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Show ST. LOUIS COULD NOT HANDLE-THE CROWD Gov. Heber M. Wells returned from New Orleans yesterday afternoon. When asked regarding the stories which were sent out about the mismanagement of the St Louis fair dedication, and the neglect which Gov. Peabody and staff of Colorado were asserted to have received. Gov. Wells said that it was true that Gov. Peabody was not given the attention he expected, but attributes the neglect more to the general mismanagement than to Intentional In-tentional slight. "The trouble in St Louis." said Gov. Wells, "was the apparent lack of proper management as regards minor (fetalis. The people In charge of the dedication either did not count upon so large a crowd and became flurried, or else they do not know how to plan for such an event "Their intentions were of the best, but the execution was not always what it should have been. "So far as I am concerned, I have no special criticism to make save along the line of mism&n&f ement. I rMretvoA a. great deal of attention as much, I presume, pre-sume, as anyone else did. The directors didn't know how to handle the large crowd of big visitors, and lack of attention atten-tion to minor details caused most If not all the trouble. I think there was no intention in-tention to snub anyone." |