Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-08-06

raised by voluntary contributions
is expended according to the
present program and q clear
showing made of it there
will be no trouble in the legislature;
on the contrary the legislature will by
a substantially unanimous vote take
the exhibit under the auspices of the
state and send it to Chicago under
state authority and under state sup.
port as 1t ought to be. If the business
men in the towns will start the sub
scriptions and put down the amounts
they are willing to give, Secretary
Gibbs says that he has abundant evi.
dence from all parts of the state TO
warrant him in saying that the farm.
ers at sight of these lists will contrib.
ute gladly their proportion of the
money, and viii see to it that mem
bers of the legislature are elected who
will take care of the exhibit. Right
here it may be well to state that full
concessions have been given 10 this
state by the director-general ia writ
ing, giving all the liberties wanted &c
our exhibits in the state building and
offering us all the space we
can fill in the agricultural, horticult.
ure, mines and mining, educational
and other department buildings at the
fair, and the commission proposes &c
take full advantage of this and show
up South Dakota in every nook ane
corner of the great fair.
There has been q little criticism ir
newspaper specials on the methods o.
the state exhibit, a fear expressed tina
the exhibit is to be too thoroughly
scientific and not sufficiently practical
in the advertising of the state. There
is no ground for this criticism what.
ever, as the members of the commits.
sion are all business men and thor.
oughly practical men, and nothing
whatever is lone except under their
specific orders on carefully prepared
plans. The secretary is superintend.
ent of the collection of exhibits, but
the executive committee holds the
reins, gives all the orders, appoints all
the agencies, audits bills monthly and
halts or changes any part of the work
as it goes on according TO the showing
made in the monthly reports. The
entire system of the exhibit has been
agreed upon and hat by unanimous
vote Of the committee, which consists
of President Ochsenreiter, of Webster
Colonel i. III. Brown, of Sioux Falls:
Mayor VIM. NJ. Powers, of Yankton,
and C. V. Gardner, of Piedmont, the
last mentioned representing the Blacl
Hills country.
Arrangements have been made with
the state press association at Aber
deem at their meeting this week, under
which a DON will be set apart in the
state building to be known rs the
press headquarters for South Dakota
and to contain all the current issues o.
newspapers and other periodicals o.,
the state during the six months Of the
fair, arranged both as an exhibit anc
TO enable our state visitors at the faii
to have access to their home papers
constantly and show them to their
guests and friends. At the secre,
tary's Office in the building there
Will be n register of visitors, o
~postottice bureau of information, ant
connected with q check room where
people ear leave their parcels while
making the rounds in the fair, and
other conyeniences.
There need be no fear but what the
efforts of this commission are going tc
lie n success and that the exhibit al
the fair, both aS to buildings and ex.
hibits, will be worthy of the state.
The only stress is upon the point OF
getting the state building erected in
time to show it at the dedication OF
the fair in October. To do this the
money supplies must be hurried up.
The secretary's Office is at Huron,
where all correspondence regarding
the exhibits should be sent.