The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-05-29
MISSOURI COM
MISSION PLANS
ARE ACCEPTED
Work on State Structure at
Panama Exposition Soon
to Begin
BUILDING TO Be 64Xl2OFT.
Will be Entirely for Social, Educa-
tional, Entertainment and
Boosting Purposes

sion, Ianama-Daclnc international In.
position, to be held in San Francisco
in 1915, for their State Building,
have approved by the exposition
officials and the work of construction
will soon begin.
The Missouri Building will occupy
one of the most imposing and choi-
cest sites on the, exposition grounds.
The site is 200 by 4O3 feet and fronts
on San Francisco Bay. The building
will be GA by 100 feet. 1t will con-
tain reception hall 40 by 80 feet
which will jointly serve as an audi
forum, ball room, and reception hall.
There will be installed in this part
of the building a stage adequate for
lectures, entertainments, etc, At
one end of the building will be a
moving picture apparatus. This will
be used to show the resources and
scenes of Missouri.
Approval of the plans of the Mis-
souri, Commission at this early date
means that Missouri will have one of
the finest state buildings on the
grounds and that its resources, pro-
ducts, advancement in literature and
art and its future possibilities will
be more amply displayed than those
of any other state in the Union.
The exterior of the Missouri build
ing will be attractive in the extreme
and of Colonial style. A balcony
will run around the entire inside
structure. The second floor will be
fitted with apartments. Ample rest
rooms will be provided. The building
itself will cost about $4,000 and will
be thing of pride to all Missourians
who visit the Exposition,
Governor Elliott W. Major is TAX
ing a personal interest in the eXpOsi-
ton. He is mindful of the fact that
$4,000 former Missouriaus now reside
in California and still take deep
interest in the affairs and achieve
ments of their native state. He real
ICES that these former residents are
watching and waiting for chance
to boost their native state.
The Missouri Building will be en-
tirclv for social educational, enter
tainmcnt and boosting purposes. In
order that the greatness of the great
commonwealth may be displayed in
all its phases TO the best advantage
the members Of the Missouri Commits
sion have decided that the exhibits
of the state, which will be aside
from the building, will be shown
under five classes. Each member
of the commission will supcrintcnd
separate department.
Commissioner John J.. McNatt,
of Aurora will have in charge the
Mines and Mctallurgy exhibit; Com
missioner Norman NJ. Vaughan, 1920
Syndicate Trust building, st. Lotus,
Education and Art; John y. Cunning
ham, Caruthcrsvillc, Agriculture; W.
\. Dallmcyor, Jefferson City, Live
Stock and Poultry, and W. ID. Smith
Princeton, Horticulture. All thos
interested in either class Of exhibits
are requested to correspond with the
commissioner who has charge of the
particular class in which the interest
ccntcrs.
Governor Major and the members
Of the Commission are especially
DESTROYS that the thing, in which the
state .urpas,cS all other common
wealth. he omply portrayed in its
exhibits. In this connection it is
cited that Missouri produces more