Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1903 — Mr Shirley Greatly Impressed. [ARTICLE]

Mr Shirley Greatly Impressed.

Indianapolis. July 12. “The most noticeable thing to me aboot the coming St. Louis exposition is the extensive scale on which it is to be given,” said C/C. Shirley of Kokomo, member of the Indiana fair commission from the Eleventh, district, who was here yesterday “On the occasion of our recent visit to StJLouis I examined into the plans of the fair managers with a view of finding, how the ex position would compare with other fairs of the kind that have been given in the past ‘ Before I did this I had little idea of the real magnitude of the exposition, and I do not believe one man in ten thousand todav appreciates the extensive scale of the fair For instance, I imagine few people know that the St. Louis fair will be twice a 3 large as the Chicago fair and will cost twice as much, yet these facts are easily demonstrate ! by the figures, al-

though I cannot go into them now. Putting the case in another way, the St Louis fair will equal in magnitude those of Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Atlanta, Nashville, Omaha, Charleston and Buffalo combined. As another striking comparison I would point out that every building at the Buffalo fair might be*set down in either the transnoration or agricultural building at St: Lodis and leave two thirds of the space unoccupied.”