The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
PREPARING FOR
LOADING EXHIBITS
?. f. Phenneger of Seattle APP
pointed superintendent of Gen
eral Service Company.
ARRANGING SHIPPING CASES.
Cars Will Be Showed Into the
Grounds as Soon as Exposition
Closes and Boxes Will
Be Distributed.

p. z. Phenneger of Seattle. Wash, has
been appointed General Superintendent of
the General Service Company of the Ex-
position, and will arrive to-day to assume
the duties Of the position. Mr.. P~henneger's
appointment was made as the result of the
beginning Of the most active period in the
career of the General Service Company.
With the end of the Fair five days
distant the work OF the company begins
to loom large ard active preparations are
afoot to handle the enormou task of get,
ting out of the grounds and upon the
freight trains the carloads of exhibits that
poured into the grounds from every part
Of the world seven months ago.
Already a force OF seventy-ffve men is
engaged in the warehouse OF the company
in the western edge of the Fair grounds
In loading go freight cars with empty
shipping cases. Promptly after midnight
next Thursday these cars will be showed
down into the grounds and the cases rap
idly distributed to the various buildings
to the exhibitors. whose property they
are. The work of packing up and ship
ping out exhibits viii begin very promptly
after the close of the Exposition, but not
a day or hour before
The only exception to this rule is in
the case of the wedding presents of the
German Emperor. which are wanted for
palace, and which viii be shipped away
as soon as possible.
At the same time that the cars Of empty
cases are shunted down to the exhibit
palaces. 100 service vans loader down with
the shipping cases will wend their ways to
the buildings. From that time on the
work OF carting packing cases to the
buildings and hauling them away filed
with exhibits will go on steadily It is
the expectation that the last of the eX-
hibits will W been shipped from the
grounds by March.
In the warehouses of the Genera Serv-
Ice Company. on the grounds. there ere
1.6o carloa6s of empty cases. and at least
100 carloads outside the grounds. The com
pany has 10 large drays and wagons to
have a force Of 900 men at work
BOND THE TERMINAL.
In order to be Of the best possible
service to the exhibitors in their ship
ments Of outgoing exhibits, General Man
terminals completed arrangements yester-
day with Judge ~Gallenkamp and Mr..
Armstrong of the Treasury Department
Of the United States to bond the terminal
to the United States Government as 4
common carrier.
Immediately following the closing Of the
Fair. Mr.. Allen will proceed to the work
Of laying additional tracks and switches
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exhibits out OF the site. On the morning
OF December 2 the work will begin, and
besides removing the covering of earth
and gravel that now. hides many of the
tracks on the grounds. he will have the
useless tracks west of the Stadium torn
up. and will use them for the needed add
ditional tracks 10y in the main part OF
the site.
Several miles OF additional tracks and
switches will be laid and In many cases
the tracks besides nearly encircling the
buildings will criss-cross them inside. The
loading platforms will not be resur-
as It will be Mr.. Aliens aim to load
from the wagon direct to the car wher-
ever possible.
There Is q surplus of empty packing
cases on hand. either abandoned or not
needed, and they will be piled high on tho
Plaza st. Louis and sold to all Corners
who may desire them In each building
there will be on hand excelsior and all
needfuls for packing. and these will
be sold to exhibitors who may desire
them.