Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-06-01
paN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
People of Buffalo Arranging for a Great
show In the Summer of 1901.


nier months of 1901 the3people of the
world will receive cordial invitation to
come to Buffalo and see tho wonders
gathered together at the Pan American
Exposition, which will then be held,
for plans of bringing about closer trade
relations between the republics of tho
South and the big republic OF the
North have been taken up by the
master minds of the section, and the
efforts made are expected TO result IN
one of the greatest expositions ever
held in the Western Hemisphere. As
may be readily understood from the
title, tho gathering of the exhibits OF
the arts and manufacturers will be con-
fined to tine countries of North, South
and Central America, their States and
dependencies, and the occasion of 1t
all is to show TO tho world what the
men of the three Americas can and
have done within the past 100 years.
For months men who make their
homes on tine Niagara frontier, within
sound of the mighty cataract which
gives the section fame, have worked
increasingly to bring the great project
| to successful elimination. That they
have worked intelligently is proven by
the fact that their efforts have received
Endorsement and recognition from hun
| dreds of civil, scientific and commercial
bodies; that the Legislature of the
/ State of New York has warmly COM
mended the project and has appro-
priated $500, 600 for New York State
building and exhibit; that the national
government has spoken in gracious
terms and called upon the people OF the
United States to give encouragement
to the plan, and that it follows up that
kindly admonition by setting aside
$500, 600 for Federal building and dis
play.
The history of the an-American Ex-
position dates back to the early part of
the year 1897, when number OF mon Of
New. York, Buffalo and Niagara Falls
fled articles of incorporation with the
secretary of State at Albany. On that
first directorate the names of Roswell
2. Flower, Chauncey NJ. Depew, Edgar
Van Etten, Daniel O'Day, William y.
Sheehan, Z. 3. Thomas, John NJ.
Brinker, W. Caryl Ely, Herbert L.
Bissell, Charles II. Haskins, Charles
r.. Huntley and f. g. M. Lautz ap.
peared, and those gentlemen worked
,, hard tofput the enterprise upon safe
and sure foundation. Though tenn.
porarily superseded in interest by the
! outbreak OF the late war the project
was not forgotten, as evidenced by the
fact that Congress passed join
resolution indorsing the exposition, ant
, calling upon the people of the United
States 10 further it.
! AT a dinner given as result OF
message sent to the Common Council
|. by Mayor Conrad Diehl 800 men sub
scribed $500, 600. 1t had been original.
|, decided that the capital stock of tn
corporation should be 81, 000, 600, blu
, the daily subscriptions averaged sl20,
!, 600, and before anybody had given ;
!, thought to the matter the capital stool
: was over subscribed by $3.50, 600. !
i provisional committee, with John n
I, Scatcherd at its head, was appointed
I which sent delegation to Washington
! and at the flag end of War Congress
: and under suspension of the rules whicl
: require a two-thirds vote, an appropria
q tion Of 100000 was made, and by
y House vote of al to Ii. In the Senat
! the bill was nut through by unani
y NOUS vote. and on the same afternoo
!, President Mckinley affixed his sigma
!? ture. So rapid had been the progress
g and So large the contributions tina
: plans were all awry. and it was neces
!, sary to have put through the Legisll
e ture new articlestof incorporate
- broadening the power, and giving TIL
4 board of directors the right to increas
y the capital stock. Within the shorte;
!, time allowable under constitutional r,
&c strictions that bill was passed and SOC
- afterward another followed setting asic
Z, $500, 600 for State building and e!
- hibit. At the election of the board
10 directors which followed, the may'
~ submitted list of so of the names
~ the 81 original incorporators, and fro
AZ that list the following % were electee
70 Mayor Conrad Diehl. Charles W. Goo
~ year, Joseph T. Jones, George L. Wi
y, liams, John J. Albright, Thomas Y
~ Symons, W. Caryl Ely, John @. Mi
~ burn, Frank b. Baird, William He
ne gerer, George Bleistein, II. Montgome
,ir Gerrans, Edwin g.. s. Miller, John !
10 Scatcherd, George X. Birge, Villa
40 ii. Hotchkiss, John NJ. Brinkor, Geor
II Urban, Jr., John B. Weber, Har
81 Hamlin, Carleton Sprague, Henry
- Pierce, +. G. NJ. Lautz, Herbert
ed Bissell and Robert f. Schelling.
n At tho organization of tho board Jol
ho G. Milburn was elected presider
IL George i. Williams treasurer az
RS Edwin Fleming was appointed to t
III position Of secretary. An ezecuti
MI committee was elected, and of til
= committee John N. Scatcherd W
~ chosen chairman. Since the organic
M ton there has been much work dor
'he Committees have been appointed n
nv tho bureau organization is goi
III forward as rapidly as the gigantic ia
No Of setting in motion the intricate II
ass chinery Of so great a corporation c
-HA we'll be done. Within week the s
for the great fair will have been decitl
red upon, for the executive commits
the aided by the most prominent archite
our and engineers Of Western New Yoi
has been at work. for weeks looking o,
the 20 plots Of land proffered, a
hat famous experts from Boston and N
our YORK have been in Buffalo aiding
executive committee. Tho chief of CT
avs struction of the Worlds Columbian l
MT position has also been working W
these to make the affair success.
AS yet the decision of the execut
"A committee, providing the members
eui that committee have reached one,
ea ~ not been made public, but 1t is decit
~ W in the public mind that site imr
"a. ~ diately upon the river front will
,n ~. selected. The wisdom of such select
,.,s can be seen ut glance, particularly
''ne one OF the great features of the expo
tiop is to he demonstration of
in wonders Of the Harvesting of
this Niagara cataract. Every wheel wit
the exposition gates is to be opera
by the cataract electric power, and
icks opportunity for display on the ri
me would be UNNECESSARILY greater thai
in the buildings were placed in some OF
ion. locality,