Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-04
NOT COMPLETE.
The Missouri and Kansas Buildings
Hardly in Shape.
KANSAS FAR FROM BEING READY.
The Missouri Building VIII Be Dedicated
in Better Condition Sunshine
Needed-LocaI Notables
on the Grounds.

CHICAGO, May 1.-The worlds fair
will open in a sea of mud, but at the
Missouri building there will be a feast
of oratory, flow of music and bower
of roses. The Missouri building is not
yet complete. The Kansas building is
yet far from having the finishing
touches In the Missouri building the
carpets are not laid because of the mud,
and the exhibits are not placed because
the carpets are not laid. This condi-
ton affects only the rooms. In the main
corridor the floor is tiled and just to
the right of the large entrance tenn
porary platform has been erected for
the orators of the day, when the build
ing will be formerly dedicated. In the
Kansas building the workmen are al
most lost in the maze of exhibits that
are scattered about the place and not
given places. Gov. Click said this after
noon that he would not advise Kansans
to come to the fair for at least three
weeks if they cared to see their build
ing in any sort of order, There is no
heat in the building save in Secretary
Tom Aliens private room.
Senator Lowe, of Leavenworth, is
here and Judge Emery, of Lawrence,
dropped into the building through the
miserable, drilling rain yesterday.
Gov. Lewelling and Mrs. Lewelling
got in from Topeka, and it was eX-
pected that they would come to the
grounds in the afternoon, but they
failed to put in an appearance. The
governor did not feel like tempting the
weather. Those who did go out sat in
the building all day or wandered about
in the mud. 1t was one of the dreari
est days of the many that have OPP
pressed Chicago and jackson park this
spring.
If it were not for the mud in front of
the Missouri building the arrangements
in that handsome structure would be
more complete. The soil that has been
banked up for sodding purposes is
black and treacherous. This tracked
on the splendid carpets that Mrs. Patti
Moore has selected would spoil them,
and SO only bare floors will greet the
many visitors to-day.
eff this rain ever lets up" said
Charlie Green, the secretary, last night,
1--WE will get our sod and our carpets
laid?''
Gov. Stone, OF Missouri, was at the
Missouri building Saturday, but yester-
day he remained at his quarters at the
Great Northern hotel. He was seen at
a late luncheon in company with Hugh
j. MCGOWAN, of Kansas City, and Col.
Ewing, OF jefferson City.
81 do not think said the governor,
''that our buildings will be presentable
for several days, perhaps two weeks.
The weather is against outside improve
ments. The rain dashed through the
windows of the Kansas City room and
it was necessary to repair the walls
there SO as to resume work"
Mr.. McGowan thought that two or
three days of sunshine would bring the
Missouri building to the fore. As
matter of fact, all of the state buildings
except Pennsylvania and Illinois are
behind. Saturday and Sun
day night trains out of Kansas City
were loaded with visitors to the fair,
and yesterday, dirty and wet as it was,
the buildings in the south side of Jack
son park were crowded. Strangely
enough, many of the strangers already
here are foreigners, and many of the
trains brought in Californians through
Kansas City.
Among the state buildings nothing
the dedication of the Missouri building
this afternoon at o'clock.
DEDICATION PROGRAMME.
Music, orchestra OF Kansas City girls
Music, quintette, Come Bounteous May
Prayer, Rev. Samuel J. Niccolls, D. D., Sec
ond Presbyterian church, ST. Louis.
Music, orchestra of Kansas City girls.
Formal dedication of building to exposition
uses by Hon. Nathan Frank, chairman of the
committee on building site of the Missouri
worlds fair commission
Music, orchestra of Kansas City girls.
Address, Hon William j. Stone, governor of
Missouri
Music. orchestra Of Kansas City girls.
Address, Rev. Robert A Holland. D. D.,
rector of St Georges Episcopal church of St.
Louis.
Music quintette, Queen of the Valley
The state notables now present are:
Gov. Stone, Hon. n. H. Gentry, Soda
liza; Hon. Nathan Frank. st. Louis;
Judge E. Med. Coffey, Platte City;
Charles w. Green, Broolzfield; Hugh J.
Kansas City; II. Fl. Gregg,
Joplin; William Dawson, New Madrid;
j. K. Gwynn, executive commission, ST.
Louis; Mrs. Patti Moore, Kansas City;
Mrs. j. n. Edwards, st. Joseph; Mrs.
L. B. Adams, st. Louis; Mrs John E.
Phelps, Springfield; Mrs. S. P. Sparks,
Warrensburg; Mrs j. j. Russell,
The only department nearly COM
plcted in the Kansas building is the
display of Prof. Dyche in his room of
mounted animals. That room will be
not be entirely ready for several days
Gov. Stone, of Missouri, said that he
believed that this mornings train would
probably bring many visitors from his
state. but, owing to the fact that the
Kansas building has long been dedi-
Gated, Gov. Lewelling does not look for
much of crowd from the sunfiower
state until the news goes out that the
state building is ready for them.
Henry McGrew, representing at
torney of Wyandotte county, Kansas:
Frederick Schiller, commissioner of the
poor; John Steffing. chairman of the
Wyandotte board of county commits
sioners: Nat Barnes, mayor of Kansas
City. Kan: o. III. Brown, of the Kansas
City stock yards: Joe Hudson. of Tope-
ka, ex-Secretary of State William Hig-
gins, of Kansas. III. S. Riddle. of Kan
sas City and Abe Slupsky, of St. Louis,
are among the late arrivals here.