Newport weekly independent., 1901-11-01
The Construction Period of the Loui- siana Purchase Exposition is
 Fairly Begun.
BUILDING DESIGNS MOST ELABORATE.
Working Plans Being Prepared For a Picture So StupendOus and Daz- zIinSIy Beautiful as to Fairly StartIe It's Creators-Other Items of Interest.

St. Louis, Oct. 27.-The general ground plans and perspective views of the buildings of the Louisiana Pur- chase Centennial exposition were fur nished the press for publication dur ing the past week. They are the de
 signs of the most celebrated archi- tects of the country, and their set ting, or grouping, among the forest trees in the Forest park Worlds fair
 site makes a picture so stupendous
 and dazzlingly beautiful in every de-
 tail as to fairly startle the creators
 of the work themselves. The work
 ing plans for these buildings, which
 will cost about eight million dollars. are now being prepared, and contracts
 for their construction will be let about December 1 of the present year. Other building plans are to follow. About four million dollars will be eX- spended on the grounds within the liext six months.
 In addition to the vast sums of money to be spent on the Worlds fair Sgrounds and buildings in the near flu ture, there will be something else do- ing in St. Louis during the prepara- hon for the International exposition. At a special election, held last Tues day, five amendments to the charter of the city were adopted by a votes of 4S,000 to 5000. These amendments
 It is announced that the great Agri- cultural building, the largest single birding in the world, covering about t1iirty-two and half acres, will be located outside of the Forest park site, in order to leave room therein for the various other buildings need ed besides those of the great central exposition picture. The site chosen IS across the Sl<inkor road, sauth os the Washington University buildings. authorize the municipal government to eXpend before the opening of the Worlds fair about five million dollars in building sewers, reconstructiny streets and in beautifying the city generally for the reception of it's guests during the fair.
 Religious exhibits by all denomina- 'tions, iE a special building, erected for the purpose, are to be among the at tractive features of the World S fair. 1ne controlling bodies of the several denominations have been invited to send their suggestions as to the plan of the building, and also nominations of directors to have charge of their exhibits, to the Worlds fair officials.
 c, T chase exposition committee has issued through it's chairman, Capt. c. H. Handy, a call for a state conven- tion of the colored citizens of Mssou- TT, in St. Louis, on the 18th of Novem- fber, to consider the work of prepar- Ing for exhibits that will give the col ored race of Missouri proper rep resentation at the Worlds fair.
 The Wyoming Press association put the Worlds Fair ball in motion for that state by appointing Gov. De Forest Richards and Editors Deeming, Constant, Chaplin, Slack and Holiday a committee to take up the matter of a State industrial commits sion which will take care o1 the states representation at the Worlds fair This commission is to be se- lected at a convention of delegates from counties on December II and 12
 Oklahoma's Louisiana Purchase EX- position commission, after personal investigation of the Pan-American eX- the co9clusion that it is best to dis tribute the exhibits among the de- partment buildings designed for the several particular lines and to reserve its territorial building as a museum of Oklahoma's historical and peculiar features, and a headquarters in which oklahoma's visitors can meet and entertain their friends.
 The railroad and other transporta- tion companies are keeping tab on the progress of Worlds fair matters. A belt line will be built connecting all tracks with the grand entrance to the exposition grounds, near which will be erected a great station with abun- dant trackage. Union station will be relieved of congestion during the Worlds fair by providing other sta tions for local trains. One of these receiving stations will be at the west end of Eads bridge, provided with elevators to transfer passengers be- tween cars on the surface racks, on the bridge tracks and on the ele- vated road on the levee.
 MT. F. w. Baumhoff, postmaster of St. Louis, has arranged to establish at once sub-post office at Worlds Fair headquarters, in the Laclede building, and a full station in the building formerly occupied by the Athletic club, on the Worlds fair site