The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-16
HAS TWO NAMES NOW
BREAD AND BUTTER STATE PROV
ING IT'S RIGHT TO AN
OTHER TITLE
FINE APPLES AT BUFFALO
Historic Fort Smelling to Be Re-
produced in This Variety of
Fruits. for, Pau-Amer-
team Visitors.

Not content with offering a butter
model of the new state capitol for the
amusement of visitors to the Pan-Amert-
can exposition at Buffalo, the Minnesota
commissioners have decided on another
feature which is now being installed and
which it is believed will serve to adver-
tise the resources of the North Star
state in a maner even more pronounced
than the model of the capitol has done.
The new feature will be "a reproduction of
the original Fort Smelling which was
built in 1920. The Buffalo Express gives
the following description of the exhibit:
From the beginning of the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition, Minnesota has displayed
an enterprise that has put to blush many
of her sister states. She was early in
the field with a beautiful building which
contains an elaborate educational ex-
hibit, the largest made by any state AT
the exposition THE. model of the new
So, 100000 state capitol at St. Paul in the
Dairy building, sculptured in butter, is
the wonder and admiration of thousands
OF visitors, and the Minnesota booths and
exhibits in the various buildings all at
tract favorable attention.
Minnesota Is now adding the browning
feature of all by reproducing in fruit the
original historic Fort Smelling, built IN
1920, at the junction of the Mississippi
and Minnesota rivers, six miles above ST.
Paul.
An Express representative met H. P.
+ Hall, one of the Minnesota board Of man
ayers, yesterday and obtained a descrip-
ton of the novel feature, which is now
being Installed in horticultural building
There has been popular expression
that the climate Of Minnesota is so Sc
we're as to preclude the production of
fruit, but that idea is now being rapidly
dlspelled by results. Minnesota has an
hort irI,If
not surpassed by any state in the union
and that stimulates fruit production. At
the annual meeting a few weeks ago If
was shown that over ], 600 900 bushels of
apples were raised in Minnesota last wear
and the quality of the fruit is unsurpassed
anywhere Pfims, grapes and many other
fruits are raised in prefusion and at no
Instant day Minnesota will be as famous
as a fruit state as it now is as the Bread
and-Butter state.
Inc Jewell nursery at Lake City. MINI
started over thirty years, Is one of the
pioneers in the production of fruit. 1t
now has about 800 acres in fruit and is
supplying to the rest of the state trees
winch have been practically tested and
known to be adapted to the climate. The
enterprfsing proprietor. J. M. Under
WOOD, displayed at the recent state fair
at st. Paul production of the original
Fort Smelling in apples, and this is now
fpelng reproduced at the Pan-American
exposition. John Nordine who has been
connected with the nursery for MANY
years, was the designer of the piece. Mr..
Nordlne can be properly termed a horti-
cultural architectural genius. He arrived
IN Buffalo yesterday and is now actively
at work in reproducing the novel struc-
ture
The floor space occupied is "a by "a feet
and the fort rises to a height of Is feet.
1t stands upon q platform raised one foot
from the floor, the whole space being sur
rounded by a neat railing. At the base
there are seven shelves in the form of
stairs eight inches wide, each shelf stair 4
rising six inches above the other. Back
of each shelf Is mirror which makes
the pleasant Illusion of doubling the
quantity of fruit displayed The mirrors
at the top shelf are four In number.
twenty inches wide I'D ten feet long
so inclined that they reflect the entire
display below, and that, with the other
mirrors. increases the Illusion so that
the display is seemingly quadrupled
Behind these upper mirrors are large
vases containing cut flowers, the vases
being concealed by mirrors and the flow
ers rising above them. The mirrors are
tastefully decorated with vines.
The shelving which surrounds the fort
requires $40 feet Of lumber and the fruit
display theron is magnificent.
In the center of the shelving, already
described, is the reproduction of the orig
fnal cylindrical Fort Smelling The fort
is built around an erect pivotal piece of
timber upon which it rests by braces, the
whole face of the fort being covered with
apples. The circumference of the fort is
20 feet and inches, the diameter feet
and inches and the height from the
floor IS feet. There are four portfolios %