Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-08-15
ST.LOUIS WORLDS FAIR.
New Features For the Great
Exposition In 1903.
WILL BE UNLIKE ANY OTHER FAIR

W-M#[ #.aH. &- 4
President Francis Says 1t Will Be
Essentially an Exhibition of o
esses Rather Than Products.
! Grounds VIII Comprise Eight Hum
dred Acres Great Gathering OF
Tribes.
The worlds fair to be held In ST
Louis in 1903 must be unique and In
some respects Incompatible for the
simple reason that the present attitude
of the United States toward the rest OF
the world is unique and Incompatible.
said David r. Francis, president or the
Louisiana Purchase company. to a rep
resertative of the Chicago Record-Her-
aid at st. Louis. Within ten years we
have mad history in war, in peaceful
enterprise and in international diplo-
macy that has utterly changed our
status among the nations and focused
upon ourselves the absorbed attention
of every civilized people. On the~other
hand and making to the same end, our
people have suddenly realized a new
and eager interest in ell the outside
races.
Within ten yearsiwe have done what
no other nation could. equal or ap-
proach in the same. space Of time. We
have become a world power and quick
ly achieved the Commercial mastery
over all rivals. Now, as never before
the astonished peoples of every CONT
nent are demanding to know what
manner Of men we are, how we have
done and are doing things SO stupen-
dous in time so short In the e
time, wisely or otherwise, we have sub"
1ected many alien races and brought
the islanders Of antipoda1 seas under
our flag. There are millions OF Ameri-
cans who want to see a real Tagal VII
lage who ten years ago could not have
told offhand where was the Philippine
archipelago and had no reasontto care
A settlement. Of Sulus at a worlds
fair ten years ago would have meant
nothing to the'average American. Now
every schoolboy, every wordngman
and every man of wealth is equally in
terested in knowing all about the SD
lus, the Cubans, the Porto Ricans, the
Hawaiians, the >Samoans, F1lipinos and
every nation and tribe that has. become
a new factor and an influence in our
national life. These island races are In
a similar state of vital interest wfth:re-
gard to us. They want to know all
about the mighty people which has as
simulated them by e of wise nego-
tiations or the strong hand.
Now as before all mankind IS
watching America andithe Americans.
The world is in a verytinquisitive state
of mind about us, and'we have become
curiously interested in the alien races.
Time and circumstances have combfn-
ed to make the prospects of worlds
fair singularly promising. We do not
boast that it will be the greatest and
most beautiful because we have deter
mined that it shall be so. It will be
the greatest because the opportunities
for such an exposition at the time set
are h greatest yer offered to any ma
ton. Lesser considerations are work
ing infallibly to the same end. More
money. more ground space and the adj
vantage of the accumulated expert
ences Of other great fairs will all be
used in b work of making it not only
the greatest. but in scope and character
the most unique.
Unlike any other worlds fair, It viii
be n of processes rather than prod
ucts. We propose to show not only
what the world is doing and has done,
but how. Living, active things viii
dominate. The still exhibition, the fin
ished example. will be subordinated to
the working process and the active &C.
quence OF making. For example, in
stead Of showing monumental bales
and stores Of curiously beautiful fab
rics from the orient we will have the
alien workman. surrounded by his ma
tive utensils and environments. max.
Ing as he would al home the things OF
use or beauty in which he excels, n
which he completes with us or in which
we have use for an object lesson. In
the same manner we propose to show
others not only that which we do, bu,
the manner n which it is done.
The unique character which we have
determined to give to this worlds fail
involves an extra ordinary amount Of
effort and expenditure in order to &C
complish the work within the tive
years which remain for it, but 1t alst
warrants the assurance that none OF
the established displays that have done
duty at Paris or elsewhere will bt
brought to st. Louis. Our best efforts
will be directed to preventing the repe
titIon. the copying OF ven the resem
blance Of any feature of any previous
worlds fair or other exposition. W.
ha We decided to make our oriental ant
our South African exhibits SURPRISING
ly complete and move for the reason
that We and they have been forced b.
every event of the past five years his
tory into a new and extraordinary tmu
JualI interru.
Primeval forests. hills, valleys, mat
ural waterways and peculiar diversft,
of landscape offer us rare opportunitte