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 THE PURCHASE. 
 
 "We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our lives. 
 From this day the United States take their place among powers of 
 the first rank." 
 
 This the American Minister said to the Minister of France as 
 they arose from the table after signing the treaty of the Louisiana 
 Purchase. 
 
 The fulfillment of that prophecy the American Nation will 
 celebrate with a World's Fair. 
 
 April 30, 1803, the treaty of mighty import was signed. 
 
 April 30, 1903, will bring the Centennial anniversary of that 
 momentous event, and then will open at the chief city of the Pur- 
 chase an Exposition of the Nation's growth and greatness. 
 
 With the Declaration of Independence, the Nation was born. 
 
 With the Purchase of Louisiana Territory, the Nation arrived 
 at majority. 
 
 The man who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 
 sat. in the White House 27 years later and directed the acquisition of 
 what became known as "Jefferson's West." 
 
 The price was $15,000,000. The money had to be borrowed. 
 Stephen Girard, the Philadelphia philanthropist, negotiated the loan. 
 
 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition enters upon the period of 
 preparation with $15,000,000 already provided toward the cost. 
 
 It is one of the coincidences that the amount secured in advance 
 for the celebration of this Centennial, is exactly what was paid for
 
 the Territory. The Territory thus acquired, stands to-day for $6,- 
 600,000,000 of taxable wealth. It is seven times as large as Great 
 Britain and Ireland ; four times as large as Germany or France. 
 
 GENESIS OF THE FAIR. 
 
 The genesis of this coming World's Fair was an evolution. 
 
 A dozen years ago James G. Blaine, speaking of the Louisiana 
 Purchase to the Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis, said : 
 
 "Your growth, gentlemen, is the growth of the Republic. 
 But," he continued, "I feel I have one reproach against this Trans- 
 Mississippi department. My reproach to every foot and to every 
 inhabitant of the territory of Louisiana is that on its surface, which 
 represents a third part of the United States, there is not a statue 
 raised to the honor of Thomas Jefferson." 
 
 It was a reproach. The just ground for it was acknowledged. 
 Sentiment for some form of celebration which should emphasize the 
 wisdom of the Louisiana Purchase and glorify the man who made 
 it, has been growing. The people of the Purchase discussed one 
 form after another, for the observance of this Centennial. When 
 the thought of a World's Fair was first expressed it received little 
 attention. When, in February, 1898, a St. Louis member of Con- 
 gress introduced a bill for a World's Fair at St. Louis in 1903, it 
 passed almost unnoticed. Ten days later the Maine was sunk. The 
 bill slumbered. 
 
 In the summer of 1898 the Missouri Historical Society of St. 
 Louis moved formally in the matter of the Centennial celebration. 
 A committee of fifty men, fully representing the city's interests, was 
 named to consider plans. The deliberation showed that the plans 
 considered at that time were limited to a monument for Jefferson, a 
 building for the Historical Society, or the creation of a memorial 
 park. But none of these was satisfying. Months of consideration 
 brought the conviction that the Centennial called for observance in 
 the form of a World's Fair. 
 
 To the Governor of Missouri the committee went with the sug- 
 gestion that the States and Territories. of the Purchase.be called in 
 consultation. The Governor of Missouri formally invited the other 
 Governors of the Purchase to send delegates to a convention at St. 
 Louis, and they did so. The invitation set forth the purpose to be 
 "consideration of the form the observance of the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Centennial should take." 
 
 THE TERRITORY'S DECISION. 
 
 Every State and Territory in the Purchase responded. The 
 Louisiana Purchase Centennial convention met in St. Louis January 
 10th, 1899. Organization was effected with the Lieutenant-Gover- 
 nor of Iowa, Mr. J. C. Milliman, as President.
 
 Delegates were present from Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kan- 
 sas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North 
 Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming. 
 
