Annual supplement to the Labor compendium The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition . tive to beautifying the River Front, and making it the 16 HISTORY OF THK I^OUISIANA PTJRCHASK CE:NTe:NNIAI, HXPOSITION. Worlds Fair site, changing- the East End of the City into fairyland, andretaining it as a perpetual monument to the occasion. In this article theterritory proposed embraced that lying between Second street and the river,,reaching from the Merchants Bridge, at the north, to Chouteau avenue forits southern limits. In the same week appeared an article in the St. LouisPost-Dispatch, written h
Annual supplement to the Labor compendium The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition . tive to beautifying the River Front, and making it the 16 HISTORY OF THK I^OUISIANA PTJRCHASK CE:NTe:NNIAI, HXPOSITION. Worlds Fair site, changing- the East End of the City into fairyland, andretaining it as a perpetual monument to the occasion. In this article theterritory proposed embraced that lying between Second street and the river,,reaching from the Merchants Bridge, at the north, to Chouteau avenue forits southern limits. In the same week appeared an article in the St. LouisPost-Dispatch, written hy Benjamin Eiseman, of the wholesale firm of Eice,Stix & Co., favoring the Eiver Front, as the location best suited for theWorlds Fair, his appeal taking the follo^^ing graceful form: I hardly see hovv^ we could reconcile ourselves to going away from theriver. It is not the river it might be; it is not so beautiful as the Mississippiabove the mouth of the Missouri; its waters are muddy and too swift, bntit is .our river, the river that has made St. Louis the great natural commer-. NORRIS B. GREGG,Chairman Committee on Supplies. CYRUS P. WALBRIDGE,Chairman Committee on Sanitation. cial artery of Louisiana and the grandest river on earth, and I should like,without offering the suggestion in any capacity, save that of a citizen anda St. Louisan interested in the success of the Fair and the glory attachingto St. Louis from it, to see the Fair Grounds overlook the river and theheadwaters of all its tributaries. THE FIRST SUBSCRIPTIONS, The work of promoting the great Louisiana Purchase Centennial Expo-sition had now assumed definite form, and the former chaotic state hadgiven place to tangible and concerted action. The Committee of Ten, chosenfrom the Committee of Fifty, and instructed to increase the said Committeeoi Fifty to Two Hundred members, worked industriously, holding- meeting-snearl}-ever^- night, and on Friday evening, February 10, ]899, the first meet- PASSING OF SPKCIAI
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