The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-10
A Great Interstate Exposition to
Open There Next Year.

CHARLESTON, S. c., June 9.-Within
the next ten days or two weeks the South
Carolina Interstate and West Indian Ex-
position will be organized and ready for
business, and this will be the beginning
of one of the most remarkable Industrial
campaigns ever begun in the South.
Less than three months ago about one
hundred business men of Charleston met
in a room at the Charleston Hotel and
appointed a committee to look into the
advisability and practicability OF holding
a State exposition in Charleston during
the autumn OF 1901. The committee opened
an Office and started an active and ener-
getic canvass of the situation and re-
view of past expeditions held in this coun-
try.
At mass meeting held in the Thomp-
son Auditorium on March 90 the commit
tee reported at length, before several
thousand citizens. The plan was ap-
proved, but instead of a State exposition
the people decided that the scope should
be larger. and the South Carolina Inter
state and West Indian Exposition project
was born. From that day the people OF
Charleston have lost no opportunity to
talk and work for the exposition. Outside
the city the press and people of South
Carolina have endorsed the project in the
most enthusiastic manner.
The newspapers Of the large cities have
also taken up the matter and there has
not been one discordant note in the great
chorus of encouragement. The exposition
will be held in Charleston beginning De-
cember ] 1901, and closing May 80, 1902.
The capital stock of the company will be
$3.50 900, and 1924, 900 has already been Sc
cured. This amount has been taken by
individuals and none of the larger cor
porations has as yet indicated the amount
it will subscribe.
The exposition will show to the world
the resources, the industries. and the ad-
vantages of South Carolina and the
South. Particular attention will be given
to cotton, and the textile exhibit will be
the best ever made in the South. Mining
interests win be carefully considered. and
manufacturers in various, lines will be
given ample space and attention. South
Carolina. as an agricultural State, and the
South. as an agricultural section, will be
shown in most interesting object lesson.
The big show will be planned on gen
erous scale, and will bring visitors from
all sections of this country. Among the
attractions will be a Government exhibit.
showing the resources, Industries, and
products OF the West Indies, and possibly
the Philippines. r4g
The South Carolina Interstate and west
Indian Exposition will be the first OF its
kind held SO far South, and manufacturers
will come into field Here which has hard
ly been covered, except by catalogues ana
statesmen. Opening Immediately after the
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,
great many fine exhibits will be brought
intact from New York State to South Caro-
lima, and many people who will be unable
to go North next summer will find 1t con-
venient and profitable to come South dur
ing the winter following.
The men at the head of the exposition
project are well known for their keen
business Judgment, enterprise. and good
sense, and they will make the show cred
table in every particular. Profiting by
the experience OF other exposition directors
ard officials. those in charge of the work
here can no doubt get better results at
even less cost