The Green Forest tribune., 1904-12-03
WORLDS FAIR HAS CLOSED.
Great Louisiana Purchase Expo.
 sition a thing of the Past.

sit1On d thing Of the Past.
 The Louisiana Purchase Expo- sition is a matter of history only. As the clock struck 12 at mid. night Thursday, Dec. 1st, the greatest of all Worlds Fairs was officially ended.
 From the general trend of events it appears that this expo sition will be remembered for generations, as the most stu pendous production of the kind the world has ever seen. There are seemingly many reasons why bits like may not be surpassed soon, if indeed it should ever be equaled.
 Worlds Fairs have been nu- merous during the past half-cen- tury and now that all efforts have
 " O Ii Been far surpassed, it is in order for something to rise up and take the place. The fact, too that the great scheme has failed of a fi- nancial success to it's promoters suggests that capitalists will be
 slow hereafter in financing an-
 other effort of the kind.
 While We have not yet seen the
 figures representing the receipts
 and expenditures of the exposi-
 ton, 1t has been semi officially
 announced for several weeks that
 the promoters must come out los.
 CTS, and the estimate was placed
 not long since at S20,000,00O
 The attendance at the fair was
 responsible for this condition.
 twas expected that it would be
 much larger and it is really hard
 to understand why it was not so,
 for the exposition could not have
 been held under more suspicious
 circumstances, nor at much
 more accessible point. The
 weather on the whole seems little
 sss than providential. No one ould have hoped for it to have Deen more favorable. The great went has been held at a time, 1 Do, when the country has been eveling in general and substan- Pal prosperity, such good times s has never before been equaled T our national history. Few ! eople who did not attend have a ', pod excuse. It was the writer's in easure to visit the great expo s ton twice, the last time during Id closing days and the benefits
 e derived in an educational lay from these visits are of in- 'e etmabIe value.
 Speaking of the financial loss-' era sa attending the great fair, there
 perhaps no one item that sur- ''' Rsses that of the St. Louis hotel
 pple; especially that class who ,so bent great sums to prepare for x. frs during the fair. In a M Iersation with a down. town ,ss as tel man, we were told that the Rses experienced in this line P Ire something enormous. That iTa "a host every person or company
 gagged in the business had a loss, " pman who had made money be- sis' gthe rare exception. He said
 eloss of his house would be S12,- or more and that was small flow m as compared with the losses n nSsn those who expended such great Ie R ns in the erection of buildings eAe grounds, some of their " @ amounting to hundreds of prov usands. This man, who seem- '' to have closely studied the 0Fsh' lation, says the people of the egis lted States in general have ' attended the fair, that no W g. non was fairly represented iollov ept the Southwest. In New claim X, Massachusetts and other Il the F. ; Fern states the people have
 cely realized what has been as W ". E on in St Louis, the papers es a sa eu aat section seldom mentioning uo, lalr. He attributed this con- - n to the feeling of jealousy hSf' many great eastern cities ON. TOT St. Louis. He said all ,v. r, Significant fact was that