The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-21

| Htch-Ihe Minnesota RufyJI,o
One of the Most Pictures,u.
Structures Within the Exposition
Observation-Disclosures for the
| Ladies' of the Party.
STAFF Special to The st. Paul Globe.
! OMAHA, Neb., July 90. Omaba's
s'reets We're alive With Gophers this
morning, all headed in the direction
or the log palace, which the Minnesota
commission was to formally dedicate
to the exposition. A special train ar
irving at a. m. brought Gov. CIough
and staff in full regimentals. twentv
OF the state commission and other state
othcials, and about 100 private citizens
While there were many hundreds Of
others already in the city who attend
ed the dedication.
The Minnesota building, with lts
shady veranda, proved an attractive
piace, too, for others also, who had
no direct personal interest in the ex
ercnses, the surroundings being much
cooler than under the glaring piles of
staff of which the other buildings are
constructed
The Omaha military band marched
UP 10 the building, followed by Cows.
Hoicomb, of Nebraska, and Clough, Of
Minnesota, and the staff of the Mime
sofa governor, with the women of the
Minnesota party. Gov Clough dwindIed
to pigmy size beside the towering form
of the Nebraska Populist, but he had
the proud consolation that he was big
ger than Eustis, anyway
j. Newton Mind introduced Gov. Hol-
comb, who welcomed the Minnesotans
warmly. He was sure all Nebraska
was glad to see $50 many Minnesota
people present and while it was re-
grettable that the legislature of Min
nesota had net seen fit to make a great
er appropriation for an exhibit at
Omaha, yet the interest which had been
shown by the people of the state them
/ selves was very gratifying, not only
to the promoter of the exposition, but
to the people of Nebraska as whole
The people of Minnesota would have
no cause to regret the friendly rela-
| tions of which the building was a
| token.
BUILDING PRESENTED.
| Lieut.. Gov. John L. Gibbs, president
| of the Minnesota commission, said he
| was glad to represent one of the grand
| est states in the Union at so grand an
| exposition of human progress as that
before him. Minnesota, he said. had
iron enough to relay every mile Of
track in America and give every house.
wife in the country cook stove in the
bargain. Its resources in lumber and
in agriculture were also great. Mime
sofa butter had taken prizes against
the world. He bespoke for Gov. Clough
no small share of the credit for Min
nesota's showing at the fair, and turn
ed the building over to the governor.
Gov. Clough said that 100 years ago
| the flag of Spain floated where Mime
sofa now erected building to add in
small measure to Omaha's glorious ex-
position. The progress of the West had
been due as much to the character Of
it's men as to its natural richness. The
recent war had shown that it was not
alone the gun, but the man behind the
gun that counts. This exposition stood
for the same progressive and unified
purpose which inspired the Louisiana
purchase of 1903. To it he was glad to
present building so truly typical of
Minnesota's share in the prosperity Of
the nation, and particularly of the
West He claimed no credit for the
exhibit, but he congratulated the state
commission on its success.
President G. w. Wattles, of the ex-
position accepted the building, refer
ring to Minnesota's prestige, for wealth,
for morality and education, naming
Bishop Whipple and Archbishop Ire
land as exemplars of the greatness Of
it's men. Window, Davis, Hill and
Washburn were also named in terms of
praise.
EUSTIS THE ORATOR.
After the rendition of america"
William Henry Eustis delivered the
address of the day.
This exposition" he said, sis the
heir of the Worlds fair. Such shows
are a product of this last half of this
century. 1t was a hive in which was
gathered the best honey of human
mind. America made it's pilgrimages
to the shine of science not of supersti-
ton"
After several witty sallies at the eX-
pense of ancient superstitions, Mr.. Eus
tbs said that the present age was seek
ing causes for effects, and, as long as
the inquiry was on right lines, healthful
progress was inevitable.
I'VE knock at the door of nature"
he said. "and demand that she let us
into her secrets. The East has the
oldest records of our race, but the West
has it's latest progress. Spain guessed.
but the American gunner measured.
In the life of this exposition one of the
greatest wars Of modern times will
be fought and closed. To be an Amer
lean now is the greatest of honors. In
a little time our flag will float over all
Cuba The human mind is advancing,
onward and upward, mans self will yet
be man."
The exercises closed with the songs
by the Masonic quartette.
The Minnesota party breakfasted at
the Murray, being met at the depot by
]. B. Shaw Jr., of the exposition, and
]. Newton Mind and Secretary e. L.
Danferth, of the commission. After
the exercises, refreshments We're served
in the building, and later in the after
noon the women of the party were en-
tertalned by the woman's committee
of entertainment of the exposition, at
Conffuued on Eichth Pare