The St. Louis Republic., 1900-11-25
HEADQUARTERS FOR
FAIR TO BE. OPENED.
LEADING Business Men Will Welcome All Per-
sons Interested in the Enterprise and
Will Receive Subscriptions.

This week will see a new and most prac-
I'LL 6enartura in Worlds Fai- matters
when new headquarters viii be npened OF.
the second floor of the Carleton nHlidiHS III
Sixth and Olive streets.
Four prominent business men WHO i''tNe
bren among the foremost in their "o!h i"''
the Fair Angus; Gehner. if"cNe", is'e
Homes, G. Marquard Forster ana Jon'.t'iai'
Rice. have volunteered their services ana IN
,frencn for the opening daN-N e!teSuiH-
and will le at the quarters TO receive 'iS''
The new quarters include suite of rooms
aud the general public Interested III 'he
Fair Will he cordially wclcomHa AZ an .i"te.'
I1,,iir prominent Fair workers "iti We III - ..'.
-enda.lc. daily to receive suhsV.iptIoliS i.'
rba work. Their object particularly IS :"
,,,o,t those who have rot yet been ap-
,,,,a,.,,,d on the subject hy any OF the COM
,,,;t+res II Is intended To give the aNefaTe
business man, whose employment - Sr
-hat h., would be inaccessible 10 the N"rf"
+,,ir cal.yassers. chance 10 become az
onainte,l with the work which is going on
ma 10 stimulate his interest by coming ~
personal contact with some OF 'ae v'i'""s .
80 v.orkers who viii constitute the stan
at the Office. .,.,,.o..,,
rrhe Office will be appropriately decorated,
and visitors Will be gladly received at d.
hours All those who Will cvi!st''u.s , NJ
z.rff lao.
h,,sinss., reputation and prestige IN LIZ ttv
community, and they Will oe esi'eSt,a'i si,n;,
,,Ie3srd 20 welcome the sthSCElpei - -
amounts The rooms VIII be 10y tuUtt1I
scrintion in the true sense Of the word.
Enthusiasts Arc Busy.
-, list week the Worlds Fair vol
rnteers and ca.vaSSets nave tnilttitte" ,S -
work. and all those who pieaSei -.
saI,es nj last Tuesday meeting 10 ra'se
$40 ,rlo each. or who pledged lhellse!Nts ~
devote at least half the DAY To cain c,H,I,.tT
min The S5oUJU0p fund has been comnie'eu'
have been untiring in their work. me te, re-
su!t is gratifying in the extreme 10 ''i'SS
with the interests of the Fair ut hSarL
st the meeting last tuesday, Ihdti NH III
I,irrre t,houteau stated that, TO avoid aii
rnnfusion, the volunteers should act utiuet .
fha direction of the Finance Coinnit!@te. @
yoIunteers and definite assignments nav
been given them. OF those VINO ehteIcu
the special $1,000 class ueariI an Mete
chairn,eu of collecting committees OF ot
.rroI,ns and no special instructions nave
been issued to them. although II is uuueL-
stood that they Will confine themselves ~
the lines allotted them, anu iloI eoiiu"
promiscuouS canvass. ~
Yesterday morning in spite of she un-
pleasant weather. William II. Ih3ihpson, @
D. r. Francis and james Campoeu @ W.
hand al work and made some important
calls They seemed pleased at the resEi.
of their work The Merchants s.Ncaalse
t,o,nInittee. re-enforced by Marcus BERN
beirner has made an appointment for Noii-
day morning which is OF Importance, -
the members viii then deterinihe on u COZ. On
certed attack on nonsubScrlpers on tite
f,oor and will endeayor TO secure their sub
Scriptions-
How Work Was Organized.
The remainder of the volunteers nave
been grouped and asked TO work IN direct
harmony with various group chairmen- me
canvaSsing machinery at the present mo
ment is exceedingly complete Al the
GS.O committees were appointed in every
commercial and professional line that could
be thought of or traced. Some OF the
chairnen of these committees completes
their canvass almost Immediately. white
others found the work much more arQuous
owing in some instances. TO the necessity
of covering the entire city. Later on the
work was revised and divided up INTO
twenty grounds. a chairman OF eacn group
was appointed. and he was requested TO APP
point one or more vice chairmen and TO
secure the aid. as far as possible, or the
original chairmen of sub-canvasstng COM
rnittees. To. each group was assigned from
some of which have been thoroughly can
vassed, while others appear to sun pre-
without interfering with the existing
groups the Finance Committee tabulated
l95 very large concerns which had not sub
scribed and divided them up among mem
Nessrs. D. r. Francis. William Il. Thomp-
son. James Campbell, s. NJ kennaId.
sela. w. b. Wells. Norris B. Gregg. James
F. Coyle. o. l. Whi;elaw, c. 2. Walbridge.
Festus J. Wade. Edward Dewey, W. Fl.
Woodward ami Murray Carleton. The last
named gentleman is chairman of what
is known as the Special Committee. to
which had already been ASSIGNED such in,
tcrests street railways. banks and
hreweries. This committee hes accom-
plishej Il great deal of the work assigned
to 1t, but is still holding almost daily ses-
sons to round it up finally. All the other
special group cfiarmen are at work, and
ii is expected that at the meeting to be
held on December several subscriptions of
magnitude will he reported by these.
New Workers Assigned.
The halliday volunteers at Thursdays
meeting have been notified that they can
best help the cause by placing themselves
in communication with the charmen Of
raents the lists of trades apportloned tn
each group vas carefully considered with
2 view to energy being directed in the
channel most likely to be immediately
productive. For example. Nicholas NJ Bell,
who has commenced a recanvass of the
tobacco and cigar interest. is attached to
Group No. l, to which these lines were
originally assigned. George A. Roth of
the Adam Roth Grocery Company has
it had in hand the securing ut additional
Subscriptions from the grocery interest
The assignments Of volunteers not already
provided with work are:
N u. Bell George A. Roth. z. wassarnan
a. n. Brown. Jonathan Rice. l.. G. Hermann
Wells is chairman
e. ,,,,e;. G sn5agne; e r Rlankr Doctor L.. II.
which ]. J. Schot,ea is Chairman " "
NJ. J. Smith. George A. Baker, w s. Flern-
Ing. W. a. Hudson and James \. Reardon 10
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