Article August 2, 1900 Issue

Wonders of the Pan-American Exposition

Mark Bennitt

Concord Evening Monitor

In the office of Secretary Frank R. Rosseel, who is the executive officer of the Bureau of Publicity for the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, one may read this phrase upon a gilded background:

This has become the motto of the city and the citizens of Buffalo. Officially and individually, this terse utterance and splendid maxim has been adopted on every hand. In these swift modern years men seem wonderfully to have increased their capacity for effort, and with all the vim and energy that belong to an enterprising people the citizens of Buffalo are paving royally the way for the glorious Pan-American Exposition to be held in that city next year. The evidences of preparation are to be seen in the general furbishing up in all quarters, the improvement in hotel accommodations, and in the betterment of transportation conveniences within the city.

A glance at the Exposition grounds is quite enough to tell that something extraordinary is near at hand, but one may feel it in the very air of Buffalo that the people have unusual business before them to which they are steadfastly devoting their puissant energies. They who chose this site had no narrow conception of the opportunities which the Pan-American Exposition idea would ultimately disclose. The grounds, for the most part, are nearly level, and ample in their dimensions, the southern third invading the western section of Delaware Park. It is upon this park that Buffalo has lavished her money to produce a beautiful pleasure ground, and it is not strange that public sentiment would not suffer it to be desecrated with Exposition buildings. The park lands will therefore remain practically unmolested.

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