Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-05-14
The st. Louis Fair.

The great international 1alrs OF
modern times have been as follows :
Vienna in 1878; Philadelphia, 1876 /;
Paris, 1878; Paris, 1889; Chicago,
1898, and Paris, 1900. Each has sur
passed the preceding one, and the st.
Louis Fair of 1904 will exceed in
magnitude and grandeur the Chicago
Fair just as the latter surpassed its
predecessors.
a comparison between the Worlds
Fair of 1898 and the coming st. Lou
is Fair, as far as it can be made at this
time, will be interesting. The Chlca-
90 Fair covered 633 acres. The St.
Louis Fair grounds contain l,l80
acres, or about 2 square miles. The
cost of the Chicago Fair was $27 ,250,-
900. The cost of the st. Louis Fair
is now estimated at $40,000,000. The
buildings of these fairs are so enor-
nous that the space they cover is es-
timated q acres. In the building used
the other day for the dedication there
was band of music and chorus of
1000 persons. The space they occu-
pied was insignificant on the floor, and
persons in the middle of the building
could scarcely hear the sound of their
voices. And this was not the largest
of the buildings.
One of the Chicago buildings-that
for manufacturing and liberal arts
covered 80 acres of ground. City peO-
pie cannot appreciate this size, but a
countryman knows that 20 acres make
a good-sized wheat field, and that 80
acres of rich land will produce nearly
1000 bushels of wheat or about l 800
bushels Of corn.
For manufacture and liberal arts st.
Louis will have two buildings, cover
ing in the aggregate q acres.
At Chicago the Fine Arts Building
covered 81 acres. At st. Louis it
will cover 3.6 acres.
The Chicago Horticultural Building
covered &C acres. That at st. Louis
will be only half as large.
The Chicago Agricultural Building
covered 8 9 acres. That at ST. Louis
will be 1873 acres.
Transportation at Chicago two build
ings Of about 9 acres each. At st.
Louis one building of 1876 acres.
Mines and Mining, Chicago, 81
acres; St. Louis, 81 acres.
To finance the Worlds Fair almost
swamped the resources Of Chicago, a
city then more than double the pres
ent size of st. Louis. The success Of
St. Louis in providing money has up
10 the present time been astonishing
When the subscription list was carried
around among the business people
they put their names down for sums
varying from $4,000 to $4,000 each
and there was little difficulty in rails
ing 100000, the same amount that
the Chicago people raised. Then the
City Council Of St. Louis appropriated
100000, the State of Missouri gave
81 100000 ard the United States gave
S. 100000. Between 100000 and
100000 is expected from conces.
sions. Chicago took in from gate re.
ceipts $1O,600,000 and St. Louis e1-
poets more from that source.
The various States contributed tc
the Chicago Fair, exclusive of the
100000 given by Illinois, S., 100000
Over 80 foreign countries made ap'
preparations to the Chicago Fair.
There is much greater interest man.
Tested in the coming fair, and appro.
priations will be much larger. Al
this time it seems that every country
even including Spain, is eager to man.
ifest its friendship for this country and
its desire for our trade by coming tc
the fair.