The Daily News. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1904. A MAMMOTH EXPOSITION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 9, 12 January 1904, Page 2

The Daily News. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1904. A MAMMOTH EXPOSITION.

Americans are noted (or the stupendous scale on which tliey cany out amy project they take in band. The Cih'ieiiig'o World's Fair, Iraki a lew yvars uifo, was a nuirvcl of orgnii'iration and administration, 'hut it sinks into insignificance, beside the latest public achievement. This is the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Missouri, this year, from May I to Dec. 31. Tlio purpose of the exhibition is Ibe commemoration of the centenary of the purchase of the Loin'Miuiu teiritory from the French in 180.'). The directors oi the exposition have been handsomely assisted by the I'niteAl Stales (,'ou-

Hiv.is, which bus to 'date, in various ■appropriations, contributed no less than (>,:ioß,o(Kl<lol.s., exclusive of tincast of -island exhibits, towunls the project. The Louisiana Purchase was consuuuited on April <KI, 180J1, when the I'uited .States acquired 1.000,000 square miles of country between the Mississippi Hirer, and Rocky now represented by fourteen States anid territories. Tine ijos'l/poiueiin-iit, vi the date of opening his ■■ a&uiW' n- more liberal participation by other iiatir/railities. T>hc iplan'aUd' tfcopo oi ltih<? St [Loluis World's Fair, as set gut by the

prospectus, is thai of an exposition both national and international in ellaraetcr, so- that not only Hie people of the Louisiana Purchase Territory, hut of the Union, ami all nations as well, can participate. It has been projected and developed so as to insure tin; active interest of all the peoples or tin- world and Induce their co-operation upon a scale without parallel in any previous exjwsiliom. Jt presents in a special degree, and in the most comprehensive manner, the history, resources, and •development of the States and Territories lying within the boundaries of «lie Louisiana Purchase, shoving what it was and What it is ; whati it contained and produced in 1803 ; UiUd what it contained and prodmced In 190!). By it is made plain live ample fulfilment of tlw prophecy of a century a veritable empire now lies between the Gulf of Mexico and I'uget Sound, within the limits of the territory which Jefferson obtained by tl»e Louisiana Purchase. The exposition shows ulnehis'tory, resources, and development of the possessions of the United States, inidudi'ng Porto Kico, Alaska, Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, and the PJiilippiines, and the protectorate of Cuba. The plan of all past expositions has been 'departed from, ami the aim is now to make life and movement the diistiinguishing characteristic of the St. Louis World's Fair. To this end it aspires to an exhibition of man himself as well as his works ; at the presentation of raaiiiufacturing intijustries in actual conduct as well as of the machines ciut of action ; at the exhibition of processes as well as of completed products. Finally, it emlbodies ami illustrates the latest and most advanced progress in the employment of the energies of nature ; whilst it is up j to-date in the use of all new motive forces and the application of every scientific inivomtion or discovery 'that has practical value. The site of the exposition has been carefully planned, and every arran'gomont made for the safety, comfort, anij ccmvanien'ee of visitors to the eoJossnl showground, when, they come to i'lispcct the wonders contained within its enclosures. ON THE FOURTH PAGE, Tho Far East. Our Ltl'.pr-Box. Country News. Sporting. Girl in a 'trance. African Prospects.