The Portland daily press., 1892-06-09

Our State Building to Cost $4,000 and to
Rank-Portland's Prompt Response
He 1ped the Cause--GeneraI Plan of Eek
hibition.
The meeting of the executive commit
tee OF World's Fair Managers at Bangor
Friday and Saturday was the most i'm
portant meeting yet, as they made def
mite arrangements for the exhibits which
are to be made from Maine Among the
important matters transacted was the
closing of the contract for the erection
OF the State Building at Chicago. 1t was
awarded to Hyde and Co., of Chicago,
who bid $4,000. There were no bids
from Maine contractors as they could not
do work at that distance. The Archi-
tect, however,Ei is Mr.. Charles S. Frost,
native of Lewiston. The whole amount
allowed by the legislature was 200 for
the building. Attorney General Little
field has recently given the opinion that
the commission are authorized to pay the
freight and handling of the granite and
other material for the building from
Maine to Chicago out of other portions
of the Worlds Fair appropriation. This
freight will cost 50. 0OO The Board have
raised nearly $4,000 by voluntary sub
scriptions, SO they will be able to put
up building that
VIII Cost $4,000,
and will be far better than the average
of the buildings of other States of our
rank in wealth and population.
The committee take great pride in this
matter for the reason that at first they
were inclined to be discouraged over the
outlook. But the prompt action of the
Portland Board of Trade backed up as
it was by Portland citizens in raising the
$1,000 allotted to this city gave an impetus
to the plan of voluntary subscriptions
which carried it through.
The State Commission will, with the
State appropriation available for that
purpose, make exhibits in the following
departments:
Agriculture, to which $1,000 will be
devoted; Forestry, $500; Pathological,
$1,000; wild animals, $500; fish and fish
cries, $1,000; miners and mining, $500;
vessels, 81, 900, provided 81, 600 addition
al shall be contributed by the shipbuild-
ing interests of Maine; manufactures
$500, fine arts, $500; education, $500;
summer resorts, $500; miscellaneous,
$500.
An erroneous impression exists as to
the
Method of Exhibiting
the productions of each State. Exhibits
are arranged by classes and departments,
and not by States. The products of each
State in each department are put by
themselves, so as to give all possible rec
ognition to the States. The State Of,
Maine Building is not intended for com
petitive exhibits. In fact, nothing in the
shape of exhibits is to be allowed there
except such useful and ornamental arti-
Gle Of furniture and decoration as NAV
be needed to furnish the building,
In the agricultural department all the
agricultural products of the State will be
included.
In the genealogical department it is
yet determined how far it will be prac-
ticable to include perishable small fruits.
Carefully prepared samples Of the;
woods of Maine will be exhibited, each
sample labelled with it's common and,
scientific names; and these will consti-
tute large portion of the forestry ex-
hibit. Sections of the trunks of trees
may also be exhibited.
The Wild Animal Exhibit
will surpass anything ever offered by any
New England State. A male and female of
each species of game animal now known
to the huntsmen will be shown. This will
include pair of moose and a pair of carl
bon, very few of which are now in cap
tivity. Here will be chance for Port
land to purchase this exhibition after the
fair is over for Geological Park in Deer
ing's Oaks. The cages and yards for the
wild animal exhibit will be constructed
by the national commission.
Our State commission will make an
exhibit of all the fish of Maine. These
will be represented either alive in water
or by plaster casts so skillfully painted
as to be an exact representation of the
real fish. Fishing appliances of all kinds
will be duly represented.
Mines and Mining will be very fully
represented by slate, granite, and all the
other minerals. Prof. Bailey, of Colby
University, is preparing this exhibit:
and it will surpass anything ever before
collected in Maine.
The exhibition devoted to shipbuild-
ing will be made up of models on the
same general plan as the exhibit made
by the Bath people at the Mechanics
Fair at Boston. In this connection army
models of old Maine wooden vessels, like
the privateers of 1912, would be accepta-
BILE to the commission.
Manufactures, fine arts and education
will of course be we'll represented. The
educational exhibition is under the i'm
mediate charge of D. j. Callahan of Lew
ston.