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 CONTENTS. 
 
 Scope of the Exposition 1 
 
 The State Supports the Exposition 2 
 
 Approval of Charleston and other Cities 2 
 
 Special West Indian Commissioner 2 
 
 The Exposition Grounds 2 
 
 The Buildings 4 
 
 Woman's Department 7 
 
 The Architect 7 
 
 Pinehurst Tea Gardens 8 
 
 Avenue of States and Cities 8 
 
 Quaint Old Charleston 
 
 Charleston and the West Indies 9 
 
 The South in 1880, and "Twenty Years After" 10 
 
 Department of Exhibits and Concession! 
 
 General Exhibits 
 
 Official Classification of Exhibits. 
 
 Concessions 
 
 Classification of Concessions. .
 
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 LIBRARY 
 
 The South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian 
 Exposition, Charleston, S. C, Dec. 1, 1 90 1 , June 1, 1 902 
 
 Scope of the 
 Exposition. 
 
 SHE South Carolina Inter-State and West 
 Indian Exposition, which will be held in 
 the City of Charleston from December 1, 
 1901, to June 1, 1902, will reveal to the world the 
 marvellous development of the South in the last quar- 
 ter of the Nineteenth Century. From a purely 
 agricultural State, South Carolina has in the brief 
 period of twenty-five years, attained the position of 
 leading the Southern States in cotton manufactures, 
 and stands second only to Massachusetts in the 
 entire Union. But South Carolina is not the only 
 Southern State which has developed amazingly along 
 commercial lines in the same period, and so from a 
 South Carolina Exposition, it became an Inter-State 
 affair, and then there seemed no good reason why 
 the enormous resources of the United States as a 
 whole should not have a place in the picture. Tt also 
 seemed good and right to have all the great cities, as 
 well as the States of the Union represented in the 
 Avenue of Cities and States, and it appeared espec- 
 ially proper and feasible to show the resources and 
 industries of our new possessions in the West Indies, 
 of the Philippines, of Mexico, and of the South and 
 Central American Republics. Then it was proposed 
 that many of the specially interesting foreign exhib- 
 its should be removed from Paris to Charleston. 
 
 COPYKIOHf APPLIED FOR. 
 
 Thus the Exposition became national and even inter- 
 national in character. 
 
 The scope of the Exposition is thus very broad, and 
 while it was designed primarily to tell the world the 
 story of the great re volution in commercial conditions 
 which has taken place in the South during the last 
 quarter of the Nineteenth Century, it is also designed 
 to do far more than this. One of the main features 
 of the Exposition will be a Textile Building, in which 
 an object lesson will be given of the wonderful devel- 
 opment of cotton manufactures in the Sonth in the 
 past twenty years. Liberal space will be given to 
 exhibits of agricultural products peculiar to the 
 South, such as tea, hemp and tobacco, also to home 
 exhibits of non-agricultural products, such as phos- 
 phates; to exhibits of forestry, of fish and fisheries. 
 What South Carolina is accomplishing in the line of 
 education will be shown to the world, the varied re- 
 sources of each county in the State will be exploited 
 in detail, and the exhibit of live stock will be espec- 
 ially fine. The Good Roads Exhibit will prove of 
 paramount importance to the people of the country, 
 and above all the exhibits from Cuba, Porto Rico, the 
 Philippines, Mexico and the South and Central 
 American Republics will command the most general 
 and vital interest. Nor will this interest be aroused
 
 nr.ufly fnm cumsity with regard to foreign coun- 
 tries and to our new possessions, but the business 
 sense of the visitors to the Exposition will lead them 
 to observe with special attention all that points to a 
 further expansion of American trade and to new 
 markets for American manufactures. With Cuba 
 and Porto Rico importing most of their rice from the 
 British East Indies, and importing also all wheat, 
 corn, bread stuffs, hog and dairy products, in fact, 
 most of the necessai ies of life, and with all the West 
 Indian Islands impoiting and needing large and con- 
 stantly increasing supplies of cotton goods, there 
 should be a market for everything raised and pro- 
 duced in the South, and in America, at our very 
 doors. 
 
 e State ^ ne General Assembly of f-outh Carolina pas'ed a 
 
 jports f/irresolution in January, 1900, approving the project of 
 
 position, holding an Inter-State and International Exposition 
 
 in Charleston, and in January, 1901, passed an Act 
 
 appioprii.ting $50,000 forth** purpose of erecting a 
 
 Stale Building on the Exposition grounds and making 
 
 THE 4TATE CAPITOL AT COLUMBIA 
 
 a complete display of the products and resources of 
 the State. The resolution was adopted unanimously. 
 The Bill was passed almost without objection, the 
 vote in the State Senate being mote than four to one 
 in favor of the Bill, and in the House exactly four 
 to one. The Governor of the State has appointed a 
 Special Commission of five members to direct the 
 State exhibit. 
 
 on T ^ e ^ ity Council of Churleston has appropriated 
 d other f50,< 00 in aid of the Exposition, and has designated 
 ties. a Special Commission to assist the Exposition Com- 
 pany in its work. The Exposition has received the 
 
 cordial approval of 
 many of the largest 
 cities in the country 
 and the City of Bal- 
 timore, Man land, 
 will erect a building 
 on the Exposition 
 grounds for the pur- 
 pose of making an 
 exhibit of the re- 
 sources of Maryland 
 and the commercial 
 andindustrial wealth 
 of Baltimore. Other 
 special buildings on 
 the Exposition 
 grounds will be 
 erected by New York, 
 Philadelphia, Penn- 
 sylvania, Illinoisand 
 the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposiiion 
 Company, and assu- 
 rances have been received from a number of other 
 States of their intention to be represented at the Ex- 
 position in Charleston. 
 
