APPENDIX. 
NOTES CONCERNING ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. 
The Universal Exposition to be held in St. Louis, 1904, is 
the largest world’s fair ever projected. The fundamental ap¬ 
propriation consists of $15,000,000; $5,000,000 of which is 
subscribed by the citizens of St. Louis and the Louisiana 
Territory, $5,000,000 a grant from the city of St. Louis, and 
$5,000,000 a grant from the government of the United States. 
In addition to this, there will be an excess amount received 
on the sale of $250,000 worth of souvenir coins, the face value 
of which coins will form a part of the government appropria¬ 
tion. The government has also appropriate $1,308,000 addi¬ 
tional to erect a government building and to pay the cost of 
the preparation of the government exhibits to be installed 
therein. When it is stated that the Chicago Exposition of 
1893 had for a basic appropriation $11,000,000 and the Paris 
Exposition as a basic appropriation $12,000,000, the extent 
of the St. Louis organization may be judged. The fair is pro¬ 
jected on a $30,000,000 scale. 
The grounds which comprise 1,130 acres, are situated in the 
western part of Forest Park, which is in the extreme western 
portion of St. Louis and about seven miles directly back from 
the river. There will be fourteen great exhibit palaces, de¬ 
signed by the most eminent architects of the country. The 
area of the Chicago Exposition was 633 acres and that of the 
Paris about 600 acres. 
While St. Louis lacks the beautiful background which Lake 
Michigan furnished to the White City, it has an amphitheatre 
of low hills surrounding the main picture of the Exposition, 
which are capable of a treatment which will heighten the gen¬ 
eral effect in a manner which will be as great a surprise to the 
general public as was the creation of the Columbia Exposi¬ 
tion. (65) 
