Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — MANY STATES REPRESENTED. [ARTICLE]

MANY STATES REPRESENTED.

Rapid Erection of Buildings at TransMississippi Exposition. Plans for State buildings at the transMississippi exposition in Omaha are coming in rapidly. The department of publicity has just received the architect's drawings for the Minnesota building, the Montana building, the Arkansas building, the Denver building and the Missouri building. The plans for the proposed lowa building met the hearty approval of the experts of the exposition. The Illinois building is nearly completed, with the exception of an additional Wing .made necessary for the accommodation of the fine art exhibit which Illinois will bring to tlie exposition. The Wisconsin building is well uncTer way and is one of the most complete State buildings on the grounds. The Nebraska building is practically completed. The-plans for the Denver, or Colorado, building have been accepted and the contract will be let in a day or two. Plans for the Georgia pine palace have been submitted. It will be constructed wholly of pine donated by the people of Georgia. It is a handsome structure. The Minnesota building will be constructed on similar lines of unhewn Minnesota logs. Plans for the Oregon building are now being drawn and will be submitted next week. Members of State commissions of other Stntes send assurances that plans for their State buildings will be forthcoming within a short time. It* is highly probable that the States of New York and New Jersey will construct handsome buildings at the exposition. Tliirty : fivo States have to date decided to participial* in the exposition. In thirty of these commissions have been appointed *and reports from agents in the field are to the effect that at least States will be organized within the next-ten days. The winter weather having been more favorable, construction work is fast advancing and is progressing in undo court, the bluff tract and the Midway with great rapidity. The Government building, 500 feet long, and the pinnacle of whose dome is nearly 200 feet high, is nearly done. The management finds it necessary to build several annexes to accommodate the extraordinary demand for exhibit space.