The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-07-14

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BaiRdimg.
Harper's Weekly for June 18th.
contained an interior view of the
Kansas building In Paramount
park, and the following descrip-
ton.
The Kansas and Colorado build
ing is among the largest and
most attractive of the State build
ings in the Centennial grounds.
Kansas refused to conform to the
rigid classification adopted by the
United States Commission, and
failing to secure space for a unfit
ed exposition in one Of the main
buildings, erected a separate one.
Colorado, her younger sister, has
baen allotted one-fourth of the ex-
hibition space in this structure.
The two states, formerly one Ter
ritory, separated now only by an
imaginary line, have still intimate
commercial relations. Kansas
producing bread stuffs and meats
for consumption in the mining
districts of Colorado, in exchange
for the gold and silver of the lat
ter, They start out hand in hand,
making a united, bold and vigor-
Gus bid for immigration-one for
the farm, orchard and vineyard,
the other for the mine-both for
capital. Colorado occupies the
west wing, or one fourth of the
building; the Atchisou, Topeka
& Santa LIE Railroad Company,
sixteen feet of the east wing, or
one twenty-fourth part; while Kan
sas occupies all the rest. The
display of the latter is made under
the executive committee consist
ing of w. L. Parkinson, G. w.
Click, E. p. Bancroft, Charles F.
Rooster and Alfred Gray, together
with Professor Henry Worrell.
superintendent of art and deco
ration. Mr.. Parkinson is vice
presiden of the Board of State
Managers, and chairman of tie
Executive Committee, while Mr..
Gray is Secretary of each.
Among the interesting features
of the Colorado exhibit is q pic
turesque groupe of stuffed AMI
mails, prepared and arranged by
Mrs. Maxwell. The irregular
cave-like assures in the pile of
rock shown in our engraving leads
into a spacious apartment, where
the visitor who makes his way
through the winding passage.
finds himself in pleasant recep-
ton room.
The building is in the shape of
Greek cross, in the center and
under the cupola of which is sus-
pended a bell ingeniously con-
structed by Professor Worrell out
of grains in the stalk, grasses and
broom-corn brush, while the
tongue consists of a bell-shaped
gourd suspended at the end of an
elongated club gourd Of over six
feet by about two inches in diam
eter. The bell is eight feet nine
inches across the bottom and
eight feet six inches high, and is
in the same proportion and bears
the same inscription IS the old
Revolutionary relic in Independ
ence Hall, proclaim Liberty
throughout all the land to all the
thereof LEV, XIV.
1922 "By order of the Assembly
of the Province of Pennsylvania,
for the State house in Philadel-
phia."
There are forty-two liag-staffs on
the building, the flags for forty
one of which have been generously
by the ladies Of Leav-
They consist of the ma
tional colors of the United States,
and those of each of the foreign
exhibiting, the same
to be added, at the close of the
to the Centennial col |
and returned to the State |
House at Topeka for preservation !
in the Museum Of the State Board |
Of Agriculture, there to remain a |
souvenir of the kindly co-opera-I
ton of the ladies of Leavenworth. |
At the north end twenty-four
feet from the floor, is q transpar-
ency. ssThe Great Seal of the
State of Kansas" from which rays
Of golden grain radiate, alternated
With 3 background of cotton-an
staple in southern Kan
sas. Immediately under there is
IN attractive collection of veget-
able casts resting On q projection.
Suspended from this projection is
; well drawn map, IN colors, of
Kansas, twenty-four by thirteen
feet. From the foo. to the map is
} receding grain stand with ten
grain shelves, supporting over ten
thousand sample glass grain jars,
which contain an exhaustive dis
Dlay Of wheat, corn, rye, barley,
bats, buckwheat, sorghum, castor
beans and oil manufactured from
,he same; and tobacco; the seed
Of hemp, fax, broom corn, millett,
hungarian, timothy and red clo-
Ter; hazel, pecan and peanuts;
soils, fire clay, yellow and red
ochre, mineral paints, plaster of
paris, potteTs clay hydraulic ce-
nent, salt, etc.. Labels on these
ara give name Of contents, WhereI
ind BY whom raised or collected.
By reference 60 the large map the
Dealisy Is easily determined. "A
pace OF shout fourteen feet oniI
.lther side Of the map and bel
.ween it. and the two sides is Il de-
foted to. q forest of corn Of WON
ierfnl growth. The, stalks are
orm fifteen to eigh teen feet high
from one to three ears
.ach, from ten to fourteen inches
png. Upon the walls on either
tide and In glass cases, an attrac1
i've and igteressing display of
Fibboadd1ouitiEated grasses and
srains inlthea stalk n9lT heat from /
our to fire. feet six inches high.