The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-07-25
The South Carolina Inter. State Exposition

Whilc Charleston has been very busy
entertaining the National Educational
convention during the past ten days,
there was no cessation of the work
connected with the great Exposition
which Is to be held i'll that city in 1901.
The officials have been engaged in get
ting the various departments organized,
aud while this makes but little ont
ward show, it is one of the NEST im
portant things to be done. 4 proper
start is half the race, and the utmost |
care is being observed in the selection
OF men for the various working posi-
tions. In the matter of securing n
competent supervising architect to
take the entire matter of laying out
grounds, constructing buildings, etc,
the board of directors has given tho
greatest amount of time and attention.
Men of national aud international rcpu-
tatiOn have appeared before the board
and given their ideas and suggested
the plans upon which they would work
if elected, but the decision has not yet
been reached. The directors propose
that the South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian Exposition, while
necessarily being ON smaller scale
than the Worlds Fair, shall exceed in
beauty of grounds and interest, any
thing ever planned on this continent.
The lands secured for the use Of the
| company are 80 situated as to admit of
tho highest development and will lend
themselves easily to the work of trans
formation. A splendid river front
gently slOping towards Rutlcdge ave
nue., and with here and there groves of
the grandest of water oaks-thcsc are
natural beauties that could not he OBJ
tained in some localities, no matter
what the appropriations were or low
skillful the designers and landscape
gardeners.
The Exposition office is daily in re-
ceipt of letters from all parts of the
country and they indicate the greatest
interest in the project. Many cxhibi-
tors have already made application for
space md hundreds nf wei! knowG;
concerns are asking for more intorlna-
tion in regard to grounds, buildings,
concessions, etc.
Subscriptions to the capital stock
continue to come in and the outlook is
very bright indeed. A twenty per
cent assessment has been called for, in
order that the charter may be obtained
and this amount is being rapidly paid
in. The call does not mean that
enough money has been subscribed,
but is made in accordance with the due
forms of law. Subscriptions ere still
in order, and now more than ever be-
fore, will those who subscribed be sure
that they are not making "contribu-
tions" but good Investments"
Among the exhibits that are receiv-
ing attention at the Paris Exposition il
that of the Southern Railway, and il ia
almost certain that this exhibit will be
brought to Charleston. Another ex-
hibit that will likely be brought from
Paris will be the Philippine collection
of the Smithsonian Institute.
The South Carolina Interstate and
West Indian Exposition opening just
after the close of the Paris and Buffalo
Exposition will get many splendid dis
plays from both places, and thus COM
bine the best of the most recent expo
sitiOns for tho patrons of the great
| Southern enterprise.