 COL. JOH* H. AVERILL. 
 
 Mr. Theodore C. Kiwuff has been for months work- pet 
 
 Indian Com- 
 ing as a Special Commissioner of the Exposition to rniss cner. 
 
 the West Indies, Cuba and Puerto Rico. His large 
 experience in Expo-ition work and his familiarity 
 with the language and the commercial conditions of 
 the West Indies has enabled him to enlist the co-op- 
 eration of those whe are engaged in busings and 
 industrial occupations. 
 
 The site chosen by the Board of Directors for the 
 Exposition is a tract of about one hundred and sixty 
 acres of land on the eastern bank of the Ashley River 
 about two and aha'f miles from the business centre 
 of the city, and within the city limits. This tract of 
 land is considered by Mr. Bradford L. Gilbert, the 
 Supervising Architect of the South Carolina Inter- 
 State and West Indian Exposition, as constituting 
 an ideal site for the fairy-land of palaces nd towers 
 and gardens whk-h is springing up there like 
 maic under the touch of Twentieth Century wizards. 
 The slightly rolling country lends itself readily to 
 varied and artistic effects, and the magnificent live 
 oaks, with their shdowy and graceful pendants of 
 Spanish moss, constitute a feature which no money 
 could supply. The beautiful groves and green slopes 
 
 The Erposi- 
 
 sition 
 
 Grounds.
 
 of the Wag- 
 e n e r Farm 
 provide a per- 
 f e c t back- 
 ground for 
 the architect 
 and land- 
 scape gar- 
 dener to work 
 upon, and the 
 well wooded 
 country 
 around, and 
 the sparkling 
 river which 
 skirts the Ex- 
 p o s i t io n 
 grounds upon 
 the west, 
 while not ac- 
 tually part 
 and parcel of 
 the tract, fur- 
 nish no mean 
 setting for 
 the splendid 
 picture. 
 
 The Wagener Driving Park, which is included in 
 the Exposition grounds as Ihey now stand, forms an 
 important part of the grounds, and will be used as a 
 race course and improved for this purpose by the 
 Exposition Company. On the Wagener Farm there 
 stamls also an old colonial home which was the scene 
 of lavish comfort and open-hearted hospitality in 
 days gone by. This house is a good example of colo- 
 nial architecture, and will be used as the Woman's 
 Building. 
 
 The entire tract is easy of access from the city by 
 private conveyance or electric railroad system, and 
 from other points by steam railway on the east side, 
 and by water transportation from the west side of the 
 Ashley River, the grounds having a river frontage of 
 about 2,000 feet, and the river at this point affording 
 anchorage for the largest vessels. 
 
 The making of a lake some thirty acres in extent 
 constitutes an important feature of the work, and the 
 planting of indigenous plants and vines, which, in 
 this genial clime, grow vigorously and thrive even 
 during the winter months, has been accomplished. 
 
 OAPT. F. W. WAQiNIR, 
 PBHIDIHT EXPOtlTION CO. 
 
 The principal buildings of the Exposition are eleven 
 iif number. By a happy accidental shaping of the 
 irregular tract constituting the site, it has been pos- 
 
 sible to treat it after two distinct methods, by one of 
 which the natural features are emphasized and pre- 
 served, while the other is treated entirely from the 
 standpoint of art. In the northern division of the 
 site nature has accomplished results and made possi- 
 ble landscape effects which it would take Centuries to 
 reproduce, even at an enormous outlay. For this 
 reason this half of the Exposition grounds will form 
 a natural park of great beauty. Instead of the usual 
 dusty, blinding, tiresome, shadeless roadway, a wind- 
 ing path of 100 feet in width will be carried under 
 the spreading live oaks along the edge of the lake 
 with sea's in shady nooks for tired pedestrians, where 
 those who are capable of appreciating the work of the 
 Architect of the Universe in all its magnificent sim- 
 plicity may enjoy a sense of repose. Through the 
 foliage, placed here and there upon appropriate ped- 
 estals, will be found interesting groups of statuary 
 by the most celebrated sculptors. 
 
 On account of its 
 peculiarly "South- 
 ern atmosphere" no 
 comparison can be 
 made, nor is desired, 
 with any other Ex- 
 position, and the 
 South Carolina In- 
 ter-State and West 
 Indian Exposition 
 will have the advan- 
 tage of certain per- 
 fecrly original feat- 
 ures impossible else- 
 where. 
 
 Undoubtedly 
 Charleston is one of 
 the most interesting 
 of the older South- 
 ern cities, contain- 
 ing as it does so 
 many quaint, pic- 
 turesque bits of 
 
 architectural design of strictly colonial type. 
 These it is proposed to emphasize and thus carry 
 out the predominating feature of the Exposition in 
 harmony. 
 
 In the natural division of the grounds will be a Lake 
 with a wide embankment. In this Lake will b Elec- 
 trical Island, on which will stand an Electrical Foun- 
 tain of unique and symbolic design. This Lake has 
 been fancifully named by the Architect "Lake Juan- 
 ita." and upon its eastern shore the Maryland Build- 
 ing, a siructure of classic design, has been erected. 
 
 JOHN F. FICKEN, 
 GtNlRAL COUNSEL EXPOSITION CO.
 
 On the opposite side of this Lake the Machinery and 
 Transportation Buildines have been erected. 
 
 These buildings, which are rather long nd low in 
 outline, will gain height and grace from the reflec- 
 tions in the.'Lake, while at night the rows ol lights 
 
 THE COTTON PALACE. 
 
 of varied hues carried along the buildings, and sus- 
 pended in the trees will add enchantment to the 
 scene. In this part of the grounds there is a 
 grand avenue dedicated to States and Cities. 
 
