Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-27
MAINE AT ST. LOUIS.
Plans Being Perfected to Advertise
States Resources at Exposition.
Loo Cabin to Be Built Instead of Stone
Building.


| Club in Boston. tonight, banquet
given by the Commercial Club of that
city. in the interest of the Louisiana
Louis next year. At this banquet the
president of the Exposition Association,
ex- Governor David r. Francis of Mis-
souri,, will be present The Governors
of all the New England states have
been invited to attend. Governor Hill
cannot go, as the Council meeting
comes, tomorrow, and he has a large
amount of business to attend to before
the meeting takes place. He has, how
ever, as requested by the Commercial
Club. notified the Maine commissioners
| of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
| that their presence would be welcome.
The gentlemen comprising the commits
sion are Ernest Goodall, Sanford; +. H.
Briggs. Auburn: Lemuel Lane, West
brook: F. W. Cram, Bangor, and C. c.
Burrill, Ellsworth. Some of these gen.
tlemen will represent Maine at the
banquet
The State has not yet made any APP
p opriation to aid the commission.
which was appointed by Governor Hill,
in preparing an exhibit of Names re-
sources at the Exposition. The Legis-
Ia ture of 1901 was asked to appropriate
a sum of money for the purpose, but
the request was not granted. Next
w;atcr. however, an effort will be made
to secure reasonable amount so that
the State may be able to present some
of its advantages to the crowds of peo-
pie which will undoubtedly attend the
St. Louis fair. The plans of the COM
missi..nrrG 2bove mentioned have not
yet icon made public, but it is known
that they are considering the feasibility
of exhibiting the claims of the State as
a vacation resort. A gentleman who is
well informed as to the plans and pro-
jeots of the commissioners, in conversa-
ton with the Journal, yesterday, said:
The commissioners do not think it
advisable to attempt an exhibition of
the manufactures of the State at the
St. Louis fair They realize that it
would be extremely difficult to compete
with the big states, like New York,
Pennsylvania and Illinois, in the erec-
ton of a State building. The amount
of money required for the erection of
even a fourth-rate building would be
fliJit tIldIl tllt Sldlt cOulu
gil g. l do not believe that the money
the State spent for the Maine building
at the Worlds Fair in Chicago ever
helped the State any.
While the manufactures of our
State are many and somewhat varied,
an exhibit of them at the fair would
not be of so much substantial benefit
az would the presentation of Names
claims as the playground of America.
As I understand it, the members of the
commission believe that if Maine has
really strong hold upon the people of
the country it is because of its unusual
advantages as a resort for all classes
of people during the vacation season.
THE plan, therefore, is to have a rea-
sonable appropriation made by the
Legislature of 1908, one that will per-
nit the erection of a large log cabin
on the Exposition grounds, in which
will be displayed the typical adjuncts
of such building. so many Of which
are found in the woods of Maine This |
log cabin is to be built of Maine logs. |
finished in the same style as are hun |
dreds of similar structures in this State |
and divided into sections in which dis |
may be made. Illustrated advertise |
ments Of all kinds will be shown about !
the building, officers will be present at
all times and the cabin will be used as
headquarters for all Maine people Wis
iting the Exposition.
by such a plan it is believed that |
Names natural resources as paradise |
for pleasure and sport can be more sue
cessfully exploited than by any other |
method.
The expense will be comparatively
small. The erection of the log cabin
will not begin to cost the amount that
a building of brick or stone would re-
qure, and it could be made as pleasing
inside as building built of other ma
teIlal. A big log cabin on the EXPOSE
ton grounds would be far more at
tractive than any other kind could pos
sibiy be. Although the commission has
not decided upon this plan, I have rea-
son to believe it will be adopted