Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-11
Council Bluffs
READY FOR NEW ADDITION
Home for Corn Show Will Be Ready
When Wanted.
THREE THOUSAND SQUARE FEET
Nodifisd Plan Calls for Combination
concrete Plaster aud wood struc-
ture Instead of Brick
Building.

Ground was broken Friday for the
construction Of the new addition to the
Auditorium building that will house the
corn show feature. The addition Is being
constructed according to plans formed some
time ago but since slightly modified. IL
will cover tho remainder Of the auditorium
plat on the east not occupied by the
original building. II will be thirty feet Wide
and 100 feet long and will thus afford 5000
square feet OF floor area on the street level
with accompanying wall space for display
OF the seed corn exhibits. The new addi-
ton will be connected with the main build
ting by the five twenty-f four foot arches that
were constructed and bricked in on the
east wall when the main building was
erected. An that will be necessary will be
TO knock off the brick when the finished
arches will appear.
The modified plans call for a combination
concrete. plaster and wood structure Of
single story height, instead Of the two
story brick building originally. planned
II will be so constructed, however, that
the additional floor can be added with
little expense. The only purpose OF this
extra floor was for use a lecture room
during the meetings of the National Hort-
cultural congress, where the speaking pro-
gram could be carried out without the in
terruptions that have marred the official
sessions during the last two expositions.
other arrangements will be made to provide
: q suitable lecture hall for the program of
the horticultural experts who will be at the
exposition this year.
plan for stock shows.
The new addition will have concrete
floor constructed with special reference to
drainage and washing with hose, for the
primary purpose OF the new building Is to
afford the promised accommodations for
live stock shows. Many of the stockhold-
ers IN the auditorium building are farmers
who have 80 far been unable to add the
stock pavilion features in which they are
most interested. The plans are TO have
some stock shows perhaps during the win
p ter, but certainly early in the spring.
Superintendent Reed and his corps OF
busy assistants are almost submerged by
the flood OF correspondence that is com
ing In to them from all directions in rela-
ton to the combined corn show and fruit
exposition. Spaces for exhibits have beer
reserved from about forty states and by tbs
time the exposition is ready to open 1t APP
pears probable that every state in the unior
will have representative exhibits. Canads
and Mexico will be again pItted agains
each other in the same strong but friendly
rivalry that they engaged in last year
with tho advantages very much in favor o.
Mexico this time on account of the serious
damage done TO Canadian fruit crops by
the frfgid weather last spring. Canada IL
anxious to make a redeemlng showing anC
will gather fruit from all sections of tn,
dominion and bring 1t to the exposition
while Mexico IN bent on showing the diver
sity of horticultural products in the vas
country where frosts are unknown.
Several OF the southern states which wer,
not represented last year will be on hanC
with big exhibits this year. Prof f. P
Williams, head Of the Alabama Polytechn
institute at Auburn, sent a letter to Super
/ intendent Reed which arrived yesterday
saying that mis- state would have a genera
exhibit in charge of the commissioner o
agriculture, In addition to the numerous pri
waite exhIbitR This assures exhibits iron
i. AL Of the gulf and southern states.