Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-08-07


teachers, and displaying q great knowl-
edge Of things and of books. This ex-
hibition is to show what the state is
doing in her Institution For the Blind.
AS we pass we cast glance at the
great display of beautiful plants and
flowers, leaving hundreds of remarka
BILE things to be described by some
body who has longer pen.
1t will be a great contrast if we cross
over to the Idaho building. This is as
wild as the Rocky Mountain region
which it represents. The building is
of huge logs, built as were the old log
buildings our grandfathers built when
this country was new. AS you enter
the door massive archway of stone,
some sort of mineral rock, probably,
must be passed under, and you won
der whether the rough stone will stand
or fall as you pass under them. They
stand. What wild place you are in.
Great bears, panthers, wolves, deers,
antelopes and creatures of various
sorts all about the the rooms, with ca
giles, vultures, cranes, water fowl and
all sorts of feathered things perched
about, and you wonder if you have
not made a mistake and fallen into
an open menagerie. No; these crea
lures are all "stuffed," and are used
for harmless ornamentation. There
are things that belonged to the Indians,
curious things in the products of the
country and much that interests. One
section of the building represents the
home of the pioneer and the whole
building is curiosity. The windows
are of mica and precious stones and
garnets are as thick as need be all
about.
The building erected by Florida is
visited by almost everybody and is
a novel affair. 1t represents the old
est building on the continent, Old Fort
Marie of ST. Augustine. 1t is like an
old fort in appearance and is made of
the same shell material that was used
in building the old fort itself. The
grounds about the building are thick
ly settled with tropical plants and the
exhibits within are of much interest
to one who has never visited the
Land of Flowers. Shells, coral, sea
grasses, tropical plants, the phoso-
phate materials and the fruits. The
building, the things exhibited, the
plants, everything is novel and strange
to the Northern visitor.
The Virginia building is of peculiar
interest, since it is an exact represen
tation Of the home of Washington at |
Mount Vernon. 1t contains either |
the original, or the duplicates, of the
contents of that shrine of the Poto- |
mac, including the chairs, desk, tables,
and bed room furniture, musical in
struments, etc. 1t is a two story
structure with a wide piazza across
the front, a large hall way, rather
small rooms and little odd windows
Here is dining room furnished with
the crockery and silver ware used by
the Washington family, or loaned in
part by old Virginia families. There
is very much of interest in the old |
pictures, manuscripts and bricabrac
in the building. There is no attempt
here to make any show of the things
Of the old Virginia state, but she is
we'll represented in the departments
of the exhibition buildings. NewYork,
the greatest State of the American
Union, in point of population, wealth
and commerce, appropriated $500 900
to defray the expenses of it's exhibit
nd hT7iI fhn Lott
production, slightly modified, of the
old Van Rensselaer, residence, for
many years one of the historic land
marks of New York city. The quaint
architecture recalls most interesting
period in our national history, when
the great commercial and financial
metropolis was but a struggling sea-
port town. The building is so feet
wide by 200 feet long, and three sto-
ries high. Inclusive of donated ma
terial and decoration, it represents
an expenditure of about $150, 900. A
feature of interest are three columns
of specimens of native wood, support
ing the roof, which were gathered in
the Adirondack mountains, each pill
lar consisting of the trunks of three
trees twisted into symmetrical spi-
raj column. Statues of Christopher
Columbus, Henry Hudson, and busts
of Dewitt Clinton, the first governor,
and Roswell P. Flower, the present
governor of the State, occupy inches
in front of the structure. Among the
exhibits are an ancient picture of
Hudson Washington relics auto