Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-23
MANAGERS HARD At WORK
Mr., Bruce 'ecuros the Services of an Expo
sition Expert,
HAS HIS WORK WELL OUTLINED ALREADY
u. &. Hunt named as ChicT CIcrIS of
the Department of Promotion
Cniiforniuus Are In
Earnest.

The Department OF Exhibits Of the Trans
mississippi and International exposition is
in active operation and prospective eXhib-
itors in all parts Of the United States and
the civilized world viii soon be in possession
Of the rules and conditions under which they
may participate in the great fair of the
western states. Manager f. T. Bruce COM
pleted temporary arrangements with the yx-
position expert to which reference has here
tofora been made, and will ask the sanction
Of the executive committee at its next ses-
sion and will request authority to enter
into a permanent agreement with the gentle
man. In the meantime Manager Bruce is
proceeding with the work of his bureau as
rapidly as possible and will be prepared to
submit to the executive committee a com
prehensiye outline of the work proposed for
the Department of Exhibits. form of
blank application for space is being pre-
pared, and also rules and regulations for
the government of exhibitors. AS soon as
these are approved by the executive commit
tee they will be sent out in order that those
desiring to exhibit at the exposition may
have as much time as possible to prepare
their exhibits, 1t is also expected by Mana
ger Bruce that this method will inCite the
inventive geniuses to prepare and exhibit
some rare and wonderful inventions which
will attract the attention OF the thousands
of visitors to the great fair.
BRUCE SECURES AN EXPERT
The man whom Manager Bruce has re-
tanned to look after the detail of this work
is II. y. Hardt. Mr. Hardt Is Belgian by
birth cosmopolitan by choice and an
exposition expert by profession. He has
taken an active part in all of the important
eXpOsition5 which have been held in the
world during the past twenty-three years
Commencing with the Vienna exposition
in 1873 MIR. Hardt has been Unidentified in a
prominent manner with the following ex-
positions: The Centennial exposition. held
in Philadelphia in 1876; the London Crystal
Palace exposition, held in 1884; the Alex
andria exposition. held in London in 1885,
the Colonial and Indian exposition, held in
London in 1886; the Calcutta, India, eXposi- !
tion in 1887; the Adelaide, Australia eX- |
position in 1887; the Melbourne exposition |
in 1885, the Paris exposition in 1882 the |
Tasmania exposition in 1892; the Worlds |
Fair in Chicago in 1898; the California Mid |
winter fair i'm 1894; the Northwestern Fair, |
held in Portland, Ore, in 1895 and the Lead |
Vile fair, held in 1895 MIR. Hardt has an |
array of diplomas and medals in token of |
services rendered by him in connection with |
all of these events and is an encyclopedia |
of information respecting the conduct of |
eXpositions.
HUM ASSls' 10 III IiiNONh
Manager Hitchcock of the Department of !
Promotion announces the appointment of e.
G. Hunt as chief clerk of the department. |
Mr.. Hunt is a newspaper man of several
years active experience and has lately been |
the Omaha correspondent for a number of
outside papers, both in this state and |
among the states of the east and
west. Mr. Hitchcock stated yester-
day morning that the first work to
be done by his department would be to
open correspondence with the members of
all the legislatures in the transmissssipDi
states for the purpose of laying before them
the plan and scope of the TransmiSsissippi
Exposition and securing their cooperation in
support of the exposition. This will be fol-
lowed by the formation of n local organiza-
ton at each of the state capitals composed
of prominent men in the several states with
a view of furthering the interests of the eX-
position by securing appropriations for state
exhibits. All work in this line will be done
through these local organizations Manager
said the work of his department
would be pushed with the greatest possible
speed in order to accomplish as much as
possible before the legislatures have adj
journed
Secretary Wakefield has received copies of
Los Angeles Cal, papers from Vice Presi-
dent G.. w. Parsons of California. These
papers contain accounts OF a public meeting
held in Los Angeles the latter part of last
week At this meeting were present all
the southern counties, together
with a large number of the most prominent
business men, members and officers of the
Board of Trade and other commercial Or
The meeting was called for the
purpose of comforting with the Legislators
'egarding necessary legislations to be en-
,cted at the approaching session. Prominent
lmong the subjects discussed was that of
arge appropriation for a California exhibit
It the Transmississippi Exposition. Mr..
'ars0ns advocated the appropriation of $7j-
100 for the purpose of making a creditable
exhibit and explained in detail the way in
which this amount should be expended. J. /
!. Filcher secretary of the State Board of
Trade, advocated liberal appropriations
aging particular stress upon the advantage |
'alifornia had derived from the exhibit made
t the Atlanta exposition, and specified the
manner in which this good result had been
cit. He urged the legislature to make a {
iberal appropriation, which would be an |
advertisement for the state and would bring !
he resources of the state prominently be- !