Arizona republican., 1899-03-15
A NUMBER OF FAIRS.
Great Exhibition to Be Held Showing the COuntry's Marvellous
 Development.

Half a dozen eXpOSitions are now
 asking government aid. First comes
 the Greater America exposition, to be
 held at Omaha this year from July
 to November 1. This enterprise is . sequel of last years Trans Mississippi
 fair, held at the same place, and uses
 the same buildings. It is exceptional in asking no money from the treasury
 and in fact even puts up a deposit . of $50,00O to the credit of the United
 States for carrying out the provisions
 of Mr. Thurston's resolution, which
 the senate recently passed. It asks
 that a board Of managers appointed by | President Mckinley, shall furnish anG supeTintend government exhibits from
 Cuba, Porto Rico, the LadrOnes and the Philippines in the exposition buildings which the government al-
 ready has, and also the gift of those
 buildings after November 1 to Omaha.
 It wants, tCO, a Congress of Ameri- can Indians," like last years, with exhibits of our country in general and the privileges of last years fair as to the admission of exhibits, and, finally, an invitation from Secretary Hay to other countries to take part. The res OlutiOn asks that the exhibits from | the West Indies and the Pacific may il- l lustrate the habits, dress, modes of | life, occupations. industries, customs, amusements and commercial, agricul- l tuTal and mineral resources of the is ] lands.
 l We find another celebration of our | territorial expansion in the Louisiana i Purchase Centennial exhibition. This, as it's name implies, is to commemorate l JefersOn's great stroke of statesman l ship. It is to be held at St. Louis in l at q 1 dinner last Saturday night, said that l if congress would lend S5,000,000 or Cne-third Of the whole amount needed l there would be the amplest guarantees of it's repayment.
 1 Another centennial fair asking gov ernment aid i3 Ohios. to be held at Toledo, in cOmmem oration of the ad- mission Of that state to the Union in 1892. This, too, will be an illustration Of the cOuntry's growth, as Ohio will show an increase of about hundred- fold in population since it was carved out of the Northwest Territory, and of about a thousand-fold in revenues, state and local. The site chosen for this fair is near Wayne's battlefield of Fallen Timber, and also near Putin Bay, where Perry gained his great victory, so that a naval display and an exhibition of Indians are proposed. The bill reported favorably by MT GrosvGnCr calls for S5O0,OGO as the share of the government in promoting this fair
 A like sum, divided into S200 900 for building and $300,OO0 for an exhibit, is appropriated by NIT. Platts bill for the Pan-American exposition of 1901 at Buffalo, which the senate commit tee has reported tavcrably. A similar measure in the house has been report ed favorably there through MT. Payne. This undertaking proposes to illus trate the development of the western hemisphere during the nineteenth cen tury," and the project is not a new one. It dates back, in fact, to Mir Blaine's day; but the company that undertakes it was only incorporated year before last in New York, with R. P. Flower, Chauncey M. Depew, H. Walter Webb, w. F. Sheridan and other well known men as directors. Buffalo has raised by subscription over $1,500,000 for it. the list carrying more than II 900 names. and the Iegis- lature at Albany supplementing it's own bill for a state building and ex- hibit, has asked congress to manage the undertaking. w thin 800 miles of Buffalo are 38, ,0O0,0 900 people; and it is also center of trunk railroad lines. while, with Niagara falls as an addi- tional attraction, the site is excellent for a fair to which all America is in- vited
 A centennial celebration, not in the form of a fair, sure to be aided abun- dantly by congress, is that of next year for celebrating the establishment of the federal government at Washing ton. In May, 1900, the archives and general nf nnt removed thither. and on November IT following congress met there for the fist time. The President in his last annual message recommended an ap- prop"iatiCn for this purpose, and To- cal committee desires that a memorial hall, bridge to Arlington or some other permanent structure should be provided
 But, excluding this last, the fairs proper now under consideration are numerous, and to them may be added the enc in Paris, for which Commis- sl0ner Peck wants q larger 2ppropri- atiOn. The sundry civil bill, as amended in the senate, grants $38J,- 900, of which $120,000 may be for clerk l hire, raises the limit of last years act by $400,0O0 to $1,O5O, GOO. and allows $2500O0 for buildings and S7O,0 for | the pay of jurors. A senate resolu- | tion also allows foreign Iab0rers to | be brought in for the Commercial ex- position at Philadelphia, in aid of | which congress has already appro- | priated $350 000 Finally Senator Gal | fingers bill proposes to give $25, 900 to | aid a Wcmans Industrial exhibit at York Sun.
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