The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-11
SHOWING WAS BRILLIANT
FINAL REPORT OF MTNNESOTA,s
PAN-AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS
Only Thirty Cents Left of Appropri-
alton of $50, OOO-Summary of
Prizes and Medals
Won

The final report of the board of man.
ayers of the Minnesota exhibit at the
Pan-American exposition has been COM
pleted and among other details shows
that there still remain in the treasury
of the board the sum of 80 cents which
was not expended.
Tne report is gotten up in the form of
neat pamphlet Of nearly 100 pages
which contains the recorus of Minneso-
TIA S success as a prize winner at the ex-
position as the bread and butter state
of the Union. The report demonstrates
that the state won its share Of prizes
in the dairy and grain departments, and
made as good a showing as any other
state in other respects.
The state was awarded five gold med
ais for excellency in It's educational ex-
hibit In the Minnesota building; for the
model Of the state capitol in butter; for
the model of Fort Smelling in 1920 in
fruits, and for the collective exhibit Of
agricultural resources and for its dis
play of sugar beets.
Three medals were awarded the state
for its exhibit of mineral resources and
one for the collective display of butter
A bronze medal was awarded for the fig
ure of a woman made of grains and
grasses Of the state, which was exhibited
in the agricultural booth.
In the butter sweepstakes Minnesota
stood in the second rank for four scor-
ings, while for the individual scoring
Minnesota butter stood higher than any
other state. The report explains that
Minnesota would have won the first
place from New York in the butter con-
test except that the butter had to be
transported SO long a distance and for
the fact that there were no proper ac-
cOmmodations for the butter during the
earlier part Of the exposition after it
had arrived.
Individual exhibitors from Minnesota
were awarded four silver medals, seven
teen bronze and thirty three diplomas
Of honorable mention for 106 groups of
exhibits.
The report deals largely with the ad-
vertising Minnesota received from it's ex-
hibit. The newspaper clippings fill three
huge scrapbooks, and those with the fiji
teen registers that were used, containing
10000 names, have been presented to the
State Historical society. The reports of
Minnesota day" in the Buffalo papers
were sent broadcast over the world. A
counter 100 feet long was built and $50
men were employed addressing the papers
which were furnished by the managers
ready for mailing. The board distributed
$1,000 copies of the pamphlet entitled
Minnesota, the Bread and Butter State"
Volumes of Clippings.
H. P. Hail. in his report, as clerk of the
beard, says: Under your direction, l
have kept clippings of news and editorial
items concerning Minnesota's Part at the
Pan-American exposition These clippings
now fill three volumes. Together with
the official report of the Minnesota Edi-
torial association (Which appeared in du-
plicate in nearly 500 papers, and for that
reason but one copy was inSerted), these
clippings would cover $40 pages. In all,
2797 items have appeared in the papers
" hich have been found and clipped. Over
81 400 inches of reading matter have APP
peared. To give even better idea of
this really gigantic amount of printing
I reduce the matter to dollars and cents.
At 5 cents a line, which, by the way is
a low rate-loWer than a single item
could have been secured in the least in
f1uential paper-it would have cost the
state $37, 310 or $3.50 more than the en-
tire appropriation, to have paid for all
these reading notices as advertising. In
all, over 746200 lines, averaging seven
words to the line, have been printed and
published in over a thousand papers
about Minnesota. directly as the result Of
the states exhibit at the Pan-Ameri-
can
The resume Of the financial statement
Is as follows:
State appropriation ................$ sac, zoo. 90
Received from other sources. LABS. 81
Total receipts ..................$ S1, ABS. SO
Total expenditures ......... $751; 48s, 29
balance OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. so. 30