DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION. Edward Rosewater, Manager James B. Haynes, Prof. Max Edler. Supt. Press Bureau. In charge Issues through German Press 0000------- With this department rested the very important work of very thoroughly and broadly advertising and promoting the features and interests of the Exposition. In the beginning, as noted elsewhere, there was the Department of Publicity organized as above noted and the Department of Promotion, of which Mr. G. M. Hitchcock was the Manager and Mr. Ernest C. Hunt, assistant. The Promotion Department was maintained and operated under this organization until Mr. Hitchcock resigned from the work on account of the pressure of private business, on July 9th, 1897. Under Mr. Hitchcock's management much promotion work was accomplished in all of the states and territories. The campaign for an appropriation from the state of Nebraska was conducted and concluded with favorable results. One of the features planned by Mr. Hitchcock was the holding at Omaha, during the Exposition period, of a Military Encampment, national in character, to be in charge of U.S. Military Department and to comprise some regiments of the United States troops of the various arms of the service, and also, a regiment or more of state troops from each of the states of the United States or so many thereof as could be induced to participate. The plan was received with much favor by the chief officials of the Army and, under direction of Maj.-Gen. John J. Coppinger, then in command of the Department of the Platte with headquarters at Omaha, made a careful examination of the plan, location, facilities, etc. and reported favorably on the project. Much correspondence and effort were expended in the further promotion of the plan, and the plan was so generally favorably considered that the future was bright with promise of successful fulfillment but the fear of coming war with Spain retarded the work and the breaking out of actual hostilities effectually prevented the results hoped for. Upon the resignation of Mr. Hitchcock the Department of Promotion was merged with the Department of Publicity and thenceforth both branches of the work were conducted under the management of Mr. Rosewater. Through this department in its separated parts and as later joined in one department, and also through the able efforts of the Commercial Club of Omaha and the various organizations of the city, aided by individual effort, about one hundred conventions, congresses, national and state gatherings of fraternal societies, etc., were induced to hold their meetings for 1898, at Omaha during the period of the Exposition. Some of them were as follows: The Mixed Congress The Western Star Court The Royal House of Midi Swedish Epworth League Daughters of Sphinx Liberal Congress of Religious National Cricket Clubs Nebraska Veteran Free Masons National Indian Institute Western Negro Press Association Trans-Mississippi Turnfest Afro-American Protective League National Philatelic Society American Institute of Homeopathy National Dental Congresses Danish Lutheran Church of America Society of American Florists National Ass'n of Postal Clerks Nebraska Dental Association Nat'l League of Republican Clubs Nat'l Pure Food Congress Nebraska Retail Grocers' Ass'n Western Editorial Federation Nebraska State Jewelers Ass'n Nebraska Poultry Ass'n Grand Commandary Knights Templar National Live Stock Exchange Nebr. State pharmaceutical Soc. American Forestry ass'n Western Dist. Bohemian Tournament American Fisheries Ass'n Nat'l Convocation of Women's Clubs National Congress of Musicians Nat'l Funeral Director's Ass'n Nebraska State Medical Society Nat'l Conv. of Bohemian Turners Independent Order of Foresters Ass'n of Theatrical Stage Employees National Detective Ass'n Scottish Rite Masons of the U.S. Swedish Evangelical Convention Am. Inst. of Electrical Engineers Dairymen's Nat'l Ass'n Nat'l Ass'n of Dental Examiners Traveler's Protective Ass'n Nat'l Household Economic Ass'n The American maize Propaganda Neb. Grand Lodge of K. of P. Nat'l Good Roads Parliament Nat'l Congress Retail Liquor Dealers Nat'l Central Labor Congress State Ass'n of Retail Liquor Dealers National Bee-Keepers' Ass'n Neb. State Photographer's Ass'n Nat'l Eclectic Medial Society Trans-Miss. Fruit Festival Ass'n Neb. Eclectic Medial Ass'n Western Trav. Men's Accident Ass'n Neb. Saengerbund Saengerfest Neb State Homeopathic Medical Soc. State Federation of Women's Clubs Nat'l Enc'm't of Sons of Veterans Old Time Telegrapher's Ass'n Trans-Miss. Conv. of Photographers U.S. Vetrinary Ass'n Am. Ass'n of Nursery Men Neb. State Horticultural Soc. Western Ass'n of Wholesale Nursery Men Supts. of Ry Telegraph Am. Ass'n of Fairs & Expositions Grand Lodge of Neb. A.F. & A.M. Am. State Ass'n of State Weather Nat'l Ass'n Dental Faculties Service Am. Agricultural Colleges & Fire Underwriters' Ass'n of the NW Experiment Stations Annual Conv. of Am. Cemetery Supts Am. Ass'n of Farmer's Institute U.S. League of B. & L. Association Managers Annual Tournament of Northwestern The Western Surgical and Cricket Associations. Gynecological Association Gen'l Assembly of United Presbyterian Nebr. State Ass'n of Funeral Directors Church At the suggestion and through the efforts of the manager of this department, the United States Postal Department issued a series of postage stamps commermorative of the Exposition and of scenes, actions and accomplishments incident and pertaining to the Trans-Mississippi region. They were issued in denominations of one cent, two cent, four cent, five cent, eight cent, ten cent, fifty cent, $1 and $2 values, the particular description of them is as follows: The Trans-Mississippi stamps differ materially in size from the ordinary series, the engraved space being about seven-eighths of an inch in width by one and three-eighths inches long. The designs are also radically unlike those of the