The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-09-14
Lady Managers Finally Discover
a Means Of Displaying Their
Crimson Banner.
UNABLE TO GET A STAFF.
Exposition Management Disre
garded Requests for a Pole on
the Building 10 Hold the
Blazing Emblem.

Joy reignsi IN the house Of the Board
OF Lady Managers Monday afternoon
when a yexing problem that has puzzled
the minds OF the ladies for 10 these ma ny
days was happily solved By the ingenuity
Of one of their number. The aag Of the
Board OF Lady Managers. that standard
OF loves color. flaming red. had AZ last
been unfurIed
What though II did not wave its GRIM
son folds on the circumam5ient breeze
from a towering flagstaff proci1iTning TO
all the world that beneath its flaming
cerem.nts dwelt the managerial darles
of the Exposition. but was ignOminiously
tailed 10 the Intel OF I'll. doorway. where
IL could not wave. the ladies' recned not
OF that Neither did IL bother them that
Gccfii'.G passeas-by-the iioi pulloi. VINO
had not oeen hidden 10 the feast-com-
Pared the bloOc-Ted pennant TO an auc-
troubled. FOR the great problem OF dis
playing Il come way had been settled.
] ne nag OF the Board OF Lady Managers
is not thing Of new design. although
ness has been doomed TO blush unseen
arc all becau:e ih- entrea les Of the
ladies' TO the men who run the Exposition
Tor a Flagstaff osl which TO haunt the
banner have been utterly ignored.
Tho flag was evolved IN the time when
there was an epidemic OF private flags for
Lady Managers. not To he outshone.
thought out flag far more gorgeous and
striking ia its color than any that had
ever been flung to the breezes at the Fair.
But alas for tho plans and the am1i-
tons OF the feminine managers Til.
case % the flag OF the Board OF Lady
Managers was case wh.r. woman pro-
poses and man dlspSz.s. The architect
who designed the house of the Board OF
Lady Managers designed IL for a building
ioL physics experiments with no prophetic
mixing or the nobler uses TO which il
would be put. He accordingly omitted
from his design any fagstsffs whatever.
This oversight might easily have been
supplied. and the ladies. after obtaining
Director of Works Taylor to build them a
Flagstaff or two on their building so that
the crimson sign Of their organization
might be hung out
But Sir. Taylor had only recently had
nag OF his own designed which he had
mover Tor some reason displayed on
flagstaff. and ne paid no attention TO their
requests And SO the flag remained in its
locker for want Of staff
Monday was a gala day with the Board
OF Lady Managers. Distinguished foreign
den to break bread and quaf champagne
as the guests Of the Lazy Managers and
all that the feast lacked was a visible
token Of the Lady Managers. standing az
a body Then bright thought came 10
one Of the managers.
She had heard that the vikings of old
had nailed their flags 20 the mast when
the faiyardS had ben shot away by IN.
enemy. and why could not the ladies' cir
curvent their foes in the same way No
sooner said than done TIL. zaudy bunt-
Ing Vas taken out from is locker and
1uSted. and while the ladies looked on a
mental tackled II safely up sGuarely over
the entrance TO the house Of the Board of
Lady Managers. where all who entered
81 pure white: Board OF Lady Mama
gers"