 The Negro Building is, in its general architectural 
 features, of the Spanish Renaissance 
 order, of a strongly Mexican mission 
 type. The building will be some- 
 thing like the letter H in general 
 outline. It will have two wings en- 
 closing an inner court, and will con- 
 tain twelve thousand square feet 
 of space. The exhibit made in this 
 building is designed to show the de- 
 velopment of the negro race in the 
 last twenty-five years. No man of 
 his race is better able to handle this 
 project than Booker T. Washing- 
 ton, the head of the Negro Depart- 
 ment. 
 
 The Art Building, Fisheries Build 
 ing and the Grand Stand from which 
 the sports and contests on the race 
 track can be viewed, also occupy 
 this part of the grounds. 
 
 The present homestead, with all its delightful color 
 and outlines, will be retained for the Woman's 
 Building of the South Carolina Inter-State und West 
 
 Indian Exposition. The Architect has designed a 
 very handsome annex to this building in harmony 
 with its true colonial lin^s. 
 
 On the Ashley Ri'-er side of this property a sea wall 
 has been built for the purpose of utility as forming 
 an axis upon which the State and 
 Art Buildings'will parallel. 
 
 A pier has been carried out far 
 enough into the river to admit of the 
 landing~of vessels'and boats. 
 
 Indirect contrast, the southernlside 
 of the grounds, comprising the level 
 land of thelold Washington Race 
 Course, is treated according to. the 
 rules of the highest type of art. 
 Grouped around the." four sides of a 
 beautiful plaza are the principal Ex- 
 position buildings. While each is 
 designed with an individual treat- 
 ment, they form together a harmoni- 
 ous whole, the entire effect leading 
 up by natural gradations to the Tex- 
 tile BuUdingor Cotton Palace, which 
 covers over 50,000 square feet of 
 ground, and will prove the most im- 
 posing and impressive of the structures. This 
 building rises to a height 1 of 160 feet and shows a 
 facade of over 360 ft- et, broken by various'pediments, 
 projections, dome-, red-tiled roofs and turrets, in] a 
 typically Southern style of architecture. The_motif 
 
 TMI PALACE Of A*T. 
 
 is Spanish-American with huge masses, simple and 
 strong contour and outlines, with enrichments of 
 terraces and sculpture at various entrances and initial
 
 points. Ita entire Court or Patio (100 feet in diam- 
 eter), will be filled with tropical plants and enriched 
 by fountains. At the right of the plaza, the Com- 
 merce, or Liberal Arts Building, will be erected. 
 Opposite this will be the building devoted to Agri- 
 
 cultural and similar exhibits, containing over 43.COO 
 square feet of floor area At the northern end of the 
 plaza will be the Auditorium, with a seating capacity 
 of nearly 4,000, in which will be placed the grand 
 organ now being specially constructed by M. P. Mol- 
 ler, of Hagerstown, Maryland, for the Exposition. 
 A careful study of this grand plaza or Court of Honor 
 will easily demonstrate the many points of interest 
 obtainable. While the buildings will be separated by 
 several hundred feet, the colonnade connecting the 
 three principal structures will euhance the continuity 
 and give repose and dignity to the design. 
 
 The plaza between the buildings occupies a length 
 of nearly 1,200 feet and a width of over 90U feet. At 
 its center, some 7liO feet in length by 45t) feet in 
 width, there is a beautiful sunken garden with slop- 
 ing terraces of verdant green. 
 
 On the edge of this garden, around its sides, will 
 be carried lines of stalely paluiettoes, with walks and 
 sets between, forming a fringe of delightful outline 
 and coloring, through which can be seen the build- 
 iugs themselves rich in design and color. Carried 
 entirely around thtse gardens, and opening off the 
 principal avenues of approach will be a continuous 
 plaza smoothly paved, over 150 feet in width, en- 
 riched on either side at intervals by ever-blooming 
 flowers, masses of green lawn, and here and there at 
 points of interest groups of statuary set off against the 
 green of the foliage. At night the beauties of the 
 sunken garden and the lights and shades of the build- 
 ings will be emphasized by search lights in all direc- 
 tions. 
 
 At the entrance to the Exposition grounds stands 
 the Administration Building, covering about 15,000 
 square feet. The first impression on entering the 
 grounds at any of the entrances will be one of im- 
 pressive magnificence. The building devoted to 
 Minerals and Forestry, covering an 
 area of 20,000 square feet, stands oppo- 
 site the Administration Building. The 
 impo-ing entrance of the Midway will 
 open off the ?atne plaza. About 22 
 acres of ground has been devoted to the 
 various Midway attractions, always one 
 of the most interesting and instructive 
 of modern Expositions. 
 
 Opposite this entrance will be found 
 another entrance of different design, 
 but equally appropriate treatment, 
 leading to the Live Stock Exhibit, 
 for which 15 acres of ground have been 
 set aside. 
 
 In addition to the Grand Band Stand, 
 placed at the northern end of the gardens, on 
 the plaza, other stands will be erected throughout 
 
 THI MAT OMAN AT THI AUDITORIUM. 
 
 the grounds, where those who enjoy outdoor music 
 may do so to their heart's content. 
 
 The buildings will be constructed of a strong tim- 
 ber frame work with such iron M may be required for
 
 stiffness and additional strength, and the entire ex- 
 posed surfaces will be covered with what is now gen- 
 erally known as "staff." The predominating colors 
 
 ADMINISTRATION BUILDINQ. 
 
 will be a soft ivory with white trimming?, and in 
 many cases a color enrichment in shades of red and 
 orange. 
 
