Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1913 — BIG BUSINESS MEN HEAD THE WORLD IN CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

BIG BUSINESS MEN HEAD THE WORLD IN CHICAGO

Leaders In Commerce and Professions Behind Missionary Exposition. The personnel of the management of The World in Chicago, the great missionary exposition and pageant which opens in Chicago May 8, in the Coliseum and Auditorium theater, Chicago’s two largest exhibition places, la of a notable character. At the head of the organisation as president of the corporation is George W. Dixon o( the Arthur Dixon Transfer company, one of the moot prominent laymen of the Methodist church. The vice-president is Frank Kimball, a prominent member of the Board of Trade, and the second vice-president to BL M. Bowman of the Bowman Dairy company. Among the subscribers to the guarantee fund arq: Prod A. Delano, preoldent of the Wabash railroad; H. P. Crowell, president of the Quaker Oats company; James B. Forgan, president of the First National bank; David R. Forgan, president of the National City bank; Victor F. Lawson, proprietor Chicago Dully News; Cyrus R. McCormick, Samuel Instill and a score of other men prominent in the big affaire of Chicago. The World in Chicago will be in progress for five solid weeks, from May 3 until June 7, inclusive. Its object is to dearly demonstrate the advancement of the Christian dvfhm