The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-17
Southern Exposition
Wants Local Exhibit.

j. +. Knapp, special commissioner of
the South Carolina Interstate and West
Indian Exposition, is in the City for the
purpose OF securing the transference of
the educational exhibit from Buffalo at
| the close of the Pan-American EXPOSE
| ton to Charleston. An attempt will also
be made through the Chamber of Com
merce to secure the late exhibit at the
Paris Exposition now on it's way back
to Hawaii. Mr.. Knapp has further in
the possibility of securing an agricul-
tural exhibit. A formal request will be
sent in and a special meeting called to
| take up the matter.
Mr.. Knapp has seen Mr.. Atkinson. who
is favorable to the sending on of the ed
vocational exhibit, and will today meet
the Committee on Public Education and
| endeavor to persuade them to add a suffi-
Client amount to the appropriation for the
| expense of packing and unpacking the
Buffalo exhibit, the Exposition being
willing to bear all the cost of transpor-
| tation TO Charleston.
Space will be provided and the exhibit
set up to the best advantage, free of
charge. There will, of course, be a ne
cessity for the continuance of the SER
vices of Miss Dawson or some other
available person as explanatory exhibit
or.
The Exposition at Charleston opens on
December LIST continuing until the LIST of
June, 1902. The buildings and grounds
are to be ready by October LIST. Four of
the most important buildings, the Cotton
Palace, the Palace of Agriculture, Com
merce and Administration buildings are
already rooted, while promises of State
buildings are coming in rapidly.
Mr.. Knapp's territory embraces the
States and Territories west of the Mis-
sissippi and out of fourteen requests for
exhibits but two States have shown any
hesitancy in promising to participate,
sums having been already voted in sew
eral instances for that purpose.
Already as much money as that used
at the Omaha Exposition has been ar
ranged for and the Charleston EXPOSE
ton promises to be second only to the
Worlds Fair of 1893 at Chicago. There
will be more money behind it than the
Pan-American affair can boast and the
buildings. judged from the architects
drawings. should outclass those at Buff
falo.
hn Eyn al daSip mi
marily to call attention to the develop
ment of the Southern States in the last
quarter of a century especially with re-
gard 20 the cotton manufacture and the
agricultural products peculiar to the
South, such as tea. hemp and tobacco.
prominence being given to exhibits from
the West Indies In particular and from
Mexico and the South and Central Amer
lean Republics.
special West Indian Commissioner
has been appointed and sent to Cuba
and Porto Rico for the purpose Of prop
erly presenting the enterprise of those
islands.
The site chosen is situated in the sub
urbs of Charleston upon the eastern
bank of the Ashley river and covers
the Exposition easy of access. Much
work will be laid out upon the grounds.
on which many typical Southern trees
are now growing. The grand avenue of
State buildings will present novel fea-
ture in the reproduction of characters
tic buildings OF the separate States rep
resented as Mount Vernon, Washington
Irving's home, etc. A negro building
typical of a Southern homestead will be
a feature.
The whole process of tea making.
growth, drying. curing and packing will
be shown. while the West Indies are ex-
pected TO show the sugar cane industry
to the best advantage.
Not simply in rivalry OF West Indian
sugar and coffee exhibits does Mr.. Knapp
urge Hawai's representation at his Ex-
position, but he lays particular stress On
the opportunity for presenting Hawaii in
"a favorable light To the numerous tour
lists who will throng to Charleston dur.
ing the Exposition.
In ordinary times" said Mr.. Knapp. |
nifty thousand tourists come annually |
to Charleston, to stay there, or en- route
TO Florida and the Gulf states The Ex-
position would greatly increase the num- |
Der and bring them all directly to
Charleston. An exhibit and distribu-
ton OF literature should prove = great