The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-14
WORLDS FAIR MATTERS.
The State Board Estimating the
Probable Expenses From
This Time On.
Poems by Mrs. Clara Treadway
Weir on the Last Silver
Nail
A Design Inaugurated by Mrs. j. r. Rick-
ards Carried to Successful Compile
tlon-Other Exposition Affairs

The board OF Worlds fair managers OF
Montana hold several sessions yesterday,
but mostly committee work was transacted.
Nothing was lone toward accepting de-
sigma fox placing the Montana exhibits al
the fair. Is the board do not feel justified
in mourning any such expense until they
know definitely what appropriation the leg
~islature IL going to give them. Their esti-
mates Of probable expenses from this time
on are being prepared, and will be sub.
mitted. Among them will be the amount
necessary for placing the mineral and aRri-
cultural exhibits, and an appropriation fol-
printing. II 10 desired by the board to have
q handsome Montana souvenir printed.
which will not only be q good thing to
keep. but which will also represent what
the state can do in tho line eof 6ne Job
work.
Superintendent Thomas Weir, Of the
Granite Mountain mine, In sending the
the final nail for the women's building, en-
closed q poetic tribute from his wife. Mrs.
Clara Treadway Weir. entitled "The Song
Of Silver" It is as follows:
From the heart of the Rockies I come.
Naken01 up, IN my Oo5p silent nome,
From my sleep of q century there,
Ky the drill and the glare
Of brilliant explosions in air.
l have been in the heart OF the furnoce en-
tombed.
There was that. in my heart, that could not be
consumed.
I shall live when the hands that evoke me to-
With their cunning and strength shall have long
passed away.
One Dure flake. from the store house OF nature, l
come,
From Montana-my home.
The silver brick was placed in the hands
of j. II. Leyson, Of Butte, to be fashioned
into the nail that will mark the completion
of the women's building. The design of
the nail. as we'll rs The conception of the
due entirely to Mrs. John E. Richards, who
since she has moved to Helena, has taken
an inc eassd interest in the affairs of the
exposition, of which she IL one of the lady
managers for Montana. Mrs. Wier has
sent Mrs. Richards another poem which
she wrote to accompany the silver nail.
This poem may rightly be called q dedica-
ton. 1t is beautifully written on heavy
vellum board and the cover is handsomely
hand painted. The poem Of dedication ID
as follows:
Montana's offering here behold!
Her best she sends with greetings true.
The copper. silver and the gold,
The sapphire, with its eye # blue.
Come from our rich and fair young state.
And for your touch they now await.
Drive home the nail fair woman's hand.
strike firm and true for womankind.
There never yet, in any land,
Has been a day like this OWNED,
When woman's hand should hold the sway
1t does in our dear land to-day.
Drive home the nail, the copper shines
For woman's patient servitude.
The silver. love of all mn. kind Dr..
The gold, her faith in God, the good
10 whom she looks through all her days
10 upward guide her thoughts and ways.
Drive home the nail with small soft hand,
Which finishes the structure new.
manhood in our land
divides the laurel from his brow,
And through all time when doubts prevail.
May woman's hand drive HON the nail.
On account of her interest in the matter
Mrs. Richards has received q special inyi.
tation from Mrs. Potter Palmer to Witness
the driving Of the silver nail in the women's
building.
The lady managers have received from
Mrs. Gertrude Il. Finlay. of Bozeman, a
nicely mounted maybe. which will be
placed in the wonan's building, if the state
furnishes enough of the same kind of ex-
hibit TO fill q case. Otherwise 1t will be
placed in the Montana building.
A fine specimen of dog tooth spar, Of oal-
cite crystals. has been sent to Worlds fair
headquarters by j. r. Widmyer, of Glen
dive. It was fshed out of tho Yellowstone.
and is believed to be the largest Of its kind
known