The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-08-04

Other expenditures Of miScellen-
Gus character Will swell these figures
to over 100000. These sums, it should
be remembered, are what the differ
ent exhibits will have cost when The
fair is at an end, They are conserYa-
tive estimates, and it is as good as
settled that only one department.
education-will exceed the expense
estimated for it. Some departments
will not use up the appropriations
given them. For example, the live
stock exhibit, for which $4,000 was
appropriated, will probably not ex-
coed Sl2 900, and horticulture is not
likely t@,sigo beyond $4,000 Fn yieT
Of these facts therefore, it is certain,
allowing for the cost Of removing the
state building after the fair is over
(which may, however pay for it's own
removal or deStructiOn) and other eX-
penses, such as eXpressage, Mime
sofa ought to come away from jack
son Park with $25, 600 on the credit
side of her bank account. Some mem
bers of the board think the state will
save nearer $50, 600 than S25, 900.
How about other states of the
Northwest? How do they compare
with Minnesota as TO the amount ap-
prOpriated and expended? Minnesotas
neighbor on the east-Wisconsin-has
a Sl65, 900 appropriation to spend. Ac-
curate and complete figures as to Wis
consins worlds fair finances are diff
ficult to obtain. From facts at hand,
however, it would seem that her APP
preparation has been divided in very
thoughtleSS, unbusineSslike manner.
Tho lpuiS q If did hn
pOrtiOning, and, after the manner of
legislatures, they made a bungling Job
out Of it. For example, they gave
full swing to an exhibit of the states
cereals inthe agricultural building but
left the live stock men of the state
without cent. WiscOnsln's agricul-
tural exhibit will cost at least SIT 900
over three times the cost of Mime
sota's. In fact, it cost the Badger
state 900 for the construction of it's
booths alone; $4,000 or more, for it's
1000 glass jars, in which to show the
states seed: over 81, 900 for the collec-
tion and classification of this seed,
and at LEASE $4,000 for salaries and
maintenance. To be sure, the wool
and tobacco exhibits are included in
the cost of the agricultural exhibits,
but the expenses of those exhibits are
small. There is great difference be-
tween WiscOnsin's and Minnesota's
exhibits. The formers is entirely
scientific; the latter's half scientific
and half decorative. Minnesota's
will attract the attention of the I'M
prejudiced visitor sooner and hold it
longer than Wisconsin's. 1t remains
to be seen how they will rank with
the judges of award.
Wisconsin has been very prodigal
in other departments. Her mining
exhibit is said to have cost about as
much as the cereal display. Her for
estry exhibit has eaten up .S7 900,
seemingly extravagant sum when
compared with Minnesota's $4,000.
Then, too. Wisconsin's state building
has proved an expensive home, it be-
ing estimated that it's total cost, in
maintenance, will be between
$50. 900 and 100000. Other exhibits on
which Wisconsin has has spent good |
deal of money are the dairy and edu-
cational displays.
Iowa, Mlnnesota's neighbor on the |
south, has had total of $500 to |
spend. Her state buildings and fur
take S35, 900 of the amount: |
her elaborate corn decorations in the
building modelled after theSiouX City |
corn palace $4,000 more, her collec-
tive exhibit principally of woman's
work., also in the state building, an
other $4,000. Iowa's bright and
very attractive corn pavilion in the
Agricultural building has cost $40, 900
Tor erection and maintenance, yet
there does not seem to be $1,000 diff
ference between it and Minnesota's
noreu diversified pavalion little fur
,her west. Iowa will also spend &c.
200 on her live stock exhibit. For her
educational display $4,000 is the es-
,imated cost, for mining $1,000 and
Tor horticulture $1,000, The dairy eX-