Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-01-18
WORLDS FAIR PROGRESS.
Items Picked Up During the Week
at St. Louis Worlds Fair
Headquarters.
EACH DAY SHOWS SOME ADVANCEMENT.
Both at Home end Abroad the in-
terest in the Great Enterprise is
Being Augmented and Steps he
ing Taken for Active and Suits-
bile Participation.

CI. LOUIS, Jan w pih va '''~
channel-way, which is to carry the
waters of the River dcs Peres
through the Worlds fair site, was
begun on January Z. The contract
reuires that the channel be com
pleted by March Is.
The Hanley-Gasey CO., Of Chicago,
was the successful bidder for the
sewer work ON the Worlds fair site,
their bid being $3l ,Gl1.4j. The speci-
fcations call for 2,570 feet Of four
foot brick sewer, 4,200 feet Of pipe
sewer, from IL to 30 inches in diam
eter. and 1850 feet of two-foot steel
discharge pipe. The work is TO be
completed in 5j days from the sign
ing of the contract, under a penalty
of $50 a day for delay.
Vice-Consul Essendrup, the repre-
sentative of Norway and Sweden in
St. Louis, is arranging for an eXhi-
bition of scandinavian paintings at
the Worlds fair.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for a
Worlds fair exhibit has been intro
duced in the legislature of Porto
Rico, and it is generally believed that
the appropriation will be made,
In his opening message to the leg
islatme of Ohio. Gov. Nash urged
that body to make an appropriation
for the St. Louis Worlds fair.
The Kentucky auxiliary commit
tee for the Worlds fair has prepared
an address to the Kentucky legisla-
turc and will visit the capital of that
state shortly 1t is expected that
an appropriation of 100000 will be
made,
cambridge Colby. a aatue Of Miss
souri, member of tn board of gov
crnors of the Missouri Society OF
New York city, anG assembiymau au
for the Twenty-ninth district of Nefy
York, has introduced bill provid-
ing for an appropriation of 100000
for a New York exhibit at the Louis
lana Purchase exposition, and for
the appointment of state commits
sion.
Oklahomas Worlds fair commits
sion had an enthusiastic meeting on
January 6. An auxiliary committee
is to be formed in every county OF
the territory. The territorial com
mittee will visit St. Louis in a few
weeks to select the site of their
$4,000 building.
In his message to the Mississippi
legislature, Coy. Longino makes =
splendid showing of the prosperity OF
the various industries of the state
calls attention to the Louisiana Pur'
chase exposition as the most eNten'
sfve and comprehensive exhibition OF
modern times, and urges a liberal APP
preparation.
At the meeting of the Texas Dis
trict Bankers association in Austin
January :, II, p. Hilliard president OF
the association. read a strong paper
on the growth of the Louisiana pur
CnuSc anu III lbNpl VI N EiN"N - -NA'
| exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase eX
| position. He suggested that the bank
, ers of Texas could well afford to give
one per cent. of their capital and sur
plus. of S4T.0OO0O0, toward such Al
, teXhibit
, A bill is pending in the s., Louis
municipal assembly, authori1 ne iht
General Federation of Womel cllu'
TO erect on the Worlds fair site Y
S Forest park permanent Library Nas
t museum building, to be called th'
e Hall of Philanthropy" to be foreve
Y the property OF the city, and to b
e open free to the public after th
h Worlds fair as convention hal
museum and library
The Illinois Clay Workers associa
p ton in annual meeting at Gaiesburs
> January :, took a deep interest i
: Secretary stoll's report, urging TN
association to get up a fine exhibi
for the St. Louis Worlds fair.
g Mr. O. L. Cheney, OF Bloomington
:, H., is applying for a concession o
v the Worlds fair site for an aerii
o steel tower with landing-place q
a the top one hundred (00) feet in d
y ameter, reached by a spiral stat
"a case and elevator. He says it will nc
- cost more than $4,000, and will a,
= commodate $4,000 people per hou
. with view from an altitude of 2I
feet.
At the annual jackson Day" bal
s. ouet of the Tennessee Society OF ,
r. Louis resolutions were passed pledi
a ing hearty and unwayering suppo
"a of the Worlds fair, and eXpressir
" the hope that Tennessee Vi'l .a tnei
~ with such representatio1 I h'
- people as visitors, and such nn eSl
a. =; bition of her diversified end unimi
N ed resources as will cnaa'a the 30
n lions to see and appreciate the grea
s. ness of the state.
Gov Montague, OF Virginia,
'e strongly in favor of an exhibit OF t
. states present resources at Z
'h Worlds fair. He is not content tn
the Old Dominion shall be represel
N ed by relies and mementos of wh
n she was in the past. He insists tn
IS the Virginia of the twentieth &C
y tury shall also have part in t
show.
IN During the week the executive co
OF mittee was busy with arrangemei
IS. to mobilize the working forces, a
er adjust the details which will push I
u work in all departments of I
Worlds fair, ?
Miss Helen NJ. Gouidfof the Worl
" fair board of lady managers, reach
az st. Louis Saturday afternoon, Jan
u ary IL, with u party of lady frien
n and was escorted to her rooms at /
n Southern hotel. Saturday event
ID she attended an official reception
g her honor, given by President a
h Mrs. d. Il. Francis at their residen
le to the board of lady managers a
D. the directors and officers of I
le Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Ie She win be the guest Of honor at 81
is 'eral private receptions in st. Lol
looming week,