The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-27
OVER FIVE MILLION BEES.
Colorado's Live Exhibit Will Contain
Millions of Workers-State
House of Bee Hives. =

st. Louis dispatch: The liveliest
live exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase
exposition in 1904 will come from
Colorado" Thus spoke Van E. Rouse,
the Colorado Springs mine owner and
capitalist. during his visit to st. Louis
this week with the Colorado Worlds
Fair Commission, of which he is an ac-
tive member. 1.-The world generally
knows that as a mining country Colo
a d leads all nations on the globe"
continued Mr.. Rouse, land this has
naturally created the impression out
side of Colorado that all the wealth Of
our magnificent state is hidden under
ground. Our exhibits at the Worlds
Fair will show Colorado to be not only
great in mining, but that 1t is a world
leader in horticulture n agriculture"
"The Worlds Fair management in
their plan and scope of the exposition
declared they wanted live exhibits, so
in casting about for plans to make u
exhibit conform to that idea we inter-
ested one of our wealthiest and most
public spirited citizens, Mayor Swink
of Rocky Ford. Mr.. Swink is an api-
artist, and he has, perhaps, the largest
bee plant in America. He is going to
bring his bees to the Worlds Fair, and
they will work here from the time the
Exposition opens until it closes. Mr..
$4,000 OF his own money, Is to bring
to St Louis enough beehives to o. n
struct in miniature a counterpart of the
Colorado state house at Denver. The
bees will then be turned out to find ma
terial for honey making in the country
| surrounding the Worlds Fair grounds.
1t VIII require about GAO hives to con-
struct the little state house and in It
about five and one-half million bees
will work. 1t will be a great exhibit.
In Colorado we make the finest honey
in the world. We have one bee man
who works his bees all the year
through. In summer they work in his
alfalfa fields in Colorado, and in the
fall he ships them to his plantation in
Florida, where they work among the
flowers and orange groves until time
to return them to the West in the
spring.
"In Colorado we have each year a
Watermelon day at Rocky Ford, a Po-
tato day at Greeley, a Strawberry day
at Canon City, and a Fruit day at
Grand Junction. These are holidays,
lilu ~ SOlo ado u no out W ~ ~
brations. In 1904 these celebrations
will be held in St. Louis, and we expect
many trainloads of people here to par
ticipate in them, and on these days Col
orado fruit will be as free as water for
those who celebrate with U.S."
The Colorado exhibit will cost a total
of $500, 600. The commissioners APP
pointed by the governor under the law
creating the Worlds Fair Commission,
have so far refused to draw on the
state appropriation for their services,
preferriug to leave the money in the
treasury to be used in making the ex-
hibit. .r.
Notes of the Fair
Two more rivals of Santos-Dumont,
the wizard of the air, have come into
public notice during the past week. One
of these is a Prof. Barnard, of Lynn,
Mass, who has a flying machine all but
ready for the contest in the air at the
Worlds Fair. The other is Parvin
Wright of Denver, Col, a mechanical
and electrical engineer OF twenty years
experience. Now that Santos Dumont
has packed his aerial craft and gone
back to Paris from London it is quite
probable that daring %aeronaut will be
kept busy until 1904 perfecting his fly
ing machine for the Worlds Fair races.
Iowa has more button factories than
any other state in the union, according
to the United States census report, and
this fact prompts an Iowa editor to sug-
gest that il would be more appropriate
to erect a Button Palace" instead OF a
Corn Palace" at the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition.
Sir Sydney Fisher, minister of agri-
culture for Canada, has appointed Mr..
William Hutchinson as Canadian COM
missioner to the Worlds Fair at st.
Louis. Mr.. Hutchinson will have charge
of all the preliminary arrangements for
Canada's big exhibit at the exposition
in 1904. His headquarters will be with
the department OF agriculture, Ottawa,
Canada.
Rev. Samuel l. Lindsay, secretary of
the Worlds Fair Religious Building
and Exhibit committee, has written
President Francis of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition, conveying to that Of
ficer the thanks of the committee for
the kind consideration he has already
shown their request for the erection Of
a building of sufficient capacity and OF
suitable architectural design to accom-
modate the vast exhibit contemplated.
There will be no difficulty, DR.. Lindsay
says, in securing the united %co-opera-
ton of all the religious bodies involved
for making an exhibit worthy of the
Worlds Fair and the cause of religion.
The plan of the religious committee
has been unanimously endorsed by, each
general religious body before which 1t
has been laid.