The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-19
MISSOURI AT THE FAIR.

Lne St8tee resources TO De SnOWn n tn0
Great Exhibition-what tho Missouri
Worlds Fair Commission is Doing to Sc
cure creditable Display-Ihs Plan Of
Collecting It
Executive Worlds Fair Commissioner
J. X. Gwynne is preparing circular
regarding what Missouri is expected to
do at the Worlds fair and how she is
expected to do it 1t states that the
dedicatory exercises of the fair will
take place in jackson park, Chicago,
October IL next; that Immediately
thereafter the installation of exhibits
will be begun and continued till May
1, 1893, when the doors of the fair will
be thrown open to visitors and will con-
tinue open till October 81, 1898; that
each state and territory is expected to
thoroughly individualize itself by an
exhibit.
Then follows an explanation OF the
creation and appointment Of the state
Worlds fair board and the appropria-
ton by the Missouri legislature Of $780,
900 for the purpose of making a state
exhibit
The departments of the fair in which
the state will make exhibits are agri-
culture, live stock, horticulture, mines
and mining, education, forestry, fish
and fisheries and archaeology. Space
has been applied for to the general
board at Chicago in the several depart
ments, but as vet none has been set
apart.
For the purpose of an individual and
Ill r. "a Il \
not go into the competitive exhibits,
also storage house for the states ex-
hibit, business rooms for the commits
sion and as a rendezvous for Missouri
ans at the fair, n state Worlds fair
building is to be erected. The commits
sion now has ten plans under consider
alton. The building will be construct
ed entirely of material native to the
state, and just as many kinds of mate
rial will be put into it as the state fur
nishes. In the club-room of the build
ing will be kept a file of Missouri pa
pers for the benefit of Missourians and
their friends.
In the agricultural department every
kind of agricultural product of the
state will be shown. All cereals,
grasses, forage plants and fibers must
be of the crop of the present year, and
will be receivable after November 1,
next, and must all be in place by April
1, 1898. All crops of perishable nature,
such as melons, fruits, roots and vege-
tables, will have to be of the crop OF
1898, and fresh supply will be shipped
at stated intervals to replenish the ex-
hibits. A special display of sugar-beets
will be made the second and third
weeks of October, 1898. A special dis
play of potatoes will be made during
two weeks beginning September II,
1898. The states dairy exhibit will be
made IN the agriculture department
The standard color will be June grass
butter. The space applied for in the
agricultural department for the Mis-
souri, exhibit is 2OOx20O feet
In the livestock division $50, 900 has
been set apart by the state to make an
exhibit. Only purely-bred stock, pro-
duced in the state, will be admitted.
The exhibit will be opened on October
"a, and will continue till the close of
the fair. Cattle will be shown from
September IL until the 27th; horses,
mules, jacks and jennets, from August
"a till September 6; sheep and hogs,
from October 9 till the 14th; dogs, from
June 10 to the nth; poultry, pigeons
and pet stock, from October IS to the
50th.
The mining exhibit of the state is to
be an exhaustive one. All the different
ores, clays, marbles, onyx and building
stones found in the state will be shown.
1t will be displayed in every state from
the crude ore taken from the mine and
then in the various stages of prepara-
tion. The processes of preparing the
ores will be shown, and also large
Photographic views of the principal
mining sections of the state. Fifteen
thousand dollars has been set apart for
this exhibit by the board, and many
specimens have been collected.
In the forestry division the entire
ligneous fora of the state in wood, leaf
and fruit will be shown. Sections of
trees in the rough, not longer than
seven feet, will be shown, and also
sawn, hewn and dressed lumber. In
hard wood polished surfaces will be
shown, and the evolution of the timber
from the time the tree is cut until it
enters into commercial form. A large
map is being prepared for exhibition,
which will show the regions of the state
occupied by different species of timber,
amount that is merchantable to the
acre, number of cords per acre, whether
a single species occupies specified area
or different species are mixed, If so, the
proportions; percentage of timber lands
already cut over, the different economic
uses to which Missouri timbers are
adaptable, and the strength of the diff
ferent species.
An exhaustive exhibit of the educa-
tional interests Of the state will be
made. showing the practical workings,
as nearly as possible. of the public
school system, from the country dis
trict school to the normal schools and
the state university. This will be done
through maps, charts, examination pa
pers, relief models, model wo. k in clay.
wax, paper and wood, and products Of
Misunderstanding schools.
The fishery interests of the state are
to be fully shown, and the board is now
working in that department..
The archaeological exhibit of the state
will receive a good deal of attention.
1t has been arranged to exhibit the
archaeological collection OF the Missouri
Historical society, which is the rarest
and one of the largest west of the Al
legheny mountains