The bee., 1897-08-19
GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT.
The Most Instructive Exhibits OF
the Great Tennessee Gem
tennial.
SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF.
Most Beautiful Exposition Building Ever
Erected by the Government

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three classes of visitors who CONS
to the Tennessee Centennial Expo
sitlon-those who come out OF GU
riosity to see what has been done,
those who wish. to be able to saw
they have seen it, and those wins
really want to learn as much as
possible from the instructive ex-
hibits.
To the last class there is no other
building that offers such an oppor-
tunity as does the Government
Building. Here one has chance
to study the most interesting of the
Government departments--th the War
Department, the Department of
the Interior, the Department of
Agriculture, the Department of
Justice, the Treasury Department,
the Navy Department, the Post
Office Department, the Department.
of State, and last, but by no means
the least interesting, the exhibit of
the Fish Commission.
The building itself is a thing of
beauty. White and fresh-looking
as June day, 1t extends $50 feer
from east to west and Tag feet from
north to south. 1t has been pro-
nounced the handsomest building
ever erected by the Government
for an exposition, and it is nor
hard for one to believe the state
ment when he has looked upon
this beautiful structure, Its massiv1
dome surrounding it like giants
cap, and its big triple doors ex-
tending almost the full length of
the walls.
At the west entrance stand two
large black specimens of the cam
non used in the civil war. AS you
enter the building and turn to the
right you are confronted by host
of motionless soldiers, dressed in
the uniforms of the nation of all
periods. One might we'll he led to
believe that he had gained en-
trance to the Valhalla of the war
ror and had been admitted 10 a
conference of American heroes of
all ages. These wax figures art.
so ifc-like that one feels trifirs
rude in staring at them so brazrnly
and so curiously. The Puritan
soldier of 1920 and the Revolu-
tionary veteran are on intimate
terms with the West Point cadet
of 1897.
In this exhibit you will also find
all sorts of guns, ammunition, fuses
and signals, ancient and modern.
Here, too, you may sec relics of
the Greedy expedition, and the
Ratchet and flag which Lockwood
and Brainerd carried with them in
their Arctic explorations. On the
eft hangs a silken guidon, a relic
of Clusters ill-starred cavalry.
The exhibits of the Department
of the Interior are divided into four
branches the Bureau of Education
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the
Patent Department and the De
partment of Geological Survey. OF
these the most interesting is the
geological exhibit, which contains
many rare minerals and fossils.
Most of the Indian exhibit is taken
up with the work of the students
of the Carlisle Indian School.
The Department of Agriculture
is very interesting to the scientist
and to the farmer. The most pop.
ular part of this exhibit is the DIS
play of stuffed birds, prairie dogs,
ground squirrels and gophers. The
farmer is especially interested in
the division of pomology, where
are to be found models of big APP
Piles and plums, and the real pine
apple from Florida.
The Treasury Department IS full
of interest to the casual observer
as we'll as the careless student
Everyone is interested in the coin
age of money. There seems to be
fascination about every process
connected with coin. The making
of it, while not quite so attractive
as the getting is always thing OF
great interest to visitors. The big
compress on exhibition has been in
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