The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-02-25

having appropriated the largest
sum, with Illinois and New York
second and third. The legislatures
OF Alabama, California, Connecticut,
Delaware. Hawaii and % other
States and territories Fare consider
ing appropriation bills, carrying
immense sums of money, some of
the States having already made ap-
preparations now considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of increasing the same.
Congress is providing for display
from Alaska, the Philippines, the
Indian Territory andlother parts of
the United States territory under
the control of that body.
The government is joint partner
IN the enterprise to the extent of
nearly $8,0O0,000, having taken
stock to the amount of FIVE or six
millions of dollars, and following up
the subscription with appropria-
tions for buildings amounting to
nearly s., 900, 600 more. In the di-
vision controlledI by Col Taylor
alone, he stated, the expenditures
for buildings alone will reach nearly
$14, 900, 600
Germany, China, Japan and
France are already taking steps to
be represented at the exposition as
they have never been at any previ-
Gus exposition, each country plan
ming for structure and exhibit
that will be typical of the character
of the people and of the country
France, for instance, proposes to
reproduce in miniature the palace of
Versailles. China will have struc-
| ture characteristic of the buildings
at Pekin while Japan, the island
empire, proposes to Guido itself n
displaying some of the beauties Of
| the charming flower land.
Col. Taylor took all of Thursday
afternoon to tell US OF the details of
the mammoth enterprise. where a
million dollars is reckoned as we
do hundred. and when he finished
our car returned us to the hotel for
dinner and nights rest The
next morning, at $50, the Electra
was again placed at our disposal for
the day. and we left for the grounds
to see the partially completed struc-
lures. Two thousand men were
employed there that day. When
the cloudy, unsettled weather OF
February and March passes away
from St. Louis this number will be
increased to 900.
But it is click. click, rap, rap
all day now. The hammer, the
saw is heard everywhere. The
pick, shovel and spade is turning
the red, muddy soil of Forest Park,
which has been sacrificed to this
stupendous undertak and over
the |, $50 acres of ground man is
triumphing over matter. Hundreds
Of horses, mules and men, with
scrapers, are engaged in reducing
this or that hill into a plateau for
this or that building, or for some
artificial way that will conform to
the master mind of the superintend-
ent of the grounds. Government
engineers, corps of surveyors are
seen everywhere, all engaged 10
building up city that must be com
pleted inside of fourteen months,
and is to last for the short space OF
seven months. The educational
building, structure costing nearly
$3.50, 900 alone, is nearly completed.
The liberal art building is up in
skeleton form, and when it is stated
that it covers a space nearly as
large as all the buildings at the
Pan American exposition at Buffalo
a few years ago, some idea can be
had of the grandeur of this enter
PRISE. This building is to be com
pleted by April Both, at which time
dedication services will be conduct |
Ell bv President Roosevelt.
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