The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1907-07-05

position in New Orlcans-that one
evenings discussion was sufficient
to conclude the actual business for
which they We're called together,
and the remainder of the time was
given up to the pursuit of pleasure.
Strong resolutions approving the
exposition plans, promising full CO.
operation and expressive. confidence
Ta Il TH-44ey Of President rsSseviss
and~ the Federal government to
complete the canal and open it to
the worlds commerce by 1915 or
1916, were adopted. Much of the
discussion related to the far reach
ing commercial benefits to be de-
rived from the canal and inland
waterway improvement by all the
states of the Union, and from the
holding of the Exposition by those
states in particular which lie be-
tween the two great mountain
ranges which in the main are
drained by the Mississippi River.
Chairman Philip Werlein opened
the conference, there being nearly
three hundred delegates present.
Mayor Martin Behrman in an open
vea&dtE6fsssi si55q 55q'aan an "e EXPOSITION by the
appointment of an initial committee
of twenty-five prominent citizens.
Governor n. G.. Blanchard, of
Louisiana, was introduced as pre-
siding officer of the conference, and
explained to the delegates the OBJ
jects of the meeting, pointing out
the Importance of free and full
discussion by representative men
from all the states adjacent to
Louisiana in order that the exposi-.
plans might be broad and national
in character. While New Orleans,
being the nearest great port and
city to the CANAL, was the logical
place for the exposition, the people
Of New Orleans had no desire or in
tention to make the affair local in
any sense of the word.
In the discussions that followed
delegates from Texas, Arkansas,
Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi,
Florida and Louisiana were called
upon to voice the sentiment of the
people in those states. Mr.. $. B.
Thompson, of Florida, asserted
that every state in the South would
he vastly benefited and that Flor
ida would cooperate in every way.
Mr.. 5. B. McConnico, who took
an active part during the second
year OF the Cotton States Centennial
in New Orleans some twenty-five
years, told of its management and
gave some interesting and in
structivc details.
Mr.. J. Nj. Thompson, of Norfolk,
Va, discussed the great benefits
that have followed the jamestown
Exposition of which he was one of
the promoters.
Mr.. Henry Pharr, of the Teche
Parishes, said the people of South
west Louisiana were ready to CO.
operate and wanted to be put to
work at once.
DR.. G. e.. Mayer, of Abbeville,
who had just returned from Yuca-
tan, told of conditions in that
country and said that the exposi-
tion would aid largely in opening
up profitable trade relations be-
tween this country and that.
Mr.. Sidney Story, of New Or
leans, spoke of the primal import
of selecting the right man as
director general.
Mr.. G.. II. Willard, of Chicago,
who attended the conference as an
interested individual, told of what
fthe Chicago exposition had done for
that city and territory, and prom
lsfd that he would make New Or
leans his home and be here to par
ticipate in the benefits to follow the
Worlds Panama Exposition.
Mr.. W. O. Hart, special repre-
sentative of New Orleans TO the
Jamestown Exposition, suggested
that a lama Exposition Building
te err the Seattle exposition
II the people Of the