Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-09-04
Items of Interest Gathered at the
Worlds Fair Headquarters
in ST. Louis.
INTEREST IN THE FAIR IS SPREADING.
There VIII he n Three Days Gath
ering of State Commissions, BE-
ginning September 30, Filled
With Public Ceremonies and So
ciaI Functions

will be the largest and longest shoot
Jig tournament ever held anywhere.
IT,, 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 rs, 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, IA
nous wit of the national congress
for 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 q. The entire gate receipts at
the fair on that day will be donated
to the Texas Worlds fair fund.
At Copenhagen, Denmark, recently,
Mr.. c. +. 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 Guido all
previous records in the exposition line
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
achievements of human inventive
genius accomplished during the de-
cade 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 of
sight by wire, and the telephoning
from railway trains and trolley cars
in motion.
building at the Worlds fair has be-
gun. This is the same building used
for the headquarters of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition at the Pan
American and the Charleston expo
s%itions, the material having been
twice taken apart and transported by
rail first to Charleston and thence to
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 Tat
the henequen planters of Yucatan are
to make a great exhibition at the st.
Louis Worlds fair of the products of
their plantations, both in a crude and
manufactured state. All the depart
ments of the state government will
also be well represented.
AS an expression Of appreciation Of
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 to
Hon. John Barrett. commissioners
general to Asia and Australia, by the
viceroys of several important p:oy-
inces.
Hon. Wallace Bruce and Mrs. Bruce,
of Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn. n.
Y, sailed from New York on the An
Choir liner Columbia, a few days ago.
for two months in Scotland, and
while abroad will promote the project
of a replica of Robert Burns birth
place at the Louisiana exposition, St.
Louis, in 1904. Mr.. Bruce was for
merly consul-general at Edinburg.
Much interest is manifested in the
offer of a $4,000 cash prize by the
Worlds fair authorities to any per-
son who shall successfully transmit
without wires, electrical energy
amounting to one-tenth of a horse
power to 1000 feet. This achieve
ment, if performed would make a new
step in the development of the cleo
trical science. Many experiments
have been made in the direction si.g-
gested.
The first great gathering of state
commissioners will take place at the
Worlds fair grounds September 80
and October / and 2. The three days
will be filled with public ceremonies
and social functions, the main pur-
pose being to have all commissioners
become acquainted with tie progress
of the exposition and select sites for
state buildings.