Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-02-06
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Tor aoidng an Exposition of southerr
ooucss Next Fall Being Enthus.asti.
cay fashed-The Preliminary Corn
1850 On Organization and the Outline
OF the Plans Upon Which ne 4. Prono..S
% aoid the Exposition.
chicago, JAN 3O.-Local canit.EstS
business men, public officials and
prominent citizens generally have
taken an enthusiastic interest in the
peiminary work for holding gener-
% exposition of southern products and
resources in Chicago during next Sep
semoer and October. The preliminary
ommittee on organization, which has
Just been formed, is headed by Will
nam A. Giles, a public-spirited capital.
Sts and associated with him are eight
prominent citizens, including Col.
Henry L. Turner, commander of
the FIRST regiment Illinois national
guard, who made a triumphal
entry of the south during the
Atlanta exposition. This committee
OF the Chicago-Southern States Exposi
ton Co. will assist Mayor Swift in the
work OF bringing delegations from the
south and getting similar delegations
from illinois to meet together in Chi
cago, February 10; also, to obtain full
information regarding the exposition
oufIdlng, its rental, the cost of con.
quoting the exposition from now to its
opening and from its opening to the
close, and other information for the
benefit of the delegate convention.
Mayor Swift, upon his return from
Florida, will send official requests to
the mayors Of the principal cities in 10
southern states, asking them to for
ward to the governors of the respec-
tive states requests for the appoint.
ment of i've commissioners from each
state as delegates to the Chicago meet.
ing. Petitions signed by the citizens
Of these So cities to the same effect will
accompany the letters OF the. mayors
70 the governors. 1t is proposed tc
have the same number of delegates to
represent Chicago.
AT this meeting steps will be taken
to incorporate the exposition.
and the necessary stock will be sub
scribed for. 1t has been estimated by
Malcolm Mcneil, secretary of the Chi.
cagO and Southern States association
and secretary of the preliminary com.
mission, that less than $780, 900 will be
needed for the exposition and that
handsome surplus will remain in the
treasury after all expenses are paid.
There will be no dividends, how
ever, the decision having been reached
to give to charity any surplus of re-
ceipts over expenditures, including the
repayment of the money subscribed.
Chicago citizens will take half the
stock and the remainder will be sub
scribed for by the ID states participa-
ting in the exposition, or as many
states as join hands. Chicago will
bear the expenses of a preliminary
character and pay for the building,
etc, while the southerners will be ex-
pected to pay for transportation, in
stailation and care OF exhibits 1t is
proposed to present all the non-perish-
able exhibits at the close of the expo
Sition to the Field Columbian museum
as the gift of the various states to
Chicago.
The plan proposed is that the presi.
dent, vice-president and general man
ager, assistant manager and secre-
tary OF the exposition shall be Chicago
men, as the southern promoters of the
project SO desire, and that the direc-
~oIy oo coinposeu Oh one from eacn OF
the southern states represented, with
the same number from Illinois.
1t is also expected that each south
ern state will be represented by a vice
president of the company, who viii be
chairmen of the state commissions.
The names of Potter Palmer. Charles
Counselman, Harlow n. Higgin botham
<president of the Worlds fair, Ferd
W. Peck and ex-United States Senator
Charles B. Farwell have been present
ed for president. and that of David z.
Hill, of the Willoughby & Hill firm of
clothiers, for general manager.