The farmer and mechanic., 1903-09-08
NORTH CAROLINA
TO Be At ST. LOUIS
Council of State to Proceed
With the Exhibit.
THE MATTER Is DECIDED
Private Subscriptions are Now Rapidly Growing
mills, Factories, Fields, Forests, Or
chards and All Our Industries are
10 b. Represented.

The subscriptions to the States exhibit
at the St. Louis Worlds FAIR We're ma
terially augmented yesterday when Mr
F. 3. Arendell turned over to State Treas
,1rer Iacy at one time twenty-fo four hun
dred and fifty dollars, while few min
utes later five hundred dollars were added
from other sources.
A large and creditable exhibit of the
States resources, supplemented by the pro-
ducts of It's mills, factories, and other in
dustrial enterprises IS assured. The total
amount of subscriptions secured 50 far
Justify this statement, 50 say Governor
Aycock, Mr. Arendell and Commissioner
General Brimley.
The Council of State met yesterday and
after a few minutes investigation and dis
cussion of the matter, passed resolutions
authorizing the Governor to proceed
through the Agricultural Department, un-
der the direction for the present, OF Com
missioner General Brimley, to the ar
rangement of the collection in the Museum
for transportation and installation. This
collection represents a total cost OF nearly
or quite one hundred thousand dollars.
To it will be added an extensive new col
lection of our mill, factory, forestry, field,
mine, and orchard products, and the act
ual work will begin at once. Meanwhile
the canvass for subscriptions will con
tinue, and it is hoped that our people will,
now that the exhibit is assured, give such
aid and endorsement to the cause as to
enable the Governor and his co-Workers to
make State exhibit at St. Louis that
will be one of the features of the world !
greatest exposition
A few days ago Mr.. Arendell was III
Charlotte in the interest OF the eXpOsl
ton. Referring to his visit the Charlotte
Observer of Wednesday said:
Mr. F. B. Arendell, one of the financial
/ commissioners of the State exhibit at the
/ ST. Louis Worlds Fair, was in Charlotte
! yesterday soliciting private subscriptions
| to the Worlds Fair Fund in accordance
| with legislative enactment. An Observer
| reporter inquired of the progress being
made in raising money and in preparing
/ a proper exhibit. Mr. Arendell said thai
| he was having very little difficulty in get
/ ting subscriptions from the manufacturing
element in the State Il collected las
week in two towns High Point and Lex
! ington, over $4,000, and l expect to &c
| back to these towns and get more. I be
gin this week in Charlotte and the frs
| subscription l have secured here is by The
D. A. Tompkins Company, for 81 900. Th
| is the largest single subscription | hay,
so far had.
1.-The States exhibit will consist, frs
/ Of all, of what it now has in the State
| Museum in Raleigh which represents al
| actual cost of more than one hundred
thousand dollars. The collection of ar
ticles III this museum, which represents
the States resources, has been accumu
| lating ever since the Agricultural Depart
ment was established and except for tn,
fact that it is already in shape it could no
be duplicated in time for the fair at any
price.
This permanent exhibit will be supple
mented by a large number of the mos
| modern products of factories in the State
such the tobacco factories cotton fac
tories, machine shops, furniture and othe
| hard wood factories. Also by special ex
hiblts of fruit and field products and tn,
fishing industry. We have two men VIII,
are going to make an exhibit of apples tha
| Will cost $1,000. These are MessrS Nose
Cone and J. Van Lndley.
| The State is fortunate in the posses
sion OF a permanent museum of its re
sources, as this puts US In position t
make an exhibit at any talr or exposition
superior to what can be made by an,
other State and at cost which is insig
nificant as compared with what we show
| The State has a system of saving it.
investment in fairs and adding it to tn
museum thus making all these invest
ments cumulative. Besides the resource
and exhibits already in the museum, al
the new ones now being collected special,
Tor this St Louis fair will be brough
back and added to the permanent collection
III the museum at Raleigh" "