The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-02-14
EFFORT TO SETTLE STRIKE STATE WANIED
AT GOLFERS is ABANDONED AT GOLDkN0 CAT
Commissioners of San Franc S
co Exposition Urges Wes
virginia to Particlpat
INTERVIEWS IHE GoN q {
w. Walton O'Hara Visits
ClarkSburg and Tells Of the
Wonders of Big Fair.

WOHueFS VI Dtg
w. Walton o'Hara. comm Z
OF the Panama-Pacific Iht6fnationa
Exposition to be held in 1915 at Sap
Francisco, Calf, was q visitor Il
of the big fair. He had Just cone
from Charleston, rvFhere he had IN
tervfew with Governor II. u Eatiietd
and urged the executive to have West,
Virginia officially represented Will 4
state building and exhibits 6 the
position.
Governor Hatfield realizes tie 8re {.
I advantages TO be derived from state
i exhibit said Mr. o. Hara, and Is ne
sonally in favor of it. but mas been
/ restrained in regard 70 making use
/ of the S75, 600 appropriated Tor the
1 purpose by the legislature solely nt
unusual circumstances lately con
I fronting the state, II has been hls
opinion that owing to EXCEPTIONS OBJ
| legations and an expected curtailmellt
Of revenue, the state can not altoru Ia
use the $4,000 for exposition ptlisr
poses. We have presented argunleiits
to him showing that the inRestmeI1t
would bring splendid returns TO the
state, however, and ne has assured US
that il there is any possible way 70
the state to he represented without
needs of its people he viii dohatl he
can to have It officially represented.
Free Site Reserved.
"a free site is being reserved for
West Virginia at the exposttton, con-
tinued Mr.. OsEIara, "and all the state
will have to do Will be to erect It's OWL
state building and transport its e1-
hibits to it. Only $4,000 need be ex-
pended this year and the rest not until
1885,
Eve are going to have the grandeat
and largest exposition the world has
ever seen" enthusiastical declared
the commissioner 1.-THE biggest ex-
position hall in the world, Machine
Palace, has already been comp lete9
on the exposition GROUNDS ana len
other mammoth buildings are nearing
Completion, several of them haytngs
the roofs on. Everything viii be com
pIete and ready when the gates are
thrown open February 20, 1915. The 4
state OF California has appropriated
the enormous sum OF SIT ,500, COO t0ft
the big fair, citizens of San Franctse0
raised $5,000,00 in few hours foE
IL and the federal government con-
tributed half million dollars toward
Lends ST. Louis Exposition.
"Already thirty-dVe states 7aEe
signed contracts for official represer
tation on the grounds AZ
time in advance OF its worries
st. Louis had obtained IKE SS5 ~
from only eight states. Thipty-tnE
foreign countries have contraeted 1es
representation at our exposition az
a year ahead Of the st LOUIS 49,
had secured only two or three; 49,!
than fifty per cent OF our e4nl9lt y
space has been contracted IoL, N -
at ST Louis but eight per cent nsa
been awarded a year in adyanee-
Louis had granted only slnele cor
ccssion a year ahead Wnlie ~ sSs Z
already granted f,OOu- $500
Despite the refusal OF the ste l lal;
and British governments 70 nav 1sye . 9lasSSl
ial representation az san ELanclseD'
those countries viii be tuily sFepEs
scented through the enorfs Or pL ,c1l
nent individuals and CONF 49,
have applied for sixty-hYe sper: ss.l.s
more space tnan We n ~. -