Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-02-08
WORLDS FAIR PROGRESS.
Items Of Interest Gathered at the
the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition Headquarters.
INTEREST IN THE FAIR GROWING FAST.
From Present Indicntionsthc Dirigi-
BILE Balloon Exhibit and Contests
VIII be One of the Most Unique
and Interesting Features of the
Fair.

er representation Of the state, and 1t
is understood that each county or
district convention to be held this
summer will pledge its nominees to
vote for such an appropriation. On
this understanding the commission
will go ahead with the work OF pre-
pairing the exhibit.
]. S. NJ Huff, superintendent of the
Saline county (Mo) schools, offers
premiums for the best displays at
the teachers institute next August.
Separate prizes are offered for rural
and town schools. The object is to
obtain the best possible educational
display at the Worlds fair.
J.A. McAnulty, of st. Louis, design
er Of much Of the modern flour mill
machinery used in the United States,
has entered an airship of the dirigi-
BILE balloon class for the Worlds
fair aeronautic contest. 1t will have
an engine hot air compressor and
regulating air pump, with a quad
ruple cluster Of propellers which may
be projected outward in any direc-
tiOn.
The St. Louis Branch Of the Amer
lean League for Civic Improvement
has been organized. Geo. b. Leighton
presided at the meeting and speeches
were made by Rolla Wells, mayor of
St. Louis; Albert Kelsey, of New
York, and Prof. Charles Zenblein, of
Chicago university, who is president
of the league. The list of members
shows that it is going to be a body
of earnest and intelligent workers.
The specifications in the contract
for the Varied Industries building,
which is to be let by the third OF
February, call for the completion of
the structure by October /, 1902, with
a penalty of $500 day for each days
delay beyond that date.
At the regular monthly meeting OF
the St. Louis Millers' club, January
q, it was decided TO begin at once
the building of a club house on the
Worlds fair site, in which the mill
ers Of st. Louis and vicinity could
entertain visiting millers from all
parts of the world during the expo
sition.
The second annual dinner of the
Missouri Society of New York will
be given in the Astor gallery of the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel, February 5,
and is to be distinctly a Louisiana
Purchase feast. Augustus Thomas,
the distinguished dramatist, will pre-
side. President Francis Of the Ex-
position company, will respond to the
toast, THE Louisiana Purchase"
John R. Kendrick, chief of the tex
tile division of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition, in his tour among
the southern cotton manufactures,
visited Gov. Gambler and the other
state officers of Georgia at Atlanta,
January 2S. 1t is thought that the
governor will give the commission
appointed by the legislature a sup
Elementary body of appointees to as
sist them in getting up Georgia ex-
hibit, and that he will also urge the
legislature to make an appropriation
for a state building at the Worlds
fair.
The delegation which left st. Louis
January 26 to boom the Worlds fair
in Kentucky, was received with open
arms, and the most tlattering at
tentions in Louisville on January q,
and by the governor, legislature and
| citizens at Frankfort on the follow
ing day. The cause Of the exposi-
tion was ably presented by such
speakers as Crittendon, Francis and
Stone, three natives Of Kentucky who
have been governors of Missouri, and
others.
The Commercial club of Omaha
has arranged for a banquet, Febru-
airy II, on which occasion it expects
to entertain as its special guests
President Francis, of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, Hon. John NJ.
Thurston, of the national commits
sion, Prof Taylor, chief of the ex-
POSITIONS agricultural department,
and the members of Nebraska's conf
mission.
The Wisconsin Cranberry Growers
association has finally decided to in
stall its comprehensive exhibit of the
cranberry industry as part of the
Wisconsin state exhibits at the
Worlds fair.
President Green, of the Texas Mid
land railway, is also president of a
Tarpon club, and says that it is one
of his ambitions to have live tarpon
in tank among the Texas exhibits
at the Worlds fair
1t is reported from Washington
that the government commission
which will be sent to European eapi-
tails in behalf of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition, will probably have
Admiral Dewey at its head. 1t is to
be composed of such distinguished
men as will be received with marked
respect by the courts Of Europe.
The executive board of the st.
Louis branch of the National Saen'
gerbund has appointed a committee
to consult the Worlds fair directory
about a guarantee fund and the cree
tion of a hall for national saenger-
fest in 1903
President Francis, Nice-President
Spencer, Treasurer VIM. IL. Thomp-
son, Gov. Dockery of Missouri, Mayor
Wells of St. Louis, c. w. Knapp,
Nathan Frank, Frederick w. Leh-
mann, Adolphus Busch, Geo. w
Wright and d. NJ, Houser, are to be
members of the delegation that viii
start the campaign for Worlds fair
legislation in the eastern states, be-
ginning at Albany, N. y, March H..
Next they will meet the New England
governors at banquet that is be-
ing arranged for the occasion in
Boston.