The Mankato free press., 1903-07-17
Covers Forty Acres at Worlds Fair,
Picture Faithfully Portrayed.
Large Numbers Of Filipinos to Inhabit
a Typical Village.
Site Will Teem With Life and Indus.
trY--Factories at Work.
MARI ct Places, Churches and Theatres
Resources of New Possessions.

st. Louis, July l4.-Strange and won
derful things from the Philippine Is
lands will be shown in grand exhibit
covering forty acres in the western Sec
tion of the Worlds Fair grounds at st.
| Louis.
The lnsular government has made a
liberal appropriation for this exhibit,
and the sum will be still further in
creased by individuals and commercial
organizations in the American posses
sions in the Pacific Ocean. The large
area set apart for the exhibits will TEEN
with lite and industry, and the many
phases of the Philippine life will be ac-
curately portrayed. All of the useful
and many of the curious products of the
islands will be shown, and the theory
of the Exposition to show processes
along with the finished product is tenac-
iously adhered to. The forty acre ex-
hibit of the Philippine archipelago is,
on rolling piece of ground immediate
ly west of the Palace of Agriculture. A
portion of Arrowhead Lake is included.
The Filipinos will reproduce on the
Worlds Fair grounds typical Filipino
villages; for example, a lake dwelling
built upon the wooden uprights. A
market square will be constructed, with
buildings of varied architecture Typi-
cal Filipino industries will be illustrated
in them. Churches will be reproduced,
and the rites and ceremonies shown In
the market square market will be held
every day for the various tribes, repre-
sentatives of which will make up the
population of the villages. One build
ing will be devoted to agriculture in
which will be shown sugar. coffee. rice,
tobacco, etc. Another building will be
devoted to forestry. This structure, l40
feet long and 40 feet wide, is to be built
of timber and palms. representative of
the most important Philippine species.
In the frame of the building, boards
twenty-five feet long and the greatest
possible width will be shown. Tall tim
Der, bamboo, etc, will be shown in "a
rotunda, which will eliminate in tow
er 100 feet high. A part of the building
will be devoted to minor products of the
forest, such as gutta percha, caoutchouc,
the chief resin gums, oleaginous plants
and seeds, oils, perfumes, tan barks,
dye stuffs, medical plants, herbs, etc.
One pavilion will be devoted to illus
trating the work of the Filipino women.
Another will contain war exhibit, con-
tributions to which will be made by
native Filipinos and by Americans who
have seen service in the archipelago. A
pavilion will be devoted to a Filipino
library and lecture room.
A valuable feature of the exhibit will
consist of third-class observatory of
the Philippine Islands made by the me-
teoyological observatory at Manila. 1t
will contain not only all the instru
ments, but also charts and maps show
ing Genealogical conditions of the Phil
ippine archipelago, rain charts, charts
representing the isobArs and isotherms.
Others will illustrate the pressure of air,
trade winds, typhoons, etc.
The fibre exhibit of the Philippines will
embrace the Manila plant, a banana tree
bearing inedible fruit It's fibre pro-
duces the strongest ropes, and cables
made. It will include ramie, and all
the fibre plants grown in the archipel-
ago. The great numbers of varieties
shown, and the actual process of trans
forming the fibrous product, will be an
interesting revelation and will show the
islands vast resources as regards this
one industry.
There will be a large herbarium, rep
resenting the whole range of botanical
specimens in this line, and full col
lection of fibres in various stages of
manufacture All sorts of manufact-
ured fabrics from vegetable fbres will
be shown, from the coarsest burlaps and
rattan mattings to the wonderfully
dainty laces for which the Filipino wo-
men are famed.
The more common commercial fbres
of the islands will be represented by a
large collection, showing all the COM
mercial grades, the amount of fibre pro-
duced by single plant, the amount pro-
duced on a given area, and the different
qualities produced by all of the different
methods of extraction.
There will be shown coarse ,nettings,
cordage, threads, yarns, cords, lines,
twines, ropes, and cables. And there
will be large collection of the differ