any ended the injunction proceedings. Copies of the
contract with the American Steel and Wire Company and of the
contract between the American Steel and Wire Company and the
Chicago House Wrecking Company, which are of record in the
office of the recorder of St. Louis City and in the office of
the county clerk of St. Louis County, will be forwarded to the
National Commission if desired. The reason that the copper wire
could not be included in the original specifications was the
pending injunction proceedings.

The Exposition Company purchased electric light bulbs referred
to in the tenth allegation, of different sizes and under
different contracts, to the amount of $65,688. The estimated
value of lamps not used at the time of the close of the fair was
$16,890.

As regards the fire-fighting apparatus it may be explained that
most of this material was procured by the exposition on a rental
or loan basis. The Exposition Company owned one second-hand La
France fire engine, one second-hand Silsby fire engine, one fuel
wagon, and four combination chemical hose wagons. The total cost
of this apparatus to the Exposition Company was $5,325.

As regards the piping it can be stated that the Exposition
Company had no unused piping; the company did not buy pipe and
carry it in stock, but paid under contract for the pipe of
various sizes after it was laid in the ground at so much per
foot. This was the general practice by the company as regards
the piping. By reference to the letter of March 7, it will be
observed that the answer to the tenth allegation explains why
the company could only sell the piping "subject to whatever
rights the city of St. Louis may be entitled to in certain
underground pipes, sewers, and conduits in Forest Park." It can
be stated that this complication of title to the piping applied
to two-thirds if not three-fourths of all of the piping which
had been laid at the expense of the Exposition Company.

Because the copper wire was involved in the injunction
proceedings, because the electric lights constituted a minor
item as shown by the figures given above, because the piping was
involved in the construction of the city ordinance, because the
greater part of the fire apparatus was not owned by the
Exposition Company these items were not mentioned in the