Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-05
DOUGLAS COUNTY'S SHARE
Schedule of What it Will Do for the Omaha
Show.
>sa ~ u ---------. .f..,.n 'ua-r''
EXPOSITION GETS GREAT ASSISTANCE
County COMMISSIONERS Outline the
Disposition of the Fund Voted
in Aid of the Great
Undertaking.
EXPOSITION GETS GREAT ASSISTANCE

If resolution introduced at the meeting
Of the Board of County Commits sioners by
Chairman Stenberg yesterday is adopted
when it comes up for consideration at the
regular meeting of the board next Saturday,
the Transmississippi Exposition will be bene-
fitted to the extent of 5000 by the issue of
$780, 900 of exposition bonds authorized by
the voters of Dougcs county at the last
election, and for which the county has real
lied the sum of $106,S50.
The resolution referred to is lengthy and
exhaustive recital of the circumstances sur
rounding tho creation OF the bonded indebt-
edness on account If the exposition, review
ing the creation of the exposition assoca-
tion; the fact that the association is now
erecting buildings for exhibition, the names
of which are given, which are much more at
tractive than anything Douglas county could
hope to erect with the money at hand; that
II Is the intention of the association to con-
struct other buildings, among them being the
horticultural Dairy and Apairy buildings,
which have been located on the most de-
sirable sites, so that no site could be Sc
leCted by the county on the main portion of
the grounds for county building; that the
rules of the assoclltion do not permit of the
erection of exhibit buildings by counties or
states; and that the exposition management
tfying the grounds and has manifested
willingness 70 permit Douglas county to make
its exhibit in the respective buildings ac-
cording to the rules of classification for said
buildings. Then follows this resolution:
Resolved. That In consideration of the
said exposition company giving and grant
ing to the county of Douglas for the pur-
pose of making proper exhibit reasona-
bic space in said buildings hereinbefore de-
Scribed, to be determined by the Board of
County Commissioners, that 1t Is the Judg-
ment of the Board of County Commission-
ers OF Douglas county, state of Nebraska.
that the proceeds arising from the sale of
said bonds to the amount Of $I5gSW be e,3,li and
and appropriated as follows:
Then follows a schedule of the manner n
which this $4,000 is to be applied, setting
aside $4,000 to be applied in part payment
for the Agricultural building, $4,000 to be
applied in the same manner cn the Manu-
factures building, S. 900 to the Liberal Arts
building, 5000 to the Art building. $4,000
to the Horticultural building, $500 to the
Dairy building, $1,000 to the Apiary build
ing, $4,000 to the Live Stock and Poultry
buildings and pens, 700 in part payment
of the cost OF beautifying the grounds of the
exposition and $4,000 to pc applied in part
payment of the cost OF maintaining the
buildings Then follows this provision:
BE 1t resolved, That said sums of money
above appropriated shall be turned over to
the said exposition company to be applied
by II as aforesaid, ON condition that the
said Transmississippi and International Ex-
position company shall apply the said
pemlt the said county of Douglas to oc-
cupy a reasonable space, TO be determined
by the county commissioners of said county
or so much thereof as may be necessary, in
each of said buildings for the said county of
Douglas, under the classification appropri,
ate TO the said respective buildings; and
upon further condition that the said expo
stioin company shall maintain the said
buildings and grounds surrounding the same
DHTiO1 a. said
without further cost or expense TO the
county of DouElaS