Show FORMAL OPENING OF FAIR louisiana purchase exposition at st louis now in full swing i president Roo roosevelt evelt on saturday pressed the golden key which completed the electrical circuit and released the gigantic power of the louisiana purchase exposition at stlouis putting in motion tho the horsepower machinery and the fairy like cascades on the exposition grounds the ceremony occurred in the east room of 0 the white house precisely at caste eastern rn standard time lime As tho the president pressed the key the third battery ot of united states artillery stationed on the grounds of 0 the washington monument south ot of the whito bite house fired a national salute of 0 twenty one guns messages were then exchanged between the president and david R francis Pr ancla president of 0 the louisiana purchase exposition |