The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-05
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 be Represented.
10 be Represented.

The subscriptions to the States exhibit
terially augmented yesterday when Mr.
F. B. Arendell turned over to State Treas
urer Lacy at one time twenty-four hun
dred and fifty dollars, while a few min
utes later five hundred dollars were added
from other sources
A large and creditabe exhibit OF the
States resources, supplemented by the pro-
ducts of its mills, factories, and other IN
dustrial enterprises is assured. The total
amount of subscriptions secured so fal
justify this statement, so say Governor
Aycock. Mr.. Arendell and Commissioner
General Brimley.
The Council of State met yesterday ana
after a few minutes investigation and DIS
cussion of the matter. passed resolutions
authorizing the Governor to proceed
through the Agricultural Department, UNI
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 or 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 theR 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 a State exhibit at st. Louis that
will be one of the features OF the world S
greatest exposition.
A few days ago Mr.. Arendell was in
Charlotte in the interest Of, the exposi
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 that
he was having very little difficulty IN get
ting subscriptions from the manufacturing
element in the State II collected last
week in two towns, High Point and Lex
ington. over $4,000, and l expect to go
back to these towns and get more. L be-
gin this week in Charlotte and the first
subscription have secured here is by the
d. A. Tompllins Company, for $1,000. This
is the largest single subscription 1 have
so far had.
1.-The States exhibit will consist, first
of all. of what, it now has in the State
Museum in Raleigh, which represents an
actual cost of more than one hundred
thousand dollars The collection of ar
ticles in this museum, which represents
the States resources, has been accumu-
lating ever since the Agricultural Depart
ment was established and except for the
fact that it is already in shape it could not
be duplicated in time for the fair at any
price.
This permanent exhibit will be supple
mented by large number of the most