Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1904 — Indiana World’s Fair Notes [ARTICLE]

Indiana World’s Fair Notes

Indiana Day at the exposition, September 15. Indianapolis merchants are objecting to postponing the state fair this year on account of the St. Louis exposition At the last meeting of the Indiana World’s Fair commission the report was made that the Indiana building will be complete except the grading and outside work by March 1.

Ladies who have prepared displays for the woman’s department are already sending the articles to Mrs. W. L. B jrryman, superintendent of the department, for her approval. Mrs. Berryman says the samples which so fat have been submitted are the oeat work of the kind she ever saw and she is con fident Indiana women will win several prizes at the exposition.

“I do not see how any other state can have a better agricultural exhibit than Indiana,” eaid Chairman Stevens of the agricultural committee. "The fact is that our oounty agents who have charge of collecting the farm exhibits over the state have secured such excellent exhibits that it will be a hard matter for any other state to equal let alone excel them *’

The Bobbs-Merrill company, ot Indianapolis, which has promised to supply original manuscript from the writing of Jernes Whitcomb Riley. Charles Maj >r, Lew Wallace and ether Indiana literary lights has als- > agreed to give the Indiana commission original drawings from which some of the best known books by Indiana authors were illustrated. These drawings as well as the manuscript will be displayed in the. Indiana building The jury of artists which is in harge-of the interior decorations

of the Indiana building for the exposition will take a trip to St. Louis soon to make an inspection of the great club house. The artiste have worked out on paper, from drawings *of the building, their plan of color decoration. They wish to see whether these plans can be carried out in the arrangement of the rooms as the building has actually been constructed.

The sub-committee which will have charge of the collection of the exhibits of horses and live stock were only named last week, bat already several of the chairmen have reported to Chairman Stevens who is overseeing the work that they have the pledges of some of the biggest breeders in the state to make exhibits. Many of the stock men had prepared to display their animals independent of the commission, but since the matter has been explained to them they will be glad to have their stock entered from Indiana.