ordinary stamps, - consisting of a border (substantially the same in all denominations except that the figures and letters representing values are different) and a central scene, indicative in some way of the development of the great region beyond the Mississippi River. The scenes and borders are all printed from lined engravings on steel, executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department. The border, which forms in its inner lines an irregular oval framework to each of the scenes represented, consists of a fluted figure on either side, with interior cross bars, beginning in a single line near the bottom of the stamp and enlarging until it reaches a shield in each of the upper corners, wherein is engraved in white the Arabic numeral of denomination, - the dollar mark being also included in the case of the one and two dollar stamps. At the top, connecting the two shields and united to the fluted framework on the two sides, is a curved tablet, on which are engraved in small white capitals the words, "United States of America." Above this on either side are heads of wheat and between these is a small scroll. Immediately below the central scene is the title of the picture, in diminutive white gothic letters on a curved tablet, and below this in either side, in scrolls are the words of value "one" "two" and so on, in white capitals, except in the case of the two highest denominations, when $1.00 and 42.00 are substituted for letters. Above each of these is a projecting ear of corn, and at the bottom of all on a straight black tablet are the words "Postage One Cent.", "Postage Two Cents.", and so on in white capitals. The scenes represented on the stamps, together with the colors of the several denominations, are these: One Cent, "MARQUETTE ON THE MISSISSIPPI", from a painting by Lamprecht, now in the possession of the Marquette College of Milwaukee Wisconsin, representing Father Marquette in a boat on the upper Mississippi, preaching to the Indians. Color dark green. Two Cent, "FARMING IN THE WEST." from a photograph, representing a western grain field with a long row of plows at work. Color copper red. Four Cent, "INDIAN HUNTING BUFFALO." reproduction of an engraving in Schoolcraft's History of the India Tribes. Color orange. Five Cent, "FREMONT ON ROCKY MOUNTAINS." modified from a wood engraving, representing the Pathfinder planting the United States flags on the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. Color dark blue. Eight Cent, "TROOPS GUARDING TRAIN." representing a detachment of United States soldiers convoying an emigrant train across the prairies, from a drawing by Frederick Remington, permission to use which was kindly given by the publisher, R.H. Russell of New York. Color dark blue. Ten Cent, "HARDSHIPS OF EMIGRATION." from a painting kindly loaned by the artist, A. G. Heaton, representing an emigrant and his family on the plains on a 'prairie schooner', one of the horses having fallen from exhaustion. Color slate. Fifty Cent, "WESTERN MINING PROSPECTOR." from a drawing by Frederick Remington (permission to use which has been kindly given by the publisher, R. G. Russell of New York) representing a prospector with pack mules in the mountains searching for gold. Color olive. One Dollar "WESTERN CATTLE IN STORM." representing a herd of cattle by the leader, seeking safety from a gathering storm, reproduced from a large steel engraving after a picture by J. McWhirter, the engraving having been kindly loaned by Mrs. C. D. Johnson. Color light brown. Two Dollar "MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE." from an engraving a representation of the great Eads bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis. Color sapphire blue. They were issued in amounts as follows: 100,000,000 One cent stamps 200,000,000 two cent stamps 5,000,000 four cent stamps 2,000,000 eight cent stamps 5,000,000 ten cent stamps 500,000 fifty cent stamps 50,000 one dollar stamps 50,000 two dollar stamps a total of 322,600,000 stamps. Regarding the publicity work of the department the reports filed show that the department sent out 1,422,974 issues of 32 page pamphlets, news letters, cuts of buildings, photographs, bird's eye views, framed pictures, posters, buttons, etc., causing wide publicity to the enterprise. The department estimates upon a careful and conservative basis, that they secured the publication in the various great dailies, weeklies, magazines, ready prints, etc., of as much as 65,000,000 words concerning the Exposition by the Omaha Newspapers. As to promotion work the reports files show that the promotion work was prosecuted energetically and as a result of special and combined efforts 35 states and territories appointed commissions to provide and look after state and territorial representation in the Exposition. The following appropriations were made to cover the expenses of participation in the Exposition; State of Nebraska,............................$100,000 Douglas County, Nebraska,.....................$100,000 State of Illinois,............................$ 45,000 State of Iowa,................................ 30,000 State of Montana,............................. 30,000 (One-half of this appropriation was given by Mr. Marcus Daly of Butte) State of Georgia,............................. 10,000 State of Utah,................................ 8,000 State of Ohio,................................ 3,000 State of New York,............................ 10,000 Territory of Arizona,......................... 2,000 Total $438,000 .pa The following states raised privately funds as follows: Kansas,...............$22,000 Minnesota,............ 30,000 South Dakota,......... 5,000 Wisconsin,............ 25,000 Oregon,............... 10,000 Washington,........... 15,000 Oklahoma,............. 5,000 New Mexico,........... 3,000 Wyoming,.............. 15,000 Los Angeles Co. Cal. 10,000 $170,000 Grand Total,.........$608,000