The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-29
GOVERNMENT Is ASSEMBLING
ITS WORLDS FAIR EXHIBITS.
Features Never Included in Any Other
son-Origina Warrant ORA the Treasury for s15-
OO0,OOO Paid for the Louisiana Purchase and First
of the Declaration of Independence
20 Placed View.


The Bureau OF Engraving and Printing
will show a regular manipulating press in
operation. printing genuine money. and the
United States Mint will exhibit one of its
coin presses and stamp out real coins.
United States notes of all denominations,
from 81 to $1,000. will be placed on exhibi-
tfcles printed at the bureau.
An entertaining feature will be the prac-
vice: Daily drills will be given on the Ex-
position grounds by crews regularly en-
pl3yed in the life-saving service;
Commission will be located in building by
itself. At former expositiOns this display
attracted greater crowds. perhaps, than any
inha abitants of the deep sea possess n pc
culiar fascination, not only for students of
amusement. Almost every kind of fish
known will be found in the aquariums of
the Fish Commission exhibit.
In the Ordnance Department of the War
Department will be an historical collection
OF cannon and small arms. Among the
big guns will be twelve-inch breech-load-
riage. It's weight is 115o0o. pounds: total
length SO. s. feet, and maxirntm diameter at
rmor-piercing shot weighing 1.00D pounds
the length of which is three and one-half
1t also throws a projectile weighing 1000
pounds. four feet long and carrying a
bursting charge of 39.4 pounds of gun cot
ton, The charge is 24o pounds Of smokeless
Il
The muzzle velocity Of the proje:tilas is
1890 feet per second. or more than twenty
five miles a minute. The maximum pres
sure per square inch is S7.Oo0 pounds. ard
the power of penetration In steel at the
muzzle is 300 inches. and at 1,000 yards 2S5
inches. The total weight of the gun and
carriage is 477,959 pounds
DRILLS ON THE GROUNDS.
Many other guns of extraordinary size and
destructive power will be exhibited and
several companies of United States troops
representative of the different branches of
the service will give drills on the Exposi-
tion grounds.
The State Department exhibit will he
before. Among the manv historical articles
will be the original draft Of the Daclara-
ton of Independence. written by Thomas
jefferson with the interlifeations in the
handwriting of John Adams and Benjamin
Franklin and the old-fashioned desk on
which Jefferson wrote this precious paper
Many relics of Washington will be shown
including statuette by Baron Marchette.
which was saved when the Capitol building
was burned by the British. A pair or eve
glasses given by the first President TO Cen
eral LAFAYETTE and all of Washington's let
tiers to Congress will be on exhibition as
well as the sword he carried throughout
the Revolution.
conveying the information of the forma-s
ton Of the French Republic will be dis
played as we'll as letters from various
XVI. Napoleon. Queen Victoria, Emperor
William and others.
The exhibit of the Department of justice
will not be snowy but to students Il will
be of special interest Including many rare
legal volumes These books contain YER
hatim reports of the great trials of history
from the time of Richard II to the present
day, 1t will be like giancing through the
misty past of the days OF Romanticism to
read Of the trials of such notable figures in
history as Mary Queen Of Scots. OF Sir