 The convention continued during two days. The result of it 
 was a unanimous decision that the centennial of the Purchase 
 should be celebrated by a World's Fair. In summing up conclu- 
 sions, the delegates, without a dissenting voice, declared : 
 
 "We believe that this object can be best accomplished by an 
 Exposition, international in its character, where the products of the 
 labor, skill, genius, industry and enterprise of our country are 
 brought into close comparison with those of all other countries; 
 where the peoples of the earth can have an opportunity to behold 
 and study the mighty impress which the influence of Liberty makes 
 upon the progress of man, and in this great contest, where the 
 world is the field, this wonderful valley, extending from the semi- 
 tropical sea on the south to the semi-frozen regions of the north, 
 will gladly submit its progress and achievements for the first cen- 
 tury of its growth, in friendly competition with the results of many 
 centuries in the older world." 
 
 The convention recommended that Congress be asked to par- 
 ticipate through a suitable appropriation. 
 
 A roll call of States and Territories for an opinion on the most 
 appropriate location for the proposed exposition, showed 69 votes 
 for St. Louis and 8 for New Orleans. 
 
 The Missouri delegation asked to be excused and did not vote. 
 On motion of a delegate from Louisiana, Mr. Calhoun, the selection 
 of St. Louis was made unanimous. 
 
 The convention then proceeded to organize an Executive Com- 
 mittee composed of three representatives from each State and Ter- 
 ritory within the Purchase. This Executive Committee is in exist- 
 ence to-day as an important branch of the organization. 
 
 The convention further declared its judgment to be that in 
 order to insure success of the proposed international exposition on 
 a scale worthy of its importance, it would be necessary to obtain an 
 appropriation of $5,000,000 from the National Government, condi- 
 tioned upon a subscription of $5,000,000 by the citizens of St. Louis. 
 
 The judgment of the Executive Committee was that it would 
 be necessary "to ask and obtain the amount of $5,000,000 from the 
 city of St. Louis additional to the $5,000,000 subscribed by citi- 
 zens." 
 
 The people of St. Louis acted promptly upon the decision of 
 the Louisiana Purchase convention and its Executive Committee. 
 An organization of two hundred citizens was formed, with Pierre 
 Chouteau as Chairman, with David R. Francis, as head of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee, and with Wm. H. Thompson, as Chairman of 
 the Finance Committee.
 
 SENTIMENT AT WASHINGTON. 
 
 -In the month following the convention at St. Louis, thirty 
 members of the Executive Committee then formed, representing all 
 parts of the Purchase, visited Washington. The committeemen 
 canvassed the Congressional delegations from their States. They 
 found the responses to the suggestion of a World's Fair prompt and 
 emphatic. Following the canvass, there was given a dinner, the 
 hosts of which were the Executive Committee of the .Louisiana Pur- 
 chase convention. The guests were members of the Cabinet, Sen- 
 ators, Representatives and Delegates and members of the United 
 States Supreme Court. Invitations were limited strictly to those 
 from Purchase States and Territories. The Cabinet was represented 
 by Secretaries Hitchcock and Wilson. Congress was represented 
 by nearly every Senator and Representative and Delegate within 
 the Purchase. The Supreme Court was represented by Justices 
 Brewer and White. 
 
 The banquet assumed a most practical aspect. A series of 
 speeches endorsing the decision of the convention and pledging 
 personal effort on the part of the guests to carry out the recom- 
 mendations was made. These addresses were characterized by 
 marked enthusiasm. 
 
 In the course of his introductory remarks, the chairman, David 
 R. Francis, said: 
 
 "Such an exposition as we are planning will be the scene of 
 competition of the highest mechanism of the world, and the theater 
 for the display of the best thought of the age. The 100th anniver- 
 sary of the Louisiana Purchase should be marked by the erection 
 of a monument to THbmas Jefferson in the capital or metropolis of 
 every State carved from the Louisiana territory. 
 
 "On behalf of St. Louis I am authorized to say and in this 
 statement I am sustained by substantially all of her progressive, 
 public-spirited merchants, capitalists and laboring-men the men 
 who have made that city what it is and twenty-five or more of 
 them are seated at this board I am authorized to say that the city 
 of St. Louis pledges her people to raise at least $10,000,000 toward 
 preparing for such an international exposition as will fitly commem- 
 orate the Louisiana Purchase, provided the Federal government 
 will grant its recognition of the exposition, and will evidence its 
 good will and support." 
 
