The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-16
AN THEOLOGICAL SHOW
Omaha Has Decided to Hold An
other Exposition.
SEA ISLAND COLONIES
Will Be reproduced in Miniature-Not
Looked Upon With Particular
Favor in Montana No Charge
for Space.

Omaha has fully decided to hold an
other exposition this summer 1t is tc
be an chronological show, a reproduction
in miniature of Uncle Sans Sea Island
colonies. and is called the Greater
American Exposition an exhibition in
which the people, plants, animals and
other interesting things belonging to
the islands just secured are to be
shown. An effort has been made to get
Governor Smith and the state commits
sloner, who represented Montana al
the Trans Mississippi exposition, inter-
ested in the new show, but they have
not looked upon it with special favor.
Several letters on the subject have been
received in Butte during the past few
days. James B. Haynes, superinteEd-
ent of the Greater American EXPOSE
ton writes to a friend in this city:
I'VE, of course. want Montana 10
make another state exhibit and, unlike
the regulations last year, there will be
no charge for space
The general plan of the exposition IS
outlined by a Washington correspond
emit of the Philadelphia Press, who
writes:
" nat Coulli De lliOlb interesting luSC
at present than to gather together for
the purpose of an chronological exhibit
ton large number of specimens of
the people newly taken under the pro-
lection of Uncle Sam-the Filipinos
the Hawaiians, the Porto Ricans and
the Cubans? Everybody would go to
see it. particularly if the spectacular
show element were eliminated Us far
as possible from the enterprise, which
ought to have for it's object the rep
resentation of those races exactly as
they are found on their native islands
This is precisely the scheme that is
now being quietly inaugurated, with
practically unlimited capital behind It.
A company has been organized a t Oma-
ha and has bought the buildings used
for the recent Trans Mississippi fair.
These, together with the vast grounds,
are to be used for another kind of ex-
hibition during the summer Of 1899,
which might be called the exposition
of expansion. inasmuch as it will be de-
voted chiefly to an immense display IL
Illustrating the resources, etc, of the
new colonies of the United States
THE idea is, in the first place, to
present to the eyes of visitors a vivid
and striking picture of the newly ac-
quired islands in the Pacific and At
lantic. This is to be accomplished in
very ingenious and original way I'M
der the superintendent of an eminent
artist in landscape gardening. The
archipelago of the Philippines is actu-
ally to be laid out in miniature and yet
on a considerable scale, with the cor
rect diversification of land and water.
1t may be that actual water will be
used, so that people may paddle about
in boats from Luzon to Mindanao and
among the smaller isles of the group.
Now, as to the islands themselves,
they are to be built in as close like
ness as possible to the originals of the
great archipelago. The large ones, such
as Luzon, are very mountainous, and
thus will be very picturesque, even in
miniature. Many tropical trees and
plants brought from the South Pacific
expressly for the purpose, will lend
beauty to these fairy isles. But this
is by no means all.
There will be people on the islands.
at all events the biggest of them-na-
tive Filipinos, dwelling in their nuts.
and living in all respects as they do
when they are at home. Not only will
there be the comparatively civilized
Tagals. but also representatives of the
Aetnas-the half-wild, monkeylke
dWarfs of the interior of Luzon.
However. exclusive attention is by
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represented in a similar way. and Gu
ba and Porto Rico. There will be an
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