Pine Bluff Daily Graphic

EXPOSITION NOTES.

Brief Items Relating to Progress of the Pan-American.

The Chittenango Pottery Company has been granted the exclusive privilege of selling pottery at the Exposition.

Frederick Law Olmstead, who advocates the abolishment of billboards because of their inartistic and unsightly character, is the landscape architect who laid out Delaware Park, Buffalo, a part of which is to be used for the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.

We have only admiration for the courage, enterprise, liberality and energy displayed by the city at the foot of the lake in preparing for the great Exposition which is to be held next year. If ever success was earned, Buffalo has earned it. The city deserves to be filled with visitors during the life of the Pan-American Exposition and to reap a rich harvest of honor, glory and substantial gains. - Cleveland Leader.

"We have never advertised the resources of our state half enough," says The Times-Democrat of New Orleans in an article upon the Pan-American Exposition, in which it urges an adequate representation of the resources of Louisiana. The same may be said of other states, and the opportunity now offered by Buffalo is of exceptional value.

The enthusiasm and interest displayed by the people of southern California in the preparation of their great display of products for the Pan-American Exposition present a lesson and an example for all citizens to contemplate. American enterprise seems to have a very high development in "the glorious climate of California." The Californians purpose to make a very large and effective display.

One of the most conspicuous features of the Niagara Falls landscape now is a mammoth sign handsomely lettered thus: "Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., 1901." There are several similar signboards placed where thousands of people passing and repassing upon the great railroads may in this way have their attention called to the great event of next year which so vitally interests all the states and countries of the western hemisphere.