Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-04-21
NORTH DAKOTA AT The FAIR.
Manager Tyler Talks About
The Great Project.-What
Is Needed.
Special Musical Services and
Sermons Appropriate to
The Day.
A Wells County Man Says
More Emigrants will Soon
Arrive.

Arrive.
r. s. Tyler, manager of the state
Worlds fair board, was in the city Friday
for the purpose of interesting citizens in
the exhibit. He is not asking for sub
scriptions but simply desires to show
the necessity of Stutsman county and
jamestown people awakening to the i'm
portance of the enterprise. jamestown
and this county should occupy prom
inent place in whatever is shown as
representing North Dakota. This city
is the natural center for information for
large part of the state, and when a
revival in immigration matters takes
place, which is bound to follow the good
crops, this town and locality will be one
of the first visited by strangers looking
for locations.
The success of the Kansas exhibit in
1876 in Philadelphia was wonderful
result of skillful advertising. In the three
years following the close of the Centeni-
nal exhibit the state Of Kansas expert
enced a boom in immigration, unlike
anything ever witnessed before. Mr..
Tyler states that Kansas gained 464,OOO
population during that time, or 81 per
cent, all the result of the great adver-
tisng done at the Centennial. At that
exhibit Kansas had state building and
one of the most novel and convincing
exhibits ever gotten up. North Dakota
is today in position to do what Kansas
did then.
As Mr.. Tyler says, the state approprl-
alton Of S25.OO0 ls so fixed, that but s., 600
could be used IN 1891, $4,000 in 1892.
and $4,000 in 1898. The competitive ex-
hibit Of wheat, grasses, oats, etc., will be
in the main agricultural building where
exhibits from other states are made. This
is one huge structure and the space al
lowed to North Dakota is 40x5O feet. The
state exhibit ct foresty will be in the
forestry building, the exhibit of educa-
in the building of liberal arts. that of
minerals in the mines and mining build
ing, making the entire state exhibit scat
tered in four buildings. No advertising
is allowed to be distributed, and no pho
tographs exhibited in the buildings. It
will be absolutely necessary, il North
Dakota is to secure u successful result
from her exhibit, to provide stste build
ing, in which our entire exhibit can be
duplicated and arranged and
presented to the public to the
best advantage. This building to be
depository for the samples and products
of the state, which collection will illus
trate our natural resources. Other uses
of the building will he for specially ad
vertising our resources, entertaining
strangers, a meeting place for friends
AMI acauaintances; keeping men there.
posted on the state, to answer inquiries;
for exhibiting enlarged photographs Of
the towns, villages farm scenes,
cattle and sheep ranches and otherwise
endeavorlng to show people that we live
in civilized part OF the country and the
inhabitants of North Dakota do not oc
cupy dug outs. The building should be
decorated on the interior and made at.
tractive. Other states will have fine
buildings. the Minnesota headquarters
one of the cheapest, costing $25.0OO.
Texas, our direct competitor for emigra.
tion, has raised fund of 100000 and
expects to make it half million. If We
do not do something in the way of a
state building we will suffer by compari.
son. The appropriation OF s25,OOO is not
enough to do what is absolutely neces.
sary if we are to have building. The
plans drawn show very neat and CON-
modlous structure Of two stories, the cost
of which will not exceed $4,000.
"Wbat can people do, who go. to the
falr," says Mr.. Tyler, without they have
headquarters? Will they go into the
Kansas or the Minnesota buildings? The
state ought to have pride enough to pro-
vide suitable headquarters OF her own
As to the number of visitors, the esti-
mates vary, but every one who possibly
can, is arranging to go from all over the
Union. In the Philadelphia exhibition
the average daily attendance was 5000
and at the Worlds fair it will be more
than twice that. People will 60 if they
have to mortgage their COW for the
necessary funds.
The citizens of this state, says Mr.
Tyler, have not yet awakened to the
Importance of the enterprise, and will
find it too late it action 10 not taken
soon.
The subscription fund to the extra
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