Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-26
ONA At St. LOUIS FAD
Suggestions as to the Exhibit at
the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
Importance OF a Fine Exhibit OF
Coal and Manufactures at
the Show.
sx,oefopJ hGrSrrgt,
Educational, Livestock, Agricul.
turaI and Other Exhibits
Need Not Be Delayed.


| Special to oTimes-Republcan
Des Moines. May 26.-Despite the
fact that the st. Louis exposition has
been put off year and those who have
to prepare for said exposition have an
additional year in which to get ready
vet there is a very decided feeling
among those who are Interested in the
Iowa exhibit that it will not do to pro-
crastinate, but rather that 1T would be
much better to be far ahead with the
! work than to be behind when the hnai
| rush comes on. 1t has been the history
LOT all expositions that those in charge
have ALWAYS counted too much on abil-
| ity to do all the work at the last mo-
ment. State exhibits are seldom ready
for the opening. One great danger al
WAYS lies in the fact that in the last
! few months before the opening OF an
exposition labor is hard to get and eX-
pensive and that which might have
been accomplished earlier with very lit
| tie expenditure becomes very costly un-
! der pressure of necessity for great
haste Those who are interested in
Iowa having a fine live stock exhibit,
etc, are urging that there be no un-
necessary delay in laying the plans and
preparing to reach the sources thru
which such exhibits come. The matter
has been talked over a great deal of
late in quiet way. and last week dur
ling the encampment and other ccnven-
| tions quite n number of small confer
Il. @x,G
|
| r. L. Chase, formerly assistant adju-
! tant general of the G.. A. r., nominally
! Des Moines resident, but for several
| years living in Buffalo, was asked tc
state his views of what Iowa ought to
40 at st. Louis in the light Of his ex-
perience with the Pan American Expo
sition at Buffalo. In the first place"
he said, there is no occasion for Iowa
putting a large amount of money in a
| state building. At the Pan American
there We're ten state buildings. | be-
| lieye none of them cost over $4,000 ex-
cept the New York building. which was
q marble palace and is a permanent
structure, and the New England group
building. And these various state
buildings were entirely satisfactory. 1t
is all nonsense to put up a great state
building which will be visited by but
few persons. A neat building for rest
purposes is all that is necessary. II
should think it possible that Iowa could |
arrange to put UP building at st. |
Louis and afterwards bring the mate
rial home and use it on the state fair /
grounds to great advantage. Fortunes |
are being made by those who bought I
the Wreckage at the Pan-American. !
Des Moines is so near st. Louis that 1t |
would pay to bring all the lumber here
If the state can actually use it, rather
than to sell it for song. But as to the
exhibit for I owa, | would suggest that I
great stress be laid on the coal exhibit. |
Iowa ought to have the greatest exhibit /
of coal of any state OF the union. Iowa I
is known as q corn state. No amount |
of advertising is necessary along that I
line Everybody comedies that Iowa /
leads them all in agriculture. But when |
] tell them down east about our great I
coal deposits and how cheap they can
get fuel for manufacturing purposes |
they don't believe me. Let us show the /
world what we have in coal, for that I
is the very foundation of manufacture
ing enterprises. Iowa ought to have a
horticultural exhibit. of course, but it is +
no use trying to outdo the states from
the far northwest on fruit. We have
no such fruit as comes from Washing
ton and Oregon and Idaho. Our live
stock will bear lots of advertising. and
orr industries of various kinds: but all
that is done should be done WELL
Senator l.. C. Blanchard, of Oska
loosa. While in Des Moines the past
week. expressed himself as highly
pleased with the personnel of the COM
mission appointed by Governor Cum
minis to have charge of the Iowa eX-
hibit at ST. Louis. THAT is a fine COM.
mission of Iowa's best men, said the
senator. Governor Cummins did credit
TO himself and the state in the naming
of il. That commission can go before
the next legislature with showing
where the money can be used to ad- i
vantage and get an additional $50.0O0
or more for the Iowa exhibit The put
ting off of the exposition date makes
this possible The commission has
abundant time now to lay plans for
proper Iowa exhibit at St. Louis. The
money can be expended more economt-
caly than ii the exposition was to be
held next year"
w W. Wilmer, of Des Moines, one oi
the commissioners at large on the COM
mission named by Governor Cummins,
suggests the propriety of having much
of the work out of the way before the
rush begins at the exposition. For in
stance he has said, the Iowa build
ing ought to be put up and be finished,
al except the placing OF the interior
furnishings long before the exposition
is to be opened. We can do the work
great deal cheaper now than If we
wait for the final rush. So, also, with
many other matters: 1 feel that there is
distinct advantage in the longer time
we have to get ready for the work"
S. NJ. Leach, the Seventh district
member OF the commission stated when
he was here that he had not consulted
with a single member OF the commits
sion on any subject as yet the plans
and suggestions as to expenditures pre-
pared by the preliminary commission
he said, pretty accurately expressed
my view of the division of the funds