Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 869 pages of information about Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission.

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 869 pages of information about Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission.
SEC.  IV.  The bureau of transportation shall have entire charge of all matters relating to the transportation of passengers and freight to and from the exposition grounds from all parts of the world.  It will quote rates and classifications, remedy delays, and be constituted in such a manner as to extend practical assistance and information to all exhibitors and the public at large.  This bureau has for its chief officer a traffic manager, who will report direct to the president.

    ARTICLE II.

SECTION I. For the development of the exposition to the full extent of the general plan as outlined, provision will be made for the installation and care of exhibits, and for the construction of exhibition palaces, ample and adequate to the theoretical and physical scope of the exposition.
SEC.  II.  For the purposes of installation and review of exhibits a classification has been adopted.  The classification heretofore adopted has been divided into a number of departments, each of which is again divided into groups and subdivided into classes.  Under this scope and plan the exposition will be constructed, the installation perfected, and the system of awards conducted.  In conformity therewith the following exhibit departments are created:  Department A—­Education; Department B—­Art; Department C—­Liberal Arts; Department D—­Manufactures; Department E—­Machinery; Department F—­Electricity; Department G—­Transportation; Department H—­Agriculture; Department J—­Horticulture; Department K—­Forestry; Department L—­Mines and Metallurgy; Department M—­Fish and Game; Department N—­Anthropology; Department O—­Social Economy; Department P—­Physical Culture.

    Exhibits shall be classified into 15 departments, in 144 groups,
    and in 807 classes.

    ARTICLE III.

SECTION I. The directors of the four executive divisions, and the chief of the different departments thereunder, may promulgate special rules and regulations governing the more minute and technical details of the operation of the respective departments.

    SEC.  II.  The director of exhibits shall have general charge of
    the installation of all exhibits and the control and management
    of the same.

    ARTICLE IV.

    SECTION I. The general classification is hereby made a part of
    these rules and regulations.

SEC.  II.  The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company reserves the right, subject to the approval of the Commission, to amend or correct the classification at any time before the opening of the exposition by giving thirty days’ public notice.

    ARTICLE V.

    SECTION I. The price of admission will be 50 cents.

SEC.  II.  While the broadest construction will be placed upon the rights of exhibitors and their agents to free admission to the grounds for the purpose of caring for their respective exhibits, it is intended to restrict these courtesies within reasonable limits.

    ARTICLE VI.

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