Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-05
ST. LOUIS WORLDS FA|R.
Current Items of Interest in Connec-
tion With the Louisiana
Purchase Celebration.
DETAILS ARE RAPIDLY WORkIas OUT.
p-e.ent Interest LargeIy Centers in
the COMMUNICATING Cerefnohles
December 20-A Beautiful SOU
xenir shovel Has Been Made Foi
the Occasion.

neeember 20-A Be0utihuA Sou
xenfr shovel Has Been Made Fol-
the Occasion.
ST. Louis. Dec. First Nlce-fres
ident Corwin H. Spencer. recently re-
turned from the east, states that
eastern manufacturers are taking
great interest in the Louisiana FUR
chase exposition, and will be better
represented at it than at any former
Worlds fair at home or abroad.
Water-color sketches of plans for
the Federal building at the St Louis
Worlds fair have been approved n
SIGNED by the secretary of the treas
ury, and are now awaiting h ap-
proved signatures of the postmaster
general and secretary of h interior.
National Commissioner Allen says
that there will be an informal and un-
official meeting of the national COM
mission and the board of lady man
ayers at the Manhattan hotel, New
York city, December 5.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
oineers had intended to make Capt.
Lawson. who died recently IN ot.
Louis. the recipient of much honor AT
the St. Louis Worlds fair as the hrst
locomotive engineer in America anu
as the builder and driver of George
Stephenson's first locomotive In Eng
land. Since his death a movement has
been started to raise funds Tor a
monument to him.
A full set of rules n regulations
governing exhibits and awards at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition, eN-
ceptipg only section 6, of article VII,
which is reserved for possible amend
ments, pending the arbitration OF a
question of construction, has been
adopted and published.
President Francis has received a
letter from President Pacheco, OF
Costa Rica, stating that the invita-
tions of President Mckinley and of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Co. had been received with pleasure
and would be complied with to the eN-
tent of Costa Rica's ability.
Chief Electrical Engineer Rustin IS
at work with Director of Works lay
lor on the arrangement for the cleo
trical power plant of the Worlds far
which he says, is to be OF 31,oo.
horsepower the largest in the worih
Mr.. Frederick w. Taylor, superln'
tendent of agriculture, horticulture
and forestry. in both the Omaha anc
Buffalo expositions, has been engaged
bv the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Co.
The committee on press and pun
licity has adopted a design for an OF
fetal poster in colors, to be dIstr1but
ed in all sections of the world ant
printed in several languages. The pos
ter will contain pictures of Thoma'
, Jefferson. Napoleon Bonaparte, Pres
!, ident Roosevelt, the late Preslden
!, Mckinley, John Hay, who as secretar'
of state represents the government Il
its relations to foreign countries, an
David r. Francis, president OF Tn
Worlds Fair association. 1t will ais
contain pictures symbolical of music
literature, art, agriculture, electrlclt
and textiles, and a fac simile repro
duction of the late President Mckir
lev's Worlds fair proclamation.
The official report of Gov. John I
Brady, of Alaska, to the United State
/ government was made public on NJ
/ yember rs. The governor recommend
| that ngres appropriate 100000 10
{ an Alaskan exhibit at the st. LOT
Worlds fair.
A committee to arrange for athlet1
4 and other sporting tournaments
the ST. Louis Worlds fair has bee
appointed. The presidents of the lea
! ino athletic associations of the I'm
ed States are represented on the con
mittee.
The classification of exhibits fe
the Worlds fair has been complete
b by Director of Exhibits Skiff and SCI
n. To the printer with the rules and rel
n. ulations. The classification compr1s'
fifteen departments, IA groups al
S07 classes.
A shovel. made in ST. Louis, to re-
IN resent the highest Development OF I'll
e. sbovel-maker's art, has been offert
le by Mr.. A. L. Shapleigh to Presldei
y Francis for use in breaking grouI
December 20 on the Worlds fair sit
1t is a heavy stell, D-handled, "di
"A ~mond-edged'' shovel, with ebony ha
III
die fitting into a heantifuiiy-curVs
and finished steel socket, all the ste
10 being silver plated and h whole II
plement gotten up regardless Of e
pense, to be laid away as a IN
with an inscribed silver plate aft
N the ground-breaking. The old WOO
n. en- shovel unearthed at Doe Run. a.
a the old iron shovel of 1903 mention
in the press some weeks ago, will al
be used.
The Hot Springs (Ark.) Worl'
:" Fair commission has decided to Ct
u, ne on the citizens of hat city for So
NC 900. and has appointed committees
raise that amount for the purpose
a local exhibit.
I'D Isaac S. Taylor, director of wor-
ut, has presented to President Francis
as fine gavel made from black vain
wood cut on the site of the Worl
fair in Forest park. This gavei
81 the only souvenir made from
ho wood cut from the site" the let
va accompanying the gift said. The g
Ell is about a foot long and is W
highly polished.