The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-05-02
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

exhibit building, the one at the
western end Of the Textiles build
ing, was raised by Dunnavant &
Estel on April 20.
Alexander Konta, st. Louis1an
! returning from a three years So
journ in Europe, says that that
part of the world is taking a great
interest in the ST. Louis Worlds
Fair.
A letter from J. c. Houston, of
Vicksburg, Miss, states that that
city is preparing voting contest
which will give her most popular
minister trip to the st. Louis
Worlds Fair,
Leo Stevens, one of the aeronauts
who will compete with NJ Santos.
Dumont at the St. Louis Worlds
Fair, has staked out ground for his
air-ship shed on the old Guttenburg
race truck near New York City. He
will begin his trial flights about the
middle OF June,
Commissioner Joseph Brocker
writes from Berlin that he has
learned from Dr. Richter that Ger
many is preparing to accept the in
vitat1on and ask tor large space at
the Worlds Fair for very fine ex-
hibit of works of art and art indus
try. A special commissioner will
be sent to St. Louis soon.
DR.. D. Ranney Proctor, of Chica-
go, writes to the Exposition au-
thorities that he is creating an air
ship with no unwieldy balloon or
treacherous aeroplane feature, and
that there will be no blunders,
breaks or accidents when his Con
queror' appears in st. Louis and
demonstrates how air navigation
has been accomplished.
A St. Louis manufacturing com
pany has been informed by the
manager of its European branches
that he is continually bombarded
with questions about the World s
Fair at st. Louis. The people over
there, he says, are already asking
for literature telling them how to
reach st. Louis, what the expense
will be, and what living will cost
while they are visiting the Exposi-
ton.
The leading banking house of
Florence, Italy, has manifested its
desire to promote the participation
of Italy in the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition by providing a set of
rooms on the ground floor in the
best business quarter of Florence
as an office for the Chevalier Zeg-
gio, Worlds Fair Commissioner to
Italy.
United States Minister Buck has
written from Toxic, Japan, to Sec
rotary Hay, acknowledging receipt
of notice of the coming of J. f.
Smith, OF st. Louis, as Honorary
Commissioner of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition, and adding:
upon Mr.. Smiths arrival l shall
take much pleasure in doing what
/ can to facilitate him in carrying
out the purpose of his mission"
Contracts for the construction of
three more great Worlds Fair
buildings on the Washington Uni
versity tract have been let, the con-
tractor giving bond to complete the
work by March 81, 1908. These are
the University Gymnasium, "a fit. x
164 #. 51z inches, which will be
the Physical Culture building of
the Exposition; the University Lii
brary building, LA fit. X $50 it,,
which will be reserved by the Ex-
position for Educational Con-
crosses; and the University Dormi-
tory and Dining Hall, $50 fit. x 269
ft. The buildings are all to be of
red granite with cut limestone
trimmings.
Walter Williams, of Columbia
Mo, writes in a letter recently re-
ceived at Worlds Fair headquar-
tiers, about the art schools estab-
lished in Greece by Lady Egerton,
wife of Lord Edwin Egerton, the
British minister at Athens. Lady
Egerton started these schools to
relieve the popular distress in
Greece following that country's last
war with Turkey, by teaching
women lace making and other in
dustrial arts. She has established