. The street railway review . eans committee consistingof 50 citizens was appointed. In December, i8g8, the governor ofMissouri issued a qall inviting the governors of all the LouisianaPurchase states to send delegates to a couvenlion, which finally metin St. Louis in January, i8g<j. The moveiTRiit nut with hiarly MJ RAIIAVAY RKXIKW [ XIV, No. 6. response from all of the states directly interested, and St. Louis,as llic chief city of the Louisiana Purchase states, was asked totake the lead in making plans for a Worlds Exposition that wuildeclipse any other similar enterprise of
. The street railway review . eans committee consistingof 50 citizens was appointed. In December, i8g8, the governor ofMissouri issued a qall inviting the governors of all the LouisianaPurchase states to send delegates to a couvenlion, which finally metin St. Louis in January, i8g<j. The moveiTRiit nut with hiarly MJ RAIIAVAY RKXIKW [ XIV, No. 6. response from all of the states directly interested, and St. Louis,as llic chief city of the Louisiana Purchase states, was asked totake the lead in making plans for a Worlds Exposition that wuildeclipse any other similar enterprise of recent years. Over ^,000,000in private subscriptions was immediately raised, the city of St. Lojis large, and the difficulties and delays involved in getting the legis-lative machinery under way in the various stales and foreign gov-ernments, it was decided that the complete success of the exposi-tion scheme would be better assured by postponing the opening forone year. With two years lime still available for the preparation. \CE OF TRAXSPORTATION. voted a municipal subscription of $5,000,000, and the state of Mis-souri appropriated $1,000,000 for Worlds Fair purposes. In June, 1900, Congress voted to provide $5,000,000 provided thecity of St. Louis raised $10,000,000. On Mar. 3. 1901, it havingbeen represented in the Senate that St. Louis had fulfilled , the act of Congress appropriating $5,000,000 to the Lou-isiana Purchase Exposition was sent to President McKinley forapproval and became a law. of exhibits the good effect of the postponement soon became ap-parent. Foreign governments that had declined or hesitated toparticipate in the movement began to reconsider and accept. Thepostponement also made possible a further enlargement of plans. The fair grounds have a total area covered of 1,240 acres, ortwice the area provided for the Columbian Exposition at Chicagoand larger than the Chicago, Paris and Buffalo expositions of the forty-fiv
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