Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1900 — BAY STATE AT BUFFALO. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BAY STATE AT BUFFALO.

Fine Historical Exhibit Will" Bp Made !>>■ Massaolmsettw. The historic common wealth of .Massachusetts will have a most interesting exhibit at the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo. It is being collected throumi the cooperation of various societies.- such as the Sons of the Revolution. Daughters of the Bevolution. Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of t he American Revolution, the Society of tlie War of ISI2 and kindred organizations. The chairman of the Massachusetts PanAmerican commission, Mr. Walter Gilman Page, is a leading Spirit iu these societies and is anxious that the wealth of historic material possessed by Massachusetts should be adequately represented at the Pan-American Exposition. The matter of a building has not yet been definitely decided, but it is probable that the old Providence House, "which \y:)s one of the historic buildings of Boston, will be reproduced as a home for Massachusetts exhibits at the Ex-

position in Buffalo. This building was typical in its style of the old fashioned Boston architecture aud. iu addition, possessed a special interest from its historic associations. It formerly stood on thfr Washington street end of Providence court, partly on the site of what is now Clark’s Tavern. One of the members of tbe Massachusetts commission to tbe Paris Exposition, who recently returned from the French fair, secured there about 450 valuable exhibits, which wllLgbe transferred to the Pan-Ameriehn at Buffalo.. Ex-Mayor Frederick Fosdick of Fitchburg and City Treasurer E. T. Tifft of Springfield returned recently from a visit of a few days iu Buffalo very enthusiastic over the prospects for the success of the Exposition and are anxious to have the good old Bay State well represented there.

THE PROPYLÆA.