The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-21

4 Pen Picture of In the st. Louis
Tobacco Exhibit Will Look Like.
(Bv w. c. Mccarthy

Exhibit viii Look Like.
By w. c. Mccarthy
Tobacco. an ocean OF it bearing a ship
constructed wholly of the cheering
weed, perched high on q massive globe,
also built Of tobacco. one the top of an
ornate pagoda formed Of tobacco. is IN
tended to be the browning feature IF
the universal tobacco exhibit at the I'm
lversal 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 in
dustry and wonderment. Entirely un-
der the roof Of this mighty palace. the
largest of the exposition buildings, COW
erlng an area Of 10 acres, the special
TOBACCO exhibit will occupy a space 800
Ieet long and 50 feet wide. Aisles 90
Ieet 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 of finished products, will pre-
vail. Tobacco VIII be shown in it's ev-
cry form. There will be the seed beds
with young plants just peeping above
SoN, Aul SIONu pants 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
ing n storing the leaf tobacco: factOr
RES where plug tobacco is manufacture
ed; other factories crowded with pref
ty girls selected from the cigarette fac
tories because of their dexterity. turn
ing out before the eyes of visitors thou
SANDS OF cigarettes still other factories
where granular and plug-cut smoking
tobaccos. fine cuts and snuffs are made.
In the same exhibit will be also two
dlStlnct cigar factories. One is to be
SlVen over to a force of Cubans who
VIII make strictly Havana cigars from
surety Havana tobacco, while across
the aisle viii be a domestic cigar facto-
~ With a large force turning out all
xmas OF domestic cigars, cheroots and
StoSleS. ARRANGEMENTS are
whereby the revenue laws -riU be so
complied with that a visitor may OBJ
serve the cigars made and buy them
over the counter while he waits.
rms comprehensive tobacco eXhibi is
IN the direct charge Of Mr.. Thomas K.
Bruner, superintendent of special ex-
hlbits, with Mr.. Frederick w. Taylor,
chlef OF agriculture. The Importance
OF the tobacco interests may be partly
appreciated when it is known that
sroWers handlers, manufacturers and
users reach the respectable clientele of
many million persons IN America.
When n approaches the special ex-
hlblt OF tobacco the great central pag-
! oda, ctagona in form, with it's summit
% feet in air, reaching almost to the
root OF the great agriculture palace,
Will ones attention and force
admiration. The pagOda will be 40 feet
: across. Built of wood, it is to be en-
tirely 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 to tobacco will rise Is feet to
the cornice line, leaving four main en-
frances gracefully arched. This will be
surmounted by a cOrnIce made of alass
pagOda, on which are to be photograph
ed actual scenes from the worlds most
famous tobacco fields. Behind this
glass cornice viii be placed electric
lamps, the light of which brings the
photographs into plain view.
Above the cornice will be a fiat roof
and on the roof will stand heroic fig
ures Of Indins, the first users of to-
baccO. Tobacco plants will also be
growing on h top. From the center
of III roof will rise a huge globe, rs
feet in circumference. The globe will
entirely covered with tobacco. The land
is to be shown by the darked colored
tobacco, while the waters will be repre-
scented by the bright types. The great
river systems 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
will be a graceful ship, with it's hull OF
dark brown tobacco nesting In it's vel.
low bed, n the sails and ropes o1
other shades. This ship represents the
return to England of Sir Walter Raj
eigh with the first cargo Of tobacco
from the new world.
Surrounding the pagoda are our large
exhibit spaces. In one of these all tn
machinery used in the manufacture o
plug tobacco is to be shown. Some O
the machinery will be in operation. am
tn finished product is to be made il
full view of the visitor from the lea
tobacco taken from warehouses else
where IN the great xhibit Diagonal.
across the pagoda space is to be anothe
machinery exhibit, and here will b.
manufactured the granular and plug
cut smoking tobaccos,. fine cuts ant
snuffs. Two spaces are given over t.
the manufacture of cigarettes. both b.
} hand and machinery.
Entering the. great parallelogram b.
the main aisle from the east, the visito
will find large exhibit spaces on eithe
side devoted. to display Of the machin
cry, tools and appliances used in tn
cultivation of tobacco.
L The next section will be one of ab
: sorbing interest. Four large plots ar
given over to the actual cultivation o
} tobacco. Soil adapted to the various to
{ baccos have been spread n real field
I of real tobacco will be seen growing. Il