The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-31
Nations of World
Allot Year 1899
To New York Fair
World Exposition Already
Growing Up; Seeks Active
Participation of State

or prominent part, is out of its infancy.
/ Preparatory construction goes on night
1 and day at the Flushing Meadow Site
| OF l216l2 acres at the geographical CEN
tre of New York City. A steady flow of
! activities and announcements emanates
from the Fair Corporation headquarters
on foul floors of the Empire State build
ing. Judging from Ill of these. the Fair is
lusty. growing institution that will
reach full maturity-no question about
it-by the scheduled opening day, April
80, 1889.
The task of grading the site is about
half completed. Battalions of men with
trucks have already moved over 3,000,-
600 cubic yards of dry fill in the process
OF turning the waste marsh lands Of the
Flushing River basin into park ground.
Other battallons are scooping out mead
oW mat for use as fertile top soil for
| the made lands. and in so doing excavate
| the beds for the two large lagoons fea-
| tured in plans for the Fair
| The first of the 300 structures which,
| according to esti.nates will house the
1899 Fair, has been completed and is
read3 for occupancy. This is the head
| quarters building for the field forces Of
today and the employment department
of the exposition period.
Scheduled for early in the new year
| is the start Of actual construction of the
100000 Administration building The de-
| signs for this structure, let under ar
| chitectural contract a few weeks ago, are
nearing the day of their approval in the
| Corporations Offices. Upon completion
! OF this building, late in August. 1887, the
| Fair headquarters. bag, baggage and sales
| offices, moves to the exposition site
The most splendid and significant edi-
| fee projected for the 1899 international
exposition" the Theme building, as de-
| scribed at Fair headquarters, is also well
along in its contractual period. The esti-
mated cost of this great building for the
''Thematic Centre" of the exposition is
set at 81 100000. The preliminary designs
are to be finished in about eight weeks
and the final plans submitted within four
weeks thereafter. Construction is sched-
uled to start Immediately the designs
are completed
| From this Theme centre will radiate
| all that is to be the 1889 Fair as con-
| ceived by its founders and rendered into
concrete Technology and model by the
| Fairs Board of Design.
| Our job from now on is to give phys
ical expression to the plan and theme
Of the Fair as announced and as set down
on paper in our headquarters says
4 Grover Whalen, President of the Fair
/ Corporation
Starting next April /, we plan to COM
plete the design of one major building
every ten days for a period of seven
months. In all, we expect to design no
less than 30 major buildings to house the
exhibits from every part Of the world.
Some 300 structures, in all, are planned
for the Flushing Meadow site. within a
| few minutes ride from Manhattan"
Without solicitation on the part of the
Fair, more than $50 American busieess
house. and Institutions have begun pre-
liminary conversations regarding their
participation and are already planning
exhibits. Five of the great nations of the
world have already assured the Corpora
| ton that they would erect their own
buildings while no less than 80 other ma
! tions have informally indicated their
desire to participate
| And then, on top Of all this display Of
keen interest, comes the announcement
! that the International Convention Blu
reau, meeting in Paris, has allocated the
| year 1889 to the New York Fair. This
means that the New York Fair has ex-
elusive ranking as the "one international
exposition" Of 1885, and assures it of the
active support of the q nations signing
the agreement
President Roosevelt has just extended
official invitation to the nations of the
world. Governor Herbert H Lehman, of
the host State of New York, has extend
ed invitation to the governors and resi-
dents of AZ states Grover Whalen, like
wise, has invited the governors in a let
ter pointing out that the commercial
consequences of the New York Worlo's
Fair are so great and important that they
alone would Justify the active participa-
| ton of every state
Fair Commissioners are already in
South America and Europe Still others
are on their way to the Far East and
other foreign shores. Major Dennis E.
| Nolan, retired, as head of the Depart
nent OF Foreign, State and Municipal
Participation, will himself make repre-
sentation to the governors and legisla-
lures of the various states.
| Meanwhile, under the direction of Har-
vey D. Gibson. President of the Manu-
| facturers Trust Company, and Richard
Whitney, former president of the New
York Stock Exchange. the prominent fig
ures in the financial capital conducted
a 28-day campaign to sell 1928, 500 in
debenture bonds of the Fair to finance
the construction period
Every confidence is being expressed
that the Fair not only will pay its way"
but that it will bring billion dollars
more Of revenue into Greater New York
and stimulate American industry in gem
eral to an extent many fold that amount.
The total cost of producing New Yorks
Fair, including collateral improvements,
is set at SIPS 100000. Statisticians esti-
mate that the attendance will total more
than S0,000000 persons.
The City of New York, the State of
New York, and the Government Of the
United States. according to expectations,
will account for S35000.000 of the total
expenditures and thus lend an official
backing never before achieved.
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