West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-06-12
WORLDS rAiR NOTES.
Items Of Interest In Regard 10 The
Great Louisiana Purchase
Exposition

Exposition
The Director of Works has asked
for bids for the construction of the
Art Palace. This is to be a fire.
poof structure of rich design that
will cost approximately one million
dollars. II will stand sixty feet
above the general level of the Ex-
position, surrounded by stately forest
trees, and the foreground will be
enriched with terraced garden
with cascades and fountains.
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The great organization of electrical
engineers of America known as the
National Electric Light Association
has determined to throw the weight
of its influence and help toward the
success OF. the Worlds Fair at St.
Louis. Not only will the members
individually and collectively con-
tribute to the electric exhibit and
help 10 carry out the plan of an
extensive industrial application of
electricity, but at their convention
in Cincinnati it was resolved to hold
their meeting in 1904 at the Worlds
Fair grounds.
The very ingenious perpetual
motion" invented by Daniel Quinn,
an aged mechanic, for display at
the Worlds Fair, consists of tank
of water through which an endless
chain of hollow cylinders runs,
entering at the bottom between rub
Der lips, going out at the top and
down the outside. He depends upon
the buoyancy of the cylinders to
keep them in motion and to over
come the water pressure at the
point of entrance.
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The first consignment of an order
for II3 miles of wooden conduit
for electric wires has arrived on the
Worlds Fair grounds. The conduit
is four and half inches square
containing three inch hole and
each section is six feet long. 1t
will take 100, 900 sections to COM
plete the order. The work of
putting IN the underground electric
system began sometime ago, when
the contract was let for the con.
struction of a subway seven by seven
| feet, one mile long.
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One may see traction engines and
teams OF twelve horses drawing ex-
cavating and grading machines, saw
mills running by electricity, augur
holes bored and nails driven by
compressed air machines, and thous-
ands of men employed In number
less tasks that will all combine to
make the greatest Exposition of
history. Present estimates place
the total of exhibit space under roof
at 400 acres, in fifteen great build
ings. The total are a of grounds to
date is 77S acres with 400 acres to
be added.
The Cabildo at New Orleans,
which is to be reproduced at the
Worlds Fair for use as the Louis
lana State Building, was built in
| 1894. A wealthy Andalusian who
had made his fortune in Louisiana,
chose TO spend it in his old age
erecting public buildings. His
name was Andrcas Almonastery
Roxas. The Cabildo, or town hall,
we'll preserved building to this day
has its chief historical interest in
the fact that within its walls the
transfer of dominion of the Louis.
lana territory from Spain to France
and from France to the United
States took place in 1903.
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Other features of the Worlds
Fair work are the River des Peres
channe!way, more than a mile long,
costing sII6, 900, completed this
week, the electric conduits, seven
by seven feet, mile long, now
building; the sewer system, complet.
ed; the vast grading work amount.
ing to hundreds Of thousands OF
cubic yards; the transplanting Of
hundreds of big trees, which was
done in early spring; the installa
ton of the water supply and system
protection against fire, completed;
the construction Of Telford roads
Of crushed stone and fine gravel,
the laying Of railway tracks and the
establishment of an emergency
hospital.
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The matchmaker is to have his
corner IN the coming St. Louis
Worlds Fair. A well known Berlin