 -,, The Woman's Department of the South Carolina 
 
 Woman's Inter-State and West Indian Exposition has been 
 
 Z?ep,rf>7ienr.organized, with Mrs. Sarah Calhoun Simonds as its 
 
 head. A number of committees have been formed to 
 
 have charge^of the various departments of music, fine 
 
 OLONIAL CHURCH OF tT. JAMM, QOOtt CMIIK 1714. 
 
 the old Colonial home which already stands on the 
 Exposition grounds, and it is expected to be one of 
 the most complete ever made. The women of 
 Charleston have taken hold of the 
 Exposition idea with charac- 
 teristic spirit and ability. Already 
 a considerable sum has been raised 
 through their unceasing efforts, and 
 the prospect now is that^the _work 
 accomplished by them 4 will>e fully 
 equal in extent and importance to 
 the work which the men are so ably 
 accomplishing. The women of the 
 State have also formed themselves 
 into committees and have ardently 
 taken up the work of pi oviding for 
 and collecting worthy exhibits from 
 the various counties of the State. 
 The women of Baltimore and other 
 cities have also interested them- 
 selves in the movement to a con-id- 
 erable extent. 
 
 arts, floriculture, etc., and the Colonial Dames of 
 Charleston will have charge of the Colonial exhibit. 
 This exhibit will be housed in three of the rooms of 
 
 Mr. Bradford L. Gilbert, the Architect-in-Chief of 
 the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian 
 Exposition, is a native of New York City. In 1875, 
 he was graduated f iom Yale College with honors, and 
 then took a special course in architecture, after which 
 he entered the firm of Cady, Burgh & Company, of 
 New York City. While connected with this firm Mr. 
 Gilbert had a share in the building of the Metropoli- 
 tan Opera House and other important architectural 
 work in New York. 
 
 Mr. Gilbert has made a specialty of heavy construc- 
 tion work, such as churches and public buildings. 
 He has devoted in jch time to the solution of intricate 
 problems in the construction of railroad stations and 
 terminals, and is now employed as the architect of 
 about a dozen of the leading railroad systems of the 
 country. Among the more impottant buildings that 
 have been constructed from Mr. Gilbert's designs and 
 under his supervision are the general offices of the 
 Mexican National Railway, in the Ciiy of Mexico, 
 the new depot at Concord, New Hampshire, and the 
 office and terminal building of the Illinois Central 
 and Big Four and the Michigan Central at Chicago. 
 Mr. Gilbert has recently reconstructed the Grand 
 Central Depot in New York City, and has received 
 unqualified praise for the fine artistic taste and busi- 
 ness ability displayed by him in this work. 
 
 Mr. Gilbert is especially fitted for the position he 
 holds in th South Carolina Inter-State and West In- 
 dian Exposition, by rtaaon of his large experience in
 
 Exposition building. At the World's Fair at Chi- 
 cago, he gave:evidence!of,his capacity in this particu- 
 lar kind of construction, and fifteen of the more im- 
 portant buildings of the great Cotton Exposition held 
 at Atlanta, in 1895, were made from his designs and 
 under his supervision. He is thoroughly satisfied with 
 
 MACHINERY BUILDING. 
 
 the artistic possibilities of the site chosen for the 
 South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposi- 
 tion, and has employed in his work at Charleston the 
 most capable designers and architects to be found in 
 the South and in the United States. 
 
 neharst The only commercial tea grown in the Western 
 a. Gardens Hemisphere is that produced at the Pinehurst Te.i 
 Gardens, a short distance from Charleston. This ex- 
 hibit will be absolutely unique, and will, no doubt, 
 prove one of intense interest to visitors. It will be 
 both scientific and commercial in character. The tea 
 plant will be shown growing upon the Exposition 
 grounds, and the various processes of picking, drying, 
 curing and packing will be practically illustrated for 
 the benefit of visitors. To the thoughtful mind this 
 exhibit will be one of exceptional value as offering a 
 new field to industry and capital, supplying an easy 
 and healthful livelihood to idle thousands, and im- 
 parting a value to immense tracts of now waste lands. 
 
 itnuc of 
 
 ites a.nd 
 Kes. 
 
 Twenty-four btates and cities of the United States 
 hare made provision for State Buildings or State ex- 
 hibits at the Exposition. New York has appro- 
 priated $16,000 for a State Building and State ex- 
 hibit; Maryland $25,000 for the same purpose.: 
 Philadelphia $35,00< for a Philadelphia Building and 
 
 a splendid ubibit of the historic and art treasures 
 of that city, with the Liberty Bell set in the midst 
 thereof. The Slate of Illinois has appropriated 
 $25,00(1 for a State Building ai Charleston; the State 
 of Pennsylvania $35,000 for the like purpose; the 
 State of Kansas has appropriated $M),00<> for an ex- 
 hibit at Charleston and the State of 
 Oregon, $'<J5,COO. The State of 
 North Carolina will make an exhibit 
 costing from $?5,(:0' to $100,000. 
 The Slate of Missouri ha-< appropri- 
 ated $10,000 for a State Building 
 at Charleston, and the Louisiana Pur- 
 chase Exposition Company will erect 
 a building at Charleston at a cost of 
 $10,000. Louisiana and Georgia 
 and Alabama have provided for ex- 
 hibits at Charleston, and a string of 
 other States and Cities will be rep- 
 resented at the South Carolina Inter- 
 .state and West Indian Exposition. 
 The value of these exhibits to 
 home-seekers and capitalists cannot 
 be over estimated. 
 
 Charleston belongs to the best type of the old colo- Quaint Old 
 nial cities of the United States. Settled in 1670 it Charleston. 
 was moved to its present site in 1672 and lies on the 
 narrow neck of land between the Ashley, and^the 
 
 A CORNER IN COLONIAL LAKt. 
 