 The addresses which followed dwelt upon the magnitude of 
 development within the Purchase limits and upon the importance 
 of the Purchase to the whole country. There was not an inharmo- 
 nious note in that series of talks, continuing far into the night. 
 
 The Executive Committee and the St. Louis delegation re- 
 turned to their homes to take up details of preliminary work. Sen- 
 ators and Representatives and Delegates who had pledged their 
 co-operation, formed an organization to encourage sentiment on the 
 subject in Congress.
 
 The Missouri Legislature entered upon the necessary legisla- 
 tion for the enterprise. 
 
 In St. Louis the work of raising, by popular subscription, the 
 $5,000,000 which Chairman Francis had promised at Washington, 
 was undertaken with vigor. At a mass meeting held in the great 
 Music Hall, $4,000,000 was pledged. 
 
 NATIONAL LEGISLATION. 
 
 The Speaker of the House, Mr. Henderson, appointed a special 
 committee to consider World's Fair matters. In the House the 
 initial World's Fair bill was introduced by Hon. J. R. Lane, of 
 Iowa. In the Senate a similar bill was introduced by Hon. Francis 
 M. Cockrell, of Missouri. 
 
 At the hearings before the special committee, appeared Gov- 
 ernors or other officials of the Purchase States. It was asked that 
 Congress should, through enactment, give assurance of National 
 aid to the amount of $5,000,000. This aid was to be wholly depend- 
 ent upon St. Louis raising $10,000,000. 
 
 The committee reported in favor of a vote by the House upon 
 the proposition. Before the session ended a provision in the sundry 
 civil bill committed Congress to this conditional aid. 
 
 Especially significant and gratifying was the absence of any 
 partisanship or sectionalism in the action of Congress. 
 
 There was no test vote in the United States Senate. The pledge 
 inserted in the sundry civil bill at the first session was adopted by 
 the Senate without division. Similarly, at successive stages, the 
 Senate acted with practical unanimity. The reports upon the bill 
 were, so far as the Senate was concerned, unanimous. 
 
 In the House there was but one roll call which could fairly 
 be considered a test. That occurred on the sundry civil amend- 
 ment. On the part of several of the leaders of the House there was 
 doubt as to the expediency of making a conditional appropriation ; 
 but when the vote was taken, it put that branch of Congress on 
 record favorably by 127 ayes to 75 nays. 
 
 That vote of 127 ayes analyzed, showed 64 Republicans, 56 
 Democrats and all of the Populists and Silverites recorded in the 
 affirmative. 
 
 The distribution of the support was remarkable, 37 of the 45 
 States contributed to the 127 votes. 
 
 Of the eight states from which no affirmative votes were given, 
 six were among those having the smallest representation. In sev- 
 eral cases the representatives from these states were paired for the 
 bill. 
 
 It might be said that, except when moved by some great patri- 
 otic impulse, the House very rarely has gone on record with such 
 general support of a measure by all sections of the country.
 
 Every Southern State cast votes for the promise of $5,000,000, 
 conditional on the action proposed by St. Louis and Missouri. 
 
 With the leaders of the House the conclusion was that if St. 
 Louis performed its part of the contract the appropriation should 
 be made at the subsequent session of Congress. The contract was 
 fulfilled. 
 
 STATE AND CITY ACT. 
 
 At the next election in Missouri, November, 1900, the Consti- 
 tution of the State was amended, not only to permit the city of St. 
 Louis to issue $5,000,000 in bonds, but also to authorize an appro- 
 priation of $1,000,000 by the State for its participation in the expo- 
 sition. The voting resulted in the passage of both propositions, 
 five-sixths of the total number being in the affirmative. 
 
 Since that election the Legislature has carried out its part, 
 making the appropriation of $1,000,000 ; the municipal assembly has 
 by ordinance authorized the issue of the $5,000,000 in bonds, and 
 the people of St. Louis have subscribed the $5,000,000 in stock. 
 
 The stockholders have paid in a ten per cent, assessment. 
 
