The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-27
flowans Who viii Take Part In Pana-
ma Pacific Exposition Are
Notified They will be
Docked II Late.
WANT FACTORY SHOW
Several Who Promised to Send Their
Exhibits Have Not Done SO
and Commission is Send
ing S. o. s. Call.

are late to school
| This is the warning sent out by the
Panama-Pacific exposition authorities,
according to information received at
! the headquarters Of the Iowa commits
sion at Clinton.
The exposition folks are very anx-
ious to have all the exhibits in place,
for the big opening on February 20,
and they give SIX reasons why the ex-
hibits should be ready. One is that
the Vanderbilt cup race is going to be
run the third day of the exposition
washington birthday, and the
track will be closed for ten days be-
fore that time. They give several
other perfectly good reasons for not
being late, but the last is the most
important. Here it is:
The jury on awards has decided to
allow ten points Govt Of a possible
100 points, for those who have their
exhibits completed by the opening
day, on February 20" In other words
Iall exhibitors whose exhibits are not
completed by February 20 will be
QOchcu J0u pOlIlIS.
And SO the secretary OF the Iowa
commission is sending hurry calls all
over the state to those manufacturers
who already have agreed to exhibit,
telling them to hustle things along and
be on time because I'VE do not want
to lose any gold medals or grand
prizes, merely because we were not
ready in time
In this connection, the secretary to
the commission Is sending out an rs.
O. s." call to the other manufacturers
of the state who have not indicated
their desire or willingness to partici
pate in the exposition urging them to
get in line. The Iowa State Manufac.
Eturers' association, through its score
ltary, George A. Wrightman, is also
communicating with the manufactur.
lers of the state, urging them to join
hands with the Iowa commission and
help .show Iowa's Industrial develop.
ment
Il Want More Exhibits
(; In spite of the fact that there is an
unusual interest being shown in the
Iowa building at the worlds fair at
San Francisco, there does not seem to
/ be enough factory exhibits to please
the people in charge. A letter was re
Iceived here recently by the secretary
| of the commercial exchange asking
that assistance be given in the work
| OF gathering other exhibits for the
| Iowa building.
There are a number OF concerns
who have signified their intention OF
having booth in the building, but
many of them have SO far neglected
sending the stuff that is to be shown
and consequently there are still q
large number Of vacant places. One
of the objects of the Iowa commission
lin establishing fund to build the
building and to place exhibits there
was to show that Iowa makes things
and il the manufacturers do not back
up the commission, the object will
have been forgotten and the fair, from
the standpoint of the Iowa manufac
turers. failure.
several IaClOTlcS nave Doou ihioS
iup for exhibits but the number is fal
less than was hoped for The secre
taries of the various commercial or
ganizations are being requested tc
submit lists of the manufacturing
plants in their vicinity and to for
ward that list to the secretary of the
commission.
| If any OF the manufacturers viii
take it upon themselves to make q
personal investigation Of the condi
ltions that have been found at prev
ious fairs and the advertising value
Of placing their wares where they will
be seen by thousands Of people 1t is
thought there will be a number of en-
tries received The working models
of the various kinds of machinery and
other clever ideas have been suggest
ed and Secretary w. Clumm of Gin
ton, who is secretary OF the Iowa com
mission. will be very glad to Offer