The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-10-27

prrg dent. cnrl,c d suitable building to hc erected
on the site selected BY the WoHdS tOIumolnh
EXPOSITION for West NirgiuiGs exhibits, nut lhe
uDiitFRct Tor said building shall not exceed the
Stlm NJ twenty thousand dnllan, which Sald
building shall be disposed Oint the Close OF Tue
expedition to the best advantage by sad com
SD d. Al articles. whether procured By the
state or furnished or contributed by individuals,
companies or corporations 70 ht placed on eS-
hlb!i1n the transportation charges on Whirh
shlll have been paid by the state. shall belong
toand he the property OF the state; ana ~ thu
close OF the exhibition the shmc, 50 lar ~ III thG
Opiuiuuuf The bpard should be preserved shhlI
he pY said board shipped 10 the governor OF thit
state, 10 h. by him cared for and preserved;
Othurnrllrlc, Shnl, he disposed oi bT the board
10 the best advantage, aud the proceeds turhcu
into the treasury.
NO OFFER YET.
AS vet there is no satisfactory offer
for the state building. Tho local specu-
lators have their eyes on it, as they have
ON everything else here, just as n spScu-
lator may have his eyes on property
that must DO sold under mortgage,
and they are in Ito hurry to bid. They
hope to get everything valuable on the
fair grounds for 1.-THE OF its value.
They have sized up all the state and
foreign buildings and expect to pounce
down on them at the proper time.
Meanwhile the governor has returned
TO Charleston to sec what he can do in
the way OF interesting local parties in
the project OF removing it TO Charleston
and converting it, as before said, into a
state receptacle, trusting to the next
legislature to take it off their hands
GA the same point Mr.. Naylor, OF the
1. mi N.lnF
with Secretary George Hook, OF the
West Virginia Fair Association, III refer
ence to its purchase for their ground1
on the Island. Mr. Hook has replied
that in case tho exhibits go with the
building his association will entertain
proposition from the board, but not
otherwise.
Meanwhile. pending the disposition
OF the building, the Columbian Museum,
already organized here, has made u
formal request OF the commissioners to
donate the West Virginia exhibits to
their museum, which museum is to be
erected on the grounds here and is to
become grand memorial OF the fair.
Similar requests have been addressed
to all the states and foreign countries.
The intention is to preserve tho best OF
everything for the qualification and in
struction OF generations to come. The
argument is that it will be also source
of possible advantage to each, state or
country donating their exhibits. It
will BIO permanent advertisement OF
their resources thousands OF travel
ers coming to Chicago in future years
and visiting tho grounds where the
great Worlds Fair OF 1893 was held,
will see these exhibits and make note
OF whatever interests them, either for
educational purposes or pccuniary
profit and thus Wes; Virginia, in COM
mon with all donators, will be per-
petually benefited Our coal, lumber,
ores, fro clays. building stone, limo
stone, and all other resources will here
be seen by moro people than at any
other point, and thus return to US, like
bread thrown upon tho waters, after
many days"
REGRETrADLE NECESSITY.
This advantage would certainly be
desirable, but tho board was Of the
opinion yesterday that under the man.
datory language OF the act they could
not donate the permanent articles OF ex'
hibits to the said museum, but must
return them to the governor ut some
point within the state some such point
us Wheeling, Parkeysburg or Charles
ton. Messrs. Chancellor aud Naylor
regret this necessity very much, and so
eXprcss themselves, as they feel that 1t
would be greatly preferable to leave the
exhibits hero to perpetuato tho object
,fisy hn M
tisemeut OF the states resources.
The possession OF the house by any
person or corporation in the state is
purely sentimental affair. AS state
building at Charleston or elsewhere, tor
the preservation OF relics, mementoes
or archives, it would not be valuable,
being n wooden building, and as such
peculiarly liable to fire. 1t would be
folly to put valuable collections in itfor
permanent preservation. All states put
such things nowadays in fire proof
buildings.
NO HURRY ABOUT 1T.
The fair will end next Monday, Octo-
Der 80, aud after that exhibits will be
packed up as rapidly as possible, and
state buildings closed. The West Vir-
ginia building will not be pressed to
sale. The unexpended appropriation
will still DO available for the conaidera.
ton OF the stato's interests in the way
OF protection against the spectators and
SPECTATORS. Still it is desirable, OF
course, TO sell it, inasmucR as it will
cost tby estimate) say $4,000 to remove
it to and set il up on West Virginia
soil, which will certainly DO all that it
will DO worth under any possible cir
cumstances. Certainly the state ought
not to be put in for such an expense,
considering the transient character OF
tho building. 1t might pay the Fair
Association at Wheeling or some other
association OF similar character at
some other part in the state to buy it