St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-01
OF MINNESOTA
Engage in Discussion OF the
Most Feasible Ways and
Means
To Make a Success Of Mime
sofas Exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
Encouraging Reports Re-
ceived From the Com
mittees in Charge.
The O'Leary Reeeption--The
4 National Flower--Society
Tips.

The WOman'S auxiliary board OF Ram
ley county held their meeting yester
day morning at the New York Life
building, Mrs. F. B. Clark presiding.
After acceptance of the minutes of
! the last meeting, Miss Carter, who is in
charge OF the Indian work at White
Earth reservation, was asked to address
the meeting in behalf of her work. She
said that most people think the Indian
women lazy, but that is not the fact.
They have work for each month. In
April they make maple sugar. and few
know how laborious that work is until
they have seen it done. May is their
seeding time, and they are very busy
then. After that comes the berrying
season; then they gather the wild
rice, then as the autumn comes on they
gather and prepare fish for winter use.
After that season is over they prepare
for winter, dong such work as banking
up their houses, getting wood and such
things.
Miss Carter is experimenting the
work of making seal lace and bead
work done by the Indian women. She
said that the $500 promised her by the
wornen of Minnesota would not nearly
pay the expenses of the exhibit she
hoped to prepare, the lace work alone
costing that. 70 show the quality Of
the lace her women are making, she
stated that she was now making a lace
bed spread for Mrs. Pierpont Morgan,
of New York, and a lace fan for a lady
in Illinois, and other pieces for some
other parties. She said that the state
would have to assure her of the amount
of money needed or she would let her
collection of lace go to another state
which had pledged her to take her lace
and make all the glass cases she needed
for its exhibition and pay all her eX-
penses. The government has made her
the same offer. AS this was
A Purely Business flair,
she should do the thing that was. easiest
for her, for her hands were.so full that
she could not undertake to add my
thing more to her burdens. The state
of Minnesota was of no especial inter-
est to her. because she had not been in
it long enough to feel any interest i'll 1t,
but this was a matter of money.
She had also to offer to the state the
most valuable collection of Indian
curios in the West, as Bishop
-Whipple thinks. These curios
are the property of a friend of
Miss Carriers and can be secured for the
state exhibit, by paying the expense of
their removal and providing glass cases
for their reception at the state building.
Miss Carter also wished to be assured
that the expense OF the transportation
of six women, two women OF the Sioux,
two Ojiboways ana two ChippeWay,
who are to be busted in making
lace during the fair. She cenM
have az birch bark wigwam
built also, ii 4 place could be secured on
which to build it. AS this Indian eA
hibit is to be one of the most interesting
of all those shown by the Northwest,
the women are. of course, very anxious
to secure it.
: MRS. Clark asked Miss Carter to state
what AMOUNT of money would be neeeS4
Sary to secure the lace exhibit, but Miss
Carter was not prepared to state just
how much would be needed. After
some questions from the ladies, she
obNlCO bHo OIolOp w nlPplO III IL
would require at least 81, 500. Then she
asked about the amount of space al
lowed her in the building.
Miss Carter was assured that ample
provision had been made for her in the
women'S building; then she was re-
ferred to Mr.. M0ntort as to questions Of
the state building.
Mrs. Severance asked if the board
paid her $500 for her lace would she, if
she sold that lace, refund the money to
the board. Miss Carter said not by any
means, as she could not afford to do
such a thing.
The question was asked if the things
placed in the state building could be
sold.
Miss Severance replied that no actual
sales could be made in the building,
but orders could be taken for duplicates
OF things entered, such as the books of
Indian legends, and delivered outside
of the building.
Miss Carter then asked where the ex-
penses for taking her woven down
come in.
The president said that that would
come under the head of scholarships.
The question was asked, what do
scholarships mean?
The president replied that a scholar
ship means transportation to and from
Chicago and lodging in a dormitory
for from two to four weeks, board being
extra.
Miss Severance then asked Miss Car
ter again to make some estimate as to
the cost of getting her exhibit to the
fair. allowing a margin of $500 or $500.
Miss Gillette and Miss Greenleaf both
spoke on the importance of securing
these things for the woman's building
as the contribution Of the Minnesota
women. Mrs. Newport then suggested
that an appeal be made to the people
of the two cities, as she was sure their
State Pride
was strong enough to ensure the money
being raised, being raised to secure the
whole exhibit for our state. After a
very spirited discussion it was decided
that a committee be appointed to attend
to this matter as Miss Carter had asked,
Mrs. Newport offering herself to see
the railroad magnates and secure trans
pOrtation for Miss Carter and all the
women she wanted tO take with her.
Mrs. A. L. Stebbens made a report of
the committee on agriculture, which in
cludes dairy products. bee culture, for
estry, wild flowers and vines, she was
waiting for the meeting of the state
committee to decide just what her eX-
hlbIt will be, as the space assigned is
small. Her report was very encourag-
ing.
The question of the state flower then
came up, and Mrs. Hunt, of Mankato,
read the report of the vote on the state
flower:
Moccasin flower III 400 AZ
Wild A 224 50
Cane 40 SO Q
Indian pink ............... IL % 81
............. ID "a 60
Mrs. o. N. Oldburg, of Albert Lea.
reported of the manufactures, by letter,
that the prospect is encouraging in her
department.
Mrs. Cruikshank. of Mankato, of the
committee on Revolutionary relics, is