 Cooper Rivers, very much as New York lies between 
 the East and North Rivers. It contains Pome fln* 
 specimens of old colonial architecture and is a city of
 
 sunshine and roses, being famous for its bright and 
 genial winter climate and for its rose gardens. It is 
 a city of safe, conservative business methods; its 
 prosperity is real and substantial, but its inhabitants, 
 while eminently social and hospitable in tempera- 
 ment, are not given to display. Some of its institu- 
 tions and customs are survivals from an old-world 
 past and full of interest and charm to the lover of 
 the olden time. 
 
 On the Ashley and the Cooper are the old baronial 
 estates of the wealthy rice planters and slave owners 
 who once constituted the aristocratic cla's of South 
 Carolina. Many of these fertile old plantations hav 
 been abandoned because of new conditions, but 
 many are still occupied by families that have owned 
 them for two centuries, and within these homes, if 
 one can gain admission there, may be seen such won- 
 derful antique furniture, old portraits and mi natures 
 and other relics of colonial days as would delight the 
 heart of the collector. 
 
 The harbor of Charleston is one of the most spacious 
 and beautiful on the Atlantic Coast. With 30 feet 
 of water on the bar, and an open port all the year 
 round, and with its nearness to our new market in the 
 West Indies, Charleston is destined to hold a com- 
 manding position among Atlantic commercial ports 
 in the Twentieth Century. 
 
 St. Michael's Church is one of the oldest and most 
 interesting churches in Charleston. It attracts the 
 attention of every visitor by the 
 graceful lines of its steeple and 
 by the sweet chiming of its bells. 
 The romantic incidents connected 
 with the?e chimes add much to 
 the attractions of the old church 
 itself. St. Michael'* was opened 
 for service in 1761. Battered by 
 shot and shell during two wars, 
 shattered by the terrible earth- 
 quake of 1883, it still remains 
 the pride of the modern Charles- 
 tonian, as it has been that of 
 generations passed away. 
 
 T. MICHAIL'S CHURCH. 
 
 The South Carolina Inter-State 
 and West Indian Exposition 
 will afford a splendid opportunity 
 for the extension of industrial and commercial enter- 
 prise in the West Indies and in Central and South 
 America. These countries have a population 
 of more than 50,000,000, living in lands un- 
 
 suited to the production of bread^tuffs and meet 
 and the manufacturing of cloth, but producing 
 in abundance coffee, sugar, fruit, tobacco and 
 other articles in general consumption in the 
 country. The City of Charleston is admirably 
 adapted to the development of the most intimate 
 
 DOME OF THE AOMIM JTRATION BUILDING. 
 
 trade relations with these countries. For example, 
 the distance from Havana to Cincinnati by way of 
 Charleston is 300 miles less than by way of Baltimore ; 
 500 miles less than by way of New York and 500 
 miles less than byway of Boston. Charleston has 
 the same advantage as regards the whole of the West 
 Indies and Central and South America, and, with any- 
 thing like a proper development of railroad lines, 
 even the Gulf ports, with all their admitted advan- 
 tages, should not be able to compete successfully 
 With Charleston as a port through which to transact 
 an immense West Indian and South American busi- 
 less. To Charleston the voyage is less perilous and 
 nsurance and other charges should be much less to 
 his port than to the Gulf ports. As compared with 
 hese latter ports, Charleston has no equal as a desir- 
 able outlet for the products of the great West. By 
 Bailing vessel the run from Charleston to the British 
 ports is ten days less than from New Orleans, and 
 this difference alone ought to be sufficient to make 
 it to the interest of the West to trade through Charles- 
 ton. 
 
 The nearness of Charleston to the new West Indian 
 possessions of the United States, the safety of navi-
 
 gation and the fine railroad and terminal facilities 
 of this port wilFmake this Exposition of special value 
 and importance to Southern manufacturers and mer- 
 chants for the development cf new and larger trade 
 relations with the West Indies. Cuba is an immensely 
 rich countrr, its soil being so exceedingly fertile that 
 sugar cane has been grown in the same fields for cen- 
 turies wilhout the aid of fertilizers, and although the 
 industries of that country have been fearfully devas- 
 tated by war, under the never nd better conditions 
 of independence the re is every reason to believe that 
 the development of Cuba within the rear future win 
 far exceed the wildest dreams of the enthusiast. Be- 
 sides the immensely rich products of the Cuban sugar 
 and tobf ceo fields, the weeded weaJth of Cuba and 
 its orchards and vineyards offer spl< ndid opportuni- 
 ties for the investment of .American capital and de- 
 velopm^ent by~American energy. Wit ha population! 
 tJy~the~liTsTSfarmh census, of 1,681,687, and wilhout 
 manufacturing establishments of their own, a splen- 
 did field is waiting in Cuba for occupation by : the 
 manufacturers of the United States, ard particularly 
 by the manufacturers of cot con goods in the Southern 
 part < f this country. 
 
 There is a fine field also in Porto Rico for Ameri- 
 can occupation not occupation by arms, or as the 
 result of military conquest, but occupation by the 
 merchants and manufacturers of the United States 
 and particularly of i he merchants and manufacturers 
 of the Southern States. With a population, by the 
 last Spanish census, of 814,708, all of whom have to 
 be clothed and fed, there is a market for United 
 States manufactured goods and food materials which 
 would yield a most handsome revenue to this country 
 if it were diligently cultivated. 
 
