The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-07
NORTH CAROLINA AT WORLDS FAIR.
Speech Before Merchant Meeting at Green's
boro Yesterday.

At the meeting held yesterday in
Greensboro by representatives of the
Chamber of Commerce and other business
associations, Col. ]. H. Avirell, Special
Commissioner of the st. Louis Exposition,
urged the Importance of North Cardinals
being we'll represented at that exposition.
He said:
Mr.. Chairman and Representatives of
the Commercial Bodies of North Caro-
lima:
Il come before you as the represen-
tative of the Louisiana Purchase Ex
position Company, which proposes holding
in st. Louis. Missouri. in 1904, the lar
gest and grandest exposition ever held
| in this or any other country.
Stating as briefly as possible it's origin,
scope and plans:
'Its origin is the celebration of the One
| Hundredth Anniversary of the Purchase
of the Louisiana Territory from France.
| Considering the vast Importance of this
acquisition, from which eleven I'D States
and one Q) Territory have been made,
| the Worlds Fair Company. with $780, 0O,-
/ 600 at command, has made the exposition
cover the entire world; every nation has
and resources, and every State and Terri
| tory of this country is especially invited
and urged to make a complete and COM
prehensive exhibit of its progress in all
| lines during the Nineteen Century; in
this way showing to the many thousands
| of visitors from the Old World and the
| Republics to the south of us, the great
possibilities of this country.
| EAO6 thpre iS no section Of the conn
| try that records progress such as made
| in the South during the last quarter of
the century, both in agricultural and in
| dustrial developments; the phenomenal
| growth has been a revelation even to
our own people, the possibilities of the
| South being, as it were, sealed book to
| the country at large.
''Where does North Carolina stand in
| the picture? Gentlemen l will not take
up your time quoting figures on this
point they are familiar to you all Still
! the march goes on, and when the story
| is told in the census of the first decade
of this century, the State will, in many
| lines, rank even higher, still leaving the
story of the possibilities of North Caro-
| lima only half told; there is the room,
| and the resources, for the establishment
Of many diversified industries; there are
| acres of uncultivated lands; capital and
| increased population, as we'll as new
| ideas are needed to bring these out; all
of which can be obtained by a represen-
taticn at st. Louis Of all tho possibilities
of the future.
Men of means are constantly seeking
and spying for the best opportunities.
! for the fields of farcst promise, the
most inexhaustible resources; they are
| ever scanning the horizon for indica-
lions of such regions, and direct their
| course accordingly. An exposition is an
object lesson, which presents, in most
attractive way. all the resources and
possibilities of country. material and
| otherwise, and in every instance it has
proved itself the NEST successful power
in bringing in wealth. increased popuia-
| ton and new ideas.
AT the exposition, as well as men Of
means. there will come from the Old
World the representatives OF the me-
chanic and the home seeker; they, too.
spying out the section of the New World
| that offers the fairest fields for settle
ment; not only will these seekers come
from the Old World, there are many in
the Northwest seeking more congenial
cIimes, where they are not weather bound
for months The Southern Pacific Rail-
road has hundreds of agents employed
| throughout the West. who, in 1902. col
onized over 10000 settlers from the North
/! west OH the line of that road.
with the agricultural possibilities of
the State well represented showing
could be made at st. Louis which would