Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
Items Picked Up During the Weeh
at st. Louis Worlds Fair
Headquarters.
EACH DAY SHOWS SOME ADVANCEMENT.
Both at Home and Abroad the In.
terest I'm the Great Enterprise Il
Being Augmented and Steps Be.
ing Taken for Active and Suita-
BILE Participation.

rtulrtS tHdt the cnaHHel De cOIH-
pleted by March Is.
The Hanley-Casey Co., of Chicago,
was the successful bidder for the
sewer work on the Worlds fair site,
their bid being S31, 647.45. The speci-
fications call for 2,S70 feet of four
foot brick sewer, 1920 feet of pipe
sewer, from Is to 80 inches in diam.
eter, and 1850 feet of two-foot steel
discharge pipe. The work is to be
completed in rs days from the sign
ing of the contract, under a penalty
of $50 a day for delay.
Vice-Consul E~ssendrup, 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
islature 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-
ture and will visit the capital of that
state shortly. 1t is expected that
an appropriation of $10o, 900 will be
made.
cambridge Colby, a native of Mis-
souri,, member of the board of gov.
ernors of the Missouri Society OF
New York city, and assemblyman
for the Twenty-ninth district of New
York, has introduced a bill proyid-
ing for an appropriation of 100000
for a New York exhibit at the Louis
lana Purchase exposition, and for
the appointment of a state commits
sion.
Oklahoma's 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, Gov. LONGING makes q
splendid showing of the prosperity of
the various Industries of the state.
calls attention to the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition as the most extern
sive and comprehensive exhibition of
modern times, and urges u liberal ap-
preparation.
At the meeting of the Texas Dis
trict Bankers association in Austin,
January 7, II. p. billiard, president of
the association. read a strong paper
on the growth of the Louisiana pur-
chase and in favor of a great Texas
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 SAT 100000, toward such an
exhibit.
A bill is pending in the St. Louis
municipal assembly, authorizing the
General Federation of Women's clubs
to erect on the Worlds fair site in
Forest park a permanent library and
museum building, to be called the
"Hall of Philanthropy" to be forever
the property of the city, and to be
open free to the public after the
Worlds fair as a convention hall,
museum and library.
The Illinois Clay Workers associa-
ton in annual meeting at GalesDurg,
January 7, took a deep interest in
Secretary Stolrs report, urging the
association to get up a fine exhibit
for the St. Louis Worlds fair.
Mr.. 0. L. Cheney, OF Bloomington,
ILL.,, is applying for a concession on
the Worlds fair site for an aerial
steel tower with a landing-place at
the top one hundred (1OO) feet in di-
ameter, reached by a spiral stair
cast and elevator. He says it will not
cost more than $25 5000, and will ac-
commodate $4,000 people per hour,
with a view from an altitude of 200
feet.
At the annual jackson Day" ban
quet of the Tennessee Society of st.
Louis resolutions were passed pledg-
ing hearty and unwavering support
of the Worlds fair, and expressing
the hope that Tennessee will be there
with such a representation of her
people as visitors, and such an exhi-
bition of her diversified and unlimit-
ed resources as will enable the mil
lions to see and appreciate the great
ness of the state.
Gov. Montague, of Virginia, is
strongly in favor of an exhibit of the
states present resources 1t the
Worlds fair. He is not content that
the Old Dominion shall be represent
ed by relics and mementos of what
she was in the past. He insists that
the Virginia of the twentieth cen
fury shall also have "a part in the
show.
During the week the executive COM
mittee was busy with arrangements
to mobilize the working forces, and
adjust the details which will push the
work in all departments of the
Worlds fair.
Miss HeleA NJ. Gould, of the Worlds
fair board OF lady managers, reached
st. Louis Saturday afternoon, Janu-
airy IL, with a party of lady friends,
and was escorted to her rooms at the
Southern hotel. Saturday evening
she attended an official reception in
her honor, given by President and
Mrs. D. r. Francis at their residence,
to the board VI lady managers and
the directors and officers Of the