 As it is in the West Indies so it is also in the South 
 
 American countries where there has been slight manu- 
 facturing development, but where there a*e millirrs 
 of people who ought to wear clothes and who have a 
 great deal to exchange for them in the way of barter 
 and' trade. It is one of the thief purposes of the 
 Exposition at Charleston to open a way for the mer- 
 chants and manufacturers and industrial workers of 
 the United States to enlarge these new lines and 
 markets for the sale of American products ard the 
 exchange in return of what is grown in the countries 
 to the South of us. It is for this reason that the 
 name of the Exposition at Charleston was made "The 
 
 South Carolina Intfr- State and West Indian Exposi- 
 tion." 
 
 Capital invested in 
 manufactures 
 
 Factory wages paid . 
 
 Value of manufactured 
 products 
 
 Cotton crop, in bait s . . 
 
 Capital invested in 
 cotton mills 
 
 Consumption of cotton 
 in Southern States 
 in bales 
 
 Cotton spindles in 
 Southern States 
 
 Coal mine 1 in Southern 
 States in tors 
 
 Pig iron, manufac- 
 tured in tons 
 
 Phosphate rock mined 
 intons 
 
 Grain crop of South- 
 ern States in bushels. 
 
 Railroad mileage in 
 Southern States 
 
 Capital invested in 
 cotton-seed oil manu- 
 facture. . 
 
 1880 1900 The South 
 
 in 1880, 
 
 $257,000,OCO $1.COO,000,(00 "Twenty 
 | 75,000,000 $350,0(0,0(0 Years 
 
 cAfter." 
 
 $457,000,000 $], 500, (00,000 
 5,750,000 11,274,(HO 
 
 $ 21,900,(00 $125,000,000 
 
 233,000 
 
 667,000 
 
 6,000,000 
 
 397.0CO 
 
 7*0,000 
 
 431,0(0,000 
 
 Z I 20,6(0 
 
 l,4f 0,000 
 
 5,000,000 
 
 40,000,000 
 
 2,500,000 
 
 2*000,000 
 
 ;36,f 00,000 
 
 60,000 
 
 $ 3,500,000 $ 40, 000, COO 
 
 Among 1 the altn cti\e structures en 
 the ground? will lie tbe Guatemala Other 
 Building, which will be erected at a cost /"_,,_/./ 
 ot e veial thous-ai.d dcllais, and will { ^ ut 
 conti.in as an addition a restaurant JKepresentea 
 wlieie Guatemala dLhes will be served 
 and (iuaUiLaJa pictiucts exhibited. 
 The atu-ncunts will be Guatemalan 
 m n and wcnjin in native costumes 
 and the mi sic will beluinisbed duriig 
 tlie Expo.- it on pined by a band of 
 Guatemalan mut-icians. 
 
 Another attractive feature of the Ex- 
 position will be the Honduras Uuilding, 
 which will be filled with products of 
 that country. This builtiinp will be a 
 very large stiuctureof handsome arch- 
 itt cture and exquisite finish. 
 
 Far ttway Alasl-a willh.-.vea special 
 build i ny on the grounds in which will 
 be collected a mobt comprehensive ex- 
 hibit of Alaskan pi oductsand resources 
 and curiosities tl.at has-evtr been made. 
 The Alaska Building will be modelled 
 alter tre First Presbyterian Church 
 building at Juneau, in that country.
 
 DEPARTMENT OE EXHIBTS AND CONCESSIONS. 
 
 Exhibits. Live exhibits, showing machinery in operation 
 * and methods and process of manufacture, are 
 especially des-ired. 
 
 Power will be obtainable in all the principal 
 buildings of the Exposition. 
 
 Loan exhibits accepted by the Manager of the 
 Department of Exhibits will be cared for without 
 expense to the owner. 
 
 Works of art will be admitted in the Fine Arts 
 Department whether previously exhibited or not. 
 
 Arrangements with transportation lines will be 
 made to obtain the very best possible rates in 
 regard to the carriage of exhibits to and from the 
 Exposition. 
 
 The Exposition buildings and grounds will be 
 constituted a bonded store for articles exhibited 
 from foreign countries. 
 
 An Inter-State Jury of Awards will be formed. 
 
 An Official Catalogue will be published. 
 
 Space will be assigned free of charge to exhibits 
 of the natural products of a State or Territory 
 when such exhibits are made by a recognized rep- 
 resentative thereof, or, in his absence, by a State 
 or County agricultural, horticultural, foresty or 
 dairy association. 
 
 Space assigned to individual exhibits will 
 charged for at the following rates : 
 
 For ordinary floor space in buildings, $i for 
 each square foot, 
 
 For wall space, 50 cents for each square foot. 
 
 For special positions on centre aisle, isolated 
 apace or corner lot. an increase will be charged 
 above the quoted rate. 
 
 For space in grounds, 50 cents for each square 
 foot. 
 
 The minimum application for space that will 
 be accepted will be for twenty square feet. Any 
 fraction of a foot will be computed as a whole 
 foot. Governments and large exhibitors will be 
 granted liberal allowances, provided their appli- 
 cations are filed at an early date. 
 
 Upon receipt of the notication of acceptance of 
 the application by the Manager of the Department 
 of Exhibits, a remittance of one-fourth of the 
 total amount due for the space must be made, the 
 balance will be payable upon receipt of the notifi- 
 cation of the allottment of space. 
 
 The Exposition authorities reserve to them- 
 selves the right to accept or reject any application 
 for exhibits or concessions, and also reserve to 
 themselves the right of examining or testing any 
 exhibit. 
 
 The grounds will be illuminated generally. 
 Should extra lights be required, same can be ob- 
 tained upon application and payment of fixed 
 rates. 
 
 NOTE. As an EXHIBITOR may not deliver, 
 under hisexhibits space contract any article from 
 an exhibits space during the lifetime of the Expo- 
 sition, said exhibitor must, if he wishes to sell and 
 dtliver articles from his exhibits space, secure a 
 sales concession and become a sales concessionaire. 
 
 BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE: 
 
 Division I. Agricultural and Dairy Products. 
 II. Agricultural Implements and Ma- 
 chinery. 
 
 III. Mve Stock. 
 
 IV. Foods and their accessories. 
 V. Horticulture. 
 
 UREAU OP FORESTRY, FISH AND MINES: 
 
 Division VI. Forestry and Forest Products. 
 VII. Fish and Fisheries. 
 VIII. Mines and Metallurgy. 
 
 UREAU OF MACHINERY AND ELECTRICITY. 
 Division IX. Machinery. 
 
 X. Electricity and Electrical Ap- 
 pliances. 
 
 BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION, EXHIBITS, GOOD 
 
 ROADS AND ORDNANCE. 
 DivisijnXl. Transportation Exhibits and 
 
 Good Itoads Exhibits. 
 XII. Ordnance and Munitions of 
 War. 
 
 BUREAU OF MANUFACTURES AMD GRAPHIC ARTS: 
 Division XIII. Manufactures. 
 XIV. Graphic Arts. 
 
 BUREAU OF LIBERAL ARTS, ETHNOLOGY AND 
 
 ARCHAEOLOGY: 
 Division XV. Liberal Arts. 
 
 XVI. Ethnology and Archaeology. 
 
 BUREAU OF COLLECTIVE EXHIBITS : 
 
 Division XVII. State Collective Exhibits. 
 
 XVIII. County Collective Exhibits. 
 XIX. City Collective Exhibits. 
 XX. Cuba and Porto Rico Collec- 
 tive Exhibits. 
 
 XXI. Philippines and Hawaii. 
 XXII. Foreign Exhibits. 
 
 NOTE. Dairy Products in Division I, and Live 
 Stock in Division III will be under a separate De- 
 partment called the DEPARTMENT OF LIVE STOCK. 
 
 Space on Midway will be charged for at the rate 
 of $15 per foot front, and any reasonable depth of 
 lot will be allowed. 
 
 ( Concessionaires will pay such space rental else- 
 \there as may be agreed upon with Exposition 
 Company. 
 
 A concessionaire shall, when making application 
 for space, submit a statement in detail of the pro- 
 posed concession and a sketch and a description 
 of the building or installations to be erected. 
 
 No concessionaire will be allowed to sell, assign 
 or sublet his contract or a concession granted 
 thereunder. 
 
 Concessionaires will equip or provide the neces- 
 sary plant or appliances called for under their con- 
 tract for the prompt and satisfactory carrying out 
 of same. 
 
 Concessionaires selling foreign goods must abide
 
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 tion of 
 \cessions. 
 
 by the regulations issued by the Secretary of tie 
 Treasury of the United States, besides conform- 
 ing to the rules and regulations issued by th 
 management. 
 
 The installation of power, light, heat, water or 
 compressed air plants belonging to concessionaires 
 shall be erected by and at the expense of conces- 
 sionaires in a manner satisfactory to the manage- 
 ment, and according to plans submitted for its ap- 
 proval. 
 
 Concessionaires will keep a true and full account 
 of receipts from all sources in such manner as shall 
 be indicated by their contract with the Exposition 
 Company and shall keep their account books open 
 at all times to the inspection of the management. 
 Concessionaires shall pay the wages of such cash- 
 iers, ticket sellers and ticket collectors as may b; 
 required or appointed by the Exposition Com- 
 pany, and also the rental of a'l cash boxes, cash 
 registers and turnstiles required to be used by the 
 management. 
 
 All payments must be made according to terms 
 of contract. A concessionaire having a contract 
 with the Exposition Company by which any per- 
 centage on rece ptsis payable to same, will be re- 
 quired to conduct all operations in such a manner 
 and to charge such prices as shall be approved by 
 the management, said percentage to be paid by the 
 concessionaire each day to the Exposition Com- 
 pany at such time and in such manner as shall be 
 decided by the management. 
 
 Concessionaires shall give bond in such amount, 
 as the Exposition Company may require, condi- 
 tioned for the faithful performance of all the terms, 
 agreements and stipulations to be performed by 
 the concessionaire under his contract. Either one 
 of the following methods of giving bond will be 
 accepted. 
 
 First A bond with two sureties, said sureties to 
 be approved of by the Exposition Company. 
 
 Second. A bond of a guarantee company ap- 
 proved by the Exposition Company. 
 
 Third. Concessionaires may purchase a suffi- 
 cient number of the income bonds of the South 
 Carolina Inter State and West Indian Exposition 
 Company as may be agreed upon with the Expo- 
 sition Company, and deposit said bonds with the 
 Exposition Company as security for the fulfill- 
 ment of the contract. 
 
 A. Manufacturing Concessions. 
 
 B. Amusement Concessions. 
 
 C. Alimentary Concessions, 
 
 D. Sales Concessions. 
 
 E. Service Concessions. 
 
 The following Departments are operated separ- 
 ately from the Department ol Exhibits and Con- 
 
 Woman's Depirtment. 
 Fine Arts Department. 
 Negro Department. 
 Live Stock Department. 
 Textile Department. 
 
 All correspondence relating to either of these 
 five Departments must be addressed respectively 
 to each of the Departments. 
 
 NOTK. Application blanks for space for Ex' 
 hibits or Concessions, the Classification of Ex" 
 hibits by groups and classes, and the Rules and 
 Regulations governing Exhibits and those govern- 
 ing concessions will be forwarded on application. 
 
 All correspondence relating to Exhibits and 
 Concessions must be addressed to E. L. TESSIHR, 
 Jr.. Manager Department of Exhibits and Conces- 
 sions, Charleston, S. C. 
 