 In February, 1901, Secretary Gage, of the Treasury Depart- 
 ment, was furnished with the evidence that bona fide subscriptions 
 to the full amount stipulated by Congress had been secured and 
 that the bonds had been legally authorized. He certified these facts 
 to Congress. 
 
 The special committee reported the bill providing an appro- 
 priation by the Government of $5,000,000. The House passed it by 
 more than a two-thirds majority. There ensued some days of delay, 
 owing to the desire of the Senate to attach to the St. Louis proposi- 
 tion appropriations for the Buffalo and Charleston expositions, and 
 owing to the unwillingness of the House to couple these proposi- 
 tions to the World's Fair at St. Louis. 
 
 On the 3rd of March, the Senate receded from its position, and 
 the bill, as passed by the House, was accepted with only ten dissent- 
 ing votes, which were cast by friends of the other proposed appro- 
 priations. This action of Congress in appropriating $5,000,000 to 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, making the government a 
 financial partner to the extent of one-third, was practically unani- 
 mous. It constituted the most notable legislation by Congress for 
 exposition purposes. 
 
 In the Act making the appropriation the general government's 
 close relations were clearly set forth. A National Commission was 
 provided for. That Commission President McKinley appointed 
 before the end of April. The nine commissioners are four former 
 United States Senators, two former members of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives, a former railroad manager, a former State official of 
 New England, and a leading business man of the Southwest. All 
 sections of the country have representation in this commission, 
 which has already held its first meeting at St. Louis and entered 
 upon its duties. 
 
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 PREPARATIONS BEGUN. 
 
 Following the action of Congress, the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
 position Company was incorporated, and the stockholders elected 
 directors. The directors immediately organized by the election of 
 officers and by appointment of committees. 
 
 The President of the Louisiana Purchase Company is David 
 R. Francis, former Mayor of the city of St. Louis, former Governor 
 of the State of Missouri, and a member of President Cleveland's 
 Cabinet during his^second Administration. 
 
 Wm. H. Thompson, the Treasurer, is the President of the Na- 
 tional Bank of Commerce of St. Louis. 
 
 The Directors stand for all leading financial, commercial and 
 professional interests of the city. 
 
 The second month of corporate existence brings the selection 
 of site to a conclusion and finds a score of committees at work upon 
 the general scope and the numberless details of the exposition. 
 
 Rapid as has been the development of this project and recent 
 as has been the final and formal approval by the United States gov- 
 ernment, five states through their legislatures have already provided 
 for participation. 
 
 Illinois has appropriated $250,000 and has a Commission at 
 work. 
 
 The Legislature of Kansas has appropriated $75,000 and has 
 provided, so far as it can pledge its successor, for $75,000 more. 
 
 Colorado has appropriated $50,000 ; Arkansas, $40,000, and 
 Wisconsin, $25,000. 
 
 In other States and in the Territories preliminary steps have 
 been taken on the same liberal scale. 
 
 From intending exhibitors in this and foreign countries the 
 inquiries about space and other conditions far exceed in number 
 those made at like stages of progress with preceding expositions. 
 It is evident at this early date that with the management of the St. 
 Louis World's F"air the question will not be how to draw exhibitors 
 but how to keep exhibits within bounds. 
 
 Mention only of the endorsements which this World's Fair 
 proposition has received from industrial and commercial bodies 
 would tax patience. It will not be attempted. But the fact may 
 be recalled that the Southern Industrial Convention which met in 
 New Orleans went on record in strong terms supporting the move- 
 ment. On that occasion it was declared that the delegates and 
 members of the Southern Industrial Convention "urge not only 
 upon all the states of the Louisiana Purchase, but upon all the 
 Southern states, cities and manufacturers especially, to give to the 
 enterprise their hearty approval, advocacy and co-operation, in 
 order that the industrial development of the South and West may 
 be practically placed before the world's people, and that the grand 
 
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 achievement of the greatest statesman of modern times, Thomas 
 Jefferson, be properly celebrated and his memory crowned." 
 
 SCOPE AND PROMISE. 
 
 A few days ago the question was put to Dr. W. P. Wilson, Di- 
 rector of the great Philadelphia Commercial Museum, "What was 
 the chief material gain realized from the Centennial Exposition of 
 1876?" 
 
