Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-07-21


"An object lesson to the Missourian
who, unprejudiced and with state PRIDE
swelling every pore, sees the world s
fair in n systematic and sensible way,
in the contast between the great state
of Missouri and the pulling infant oil
the far northwest. The contast sends
the Missourian to his knees; even after
he does reverence to the taste, the skill
the art, the economy shown by little
Washington IN the expenditure of lis
appropriation, and the arrangement OF
its exhibits, As with nearly every
other state the comparison showing the
sbarpest contrast in that made with
the state buildings. Every person who
has visited the exposition and has gone
drought the buildings will exclaim as |
did. when told that Washington spent
only $4,000 more for its magnificent
building than did Missouri for its little
collection of staff and cubby rooms
and alleyways: How did you do it?
The answer was, by intelligently direct
ing the work and by using the ideas of
brainy men.
1.-The building is constructed of ma
terial brought from the state. Every
foot of timber, every plank was brought
from Puget sound t. Chicago The
building is 22Oxl40 feet. 1t is intended
to, and does, illustrate the great natural
products of the commonweath-timber,
granite aud ore. 1t is made of logs and
shows convincing!y what it is possible
to do with timber as the sole building
material. The Hagpole in front of the
building is 238 feet high. There are
logs l27 feet long, All this gives one
an idea of the timber resources. But
this is only one If the object lessons
Washington teaches Missouri
'Inside the building are splendid dis
plays of agricultural products, horti-
cultural, botanical and school exhibits
There is one piece of coal that weighs
10000 pounds, but the browning piece
of the building exhibit is the model
farm. A Washington state farmer
thought out and executed this model
farm, with the result of making it an
object of universal interest. People
crowd the building to see it. On this
farm is shown every scene OF agricultural
life the farm house, the stable, the wheat
field, the meadow, the corn field, the diff.
ferent farm machines in operation. 1t
is perfect representation of farm life
in the far northwest, the whole consti-
tuting a picture that is worth thousands
of dollars as an advertisement.
"Now when the Missourlan sees all
this in the Washington state building
he asks himself why Missouri has moth
ing of the kind. He sees the value of
such display as Washington makes in
its state BUILDING, besides its exhibits in
other departments. He tries 20 console
himself with the thought that it costs
toe much for Missouri to make such a
display. He inquiries He goes into
figures and he energies therefrom thor
oughly mad
"What does he discover?
"That Washingtons striking building,
with its exhibit of all that's interesting
and typical of the resources, products
and industries, cost only $4,000.
"That Missouri spent $4,000 for its
cooped up, sadly lacking little cage
"That Washington had only 100000
and that its transportation expenses
alone amounted to $4,000, or at least
10 times what Missouri should have
paid.
"That its mining exhibit, equal to
ours, cost only $4,000, including SO 900,
the expense of arranging it, while Mis-
souri, spent $4,000,
after little figuring like this the
Missourian will probably do as l did,
throw away pencil. and paper and sit
down to seriously consider what the
Missouri commissioners did with the
S150,O00 appropriated by the legisla-
ture."