resenting an order from the National Commission
therefor, as is set forth in the following copy of the conference
agreement:

At a conference between the officers and members of the
executive committee of the Exposition Company and members of the
National Commission, held at the office of President Francis on
Monday, May 23, it was agreed, after a full and free conference,
that the disagreement existing between the Exposition Company
and the Commission with reference to the sale of 50-coupon,
photographic, nontransferable tickets to stockholders of the
Exposition Company, at $12.50 each, on or before June 15, such
tickets to be good during the period of the fair, was settled by
the adoption of the following addition to article 5, to wit:

"That any stockholder of the Exposition Company, or any person
presenting an order from the National Commission to the
treasurer of the company, may, at any time prior to June 15,
purchase for $12.50 one photographic nontransferable ticket with
50 coupons attached, each coupon good for one admission to the
fair at any time on or before December 1, 1904."

To which addition to the aforesaid article 5 full assent was
given by the company and the Commission.

D.R. FRANCIS, President,
W.H. THOMPSON, Treasurer,
FESTUS J. WADE,
_Chairman Ways and Means Committee,
Committee Representing Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co_.

Thos. H. CARTER,
JOHN M. THURSTON,
GEO. W. MCBRIDE,
PHILIP D. SCOTT,
JOHN F. MILLER,
FREDERICK A. BETTS,
_For the National Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition_.

The Commission, desiring that the public should have the amplest
opportunity to participate in the purchase of these special tickets at
reduced rates, and in order that the knowledge of such privilege should
have the widest publicity, addressed and sent to the Associated Press
the following notice:

_To the Associated Press_:

Some days ago the Exposition Company proposed to issue a
nontransferable photographic coupon ticket good for 50
admissions for the sum of $12.50, that amount being half rate.
This proposal was disapproved by the National Commission,
because deemed in the nature of a dividend on the stock. The
Commission insisted that if the price of tickets was reduced in
the manner proposed, they should be presented to the public for