 His reply was, "The impetus given to manufactories in Phila- 
 delphia and vicinity. Our present development in all kinds of indus- 
 tries dates back to that Exposition and its effect upon the people of 
 the community." 
 
 As the Centennial was to the Columbian, so will the Columbian 
 stand to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 
 
 The prediction may seem rash at this stage of preparation, but 
 it will work out. 
 
 There is evolution in expositions. The Centennial was a great 
 thing in 1876. Everybody talked about it. Everybody, who could, 
 visited it. Some statesman at Washington made a speech the fol- 
 lowing winter, in which he inveighed bitterly against expositions. 
 He told how some of his constituents had sold their winter stoves 
 in summer to get money to go to the Centennial, and were then 
 shivering at their homes in penance for their folly ! 
 
 The awakening of interest in the Centennial was sudden. It 
 came with the opening of the gates, and increased almost to a popu- 
 lar craze. 
 
 For months after Chicago obtained from Congress the legisla- 
 tion to hold the Columbian Exposition, the proposition was treated 
 in many parts of the country with incredulity. Six months after 
 the action of Congress, the Government Commissioners found it 
 expedient to affirm in resolutions, that the Columbian Exposition 
 movement was worthy of the serious consideration of the world. 
 
 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition enters the field without 
 handicap, with the official endorsement and financial backing of 
 the United States Government. It begins the period of material 
 preparation with the good will of the whole country, and with nota- 
 ble manifestations of interest from all parts of the world. 
 
 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will surpass all predeces- 
 sors. How? It is too soon to tell in detail, but that does not de- 
 tract from the promise. An exposition grows in the brains as well 
 as by the hands of its builders. Out of the wealth of suggestion 
 comes as naturally as germination of seed, the evolution of a 
 World's Fair. Shadows of some phases are being cast before. 
 They indicate no borrowing, no copying. 
 
 Life, the human activities, it seems, will be a strong feature in 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. A World's Fair of people as 
 well as of things is contemplated. 
 
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 Enduring features are engaging the attention of the Directors. 
 A World's Fair that shall create for permanence is being planned. 
 
 Processes of manufacture, wherein actual production is shown, 
 will be encouraged, as being of more interest to the people than 
 still exhibits. 
 
 These and other tendencies will develop that which shall make 
 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition characteristic, greater and bet- 
 ter than all international exhibitions which have preceded it. 
 
 PLAN AND SCOPE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXPO- 
 SITION AT ST. LOUIS IN 1903, 
 
 Celebrating the Centennial of the Louisiana Purchase. 
 
 PLAN. 
 
 The foundation plan of the St. Louis World's Fair will be that 
 of an exposition both national and international in its character, so 
 that not only the people of the Louisiana Purchase Territory, but 
 of our Union, and all the nations as well, can participate. It will be 
 so projected and developed as to ensure the active interest of all 
 the peoples of the world and induce their participation upon a scale 
 without parallel in any previous exposition. 
 
 It will present in a special degree, and in the most comprehen- 
 sive manner, the history, the resources, and the development of 
 the States and Territories lying within the boundaries of the Louis- 
 iana Purchase, showing what it was and what it is ; what it con- 
 tained and produced in 1803 ; what it contains and produces in 1903. 
 
 It will make it plain that the prophecy of 1803 has been more 
 than fulfilled, and show that a veritable empire now lies between the 
 Gulf of Mexico and Puget Sound, within the limits of the territory 
 Jefferson obtained by the Louisiana Purchase. 
 
 It will show the history, resources and development of the 
 possessions of the United States, including Porto Rico, Alaska, 
 Hawaii, Samoa, Guam and the Philippines. It will embrace in a 
 similar portrayal Cuba and any other country which may enjoy the 
 special and exceptional protection and guardianship of the United 
 States. 
 
 It will depart from the plan of all past expositions and make 
 life and movement its distinguishing and marked characteristics. 
 To this end it will aim definitely at an exhibition of man as well 
 as the works of man ; at the presentation of manufacturing indus- 
 tries in actual conduct as well as of the machines out of action ; at 
 the exhibition of processes as well as of completed products. 
 
