The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-22
SENATOR CARTER
TELLS OF Big FAIR
Chairman of Exposition Com
mission Stops in City on
Way to ST. Louis.

Thoma Carter, chairman of the
United States commission to the Lousi-
Nana Purchase exposition and former
United States senator from Montana,
declares that the exposition to be for
mally opened at St Louis April 81, will
be unquestionably the largest in every
regard and more perfect in its ap-
pointments on the opening day than
all the eXpOsitions previously held in
this country or in Europe.
Senator Carter spent yesterday in
st. Paul en- route from his home at
Helena, Mont, to St. Louis to attend
the opening of the exposition. He was
accompanied by his wife and by Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Cruise, Miss Mamie
Cruise and Miss Rose Sheehy, all the
members of the party being from Hell
ena. Mr.. Cruise is one of the pioneer
mining men of Montana and a wealthy
capitalist, banker and stock raiser. He
is Senator Clark'S brother in-law The
party came in yesterday morning in
the private car Minnewaska attached
to a Northern Pacific train and left
last night Via the Burlington for St.
Louis.
The exposition will be formally
opened April 80. President David r.
Francis, of the exposition company,
Will deliver the opening address; Sena-
tor Carter as chairman of the COM
mission. viii respond for the commits
sion; Secretary of War Taft will re-
spond for President Roosevelt and the
general government, and a man yet to
be selected will speak for the foreign
exhibitors. At the conclusion of the
ceremonies, which will continue for
about two hours, President Roosevelt
will press an electric button at Wash
ington and will set in motion the
wheels within the fair.
The building and equipment of the
exposition have been done in remark
ably short time" said Senator Carter
at the Ryan. The weather during the
winter was unprecedentedly cold for
st. Louis, and this fact, coupled with
severe storms throughout the spring,
delayed operations, but as l said before
the exposition more nearly approaches
completion in its arrangements On the
day of opening than any other EXPOSE
ton ever held
Total Will Reach $50, 900.
Few people are able to comprehend
the magnitude of the great exposition
and its scope and the gigantic scale
upon which it has been built can pos
Sibly best be told by the figures rep
resenting the cost to the federal gov
eminent, the city of St. Louis and the
various commemorative represented.
There is absolutely no way to definitely
determine the money which Individual
exhibitors will have expended when the
big show opens. The federal govern
ment made a direct contribution to the
exposition of $4,000, 900, and recently
loaned the directors $4,600000 while
the national government will eXpend
at least $1,500,000 fOreits federal build
ing and exhibits contained in it, . The
Philippine government will exceed
$1,000,000 in it's building and exhibit,
but the government of the islands pro-
poses to foot its own bills. The exhib-
its of Alaska and the other outlying
possessions of the United States will
cost big amount in addition to the
general expenses of the federal gov
eminent. The government directly and
indirectly will expend on the exposi-
ton $15,000,00, while the exposition
company the states and territories and
foreign governments, will bring the to-
tai to be spent in this direction to
from $40,000,000 to $50,000,00 This
does not include the expenditures of in
dividual exhibitors nor the value of the
exhibits themselves.
THE government has an interest in
expenses of the exhibition, and it is
hoped to secure the entire original in
vestment by the government, the ex-
position company and the city of St
Louis of $15,000,0 600 from the profits Of
the exposition, but the government is
practically certain to have returned its
loan of S4,600,000, for this loan was OBJ
tanned on a pledge of the gross gate
receipts"
Asked as to the political situation in
Montana. Commissioner Carter said:
Montana Republicans are for Roose-
yelt. So far as the Democrats are
concerned, there has been little or
nothing done to further the candidacy
of William r. Hearst. Montana Dem
ocrats seem to be of the Cleveland
school and any man satisfactory to
that wing of the Democracy I should
say will be acceptable to the Montana
delegation to the st. Louis convention.
The name of Mr.. Bryan is seldom
heard in Montana, either in private
conversation or in the public press"