The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-23
FROM CONNECTICUT SONS
Now Residents of the City of St.
 Louis.
To the Editor of the Journal and Cour-
 fer. New Haven. Conn:

Louis.
 To the Editor of the Journal and Cour-
 fer, New Haven, Conn.,:
 The undersigned sons of Connecticut, but POW residents Of the City of St. Louis. wish to call your attention to the Worlds Fair now appointed to be held in the City of St. Louis ill 1904 in celebration of the centennial of the pur- chase of the Louisiana Territory, and to urge upon you that you use your inttu- ence so that the commonwealth Of Con- necticut may be represented by build ings and exhibits on that occasion, or in whatever manner may seem best to your legislature.
 The holding of this Worlds Fair in St. Louis was determined by Conven- ton of Delegates from all the States constituting the Louisiana Territory, as the most fitting celebration of this great event in our national history. The pro jectors of the Fair have planned 1t on lines of corresponding magnitude, so that in extent and variety of interests as well as in money expended, 1t IS de- signed on a larger scale than any pre- ceding Fair in the Worlds history. Its magnitude may be judged from few figures: The Centennial Exhibition Of Philadelphia covered 236 acres; the Paris Exposition of 1900, 336 acres, the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, 633 acres; the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition will occupy l,2O0 acres.
 The Fair management commences the I Fo1 4oyN of cash available than any previous American exposition. The United States Government has appropriated $5,OOO,COO; the City of St. Louis. S5,OOO,0O0, and the citizens of St Louis have raised by popular subscription $5,000,000.
 The construction cost of the last Paris Exposition was $9,O0O,O00 that of the Columbian Exposition, $18,S22 900; it is estimated by the management of the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition that the amount expended for construc- ton purchase will far exceed the last named amount.
 Several of the States and Territories have already begun their preparations for buildings and exhibits. and the leg islatures of number of the States have already made appropriations therefor. The State of Missouri has ap- propriated $1OO0OOO. Illinois, $25O,000, and other States in proportion.
 It is only necessary to mention the names of some of the states other than Missouri which have been carved out of this great territory included in the Louisiana Purchase-Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho-and to recall the names of some of the men who have shaped the char acter of these great Commonwealths tn realize how widely extended is the in- fluence of Connecticut in shaping the destinies of this great empire. There is hardly @ settlement in this vast terri tory, wherein men of Connecticut birth or Connecticut ancestry cay not be found.
 It was a son of Connecticut, Nathan iel Lyon, whose fame is commemorated by public park and a fublic monu- ment in the City of St. Louis, who was the most conspicuous figure in the an- nals of the Civil war in the saving of
 Missouri, the great central State of the Mississippi Valley, to the Union; and another son of Connecticut. Ad- miral Andrew H. Foote commanded our navy in it's earliest victories in the opening of the Mississippi River
 It is not necessary for us to enlarge upon the great commercial and business interests of Connecticut which require [ the active participation in this exposi- tion. No State is more dependent upon the prosperity of it's manufacturing in terests and never has there been such an opportunity as this exposition will afford for the producers of we7lth 10 en-