Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1903 — WORLD’S FAIR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.

It is p.obable that Sept. 1, will see work on the Indiana building well under way. The ocwUaotor will be ordered to push the work from thq moment the contract is signed. Chairman O’Brien of the Fair Committee has taken up w ti the ! ooal operators the quettion of makiug displays of Indiana coal at the oomiug St. Louis Exposition, and has met with enoouragiDg replies from nearly all the operators he has addrets. j d. ' «r Indiana contractors who *.s'i to bid on the ladiana building to he ereoted at the St Louis Exposition must submit their eit’mates to the Fair Commission by 10 o’clock, Aug. 11. On that day the Commission meets to award the contract and all bids must be in by the hour mentioned. Secretary Cockrom of the St. Louis Commission has arranged to spend one day each week at the headquarters in this city, The work of the comnrssion is becoming so s’renuous that Mr. Cockrum’s presence i 9 required to attend to certain matters each week and lie hes decided to give Tuesdays to this work. The Fair Commissioners will probably take up the question fixing on a date for Indiana fair at the St. Louis Exposition at their next meeting. Some day of historical significance to the State will undoubtedly be selected, but none haß yet been discussed except in connection with the Indiana Press !•» Day, which is now assured. Chairman Mix of the oommittee on machinery of the St. Louis Exposition Committee has reported to Assistant Secretary Alexander of the Indiana that the great manufacturers of machinery in the Stste have taken kiudly to the idea of makiDg displays of their goods at the coming Exposition, and he is confident of being able to arrange a satisfactjry exhibit in the department.