Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1904 — THIRTY THOUSAND AT WORK [ARTICLE]

THIRTY THOUSAND AT WORK

There’* » Rash *1 the World’* Fair Ground* to Get Things In Shape for Saturday. St Louis, April 28. Thirty thousand men form the army of laborers and artisans who are rushing to completion the work of putting the World’s fair In order for opening day. The force is being Increased as rapidly as men can be hired, practically every applicant being put to work. Three thousand more men have been added to the regular night force in handling the exhibits and working on the roadways and landscape department Every day the force will be addled to and tomorrow night It is expected that upward of 40,000 men will be doing the giant’s work of the final cleaning.