LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION TO DATE
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P. L. WILLIS, Portland, Or.
of the Board of Directors
RUFUS MALLORY, Portland, Or.
E. J. DeHart. Seneca Smith.
E. W. Rowe. W. W. Cotton. Alex Sweek Charles F. Beebe.
F. W. Mulkey.
The next thing was to raise the money. H. W. Corbett, Samuel Connell and J. M. Long, whom the corporators appointed to open a stock - book, receive subscriptions and organize the company, called to their advice committees representing the commercial organizations of Portland. A few consultations of this kind led to the formation of a provisional executive committee, which should have charge of the canvass of the city for subscriptions to the capital stock. This committee, with Hon. H. W. Corbett as chairman and myself as secretary, was organized as follows:
H. W. Corbett. P. L. Willis. E. T. William.s. W. W. Cotton. W. L. Boise. A. B. Steinbach. H. C. Breeden. Paul Wessinger. Chas. F. Beebe. Julius L. Meier. John F. Cordray.
D. M. Donaugh. H. W. Scott, R. D. Inman. H. Wittenberg. J. T. Morgan. A. H. Breyman. F. E. Beach. Owen Summers. Leo Friede. Fred T. Merrill. Ben Selling. T. W. Cruthers. H. C. Wortman. A. H. Devers. J. E. Haseltine. I. N. Fleischner. A. A. Bailey. Adolphe Wolfe. H. S. Rowe. Sol. Blumauer. H. W. Goode. Geo. W. IBates. H. C. Campbell. F. L McKenna.
The Executive Committee spent the early part of November in laying its plans, appointing its canvassing com- mittees and advertising the fact that it was coming. November 24th and 25th were designated as the days of the canvass and upon the initiative of Mr. Adolphe Wolfe, the Executive Committee declared that it would ex- pect the entire amount of the capital stock to be taken in tvvo^d
