The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-31
EXPOSITION WILL
OPEN ON MONDAY
Wireless Message From Prcsi-
dent Wilson Will Be
Signal for Start.
BIG AFFAIR AT KNOXVILLE
TO Demonstrate Commercial and
Industrial Advance Of
- the South.

hNOANlAiS, tenrl.,t august 3V.--A wire
less message from president Wilson
will be the signal for the opening in
this city on Monday next or the Ma
tional Conservation, Exposition. the
| frs- in the history Of the country de-
voted TO tho cause or conservation.
The messag. is expected ut 10 A. M
at the wireless station on the exposi-
tion grounds.
Governor Hooper. of Tennessee.
Mayor Heiskell. of Knoxville, and r.
ton. Will participate in the opening
cerem onics The exposition will con-
tinue through September and October.
and, while designed primarily to "teacn
the lesson of conservation" is intend
ed also TO demonstrate the CONNER
ciai and industrial advance Of the
South
The exposition grounds. with lakes
and drives, embrace more than 100
eleven large buildings with total OF
100000 feet of floor space. The build
ings are the Liberal Arts, the Land,
with an auditorium annex seating
1000 persons: the Woman's. the Child
Welfare. the East Tennessee. the ALI
south, the Mines and Minerals. the
Art, the Live Stock. the Poultry and
the Negro.
Exhibits have been furnished by tho
Federal government, as well as by all
of the Southern states. and will dis
play many kinds of natural resources.
The larger Southern cities will be rep
resented by individual exhibits. Con-
servation OF human life. health and
energy, as we'll as. of tho land. water
and forests. Will be emphasized.
I'm it's conception, In its aims and
purposes" reads the official descrip-
ton. the National Conservation Expo
sition is unique; it is unique In other
respects EXpositions of the past have
always been held to commemorate and
to celebrate something that has been
accomplished; the National Corserva-
ton Exposition, on the other hand.
looks toward the future. 1t will stand
out as the sign of something that is to
be done.
THE exhibits OF the United States
will be most complete and all will be
designed to teach these conservation
| lessons. In the good roads exhibit. the
forestry, the mines, the land. and in
other exhibits. the Federal displays will
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| conservation in its different branches.
So, too, the different State exhibits are
designed not only to show the progress
made in material ways by these States.
but also to bring out the conservation
idea.
There is installed n most complete
health exhibit designed to show to ex-
position visitors the necessity of con-
serving health and to show them how
this best can be done. This exhibit
was arranged by experts. 1t treats the
subject of health in many different
ways.
The child welfare exhibit, the first
ever made in the South. is under the
direction of Miss Julia c. Lathrop.
head OF the chIldren's bureau of the
United States Department OF Labor.
The Russell Sage Foundation, OF New
York and other philanthropic institu-
tons are deeply interested in this de-
partmcnt 1t Will be devoted to an
exposition OF the best and the mos,
advanced methods OF conserving the
health and the strength of the growing
child.
The woman's department has a
large number of exhibits that will
show women in both city and country
how they may conserve their energy
and their health in the performance of
their daily household duties
a number of special days devoted to
particular features OF the exposition
have been arranged. A congress OF
farmers and live stock breeders will be
held from September ~ to September
i6, at which Clifford Pinchot will pre-
side. There will be discussions by
experts on methods OF crop and live
stock improvement
One day Will be set aside in honor
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
which will go into encampment during
the exposition, near Lookout Mountain
miners field day is scheduled for
September 20. when the Federal Bureau
OF Mines will give unique demon
stration of the causes of mine explo-
sions and methods of rescuing lives
The bureau will cause an explosion
OF coal dust in a big steel tube con
structed expressly for that purpose
Then will follow a series OF first-uid
and rescue contests by picked teams OF
minors from FIVE States
Vice President Marshall and several
members of President Wilson'S Cabinet
including Secretary Bryan. Secretary
Daniels and Secretary McAdoo, are ex-
pected To visit Knoxville while the ex-
position is on. Cardinal Gibbons will
be an exposition guest on October IL
and 10.