Evening star., 1901-04-10
A NOTABLE EXHIBIT
UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION AT
THE BUFFALO EXPOSITION.
Instructive and Attractive Display,
Prepared with Great Care,
Being Installed.

Visitors to the Pan-American exposition
at Buffalo will see many wonderful things,
but probably they will find nothing more COM
rlete or more entertaining and instructive
In character than the exhibit Of the United
States fish commission This branch of the
government service. which In a scientific,
and more particularly Of late years in
a practical. way has teen of such immense
value to the country, has made effective
records at expositions in the past. The dis
play at Buffalo will far surpass all former
attempts and will be more extensive than
any ever before given IN the world. Com
missioner George NJ. Bowers, under whose
admirable direction the fish commission has
made such progressive strides, determined
when the Pan-American project was first
preached, to devote all the resources at his
command to making the commissions eX-
htbit memorable one, and MIR. w. de c.
Raxenel, assistant in charge Of the division
or nsh culture, was given the important
responsibility of carrying this intention into
effect. Mr. Ravenel is now at Buffalo in
stalling the exhibit -~.>-.-
Fishes in the Natural State.
There will be fifty tanks containing diff
ferent varieties of fresh and salt water
fshes shown as nearly as possible in their
natural surroundings. The sea water for
the fishes who live in that kind of fluid has
been conveyed in tank cars from Woods
Holl, Massachusetts, to Buffalo. The op-
Grafton of Matching out fish from spawn or
eggs will be continued throughout the term
or the exposition beginning with trout in
the early weeks and ending with salmon
In the fall. All the varieties propagated by
the commission in this way will be hatched
out the same as at stations and distributed
In the usual way to streams, rivers, lakes
and elsewhere. Every conceivable imple
ment used in capturing fish, from the
iSh fn har rAoya tr-at II will
be shown, and models of all boats, cars
and other things used In fishing and in the
commissions work will be displayed.
Products of Fisheries.
An especially notable feature of the ex-
hibit will be that devoted to the products
of fisheries There will be a comprehen-
sive display of fishes, oysters, Holsters.
CLAIMS, turtles, shrimps, etc, preserved by
canning In various ways, and by smoking,
picking and salting The fresh fish indus
tries will be illustrated by casts and en-
cravings and pictures showing the man.
ner of their capture. There will also be
exhibited a series of shells of salt and
fresh water mollusks which are used for
food or bait, and comprehensive col
lection Of edible crustaceans preserved and
mounted.
The secondary products of fisheries which
are of great and increasing value will be
illustrated as fully as possible. The prin-
cipal of these are CLUES, fertilizers, oils
and isingiass. Twenty-four samples of
fertilizers will be shown, and twenty-five of
glue and isinglass, while sixty different
samples of oil valuable for medicinal or
mechanical purposes will be displayed.
Ivory ornaments made from walrus and
narwhal tusks, whalebone and tortoise
shell, both crude and prepared for use. and
manufactures made from skins of seals,
walrus, sea lions, alligators and water
snakes will be shown in all their stages.
A full series of shells of mollusks used
in the manufacture of pearl buttons. to-
gether with buttons in the various stages
of manufacture, will be included in the ex-
hibit as well as examples of valuable pearls
found In mussels. Altogether the display
will be a notable one.