. Of the 5000
appropriated by Massachusetts, $1,000 or So
| QU0 Will be expended On II building. Rhode
Island and Connect cut are doing respectively,
no less to uphold state dignity than their sis
tiers 10 he north of them,
Within this group of New England state
| buildings, upon beautiful site in jackson
Park, Nermonts building, if she has one, must
| be erected.
Can Vermont afford to go there under less
| favorable auspices than her neighbors! DO
| you want your commissioners to erect for YER
mont, from the insufficient appropriation, II
! building before WI ch you will stand ashamed Z
! Or would you prefer TO have them build none,
at the risk of being, at last still more ashamed
OF your native State!
| With these questions in mind, we ask each
and every loyal Nermonter, whether residing
| within the state or out of it, to examine the
| accompanying guarantee sign it without hest
| taton,and forward it Immediately to the com
mission. More than one fourth the required
number of guarantor4 are pledged to sign be
! fore these papers issue. We believe that the
! next ieEsla ture may be depended upon to do
| what is right in the premises, 1t vii! not serve
! the purpose TO sign in the future, because ii
| must be known prior to making plans, what
amount may be expended.
Vermont is rich in natural resources. Her
| building stone, fashioned b" the skill of her
| architects and artisans, is unsurpassed, aud
| from 1T may he erected a building which shail
be t. pride and glory Of her Oh dren. Hut
this can be accomplished only through you.
| generous assistance.
G. SPACE Executive
Governor ex-oflicio, chairman, ON.
| b Is. SMAII.EY, Worlds
| HIRAM ATKINS. Coz NIB n
| Ii. Ii. MCINTYRE, Com ISIS Il