People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — FOR A GREAT MUSEUM. [ARTICLE]

FOR A GREAT MUSEUM.

How It Is Proposed to Commemorate the Big Fair in Chicago. Chicago, Ang. 15. —The world’s fair directors have appointed Director General Davis, President Higinbotham and Mr. James W. Scott a committee to form an organization of citizens with the object of establishing a world’s fair museum of anthropological, ethnological, mineral and other classes of exhibits after the close of the fair period. It is well known that an immense collection of these exhibits will be left to the disposition of the public, both by states and foreign countries, as it will not pay to send them home again. The object is to secure these for Chicago not only as souvenirs of the great fajr, but objects of educational value and popular entertainment ,