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Show DIRECTOR LEATHAM fitTUi Fl Superintendent of Utah Building at Panama Pacif ic Exposition Is Horre W 11 am A Leatham d rector of Utah exh b ts and superintendent of the Utah building at the Panama Pacific Interna tional exposition at San Francisco is back from his labors at the greet fa r Mr Leatham although del ghted with h s v, ork at the fa r savs he s glad to be at home aga n bpeak ng of the fa r last even n Mr Leatham sa d There is no question n mv m nd that the fa r will result n last n" bencf t to the ent re country and to Utah n particular And r ght here T w sh o say that tl e effic ent n anuer n wh ch the wonderful ex pos t on nas handled by the splen d d n e n charge s the wonder of he world On the closing day we had an at tendance of nore than 4o8.U05 an 1 yet there was not an arrest for d s oiderl onduct Th s great crowd was a strik ng one from more po nts than one for desp te the good hu n or tl at prevailed there was a en of sadness that the expos tion was com ng to a close and this sadness was e er where apparent At the Utah bu Id ng there were 38 000 reg strat ons but not to ex cced one tenth of the people who s ted the bu lding as de from Utah res dents took the trouble to register Dur ng the season 1 000 people registered from Utah and th s was the largest registrat on per capita populat on cons dered from any state in the Un on with the s ngle exception of Californ a When Mr Leatham left San Fran Cisco the valuable paintings exhibitei I at the fa r had been sent back bv ex press and other exh b ts had been packed for sh pment back to Salt Lake l port on at least of the hort cultural exh b t w 11 be sent to the San D ego exposit on |