Newport weekly independent., 1901-11-29
PRELIMINARY PUSHING.
Work For the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at St. Louis, in
 1903, Going Bravely On.
4 WEEKLY REVIEW OF PROGRESS MADE.
Interest is Continually Growing, Both nt Home and Abroad. In the StUDendous Undertaking thnt is Designed to WOrthiIy COmmem- Ornte Great Event.


 St. Louis, Nov. 2.-Mr. Jose de Oli wares, who is in charge of the inter- ests of the Louisiana Purchase Expo sition Go. at the Pan-American Expo sition, reports that nearly all the dis plays at Buffalo will be installed at St. Louis in 1903.
 The association of department chiefs of the Columbian exposition of 1893 held it's annual reunion and banquet in St. Louis, October 2S, with President Francis, of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co.,, as a guest of honor. The gentlemen had a long conference on the work of the St. Louis Worlds fair.
 In a circular to editors for publica- tion in all Missouri papers, the Mis- souri Worlds Fair commission sent out an address to Missouri farmers, telling them how they can best aid in getting up the states agricultural display for 1903.
 In compliance with the suggestion of the Virginia university alumni re- siding in St. Louis, the faculty of that venerable institution have resolved to recommend to the state of Virginia the erection of a state building at the St. Louis Worlds fair, which | shall be an exact reproduction of the Monticello mansion of Thomas Jef ferson. In a letter to President Francis, Col. Upton Young strongly urged the holding of a military congress in con- nection with the St. Louis Worlds fair in 1905 He would have the armies of all nations represented by uni formed companies, with arms, camp ing outfit, etc.
 Mir. Albert Kelsey, chairman of the | committee of experts of the Phila- | adelphia Art feder&tion, and a mem Der of the committee appointed to present the Model City feature to the exposition managers, came to St. Louis in response to an invitation, and delivered lecture October 29 to a large audience at Memorial hall.
 
 from Minister Swenson, October 20, an official invitation to participate in the St. Louis Worlds fair, and took | occasion to reiterate the interest it takes in the exposition, and it's inten- tion to second the effort of the Dan ish manufacturers, who seemed de- | termined that Denmark shall be tit- | tingly represented.
 | MT. David I. Bushnell, formerly of St. Louis, but now chief of archaeolO- yy in the eabody institute, Boston. has discovered several Indian mounds | on the exposition site in Forest park. MT. Bushnell suggests that by saving them from the grading operations, an exhibit of special interest can be made of them.
 The Missouri Federation of Wom- ems clubs, in St. Joseph, unanimously adopted programme for the Worlds fair in 1903, which will be submitted to the general federation at the Los Angeles meeting in May. Lieut.. Godfrey l.. Garden, in the revenue cutter service of the United States treasury department, who, at the request of the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition Co.,, has been placed at the head of the government ord nance exhibit division of the Worlds fair, has reached St. Louis to begin his work. The lieutenant announces that the principal exhibitors at Buff falo are nearly all eager to secure space at the Louisiana Purchase ex- position.
 The St. Louis Association of Con- gregational Ministers, at their fall meeting October 31, indorsed the proposition to build Worlds Fair memorial church just south of Forest park, to be used as denominational rendezvous during the fair and turned over afterwards to Rev. Frank Eos ter's congregation.
 | The government board is organized and ready to give it's formal approval to the plans for the government building at the St. Louis Worlds fair, as soon as they shall have been ap- proved by the Worlds fair authorities at St. Louis. The plans have already been inspected and approved by the members of the government board in dividually.
 | Postmaster Baumhoff has secured the departments approval of his plan for the immediate installation of d postal service on the Worlds fair grounds, and says the service will be- | gin as soon as he gets back from Washington. The department showed it's appreciation of the immediate re. quirements of the preparatory work on the Worlds fair site by allowing 30 additional letter-carrier distribut- 1 ino chS