The St. Louis Republic., 1902-07-02

IF the temporary injunction preventing
the Exposition Company from condemuins
the lesson tract IS made permanent by the
United States Court next Wednesday. the
time gained for the Worlds Fair through
the postponement enactment by Congress
viii be lost and the affairs OF the Exposi-
ton management will be where taey were
before this relief came
This statement was made yesterday by
one OF the highest authorities OF the Ex-
position. who desired that his name be
withheld in connection with any statement
Of the effect Of the injunction OF Judge e.
mer B. Adams. as told exclusively in The
Republic.
Judge James 4. Seddon, legal partner OF
James L. Blair. General Counsel for the
Exposition Company. appeared before the
Executive Committee OF the company. at
its meeting yesterday, and laid before that
body the status OF the proposed condenna-
tioI proceedings as affected by the injunc-
tioA OF the United States Court. The state
mert OF the effect on the Exposition was
made after this meeting.
Judge Seddon said that the State Circuit
Court. through Judges Hough and Wood.
two Of the most able juTists who ever sat on
the bench in st. Louis. had plainly upheld
the GiCh. OF the Exposition Company to
Fair, when II had been shown TO what
specific uses the land would be put. He
ADDED that the attorneys OF the Exposition
would go into the United States Court next
wednesday with this decision back Of them.
1t was made clear that II the ruling OF
the United States Court was adverse to the
Exposition, the case would be appealed TO
the United States Court of Appeals, which
does not meet until October. The delay at
tendant upon such a long wait was the
loss of time to the Worlds Fair referred 10
in the statement that the postponement IN
I'll 1904 would avail the Exposition manage
mcpt nothing OF the gain contemplated by
the enactment Of Congress. The attorneys
for the company are confident that they
Will win in the issue before Judge Adams
snd thus prevent the delay.
The prices paid by the Exposition Com
pany for the leases held on $50 acres OF
private property, now added to the site
south Of the Tesson Tract, were made pub
lie yesterday. and in the came connection
the price offered to Mrs. Laura lesson for
the use of 1900 feet. or sixteen acres, Of
her property, which has front of 500 feet
along Slinker road, and On which II was
proposed TO place the French national pa
Yilion and its landscape surroundings.
The owners OF the SkInker tract are to
receive $50 per acre in consideration Of 4
frontage OF LILO feet on Skinker road. The
lease on the De Nun tract. which has a
lesser frontage provides Tor the payment
of $50 an acre, and the same price was
given for the use of the large Maifitt tracts
adjoining the De Nun property and ex-
lending southwark to Clayton road. with an
additional piece Of property On the southern
side Of Clayton road. belonging to the
same owners.
Mrs. lesson was offered 800 an acre for
a small fraction OF her ground. which the
Exposition required to connect the part OF
the site south OF her property with that OF
the Washington University tract. The offer
was refused, and a valuation OF about Sl1.-
900 an acre is understood 10 have been
placed on that property as the price at
which she would sell the fraction to tire
Exposition Company.
To this proposal the Exposition manage
ment, through President Francis, replied
that II was not Ia the business Of pu-chas-
ing property. as the brief life Of the cor
porat!on would not justify such an expend.-