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 OFFICERS 
 
 South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition 
 
 P. W. WAGENER, PRESIDENT. 
 
 W. H. WELCH, VIOE-PRBBIDBNT. 
 SAMUEL H. WILSON, TREASURER. 
 
 
 JOHN H. AVERILL, DiRBCTOB-GHNE 
 JNO. F. FICKEN. GEN EHAL COUNSEL. 
 
 J. C. HEMPHILL, MANAGER DIPAKTMBST OF PrTBLiomr AND PBOMOTION. 
 E. H. PHINGLE, MANAGER DBPARTHMNI OF WATS AND MEANS. 
 E. L. TE83IER, JR., MANAGES DBPAKTMKNT OF EXHIBITS AND CONCESSIONS, 
 JOHN F. FICKEN, MANAG*R DBPARTMINT OF LAW AND LEGISLATION. 
 D. A. TOMPKINS, CHARLOTTE, N, C., MANAGER OF TEXTILE DEPARTMENT. 
 JAMES B. TOWNSEND, NEW YORK Crnr, DIRECTOR OF ARTS, 
 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 F. W. WAGEWBR, of F. W. Waganer ft Co., Wholesale Grocers. 
 
 W. H. WELCH, of Welch ft Bason, Wholesale Grocers, 
 
 SAMUEL LAPHAM, Chairman Ways and Means Committee, Charleston City Council. 
 
 J. C. HBMPHILL, Managing Editor of The News and Courier. 
 
 J. L. DAVID, of J. L. David ft Bro., Clothieii. 
 
 C. S. GADSDEN, President of Charleston aid Savannah and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads. 
 
 JNO. F. FICKBN, Ex-Mayor and Attorney at Law. 
 
 FRANCIS K. CARET, President Charleston Consolidated Railway, Baltimore, Md. 
 
 WILIB JONES. Cashier Carolina National Bank, Columbia, 8. C. 
 
 General Auditor P. J. BALAGUBR. 
 Chief Cltrk and Acting Auditor H. B. JENNINGS. 
 
 Archltect-in-Chief BRADFORD L. GILBEBT. Superintendent of Grounds W. J. CRAIG. 
 
 Superintendent of Light and Power CHARLES T. MALCOLMSON. 
 
 The Exposition Auxiliary Board. 
 
 Chairman J. W. BARNWELL, Charleston S. C. 
 Vice-Chairman GBORGB W. WILLIAMS, Jr., Charleston, 8. C. 
 ABCH. B. CALVERT, Spartanburg, e>. C. 
 Secretary DANIEL L. SINKLBR, Charleston, S. C. 
 
 Woman's Department. 
 
 President MRS. SARAH CALHOUN SIMONDS. 
 Secretary MRS. W. A. PRINGLE. 
 Treasurer Miss HENRIETTA MURDOCH. 
 
 South Carolina State Commission. 
 
 HON. M. B. MoSwEBNET, Governor, Chairman. 
 CAPT. F. W. WAGBNER. JOHN B. CLBVELAND. 
 
 Louis APPELT. THOMAS WILSON. 
 
 Secretary AUGUST KOHN. 
 
 Charleston City Commission. 
 
 Hon. J. ADGER SMTTH, Mayor, Chairman. 
 C. S. GADSDEN. F. Q. O'NEILL. 
 
 Beard of South Carolina County Commissioners. 
 
 HON. C. 8. McCALL, Bennettsville, S. C., Chairman. 
 F. Q. O'HEILL, Charleston, Vioe-Chairman. 
 H. M. ATBK, Florence, 8. C., Secretary. 
 
 Maryland State Commission. 
 
 GEN. FERDINAND C. LATROBK. GEN. JOHN GILL. 
 
 RBTTBBN FOSTER. GEN. LI.OYD L. JACKSON. 
 
 SAMUEL ROSENTHAL, Jr. ROBERT OBKR. 
 
 EDWAKD L. BARTLETT. FRANKLIN P. CATOK. 
 
 FRANCIS K. CARET. 
 
 North Carolina State Commission. 
 
 GEN. JULIAN 8. CABR, Durham. THAD. R. MANNING, Hende: 
 W. L. HILL, Warsaw. WILLIAM DUNN, New Bern 
 
 F. A. OLDS, Raleigh. 
 
 OSMOND BARRINGER, Charlotte. 
 
 8. P. RAVENBL, Jr., Highla 
 W. C. HEATH, Monroe. 
 
 E. K. PROCTOR, Jr., Lumberton. 
 
 Georgia State Commission. 
 
 HON. W. A. HEMPHILL, Atlanta, Chairman. 
 
 O. B. STBVENS, Commissioner of Agriculture, Secretary. 
 
 State Geologist YEATES. 
 
 Louisiana State Commission. 
 MAJ. J. G. L, New Orleans. DB. W. C. STTTBBS, Baton Re 
 
 State Commissioners. 
 
 ALABAMA W. H. KBTTIG, Birmingham. 
 ARKANSAS JUDGE FRANK HILL, Little Rock. 
 MICHIGAN FRED. MARQUAND BENHAM, CharleTotr. 
 RHODE ISLAND GEORGE N. KINGSBUHT. 
 SOUTH CAROLINA GEN. E. W. MOISE. 
 TENNESSEE J. B. WHTTBHEAD, Chattanooga. 
 VERMONT ARTHUR F. STONE, St. Johnsbury. 
 VIRGINIA S. MURRELL, Fontella. 
 WASHINGTON A. J. BLKTHKN, Seattle. 
 WYOMING W. D. PICKETT, Wise, Big Horn Co. 
 
 Special Commissioners. 
 
 U. H. AUBRBT. H. B. SCHOCH. THBO. 0. EJTA 
 
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