The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-02-26

anu ne eXpreSSeu the wish that tht
State should cooperate with the city
In the enterprise which would 81
largely benefit both the city and State
| After the subject had been discusse,
at great length and in all its variou,
phases the conference determined thai
an organization should be- made with
out delay for the State. A central
committee of seven--one for each Con
gressional district in the State--oI
which the Governor will be ex-officio
chairman, will be appointed, and il
will constitute the general executive
head of the South Carolina exhibit.
Mr.. b. L. Roche, who has had larger
experience than any other man in the
State Ia the organization of such exhi-
| pits, Will be made commissioner-at-
large for the State, and will assume
the general management of the exhi-
! bit.
The finance committee OF the Young
Mems Business League will be consti-
tuted the general financial agents OF
the exhibit. Three commissioners
will be appointed for each OF the coun-
ties In the State, who will be charged
with the duty of collecting and pre-
pairing the exhibits from their respec-
tive counties. A proposition will be
prepared within a few days setting
u.
The Governor will le commits
sions under the seal OF his Office to
those who will have charge OF the
work OF collecting and arranging the
exhibit for the State aud counties
Altogether the prospects are on
couraglng for most creditable eXhi-
bit.o of the resources Of the State in At
lanta. In the meantime the Exposi-
tion committee of Charleston will pros
ecute its work with redoubled energy.
COLUMBIA, S. c., February 1s.-It
Is safe to say tonight that South Caro-.
lina's exhibit will be Que Of tho strik-
ingly attractive features Of tho Cotton
States and International Exposition.
Governor Evans has returned from
Charleston, whore he went Saturday
to consult insregard to 1t with repro
sentatives of the Young Mems Busi-
ness League, which for two months
has been Systematically arranging for
State exhibit.
-he Governor says that it was deter
mined that the efforts which he pro-
posed to ipaugurate throughout the
State in the interest Of an exhibit shall
be in cooperation with the Charles
ton league. Tho Governor will ap-
point at once three commissioners to
have general charge of the work and
All executive committee to push 1t sys-
State. The Governor will be OK
officio chairman of the commission and
he will call upon the womon to lend
their assistance,
E. l.. Roche, of Charleston, who has
charge of tho States exhibits at tho
Philadelphia centennial and at the
New Orleans and Chicago Expositions,
is to act in the same capacity again as
general commissioner and Samuel w.
Wilkes, of Atlanta, native of South
Carolinia, is to be resident commits
sloncr in Atlanta. Tho Governor will
at once issue an invitation to the
whole people Of tho State to aid him
in his personal oxertions for an eXhi-
bit.
1t is understood that a liberal ap-
preparation shall be donated by him
from the executive contingent fund,
and in fow days he will himeelf so
to Spartanburg, Greenville and other
leading towns OF the up country in the
endeavor to organize their business
men in tho movement.
Enough money has already been
raised by the Charleston leag uo for a
starter" and the Governor is conf
don't that there will be no difficulty in
securing ample funds from other parts
of the State. The Governor OF
Georgia himself could not DO more
hent upon his State making credita-
BILE showing than is the Governor OF
South Carolina for his States interest.
Major j. G. Homphill, editor Of The
News and Courier, and chairman OF
the committee Of tho Charleston
Young Mems Business League, was
here today, and to the Constitution re.
nraSpntatiVp nXprpaaeI hiIpanlf
phatically with regard to the South
Carolina exhibit. He was present at
the conference with the Governor and
says that tho work OF organizing the
State for the exhibit is being admira-
biy laid ont