Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-10
IOWA MEANS BUSINESS
Commissioners Preparing Iowa
Exhibit to Represent Manu-.
featuring Advantages.
Will Have Plans and Estimates
|. Made and Then Ask for
Money.
As TO Attorneys for, the Great
Western...T Trouble Ahead for
Promoters.

Special to TimeS-Republican
Des Moines, Oct. 10.-The commissions
ers appointed by Governor Shaw to ar
range the preliminaries of the Iowa
exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition at st. Louis have gone at the
work business-like ard sensible. They
will prepare plans for an exhibit for a
building, and for all the side lines, and
secure accurate estimates of the cost,
3then ask the legislature for the right
sum and insist upon an appropriation
that will give Iowa a good representa-
ton at ST. Louis. But first and above
ell else it was agreed among the COM
missioners present that the Iowa exhibit
should be more than an exhibit of an
agricultural state. Iowa has been sufii-
ciently advertised as a breeder of fine
pigs and a grower of bushels OF corn.
Everybody knows that Iowa raises fruit
and turns out butter and eggs worth
millions. But Iowa has suddenly become
a great manufacturing state, and is
destined to still greater things in that
line. AS Chairman Milliman, of the COM
mission. stated before the meeting yes
sterday, Iowa has the coal and the
railroads and the men and all the facili-
ties for great manufacturing state and
the time. is ripe for inviting to this state
the men with capital to invest In great
industrial enterprises. The Iowa exhibit
at.St. Louis should, therefore, be largely
along the line of demonstrating that
Iowa industries are varied and not sole
ly agricultural or mining or in trade and
commerce. Several of the members of
the commission expressed themselves
along this line. Another thing the mem
bers OF the commission agreed upon was
that when the appropriation is made a
commission shoGld be appointed by
Governor Cummins that will lperform the
duties of the commission without salary
and without other than payment OF act
ual expenses. A body of Iowa men
sufficiently public spirited to do this
may easily be gathered together. 1t was
STATED at the meeting that one commits
sion from iowa used up 65 per cent of
an appropriation for nn exposition in
operating expenses. The people OF Iowa
will not stand this again The money
appropriated must all be used for the
exhibit.
The state Of Iowa is better prepared to
make an exhibit now than ever before.
In 1876 but small appropriation was
made, about $4,000. and for the Colum
ibian exposition the amount was 1926, 600,
while only s35,000 was given for the
Trans Mississippi exposition. But when
the appropriation was made for Chicago
1t took up practically all the surplus
the state had, and when the appropria-
ton was made for Omaha 1t merely
added to a debt which many persons
claimed was beyond the constitutional
limit already. Now II is different. The
state. has a comparatively well-filled
treasury, and is gaining all the time
rapidly. This will so a long way toward
making 1t easy to secure an appropria-
tion. The members OF the commission
were not ready to state how mucth they
should ask for. Some of them talked OF
$4,000. and others OF as much as $780,
eco. But it was generally agreed that
Iowa would not likely give as much as
the higher figure. Most of the members
believed. however that the commission
should ask for Just what 1t expected to
receive and just what Iowa ought to
give and no more. There should be no
asking for big lump sum, without any
bill of particulars or any definite idea
how the money was to be spent. Com
missioner skiff, of the Louisiana Expo
s.tion, appeared before the Iowa COM
mission and made q favorable impress
sion by stating plainly what had been
done at ST. Louis and what is expected.
The exposition will be a worlds fair in
every sense of the word, and vastly
ahead of the Chicago exposition. 1t will
be national and universal in it's scope
The Iowa commission appointed two
as follows: On publicity
and promotion-A. b. Funk, Dave
Brant, l.. Young, w. H. Berry and w.
o. Payne; on plans and Scopes. NJ.
LEACH Jerry Hartenbower, Sam B. Ev-
ans, C. j. A. Ericsson, William Logan, w.
T. Haywood and j. c. Milliman. The
last named committee is authorized to
secure preliminary plans and estimates
of the cost, while the first named COM
mittee will prepare an address to the
people of Iowa to give them some no.
ton of the value of the exposition to
this state. The commission has no au-
.thority and no legal standing, but the
members have gone ahead to make the
most of the situation.
Some publicity has been given to the
statement that on the first of the year
Senator Tom Healy, of Fort Dodge, Will