Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-13
UNIVERSAL TOBACCO EXHIBIT.
The Tobacco industry In All Its Pha
ses Forms a Unique and lmpor-
tant Worlds Fair Display
BY w. G. Mccarty.


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By w. G. McCarty.
Tobacco, an ocean Of 1t, bearing a
ship constructed wholly Of the cheering
weed, perchcd high on a massive
globe, also built Of tobacco, on the top
Of an ornate pagoda formed of tobao.
co, Is intended to BIO the browning
feature Of the universal tobacco ex
hibit at the universal exposition at
st. Louis.
This tobacco display Will be IN Of
the important exhibits that will make
the Palace OF Agriculture a bee hive
OF Industry and wonierment. Entire.
~ under the roof Of this mighty pal.
ace, the largest Of the exposition
buildings, covering an r Q of 10 acres
tho special tobacco exhibit will occu.
by a space or 800 feet long and SO feet
wide. Aisles 20 feet wide on each
side Of the paralelleIogram will rem
der the great Industrial picture effec-
tual when seen from any point.
Here again the theory OF making
the exposition one Of methods, AMI
not alone OF finished products, will
prevail. Tobacco will be shown ID
its every form. There will be the
seed beds with young plants growing
In miniature fields; a curing barn with
Its appliances In operation, an exhibit
Of all the tools, machinery and appli.
ances used In the culture OF the weed;
warehouses showing the processes OF
handling and storing the leaf tobacco;
factories where plug tobacco Is manu-
featured; other factories crowded
with pretty girls. selected from the
cigarette factories because OF their
Of visitors thousands Of cigarettes:
still other factories where granular
and plug-cut tobaccos, lne cuts and
snuffs are made. In the same exhibit
will also be two distinct cigar facto-
ries. One IL to be given over to a
force OF Cubans who will make strict
~ Havana cigars from strictly Havana
tobacco. while across the aisle will
bxe q domestic cigar factory with q
large force turning out all kinds Of do
mcstic cigars. cheroots and stogies.
Arrangements are pending whereby
the ven laws will be so complied
with that q visitor may observe the
cigars made and buy them over the
counter while he waits.
This comprehensive tobacco exhibit
Il in the direct charge of Mr.. Thomas
x. Bruner. superintendent OF special
exhibits, with Mr.. Frederick w. Tay-
Tor, chief Of Agriculture. The impor.
lance Of the tobacco interests may be
partly appreciated when II Ia known
that growers, handlers. manufacturers
and usors reach the respectable ell
entele Of many million persons in
America.
When one approaches the special
exhibit Of tobacco the great central
pAsoda, octagional In form. with its
summit 50 feet In the air, reaching al.
most to the roof Of the great Agricul.
tural Palace. will cammand ones At
tention and force admiration. The pa
8oda will be 40 feet across. Built Of
wood. It 10 TO be entirely covered with !
tobacco, and ~ the great exhibit pal
sces covered with stan appear to be
o. marble. 30 this pagoda will appear
to be Of tobacco. Columns and walls
OF tobacco viii rise l5 feet to the cor.
nice line, leaving four main entrances
gracefully arched. This will DO sur I
mounted by a cornicc made OF glass [
six feet wide. entirely enclosing the |
pasoda. on which are to be photo
sraphed actual scenes from the /
worlds most famous tobacco fields.
Behind this glass cornice will be |
placed electric lamps. the light Of 4
which brings the photographs into I
plain view. 4
Above the cornlce will be q fiat /
roof Inc on the ROT win stand heroic Z
figures Of Indians. the first users Of {
tobacco Tobacco plants will also be &
growing on the top. From the center ,
u the roof will rise a huge globe, rs q
Inference. The globe will /
entirely covered with tobacco. The |
70 TO be shown by the darker a
coIored tobacco, while the waters will I
represented by the bright types. 1
The great river systems Of the world /