Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1938-01-14
EASTERN SHORE
GAS COMPANY AT
WORLDS FAIR

Eastern Shore Gas Corporation will
Join in a national effort to make the
exhibit of Americas gas industry one
of the outstanding features at the
New York Worlds Fair in 1889, L.
d. Pierson, of the local company said
today.
The far reaching contributions of
the gas industry to modern life will be
wildly portrayed in the Worlds Fair
exhibit. The part the local company
will play in it's development will en-
brace various phases of cooperation
with Gas Exhibits, Incorporated, a
non-profit organization of several
hundred utility corporations and man.
ufacturers of gas appliances whose
sole purpose is "to create and stage
the finest and most effective exhibit
which this giant industry can devise
and produce"
Architectural plans designed by
Skidmore & Owings, John Moss As
sociate, have already been approved
by Grover A. Whalen, president of
the Fair Corporation, and the first
construction step of "pile driving"
will be taken sometime this month.
The gas industry's exhibit will
grace a plot of 87,O42 square feet in
the Community Interest Zone on a
wide avenue radiating from the Theme
Plaza, the focal point of the main ex-
hibit area of the exposition. The plot
is S-shaped and AGO feet long. Its
main entrance at one end, will lead
into a wide circular "Court of Flame"
in which large jet of gas will be
kept burning like torch. Four 90
foot pylons, suggestive of the grid
point above the burner of gas range
will rise high above the building and
aid in forming the enclosure of the
"Court of Flame"
= At the other end of the building, in
a three sided patio shaded by trees,
there will be model "all-gas house"
where visitors to the Fair will be able
to view in actual working condition
the various applications of gas in the
home. The latest and most effective
types of appliances for cooking, re-
frigeration, space and water heating
and aiE-conditioning will be displayed.
Within the main structure an audi
torium seating $50 persons is to be US
ed to demonstrate the various uses of
gas and to present motion pictures,
lectures and other programs.
Departing from previous custom,
the gas industry intends going step
further in display of its products. All
gas appliances exhibited in its build
ings are to be shown in the surround
ings they would have were they in
actual use. Devices used in kitchens
will be displayed in reproductions of
modern kitchens, heaters and air-con-
ditioning mechanisms will be exhib-
tied in Easements or cellars, their US
ual emplacement in homes. Thus, the
industry feels, there will be an adj
ditional opportunity to demonstrate
new economies of space and new con-
veniences of arrangement of its var
led devices.
The president of Gas Exhibits, In
corporated, is Hugh Fl. Cuthrell, vice
president of the Brooklyn Union Gas
Co, New York. The other officers
are: vice-president, w. T. Rasch, vice
president of the American Gas Pro-
ducts Corp, New York; treasurer, N.
T. Sellman of the Consolidated Edison
Co., of New York, and C. w. Berg
horn, who is executive secretary of the
exhibiting corporation. The offices of
the organization is at 60 East And
Street, New York.
1t has been disclosed that gas will
be available for buildings throughout
the exposition. The work of laying
approximately fifteen miles of mains
for the distribution system is prog
ressing rapidly and it has been esti-
mated that the consumption of gas
within the Fair in a period of six
months from April 80, 1889, the open
ing date of the exposition, will be an
amount equal to that consumed in a
like period by Atlantic City, N. J.