Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1901 — A FLOATING EXPOSITION. [ARTICLE]

A FLOATING EXPOSITION.

A Unique Method of Advertising American-Made Gomla. A floating exposition, which will encircle the globe and visit every seueoast town, is nil idea which is being pushed by O. Z. Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics of the Treasury Department. It is a proposition in which some of the leading men in commercial lines iu tlm country have become interested, nnd t -• ward which a step will be taken shortly which will definitely decide whether the necessary finnuciul burking cun be secured. It ia proposed to have a fleet of ships (Tiled up as floating booths, iu which the lending nrticlos of manufacture in the United States can lie exhibited. the exhibits will be of those articles for which it is presumed there is a foreign demand. Tho length of the trip which la to be made by -the Heet, of course, will depend on'the amount of financial backing aerur ed and the wishes of tiie promoters. It has been thought advisable to bare the trip extend over a period of at least two years. James H. Jarvis, Fayetteville, Ark., killed hia wife and then cut bin arms with n razor. He will live. Domestic trouble. ■ ■ * George Kellogg, 00, New Hartford, Conn., father of Clara Louise Kellogg, the celebrated prims •luma, is dead.