The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-05-15
PROUD SHOWING OF
THE OLD DOMINION
Stands in the Front Rank Of
States at the Great St.
Louis Fair.
WORK or THE COMMISSION.
1t Will Reflect Great Credit and
Benefit Upon the State-Need @
for More Money.
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ST. LOUIS, MO-. May 14.-Upont q
wooded hill to the southwest of st. Louis,
swept by cool bseeSes and surrounded
by the greenness of spring and the
fragrance of budding summer, stands.
liko tra1lsplanted SPOT OF old Virglnin,
Monticello, the home OF Jefferson, stately
and striking IN It's colonial pride and
completeness. al
Below and beyond. in the direction OF
the hiving town, lies in chaste but regal
beauty the cleaning Waattso city Of the
West. rich in stately towers marvellous
domes and singing cascades, sparkling
through the trees. From the terrace OF
Monticello the scene Is one or n able
splendor; from it at night, when millions
Of electric arcs shed a glowing mist,
over the whole wonderful place. the eye
is ravished beyond expression. Flare
may the weary. dust-stained traveller sit
In delightful comfort and repose and
feast to the full upon the wealth Of
beauty before him. Ills vantage ground h
Is Virginia. his home; before him Is all \
tho world gathered in one magnificent
array for his benefit and his pleasure.
It is the Exposition that he sees and the
greatest that man mas ever known.
The Home of Jefferson.
BY this time Monticello. of which this
st. Louis replica is as near an exact re-
production as the modern date and very
unusual occasion would permit. is COM
plete and ready to be received from those
| who constructed It, After much work and
more worry not the last element OF whcn
! arose from the sad need Of funds. the
| commission from Virginia begins now to
| see its labors at an end.
| The eternal fitness OF things required
| that Monticello be located Just as 1t Is I
| upon the hill among the trees as Jeffer-
son lived in the days gone by. Within
! all of the l200 acres covered by the great
fair, no more appropriate spot could have
been selected. 1t must not be supposed
that this choice location was handed
over bound and scaled to the gentlemen
| from Virginia. On the contrary SO dull
and material thing as q restaurant,
money making venture, had seized upon
| this spot and had fixed here to ply Its
| trade, Off to the extreme southeastern
end of the Exposition Is situated what Is
known as the Plateau OF States. Within
| the precincts OF this obscure corner ara
/! huldled the buildings of many States.
! An assistant commissioner from Vlr-
| ginia, Captain w. w Baker. of Ches.
! terheld, visited st. Louis and Inspected
the site upon the plateau assigned to the 4
Old Dominion. He refused to take II
and there We're some stormy times, Then
lie indicated that Virginia might with
draw her exhibits entirely. The Exposl-
ton authorities invited Captain Baker
to traverse the grounds and take anything
he saw and wanted, He promptly did so,
staked off lot and to-day upon it
stands Monticello.
The site Is within the very heart OF
the Exposition, and yet is most appro-
priately environed among its trees To