The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-14
TOBACCO EXHIBIT.
The Industry in All Its Phases to
Form a Worlds Fair Display.

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ship constructed wholly of the cheering
weed, perched high on a massive globe,
also built of tobacco. on the top of an
ornate pagoda formed of tobacco. is in
tended to be the browning feature of the
universal tobacco exhibit at the univer-
sal exposition at St. Louis.
This tobacco display will be one of
the important exhibits that will make
the palace of agriculture a bee hive of
industry and wonderment. Entirely I'M
der the roof of this mighty palace, the
largest of the exposition buildings COW
ering an area of u acres, the special
tobacco exhibit will occupy a space 300
feet long and 50 feet wide. Aisles 20
feet wide on each side of the parallelo-
gram will render the great industrial
picture effectual when seen from any
point
Here again the theory of making the
exposition one of methods. and not
alone one of finished products, will pre-
vail. Tobacco will be shown in its eV-
cry form. There will be the seed beds
with young plants just peeping above
the soil; full grown plants growing in
miniature fields; a curing barn with its
appliances in operation, an exhibit of all
the tools, machinery and appliances
used in the culture of the weed: ware
houses showing the processes of hand
ling and storing the leaf tobacco; fac
tories where plug tobacco is manufac-
tured; other factories crowded with
pretty girls, selected from the cigarette
factories because of their dexterity,
turning out before the eyes of visitors
thousands of cigarettes; still other fac
tories where granular and plug-cut
smoking tobaccoS, fine cuts and snufs
are made In the same exhibit will be
also two distinct cigar factories. One is
to be given over to force of Cubans
who will make strictly Havana cigars
from strictly Havana tobacco, while
across the aisle will be domestic cigar
factory with a large force turning out
all kinds of domestic cigars cheroots
and stogies. Arrangements are gHnding
whereby the revenue laws will be so
complied with that a visitor may OBJ
serve the cigars made and buy them
over the counter while he waits.
This comprehensive tobacco exhibit is
in the direct charge of Mr.. Thomas K.
Bruner superintendent of special ex-
hibits, with Mr.. Frederick w. Taylor,
chief of agriculture. The Importance OF
the tobacco interests may be partly
appreciated when it is known that
growers, handlers, manufacturers and
users reach the respectable clientele of
many million persons in America.
! When one approaches the special ex-
hibit of tobacco the great central pa
CODA, octa gonal in form, with its sum-
nit 80 feet i'll air, reaching almost to
the roof of the great Agricultural pal
ace, will command ones attention and
| force admiration. The pagoda Will be
!
be entirely covered with tobacco, and as
the great exhibit palaces covered with
staff appear to be of marble, so this
pagoda will appear to be of tobacco
Columns and walls of tobacco will rise
Is feet to the cornice line, leaving four
main entrances gracefully arched
This will be surmounted by cornice
made of glass six feet wide, entirely
enclosing the pagoda, on which are to
be photographed actual scenes from
the worlds most famous tobacco fields.
! Behind this glass cornice win be placed
electric lamps, the light of which brings
the photographs into plain view.
Above the cornice will be fiat rool
and on the roof will stand heroic figures
of Indians, the first users of tobacco.
| Tobacco plants will also be growing on
the top. From the center of the roo.
will rise a huge globe, 70 feet in cir
conference. The globe will be entirely
covred with tobacco. The land is to be
shown by the darker colored tobacco
while the waters will be represented BY
/ the bright types. The great river Sys-
TENS of the world are shown by threads
of golden leaf running through the dark
brown
Attached to the top of the globe, and
sailing in a golden sea of leaf tobacco
l will be a graceful ship, with its hull
A of dark brown tobacco Nesting in its
yellow bed and the sails and ropes OF
other shades. This ship represents the
return to England of Sir Walter Raj
a
from the new world
Surrounding the pagoda are four
/ large exhibit spaces. In one of these
all the machinery used in the manufac-
I ture of plug tobacco is to be shown.
Some of the machinery will be in OPP
Grafton. and the finished product is to
I be made in full view of the visitor from
the leaf tobacco taken from warehouses
/ elsewhere in the great exhibit. dag
onally across tn pagoda space is to be
4 another r-achiner- exhibit, and here
will be manufactured the granular and
plug-cut smoking tobaccos, fine cuts
and sruffs. Two spaces are given over
to the manufacture of cigarettes, both
by hand and machinery
Entering the great parallelogram by
I the main aisle from the east. the visitor
will find large exhibit spaces on either
side devoted to display of the machin-
cry tools and appliances used in the
cultivation of tobacco.
/ The next section will be one of alb
sorbing interest. -Four large plots are