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 It will carefully plan in the location, the construction and ar- 
 rangement of all buildings and works so as to assure the highest 
 degree of convenience, ease and comfort for visitors who come to 
 inspect the wonders contained within its enclosure. It will make it 
 both easy and comfortable to get to the Exposition Grounds from 
 every quarter of the city and from every railway terminating in St. 
 Louis. It will in like manner make it easy and comfortable to move 
 about the Exposition Grounds, and to pass from building to build- 
 ing and from point to point within every building of large area. 
 In short, it will make the transportation of visitors the subject of 
 special study and spare no expense in the solving of this vital prob- 
 lem, so that the St. Louis World's Fair may go down in history as 
 the first great international exhibition which a visitor could inspect 
 without enduring fatigue and hardship. 
 
 Finally, it will embody and illustrate the latest and most ad- 
 vanced progress in the employment of the energies of nature. It 
 will be up-to-date in the use of all new motive forces, and be fully 
 abreast with science in the utilization of every novel invention or 
 discovery that has practical value. 
 
 SCOPE. 
 
 In order that the general plan outlined for the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition may be fulfilled in its actual accomplishments, it 
 wall exhibit the arts and industries, the methods and processes of 
 manufacture of the whole world ; it will gather the products of the 
 soil, mine, forest and sea from the whole earth. 
 
 It will comprehend man in his full twentieth century develop- 
 ment, exhibiting not alone his material, but his social advancement. 
 It will show humanity at rest as well as at work, presenting man 
 in his hours of recreation, his exercises, his games and his sports. 
 It will illustrate the modern home with the infinity of comforts and 
 conveniences that have been brought into common use within the 
 century the St. Louis World's Fair will commemorate. 
 
 It will embrace in its scope a comprehensive anthropological 
 exhibition, constituting a congress of races and exhibiting partic- 
 ularly the barbarous and semi-barbarous peoples of the world as 
 nearly as possible in their ordinary and native environments. 
 
 It will bring together the wild life of the forests, plains and 
 waters, showing visitors a zoological collection of untrained and 
 untamed animals as nearly as practicable with the surroundings of 
 their native state. 
 
 The progressiveness of the Exposition will be most especially 
 manifest in the manner and extent of its use of artificial light, both 
 for purposes of illuminating and as a means of decoration. Electric 
 lighting in the latest, most striking and most effective form, as well 
 as all other new and efficient modes of illuminating, will be so liber- 
 ally employed that the Exposition Grounds and Buildings will blaze 
 
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 with light at n 
 tions of daylig-.. 
 
 For the development of the Exposition to the full scope uui- 
 lined, it will provide for the housing and care of exhibits divided 
 into a number of grand sections, each of which will be again divided 
 into departments and sub-departments. The principal sections into 
 which the Exposition will be divided will be as follows : Agricul- 
 ture, Anthropology and Ethnology, Athletics and Outdoor Sports 
 and Games, Chemical Industries, Civil Engineering, Colonization, 
 Decoration, Furniture, etc., Diversified Industries, Education and 
 Instruction, Electricity, Fine Arts, Food Stuffs, Forestry, History, 
 Horticulture and Arboriculture, Liberal Arts, Machinery, Military 
 and Naval, Mining and Metallurgy, Social Economy, Textiles, 
 Transportation, Wild Animals. 
 
 Adopted by the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition Company. 
 
 DAVID R. FRANCIS, 
 
 WALTER B. STEVENS, President. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION COMMISSION. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 THOMAS H. CARTER President. 
 
 MARTIN H. GLYNN Vice-President. 
 
 JOSEPH FLORY Secretary. 
 
 UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 (Appointed by the President.) 
 
 JOHN M. THURSTON Nebraska. 
 
 THOMAS H. CARTER .Montana. 
 
 WILLIAM LINDSAY Kentucky. 
 
 GEORGE W. McBRIDE Oregon. 
 
 FREDERICK A. BETTS : Connecticut. 
 
 JOHN M. ALLEN Mississippi. 
 
 MARTIN H. GLYNN New York. 
 
