Author: World's Columbian Exposition

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781332175222

Excerpt from Pamphlets, Broadsides, Clippings, and Other Miscellaneous Matter Sir. - In acoordance with the poroyisions of chapter 236 of the Laws of 1892, the board of general managere of the exhibit of the State of New York, at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, met and organized at the oapitol, in the city of Albany, on the 19th of April, 1892. The commissioners appointed, under the terms of the same act, from each judicial district ta the State, met mconference with the board of general managers at Albany, on April twentyeighth, and their mode of organization and sphere of action were duly prescribed. Pursuant to invitation, Hon. Greorge P.Davis, director-general of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, accompanied by F.J. V.Skiff, the chief of the depairtmeait of mines and mining, attended the meeting. After a full and free exchange of views between these officers of the Exposition and thje State managers and commissioners, it wais unanimously resolved, that, for the information of those chaiged with providing for the representation of the State at the Worlds Fair, a personal istudy should be made at Chicago of the methods, requirements, facilities and plans of the Exposition. Pepresentatives from the board of general managers and from each of the judicial distiict commissions, together with the chief executive officer and secretary of the board of general managers, accordingly met in Chica! on the lltli of May, 1892, and, after iting the Exposition grounds, conferred with the heads of tbe va, rious departm(mitis. Stenographic notes were taken of these conferences, and the result was a body of detailed information, more comprehensl eand exact than liad been compiled by any other State board. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.