Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-30
PORTLAND MEN
SOLICIT EXHIBITS
FOR EXPOSITION
The State Interested i'm Three
Exhibits

Three Portland business men, mem
bers of the Flying Squadron" of Port
lands new Chamber of Commerce
covering the State in the interests Of
the Maine State Exposition. We're n
Augusta Thursday The three COM
posed a committee of the commit
tee on the exposition and are infiuen-
tial men known throughout the State
J. Henry Rines Of Rines Brothers, A.
H. Ford, vice president and general
mana ger of the Lewiston, Augusta and
Waterville Street Railway Co, and
Herbert A. Clay. Portland superintend-
ent Of the Eastern Steamship Corpora
Jion. In company with them ana
working in conjunction with them for
the same cause was W. G. Hunton II
Cherryfield Industrial agent Of the
Maine Central Railroad.
The Flying Squadron" which is
now composed of about so members
bers Of the Portland Chamber II
Commerce is soliciting exhibitions II
Maine products for the exposition IL
/ be held in Portland's new great eX-
position building, June to 19, 1915.
/ The exhibits there will be products of
Maine industries and Maine industries
alone: as one of the visitors stated II.
I il Will be "a working industrial ex-
hibit" And not only will Maine
products he exhibited but in 50 far as
it is possible the processes Of manu-
facture will be shown. arrangements
/ already have been made for the in
stallation Of q number Of machines ~
show how the work Of manufacture
/ is carried on in the mills.
The State will have two exhibits ri
/ its own there and has arranged 10 CO.
/ operate with the federal government
1 in the staging Of another The de-
/ pa~tment Of agriculture is to have an
extensive exhibit and the department
of fisheries and game will exhibit both
living and prepared specimens Of
/ Maine fish and many game animals
now on exhibition at the State mU-
scum Will probably be taken to the
exposition. The highway department
! in cooperation with the federal de-
partment Of agriculture will have at
the exposition the finest highway ex-
] hibit in the country. including all the
modern machinery for highway con-
srruction and examples Of their work.
The visitors declared il is their
greatest desire to impress upon the
/ industrial interests Of the State that
the exposition is NOT a Portland ex-
position but a Maine exposition. Ev-
crv Maine board of trade will be given
space Of its own free Of charge and
Will have unstinted opportunity :,
boom its own town as much as Il
wishes.
| The exposition is 10 be educational
| on very broad lines: il is believed that
there are hundreds Of grand gooc
things in Maine that Maine citizens
know nothing about. Further than
that, many thousand residents
will visit the exhibition; 10000 mem
bers of the New England Order II
| Moose for instance, will be IN Port
land the second week OF the EXPOSE
ton. All this publicity for Maine Tor
! itself and for the thousands Oh non
resident visitors 20 the exhibition is
being arranged for without any gen.
eral contributions from the cities n
the State; the exposition not only
aims to educate Maine and the 'coun-
try on the subject Of Maine INDUS
+ries Int it will itself be run on
business basis. The new Portland ex-
position building in which the expo
sition will be held is second in size
in New England only to Mechanics
haT in Boston On the main floor OF
the building. $50 feet by 21o, there IS
not single column obstructing the
view.
The members of the Flying Squad
ROM here Thursday will cover all the
territory as far north as Fairfield be-
fore they return to Portland.