 JOHN F. MILLER Indiana. 
 
 PHILIP D. SCOTT Arkansas. 
 
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 Louisiana Purchase nxposmon Company, 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 DAVID R. FRANCIS. 
 
 President. 
 
 CORWIN H. SPENCER. 
 
 First Vice-President. 
 
 SAMUEL M. KENNARD. 
 
 Second Vice-President. 
 
 DANIEL M. HOUSER, 
 
 Third Vice-President. 
 
 CYRUS P. WALBRIDGE, 
 
 Fourth Vice-President. 
 
 WALTER B. STEVENS, 
 Secretary. 
 
 WM. H. THOMPSON, 
 Treasurer. 
 
 SETH W. COBB. 
 
 Fifth Vice-President. 
 
 CHARLES H. HUTTIG. 
 
 Sixth Vice-President. 
 
 AUGUST GEHNER. 
 
 Seventh Vice-President. 
 
 PIERRE CHOUTEAU. 
 
 Eighth Vice-President. 
 
 JAMES L. BLAIR. 
 
 General Counsel. 
 
 A. A. Allen. 
 
 James L. Blair. 
 
 i',eo. A. Baker. 
 
 Nicholas M. Bell. 
 
 C. F. Blanke. 
 
 V,'. F. Boyle. 
 
 A. L). Brown. 
 
 George Warren Brown. 
 
 Paul Brown. 
 
 Adnlph-is P>usch. 
 
 Janus C,. Butler. 
 
 JnnU'S Campbell. 
 
 Murray Car lei on. 
 
 Pierre 
 
 Seth W. 
 
 Janus- F. Coyle. 
 
 George 'I'. Cram. 
 
 John I). Davis. 
 
 \. DC Menil. 
 S. M. Dodrl. 
 L. D. Do/ier. 
 Harrison I. Drummond. 
 R. B. Dula. 
 George L. Edwards. 
 Howard Elliott. 
 S. M. Felton. 
 David R. Francis. 
 Nathan Frank. 
 A. H. Frederick. 
 August Gehner. 
 Norn's B. HI. 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 W. T. Haarstick. 
 A. B. Hart. 
 
 Walker Hill. 
 John A. Holmes. 
 D. M. Houser. 
 
 C. H. Htittig. 
 M. E. Ingalls. 
 Breckinridge Jones. 
 S. M. Kennard. 
 Goodman King. 
 
 W. J. Kinsella. 
 Charles W. Knapp. 
 Dr. J. J. Lawrence. 
 W. 11. Lee. 
 F. W. Lehmann. 
 \Vin. J. Li--ni)i. 
 J. \V. McDonald. 
 Thos. 11. McKittiick. 
 Geo. A. Madill. 
 c. F. (I. Meyer. 
 Isaac W. Morton. 
 F. G. Niedringhaus. 
 W. F. Nolker. 
 
 D. C. Nugent. 
 Peter A. O'Neil. 
 Edward S. Orr. 
 George W. Parker. 
 H. Clay Pi 
 Joseph Ramsey. Jr. 
 David Rankin. Jr. 
 Jonathan Rice. 
 
 Clark H. Sampson. 
 Julius J. Schotten. 
 John Schroers. 
 Isaac Schwab. 
 K. M. Scruggs. 
 John Scullin. 
 A. L. Shapleigh. 
 J. E. Smith. 
 C. H. Spt>i> 
 Samuel Spencer. 
 W. C. Steigers. 
 H. \v. Stelnbi 
 Walter 13. Stevens. 
 Char;. - A. Si i\. 
 R. II. Si nekton. 
 Win. H. Thompson. 
 Charles H. Turner. 
 J. J. Turner. 
 J. C. Van P.larcom. 
 Festus J. Wade. 
 C. P. Walbridge. 
 Julius S. Walsh. 
 C. (.;. Warner. 
 W. B. Wells. 
 Chas. F. Wenueker. 
 J. J. Werthcimer. 
 Edwards \Vhitaker. 
 
 A. A. B. Woerheide. 
 Wm. H. Woodward. 
 Ceo. M. Wright. 
 
 B. F. Yoakum.
 
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