The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-04

salmon; s. Schmidt & CO. go collective
award on their exhibits Of canned salmon,
splced sturgeon, smoked Gah, caviar
fsingiass, cod liver oils. whale oil and fsh
oils: 5. q. Megser & Go. get IN award on
canned saimGn-
ETHsoLoGTcAL AwAEps-
'.An the chronological exhibits prepared
by the state of Washington we're shown in
she state building. but there we're few
collections made for this department un-
der Prof I. ". Putnam By collectors APP
pointed by him. Two of these Washington
collections took awards. These we're the
collections made on Puget sound by Rev.
Myron EelIs and on Shoaiwater bay or
Wilia2a harbor by l. l. Bush.
AGRICULTURAL AWARDS.
The Washington booth in the Agricult-
uraI building was at farst designed by the
commissioners a. the most appropriate
place for the weII-known Bush exhibit.
IS he seemed the only one anxious to Sc
cure an award. but il was afterward deter.
mined to share the Doth with Mr.. Bush
In equal proportions. The exhibits being
listed we're entered one-half in Mr.. Bush's
name and the other half IN the name of
the state of Washington. The awards
have not all been announced in this de-
partment as Jet. but it is stated that Mr..
Bush gets collective award on his ex-
hibit Of wheat rye, cats. grasses, etc.,
covering more than 100 exhibits, and the
state gets Just the same award.
mr.. Bush also gets an award on his
collective exhibit of peas. beans, broom
corn. etc.
1.-The state gets an award on fax seed in
sacks
There Is no telling now how many
more awards will be granted for the
numerous exhibits in this department.
HORTICULTURAL AWARDS.
''No department of Washington's work
at the Worlds fair has been SO prolific of
unpleasant comments as this one depart
ment. In the beginning the work prom
ised to be fai- and square, with each Sec
ton of the state on an equal footing, but
soon after the fair opened it was discoy-
cred that several fruit sections Of the state
were not represented by half the number
of jars of fruit that had been collected and
forwarded. This provoked much adverse
comment at the time. Now what will be
said when the awards are annoupcedf
BY common consent on the part OF the
commissioners President n. G. Bialock
was accorded full control of the horticul-
turai department of this state. on account
of his being a large fruit grower at his
home in Walla Walla. The exhibits were
listed for awards, that is. the exhibits in
the general Horticultural building.
1.-THE awards thus far announced In this
department for Washington exhibits are
as follows:
"John Braden. of Walla Waila. on APP
IL. NJ. Allies. of walla walla. same
award.
..Dr. n. G. Blalock, of Walla Walla. on
apples, crop of 1892.
''Dr. n. g. Blalock. of Waila Walla, col
lective award on apples and pears.
'.Dr. \. g. Blaiock, of Walla Walla, col
lective award on fruits in solution.
Estate Of Washington. collective award
on apples and pears.
This is all the information could get
from this department of the awards. 1t
may be that the future holds some cure
for this discrepancy in the distribution of
the horticultural awards. but I know
there are many fruit growers whose ex-
hibits graced the Washington shelves who
will be slow to believe that they were
.
published results thus far given out by
judges will justify them in this sentiment.
However. / believe that all the exhibitors
whose names do not appear among the re-
cipients of awards would have been glad
to have their exhibits listed in groups or
as a whole, to allow the state al large to
get all the glory and all the credit of the
awards, such as il is.
''This is a correct history of the awards
OF the Columbian exposition, so far as the
state of Washington is concerned. 1t Is
taken from the official records in the Adj
ministration building. but I was told
there that the records are not yet COM
pieted. The department of awards will
soon be removed TO Washington City,
and il may be that all the final announce
ments OF awards will not be made until
January next. In the meantime the peo-
pie of the Evergreen state can see by the
above that they have joined with other
states of the Union in reaping large har-
vest of awards. which. as the years roll
on, will be known as the many and cheap
or worthless awards of the greatest expo
sition the world has known"
"PosT-INTELLIGEN BUREAU.