Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-10
A LOG CABIN.
Will Be the Maine Blu Iding at ST.
Louis Exposition.
commissioners Set Forth Their Plans
for the State Exhibit.

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Hotel at $50 p. NJ. The entire board of
commissioners was present as follows:
HON. Louis B. Goodall of Sanford,
chairman; Hon. Charles c. BurTill of
Ellsworth, F. H. Briggs. Esq, of Au-
purn, Lemuel S. Lane, Esq, of West
pfook, and Mr.. George Sargent OF Sar-
Sentville.
Chairman Goodan explained that
lnerc We're number of restrictions
ABOUT this fair that il would be we'll to
understand at the outset. For instance
IL man who manufactures something
Out OF wood wants to exhibit his
wares they will not go in the State
building, but in Il building devoted to
Wool and its products. So with granite
or ether industries. The mining and
inetallnrgy building will contain al!
OF the mineral exhibits from every
where of course properly marked and
labelled, so that there will be no mix
up on that account.
The State of Maine building, for
there will certainly be a building, will
be more for the purpose of attracting
people in for the benefit of the whole
State and to serve as Il club house
or meeting place for Maine people. 1t
should be filled with pictures and lit
erature regarding Maine as a whole.
but having no reference to particular
industries of business concerns. The
Maine commissioners have secured
what they believe to be the very best
lot on the grounds for the site of their
building, and it now remains only to
fix upon the nature of the building.
The appropriation is not large
enough, only $4,000, to enable the
commissioners to, as he expressed it,
''Slosh all around over everything" so
they very early in the game decided
that it would be necessary to concen-
trate their strength upon some one or
two special lines as being typical of the
State. In other words if there is some
thing that we have here in Maine that
they have elsewhere ard perhaps in
better shape than we have. let it alone
but come out very strong on what we
have that nobody else has. Mr..
Goodall said that he had for some time
regarded Names vacation and fish
and game business as its principal in
dustry, and he had taken pains to col
lect some figures upon the subject, the
result being that he found that in
round numbers Maine profitted about
$15, 900, 900 annually from her summer
visitors, while it took the total of her
ten heaviest industries otherwise to
equal that sum. So he thought on the
whole the point to emphasize was the
value of Maine as a summer resort,
and as Il fishing and ginning resort.
The commissioners therefore deemed
it wise 10 pursue their planning along
this line and they thought they had
hit upon a good feature. 1t is pro-
posed to.make the State building in
the form of a log cabin, and to fill
it with articles pertaining to the fish
ing and hunting Industries, all of the
stuffed fish and game that can be Sc
cured, canoes, paddles, guns, fishing
tackle, and everything that can be
thought of that will serve to advertise
Names peerless hunting and fishing
resorts Then let the building be filled
with pictures and booklets. the larger
and better they are the better for the
State containing bits of sea- and lake
scenery and views from tho hundred
harbors of Maine, that have their equal
nowhere in the world. This is the
point to bear down upon according to
the ideas of the commissioners.
Several members of the Portland
board Of trade who We're present en-
dorsed the plans of the commissioners
saying that it was exactly in line with
their own ideas with the log cabin
thrown in as nm additional attraction
and one not before thought Of
I,11 ba int 70, Il
the building about $50 by 70 feet in
size which he thought would be ample
He wanted a broad veranda around it
so people could stay there in the shade
and could become acquainted with the
beauties of the State.
In the line of exhibiting industries he
felt that two of Names industries
ought to be exploited especially. These
We're the hardwood lumber and the
granite with which Maine abounds. He
spoke of the gradual denudation of the
middle states of their hardwood lumber.
and the fact that the great furniture
manufacturers of the middle West
must look elsewhere for q supply, a de-
mand which we can satisfy right here
in this State. He would have a large
ana elaborate display of Names hard :
woods, but this would not be in the
State building. There will be a build
ing set apart for forestry where this
display would properly belong in that
building. Then the Maine granite and
slate ought 10 be fully exhibited
Maine granite is we'll known every
where and wherever you so in the
West you will find public buildings
built of it. For this reason and to
push still further this staple of the
State there ought to be great exhibit
of Maine granite and Maine slate as
well. The department of mining and
metallurgy has already begun to
make arrangements to give the neces-
sary space for this exhibit and now the
Maine granite and slate people must do
the rest. Aside from apples and po-
tatoes and canned goods he doubted
the wisdom of Maine irving to go very
heavily into the exhibition of agricul-
tular products at present
Fearful Odds Against Him.