Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-29
Exhibit to Be Made at the Paris Ex-
position.
TO Be LOADED ON PRAIRIE MONDAY
Mr.. Dodge Describes Scope and
Purpose of the Display.
SAMPLES FROM ALL PARTS

The first shipments of material for the
United States exhibits of agriculture and
food products at the Paris exposition of
1900 are now being dispatched from this
city, having been collected here from ali
parts of the country. The Washington
headquarters Of the Paris exposition COM
mission, located in the museum building of
the Department of Agriculture. is a very
lively place this week In consequence. Mr..
Charles Richards Dodge. representative of
the Secretary of Agriculture. and director
of agriculture for the commissioner gem
eral of the United States. is in charge of
the work, and the duties imposed upon him
at present are exceptionally arduous.
The Secretary of Agriculture has taken a
deep interest in the United States exhibit
in the lines coming under his department.
From the first Secretary Wilson has been
enthusiastic and has given every aid to
the commission in securing the material
necessary for what is expected to be the
finest agricultural display at the great ex-
position of the century. The commission
has been ably assisted by the experts Of the
Department of Agriculture, who have taken
charge of the details of the various branch
es of the work Speaking today in general
terms concerning the exhibit Mr. Dodge
said
Material i'm the Baltimore Warehouses
Our first shipments for Paris now
being assembled in the commission ware
house at Locust Point, Baltimore, where
the material will be loaded on the gov
eminent transport Prairie next Monday.
We have five carloads of packing cases in
the warehouse now, and hope to have
about 1900 cubic feet of exhibit material
ready before the Prairie sails. The de-
partments of mining, education and fish
cries and forestry will also load consider
able shipments at Baltimore, and besides
ten car loads of material for the construc-
ton of the forestry building will be taken
on at Norfolk at the Southern railway
wharveS, this company contributing the
logs for the forestry building.
Nearly one thousand exhibits in the
Department of Agriculture, horticulture
and food products have been received at
the Washington warehouses during the
past three months including several tons
OF grain samples, which have yet to be Sc
lected and prepared for exhibition, as the
larger portion of the exhibits OF my de-
partment will not go over until the second
sailing of the transport, about January l.
Exhibit for Palace of Agriculture.
Between 5000 and 10000 cubic feet of
ebonized oak cases, measured, knocked
down and packed solid will be required for
the United States space in the palace of
agriculture, where a little more than two
fifths of the total space in my department
is located. This immense contract was
taken by Baltimore firm, the cases, which
are of white oak, ebonized and gilded. to
be finished in TWO and half months. The
first shipment also includes the mammoth
revolving plate glass refrigerator Which
was built by Boston concern. This big
ice box is heXagonal in shape, twenty feet
in diameter. and is thirteen feet high.
AS no part of the exhibits of the hor-
ticultural group, the agricultural imple-
ment section or of the weather bureau,
and Of the larger exhibits that will be
placed at Vincennes. Will be shipped at this
time, they will not be now considered, and
the statements made may be understood
to refer only to the exhibits in the palace
of agriculture.
This space covers about 10000 square
feet most centrally located, with Great
Britain, Belgium and Norway as nearest
neighbors. In addition to the floor space
there will be an entresol gallery twelve
feet above 1t, next the wall and nearly
twenty feet wide, upon which will be in
stalled some of our most interesting and
important exhibits. such as the cotton.
wool and fibers, fertilizers the agricultural
experiment station exhibits. and a series of
| small manufactures of food mills, etc.
Illustration of Fish Life.
For the section devoted to fish foods a
very full series of these products has been
collected by DIR. Tarleton II, Bean, director
of fisheries, the central feature being an
immense model of a Pacific coast salmon
cannery, in wood and papier mache, which
perfectly illustrates the preparation of this
delectable food product The food fishes
themselves Will be illustrated by series of
casts, colored to nature, which is a part
of the superb loan exhibit OF the United
States fish commission. The many pack
ages used for fish food will also be shown
together with models of vessels used in our
larger fisheries. Further Illustration of the
methods in vogue in this country will be
supplied by collection of several hundred
photographs on 2SX2s mounts. in portfolios.
that will be accessible to visitors at all
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