People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Proposed Pan-American Exposition. [ARTICLE]

Proposed Pan-American Exposition.

The pan-American exposition at Niagara Falls in 1899 seems likely to prove a great affair. Although the plane of the projectors have not yet been sufficiently matured to permit of the announcement of details in regard to the proposed exposition, the enterprise has gone far enough to show that it has the best of backing, is destined to suoceed and to be a big thing. The idea is an admirable one, and it will be most fitting that the century shonld close with such an exposition showing the progress the western half of the world has made during the century, and no more appropriate place could be chosen for such an exhibition than Niagara Falls, where the most marvelous inventions of the centnry are now in use for the development of motive power from the great cataract It seems certain that the exposition will be an event of worldwide Buffalo Enquirer. . .