The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-10-24
To the Press of Lafayette.

To the Press of Lafayette.
Gentlemen Will you kindly call your
readers attention to the fact that DR.. William
G. Stubs, State Commissioner for LouisI-
ana OF the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
ST. Louis, Mo-, in 1904. has been for
months engaged in preparing exhibit
from Louisiana that not only will do credit
to the State, but will be the finest agricul-
tural exhibit from the finest state of the
Union. No man in the United States is
better qualified to do this than Dr. Stubbs,
to whom the State Is under lasting indebted
ness for advancing in every way possible her
agricultural interests. The Doctor, who has
4 very warm spot in his heart for this par
ish on account of the interest always shown
by the Police Juries ard the farmers in the
annual Farmers Institutes and the cause of
education, has frequently expressed the
hope that the parish would contribute her
advantage of this invaluable opportunity to
advertise the parish's resources.
1t must be apparent to every reasonable
mind that if every individual would inun-
ETC., that he would require extra
force just to handle the products of one
parish. 1t IS great pity that the
mi:tes on parish fairs. appointed by the
in accordance with the suggestion of Major
Lee, State Commissioner of Agriculture and
Immigration, never met and organized, nor
took steps to hold said fair because it
would have afforded the managers an oppor-
tunity of collecting the exhibits that had
drawn premiums and forwarding them TO
ST. Louis. But as it is of crying
over split milk, would suggest that the
business men of Lafayette, through their
Board of Trade, invite their clientele
throughout the parish to send in specimens
of their best corn, cotton, rice, sweet pota-
toes, hay, peanuts, syrup, cane, and any
other of the fruits of the earth that can be
handled conveniently and kept, Offering
small honorarium OR blue ribbon for same,
and picking out the best and forwa riding them
to ST. Louis, if up to the standard of ex-
hibits. DR.. Stubs would like the loan of
four to five hundred pound bale of perfectly
clean, upland prairie cotton, which he will
have covered with silk and bound in brass
hoops, with the details to the amount
made per acre, on soil fortified not, as
the case may be. This bale will be returned
to owner or placed in the hands of com
mission merchant for sale after the close of
the exposition.
L he cotton exhibit from Louisiana will be
one of the features of the occasion, and will
include a magnificent figure of King Cotton
his flowing robes. The sugar exhibit
will include heroic figure of Louisiana in
crystalized sugar-already made and now
sleeping in cold storage, awaiting the open
ing next May. The sulphur output of the
State will include a statue of Mephistopheles,
in the classic portrayal in Faust.
1t is to be hoped that the Anse LaButte
oil field will not loose this chance of letting
the outside world know that we have high
Is
Mr.. Alex Mouton will send fine exhibit of
sirop de batterie all the syrup farmers
should follow suit, and in this way create a
market at fancy figures for table product
that sells for ridiculously low figure from
November to February, and then Is not
obtainable in quantities to supply the trade
until the new crop comes in. If the same
amount OF energy was displayed by the
syrup makers of the parish that the Nell
benny sauce people display, Lafayette
battery syrup would fetch sI.oo per gallon.
AS it is, the consuming public have to
tent themselves with corn syrup treated
with sulphurc acid and black centrifugal,
chemiealized and sold in attractive tins,
right in the spot where cane syrup is made.
The tobacco growers should also be heard
from. There are spots in this parish where
the finest perique and cigar stock can be
grown. l trust you will continue agitatng
this matter in the columns of your respective
papers until handsome exhibit is secured,
and, at least, bale of cotton. The pro-
gressive cotton planters in every parish of
the State have responded with the loan of
bale except Lafayette and St. Martin, and
Or. Stubbs already has on hand enough to
make mighty pyramid of bales, bound in
silk and brass bands, to serve as a pedestal
for King Cotton. Is Lafayette, which ought
to be the chief stone in the edifce, going
to be left out at her own volition? Cannot
the business men of Lafayette take the
initiative, as herein indicated, and send
down bale together with samples of the
best corn, cane, tobacco, syrup, hay, alfalfa,
lerpediza, crab, gazzon, cotton and its
products and Anse La Butte oil, pure and
solidihed by the Bruck process, which will
exhibit heat efficiency of 10000 heat units,
against 14,coo heat units in the best
anthracite coal, and this fact, if advertised
at the exposition, will be determining
factor in locating manufacturing plants in
and around Lafayette.
1 trust that you will continue to agitate
this matter continuously until the public
awakens a realizing sense of the UNI
rivaled advertising facilities which DIR.
Stubbs anxious to exten this section.
Respectfully yours,