The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-23

and to urge upon you that you use your influence so that the commonwealth of Connecticut may be properly represent ed by buildings and exhibits on that occasion, or in whatever manner may seem best to your legislature.
 The holding of this fair in St. Louis was determined by a convention of del egates from all the states constituting the Louisiana territory, as the most fit ting celebration of this great event in our national history. The projectors of the fair have planned it on correspond ing magnitude, so that in extent and variety of interests as well as ill money
 expended, it is designed on a larger scale than any preceding fair in the worlds history. Its magnitude may be judged from few figures: The cen- tennial exhibition of Philadelphia cov- cred 236 acres; the Paris exposition of
 1900 3G6 acres; the Columbian exposition in 1893. 633 acres; the St. Louis Louisia-
 na purchase exposition will occupy 100 acres.
 ''The fair management commences the
 undertaking with far greater amount of
 cash available than any previous Amer ican exposition. The United States
 government has appropriated five mill
 lion dollars; the city of St. Louis five million dollars, and the citizens of St.
 Louis have raised by popular subscrip- tion five million dollars. The construc- tion cost of the last Paris exposition was nine million dollars, that of the Columbian exposition $18,322, 900; 1t is
 estimated by the management of the St. Louis Louisiana purchase exposition
 that the amount expended for construc-
 tion purpose will far exceed the last
 named amount.
 Several of the states and territories
 have already begun their preparations for buildings and exhibits and the leg islatures of number of states have all
 ready made appropriations therefor.
 The state of Missouri has appropriated one million dollars. Illinois $25000O and other states in proportion.
 Tt was a son of Connecticut, Nathan
 iel Lyon, whose fame is commemorate ed
 by a public park and a public monu-
 ment in the city of St. Louis. who was the most conspicuous figure in the an-
 nals of the civil war in the saving of
 Missouri, the great central state of the
 Mississippi valley, to the Union: and another son of Connecticut, Admiral Andrew H. Foote commander our navy
 in it's earliest victories in the opening of
 the Mississippi river.
 Tt is not necessary for us to enlarge upon the great commercial and business interests of Connecticut which require the active part icipants in this exposi-
 tion. No state is more dependent upon the prosperity of it's manufacturing in- terests, and never has there been such an opportunity as this exposition will afford for the producers of wealth to en- large their trade not only in tke great
 empire of the Louisiana purchase, but with all parts of the nation and all na- tions.
 AS sons of Connecticut, taking pride
 in our Connecticut ancestry, we feel a deep interest that our native state
 should be fittingly represented in this great exposition of all the states and nations We, therefore. bespeak your support to this end and ask that you
 use your influence so that the legisla- ture of Connecticut will take steps and make preparations for such a participa-
 ton as will be 8 credit to the state, tru- ly representative of her industries and
 worthy of her history and of her peo-
 pie"