Newport weekly independent., 1902-09-05
Items of Interest Gathered at the Worlds Fair Headquarters
 in St. Louis.
INTEREST IN THE FAIR IS SPREADING.
Where Will Be a Three Days Cath ering of State Comm issions, Re- ginning September 30, Filled With Public Ceremonies and So- oiaI Functions.

St. Louis, Aug. 31.-The congress of Louisiana Purchase exposition in 1904 will be the largest and longest shoot ing tournament ever held anywhere. The main feature of the tournament will be a competition for the mani mate target championship of the world.
 The International Fair association of San Antonio, Tex, has designated Tuesday, October 2s, as Worlds Fair day, and Hon. David R. Francis, pres ident of the Louisiana Purchase ex- position, has been invited to speak there on that occasion.
 Hon. John Allen, of Mississippi, fa- nous wit of the national congress flor many years, now a member of the National Worlds Fair commission, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Texas state fair, Dallas, Septem- Der 27. The entire gate receipts at the fair on that day will be donated to the Texas Worlds fair fund.
 At Copenhagen, Denmark, recently, MT. C. F. Wennerstrum, of Iowa, rep resentative of the Worlds fair in the Scandinavian countries, delivered an address, during the course of which he said "No happier choice than St. Louis could have been made for a place to hold a great international ex. position, for that city has something which no other city in the world possesses, namely. the southern hos pitality coupled with the northern en. ergy. That St.. Louis will outdo all admits of no doubt"
 The splendid crops in Oklahoma this year are being taken advantage of by the Worlds fair commission of the territory, and already many fine samples of agricultural products have been secured for exhibition at the Worlds fair in 1904.
 Among the many interesting achievemnts of human inventive genius accomplished during the de. eade which has elapsed since the Worlds fair at Chicago, and which will be seen at the Worlds fair in St Louis in 1904, there will be the wire. less telephone, the transmission ot sight by wire, and the telephonine from railway trains and trolley cars in motion.
 The construction of the Press Building at the Worlds fair has be-. gun. This is the same building useo for the headquarters of the Louisiana Purchase exposition at the Pan. American and the Charleston expn sitions, the material having been twice taken apart and transported by rail first to Charleston and thence tc St. Louis. The building is being erected in the extreme eastern part of the grounds, and its verandas will command a view of some of the most Beautiful features of the exposition
 The Mexican Herald reports that the henequen planters of Yucatan are 10 make a great exhibition at the St Louis Worlds fair of the products o1 their plantations, both in crude anG manufactured state. All the depart meuts of the state government will also be we'll represented.
 As an expression of appreciation o1 The generous policy of the United States toward her, China will make an unprecedented exhibit at the Worlds fair, St. Louis. Assurances of this action have been given tt Hon. John Barrett. commissioner general to Asia and Australia, by the Iceroys of several important prov mces-
 Hon. Wallace Bruce and Mrs. Bruce of Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn. N Y, sailed from New York on the An ehor liner Columbia, few days ago for two months in Scotlandss and while abroad will promote the project of a replica of Robert Burns birth place at the Louisiana exposition, St Louis, in 1904. MT. Bruce was for merly consul-general at Edinburg.
 Much interest is manifested in the offer of $3,000 cash prize by the Worlds fair authorities to any per son who shall successfully transmit without wires, electrical energy amounting to one-tenth of horse power to 1000 feet. This achieve. ment, if performed, would make a new step in the development of the cleo arical science. Many experiments have been made in the direction sug. gested.
 The first great gathering of state commissioners will take place at the Worlds fair grounds September 3n and October 1 and ?. The three days will be filled with public ceremonies and social functions, the main pur- pose being to have all commissioners become acquainted With tLe progress