Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-20
WORLDS FAIR HINTS.
Lewis Clark Exposition Officials Receive Odd Suggestions.
THOUSANDS OF WOULD BE GUARDS

A l1Ganv Pretended Descendants of
 Meriwether Lewis,s Who Died .
 Bachelor, Want to Visit the Fair
 as Guests, With All Expenses PaiA.
 Young Woman Would Bs Welded
 on Trail For e2,Bo0.
 Many people appear to be of the ||opinion that the Lewis and Clark ex- ||position which Portland and Oregon are to hold this summer in commemo- ration of the Lewis and Clark explor. ling expedition is charity, pfpIpsos!uoin.' where any one can get job and any one can sell an heirloom. says W. E. Brindley. As matter of fact. the fair Is being run on strict business basis. and 50 many legitimate exhibits have been offered by states, communities and even foreign governments that. after several additional buildings had been erected and wings added to oth- era, the managers have been forced to turn away hundreds of applicants for exhibit space.
 Nevertheless the applications for po- sitions and money continue to come in with every mail More than b.O00 ap- plicatIons for positions as guard are on file In the secretary's office. The ap- plicatlons are of all kinds. varying from scholarly letters from school teachers and college boys to scrawls like the following:
 though wood right to you abought getting work at the fair next sumer wood like to get in sume kind of work I wood like to make sume moneyI dont5car what 1t b % I can pay my board would like to be a gard better ten eny thing els if can fill the ordor I kant kume If I don't get work there so can the fair right to me abought the work let me no as hutch as you can.
 Another applicant for the same posi- ton writes:
 ram a old solgisr served four years dur ing the rebellion Have bin policeman and detective and sherin of . county s4nce the war and can giv. best of references and strictly temperate tflLs
 Many appear 10 have the impression that the Lewis and Clark fair is to be a sort of grand side show and want to exhibit themselves as freaks. Here is . letter from one at Tomahawk, Wis:
 Lewis & Clark jents can cit on . chair everey day of your fair in sney spot where there is lots of air including nights. l am sixty years old weil built q had a le9 cut of s times in 5 ours this would b. . novelty on your ground for spectators also can fast nfty days on steued prune water or water from appels fruite of aney kind. Hcw mutch can you gents give me per week for long Run
 From Gallatin. Tenn. came a letter which the secretary's stenographer facctiously declares is the longest ap- plIcation yet The author of this epis- tie, one Bud Rogers. thinks he ought to be employed because he Is the 'tall- eet- ruIlur giant the world ever new" and eoes on to explain in detail that he has q reach of 11o. incheA that his hsnds are twelve and q half inches long and his feet three inches longer. Bud claims to be eight feet nine inches tall.
 A Missouri man generously agrees to ehsre with the exposition the million dollaee which he claims sn airship of hIe Invention would he worm Cnfbr- tunasrly the MIssourisn is short at present as ts ready cash. but he wrfts that If the exposition will stake him to c small loan he will make an airphip that will ssII from Missouri to Oregon af she rate of 100 miles an hour.
 Tn spite of the fact that Meiwether Levin, one of the leaders of the Lewis snd Cnrk expsdifion which the vet Qu vQId-s fair b to eo0DeDorste- Gs1 . hachesef n1BefUos pfeeD1ed GmGuDdann ef the ereat ezpasrS hnve wfitsen the expcsftzoa uanaeement- osue of these wsnf fs aftesd she fair e Ooet1. eith aM eEpenos pah by 0o unnnGeDu1 bu neo4 ef t1en U1nf 0mn h1lG11ouD C eor11D on1D eG1 :l n1o <.