The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-24
FAvORS IDEA OF
MUNICH Al EXHIBIT.
Subcommittee Will Recommend
Plan to Committee on
Advertising.
SPACE TO COST s',4oo
Would Educate Citizens to Take
Interest i'll City Work,
Says Peters.
SPACE TO COST s1,4oo

If the advice OF the subcommittee
on advertising and enterprises Is fol-
lowed by the parent committee and the
City Council. the city OF Richmond will
install in the Manufacturers Exhibit
a permanent display of the products OF
municipal activity for the enlighten-
ment of citizens and visitors. who will
daily inspect the big industrial enter
prise. In installing such an exhibit
it will follow practice adopted with
good results by several of the progress
sive cities of the North and West.
The plan was brought to the atten-
ton of the Council Committee on Ad-
vertising and Enterprises by Manager
Horace r. Smith. OF the Manufacturers
Exhibit, at it's last regular meeting.
At that time he outlined Il model ex-
hibit which the city might install at
small cost. The committee appointed
subcommittee Of three, composed OF
President Peters. of the Common Coun-
Gil; President Adams. OF the Board of
Aldermen. and Alderman Mitchell, to
look into the advisability of tho plan
and submit n report.
VIII Recommend Exhibit
The subcommittee has decided unan-
imously iii favor OF the exhibit project
and Will recommend the plan to the
full committee when 1t. meets in reg
ular session. at o'clock next Thurs
day evening. Leaving TO the fun com
mittee the selection of the space and
the allotment of area to the various
departments of the city government.
the subcommittee will recommend that
the city lease for this purpose n mod
crate frontage orr one of the exhibition
hoors at rental of about sl,4OO a
year.
II believe that such a display will
be especially valuable in educating the
people to take an interest in the work
the city is doing" said Chairman
letters of the subcommittee yesterday.
Il have been chairman or the Adver-
Using and Enterprises Committee since
It's creation. and no project for adver-
using the city in legitimate and
attractive manner that has ever been
submitted to II has appealed TO me
more. The ether members OF the
subcommittee hold the same opinion.
1t is proposed to divide the city's
exhibit space Into smaller divisions.
In ono Of the subdivisions the Health
Department will install an exhibit, IL
iustrating the sanitary work conduct
ed by the city, as we'll as municipnl
statistics on mortality, disease and it's
prevention. Other booths will be oc-
cupied with exhibits from the water.
gas, public school and other depart
mentS.
Distribute Literature.
The subcommittee is OF the opinion
that the city could cooperate with the
Chamber of Commerce in distributing
from the municipal exhibit illustrated
booklets showing the advantages OF
Richmond as a city in which to work
and live. Other literature illustrative
OF the city's health and commercial
advantages could be prepared from
time to time. and be supplied to inter-
ested visitors.
The manufacturers exhibit Will oc-
cupy the second and third floors OF the
Chamber OF Commerce Building, now
in course of construction at Sixth and
Main Streets. An effort is being made
to secure enough exhibitors to justify
the exhibit in leasing also the fourth
floor of the building. If the Council
authorizes a municipal exhibit on the
lines recommended by the subcom-
mittee, II VIII practically assure the
leasing Of the additional space, be-
cause most of the exhibit area on the
first two floors has been contracted
for by the eighty or more manufac-
turers who have already made reserva-
tons
1t was hoped to have the manurac-
turers' exhibit open by the middle of
the fall season, but it appears now that
Its formal opening will be delayed un-
I'll about the first of next year. The
building that Will mouse the exhibit
IS we'll as the Chamber of Commerce.
Is a ten story structure. and one OF
the handSOnest In CITY