The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-28
MORE MONEY IS NEEDED
PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION
is TOO MEAGER
SHOW WILL BE BIG AFFAIR
Commissioners Urge Legislature to
Give Them Enough Funds
to Make CreditabIe
Showing.

ed before the house and the senate yes
terday and presented the report of the
commissioners, who have just returned
from visit to the exposition grounds at
Buffalo. The commissioners confirm the
position of the G | o b e that the appro-
priation of $4,000, made by the legisla-
| ture for the purpose of a Minnesota dis
play, is entirely too meager. and urge
it to be increased to $4,000
After reading the report, Mr.. Hall as
sured the legislature that it was the
earnest conviction of every member of
the commission that, unless the appro-
prlation be increased to the amount in
Dictated, the state had better abandon the
idea of having an exhibit rather than at
tempt one with the small sum of $50 OO0
The report, which has been filed with
the governor by the commissioners, is as
follows:
The commission you appointed to take
charge OF the interests of Minnesota at
the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo,
from May to Nov l, beg leave to sub
init the following report:
We have visited Buffalo and find the
preparations for the exposition are on a
most gigantic scale. The exposition
grounds are within twenty minutes by
street cars from the heart of the city,
ana occupy space of $50 acres. More
than double the space of the centennial
at Philadelphia in 1876 is occupied by su-
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ceptlon of the worlds fair at Chicago,
no exposition this country ever had is
worthy OF a moments consideration as
comparison. When the doors open On
May the Exposition company will have
expended $10,C00,000 in erecting buildings
and in preparation. Only personal visit
mensity of what is in store for the peo-
PIE Of this and foreign countries during
the present summer
Of all the states of the Union outside
hyyif 1oly
nectlons, occupies the closest position to
the exposition, as matter of practical
and pecuniary benefit.
Within a radius of 500 miles from Ruf-
falo there are 100000 of people, more
than half of the population Of the en-
tire United States, and it is no stretch of
greater prosperity than existed in 1893
when the panic depressed the country
the volume of visitors will exceed those
of the worlds fair at Chicago
The fact that the exposition is held in
the most populous section of the United
States, from which we can draw the
young and best blood of the country
makes an especial reason why Mime
sofa should show her advantages in good
form
The great population which will large
ly furnish the visitors at the exposition
are consumers. or should be, of Mime
sofa PRODUCTS AS prominent gentle
man of Buffalo said to US, Minnesota is
the bread and butter state of the Union"
Though the worlds fair was greater
the Pan-American exposition offers a
more important and valuable field for
exploiting the advantages of the state.
Independent of any question of state
pride, there is every reason, as a pure
business proposition, why Minnesota
East, as well as the hundreds of thou
sands from abroad, the advantages
which she offers for the man of bust
ness or the agricultural home-seeker
While we were late in making our ap-
pllcat1on fer space, the managers of the
exposition met us more than generous
ly. They recognize the intimate COM
mercial relations which exist between
Minnesota and Buffalo, and in their plans
no state III the Union has received great
er consideration, and few as much as
our own. In the agricultural building
1888 square feet have been reserved for
Minnesota in the very choicest part of
the Immense building In the mines and
mining and forestry building your COM
mission has been able to secure the re-
fusal of the very choicest location with
in the structure. In the horticultural
building there will be held for a few
space, and in the dairy building we have
secured a similar option.
In the live stock department we can
secure all of the space for housing stock
we need, though the Dominion govern
ment of Canada has asked to have at
least one-half of the entire stable room
set apart for their use. The amphithe-
alter for the display of live stock sur
passes anything heretofore seen in this
country, not excepting that at the
Worlds Fair AS Minnesota won the
chief live stock prizes at Chicago in
competition with the world, it goes with
out saying that we have the material
to secure the same results at Buffalo if
we are enabled financially, to show
what Minnesota produces.
In the liberal arts building there is
still moderate space remaining which
can be secured during the next few
days for Minnesota to make an educa-
tional display.
The demands for space made upon the
exposition managers are something enor-
nous, and it is only because they recog-
nlze the greatness of Minnesota and the
Intimate commercial relations, by the
lakes, which exist between US, that we
have been able to have space held in
reserve for us until we can determine
what We will have the means to occupy.
In brief, the Pan-American exposition
managers do not need a Minnesota dis
play to fill all the space at their dis
sofa needs to use the space which we
have been enabled to hold in reserve to
demonstrate to the world the empire we
really are
In our Judgment it is absolutely indis-
pensable, if Minnesota is to make cred
table display, that, in addition to fill
ing the spaces named, there should be
Minnesota state building. We have Sc
cured, for few days, one of the choicest
sites in the ground for a state build
ing, and, based upon what other states
are uOInS, ana consultation with reliable
architects, we are satisfied that not less
than $1O,0G0 should be expended for the
erection of state building exclusive of
the furnishings, the character and cost
OF the furnishings to depend upon the
amount Of the appropriation.
New York, as was to be expected,
ieads with state building costing $780,
600. The New England states unite in
the erection of a magnificent building.
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maryland
PENNSYLVANIA, Missouri, Michigan. New
Jersey and many other states lin fact
every state which is a consumer of our
products) are erecting buildings costing
from $4,000 to $4,000, and # Minnesota is
to take the position to which she Is
properly entitled with her sister states
state building, in which portion OF our
cessity.
The Latin-American countries are also
erecting splendid and expensive build
ings, which should be stimulus to our
cwn people not to be distanced by the
smaller countries whose trade we are
seeking.
The attendance at the worlds fair
from Minnesota was 100000, and with
the more prosperous condition of business
it is not an eXaggeration to as-Gme
that a much larger number probably 10
per cent of our entire population, will
visit Buffalo during the exposition. Our
citizens are entitled to find a home there
where they Can rendezvous and meet
their thousands of friends and relatives
from the East. a section Of the country
which has sent us the army of men
and women who have made our state
what it is today. To dc less would re
to stamp Minnesota as an inferior state,
whose inhabitants are entitled to no
more hospitality than was extended to
Noahs dove during the irrigation period
of the worlds history.
Independent of building, the appro-
priation of $4,000 already made is en-
tirely inadequate for any display worthy
Of the state. The Pan-American expo
siticn will be at least one-half of the