Omaha daily bee., 1911-08-06
Council Bluffs
BUFFALO WANTS FRUIT SHOW
Sends Application to Have Big Meet
ing Held in East.
PROMISES TO GIVE GOOD BACKING
Officers Proceeding Here on Theory
Exposition win he Held I'm
This City Again This
Fall.

The 1911 exposition of the National Hort-
cultural congress may be held at Buffalo.
N Y. Three of the chief commercial and
municipal organizations of the city are
anxious to bring about conditions that will
permit the location to be changed from
Council Bluffs to the western New York
town.
President Keeline Of the National Horti-
cultural congress yesterday morning re-
ceived a letter from the secretary Of the
convention committee of Buffalo asking
II the officers and directors Of the congress
would consider proposition to have the
national exposition held there this fall The
letter states that Buffalo will take hold
Of the matter with enthusiasm and bring
forward whatever capital and other forces
necessary to make it big success The
application is endorsed by the Buffalo
Commercial club and the Chamber OF Com
merce.
President ReelIne will lay the matter be-
fore the executive committee of the con-
gress at once and give an early and I'M
doubleday favorable reply. President Kee-
line. Vice President Hess and e. H. Doc
little, chairman of the executive committee,
have expressed themselves as favorable
bring It about. All Of these gentlemen.
however, would have preferred to have
| seen the next exposition held at st. Joseph,
but the st. Joseph people have had very
icy feet.
Officers Going Ahead.
The executive officers have gone ahead
with the usual preparations to hold che
exposition here this fall. while fully real
n Ia lx
| in the season ST. Joseph was quite anxious
to undertake the task, but when the men
who had been declared ready to finance II
began to inquire into the extent OF the OBJ
legation It appeared to involve a task
larger than they were willing to undertake
Buffalo is peculiarly we'll qualified to as
| sumo the task It is an exposition city
with organization capable of carrying for
ward big enterprises. 1t Is located In the
very heart of the apple district Of the east.
From Buffalo TO Niagara, twenty-five miles
there is a continuous apple orchard Hor-
ticulture has received a great stimulus in
the New England states within the last two
or three years. and this year the product
of the orchards of a dozen states on the
Atlantic seaboard may be used in exem-
pnfying some important and valuable les
sons. especially in relation to reviving old
! orchards. Prof. c. P. Close, head OF the
horticultural department of the Maryland
agricultural college, and one Of the great
est horticultural experts of this country
is second vice president of the congress
and one of it's most ardent supporters. and
has spent weeks and months Of his valu'
able time promoting the interests OF the
| congress and its expeditions. Prof Craig
of Cornell university is another ACTIVE
worker in the organization and has conn
here and worked at all the expositions. AL
of the units in the splendid organization
of the congress would work as enthus
iasticaliy II the exposition was held a
Buffalo as they have her, aiding the Buf
falo organizations to make the exposition
fully successful