Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-04
form, near the Poland Spring house. 1t is

form, near the Poland Spring house. 1t is
the intention to use the building for a IL
brary, and many prominent guests at the
house have offered to donate money and
books for the purpose of establishing val
liable library there.
The sale of the Maine building completes
the work of the Maine Worlds Fair COM
mission. The public will be interested to
know that they have about $4,000 which
will be turned over to the State treasury.
Mr.. Charles S. Frost, the Chicago archi-
tecct of the building, estimates that it will
cost about $1,000 to carefully tear down the
building and load it on the cars. The mate
rial that will be transferred to Maine will
load about 20 cars.
If the regular freight tariff was charged
on the material the freight would be over
$l200, but the Rickers expect to get a
reduction from the rates.
After the close of the Exposition the
Maine building was offered as gift to the
park commissioners, with the reservation
that it should stand in its present location,
and be kept in repair. Chief Justice Full
ler, Hon. Geo. M. Sargent, Frank Hamlin,
Mr.. Fred Kimball, Architect Charles S.
Frost, and many other sons of Maine resid-
ing in Chicago, requested the commission
ers to accept the building under the condi-
tions named, provided they could consist
emily do so in the performance of their
public duty.
The commissioners thanked the Maine
board for their offer, but as 30 many build
ings had been rendered to them by the Ex-
position Company and by other states that
the could not see their way clear to accept
the Offer of the Maine managers.
1t was finally arranged that the building
should stand until this sptIng and in the
meantime the commissioners might decide
to accept it. The Maine board short lime
since, made a formal request that the build
ing be allowed to stand until the spring of
1895, hoping by this plan to have time to
refer the matter as to its final disposal to
the next Legislature.
Arcnltect Frost of Chicago, says that 80
many buildings and large quantities of sec
ond hand building materials have been
thrown on the market that only nominal
prices could be obtained for this one. AL
most everyone expected to get something
for nothing.
President Palmer of the Columbian Ex-
position Company, said that while the Maine
building was not as large as some OF those
of the other states, at the same time it was
the best representative state building on the
grounds.
The contributions of building materials
made by the public-spirited citizens of
Maine amounted in value to about Sl5,-
900, and these, together with the
Sl7 900 appropriated by the Legislature
enabled the commissioners to erect this fine
building representing some II granite COM
panies. The Monson Slate Co. furnished
the slate for the roof and slate for the toilet
room and Morse & Co. of Bangor the ele-
CANT mantel.
A large number of fine paintings, photo
graphs and portraits representing prominent
places and people adorned the wall of the
building during the Exposition. Thousands
of the sons and daus hters of Maine now
livi in other states sail they were proud
of what Maine had done in this the greatest
of all Worlds Fairs.