Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-10-31
preparing FOR THE FAIR.
The Construction Period of the Loui-
siana Purchase Exposition is
Fairly Begun.
BUILDING DESIGNS MOST ELABORATE.
Working Plans Being Prepared For
a Picture So -Stupendeus and Daz-
zlingly Beautiful as to Fairly
StartIe Its Creators-Other Items
of Interest.

of Interest.
st. Louis, Oct. 27.-The genera
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
t 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.
pended on the grounds within the
hex six months
In addition to the vast sums OF
money to be spent on the Worlds fai1
grounds and buildings in the near fu,
ture, there will be something else do
ing in St. Louis during the prepare.
ton 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 $4,000 to 5000. These amendments
1t is announced that the great Agri.
cultural building, the largest single
brilding in the world, covering about
tliirty-two and a half acres, will be
l,cated outside of the Forest parh
site, in order to leave room therein
for the various other buildings need
cd besides those ri the great centrd!
exposition picture. The site chosen
is across the Skinker road, south ~
the Washington University buildings.
authorize the municipal government
to eXpend before the opening of ths
Worlds fair about five million dollars
in building sewers, reconstructina
streets and in identifying the city
generally for the reception of its
guests during the fair.
Religious exhibits by all denomina,
tons, in a special building, erected for
the purpose, are to be among h at.
tractive features of the Worlds fair
Inc controlling bodies of the several
denominations have been invited ts
send their suggestions as to the plaI
Of the building, and also nominations
of directors to have charge of theii
exhibits, to the Worlds fair officials
The Colored Citizens Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition committee has issued
through its chairman, Capt. C.. h
Tandy, a call for a state conven.
ton of the colored citizens of Missou-
ri, in St. Louis, ON the 18th of Novem-
Der, to consider the work of prepar-
ing for exhibits tina will give the col
ored race of Missouri a 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
organizing a State industrial commits
sion which will take care CT the
states representation at the Worlds
fair. This commission is to be Sc
lected at a convention of delegates
from counties on December IL and IL.
Oklahoma's Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position commission, after a personal
investigation of the Pan-American ex-
hibits and state buildings, has reached
the conclusion 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 Il headquarters in which
Oklahoma's visitors can meet and
entertain their friends.
The railroad and other transporta-
ton companies are keeping tab on the
progres 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 album
dant trackage. Union station will he
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-
waited road on the levee.
Mr.. F. w. B~aumhoff. postmaster of
St. Louis, has arranged to establish
at once a 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
in Forest park.
COLLIDED DURING FOG.