The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-15

the direct charge of Mr.. Thomas K. Brun-.
er. superintendent of special exhibits, with
Mr.. Frederick w. Taylor, chief OF agri-
culture.
"When one approaches the special cxhlb-
it of tobacco the great central pagoda, oc-
tagonal in form, with its summit fifty-two
feet in air, reaching almost to the roof Of
the great Agriculture Palace, will com
mand ones attention and force admiration.
The pagoda will be forty feet across. Built
of wood, it is to 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 fiji
teen 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 ia
nous tobacco fields. Behind this glass
cornce will be placed electric lamps, the
light of which brings the photographs in
to plain view.
above the cornice will be a fiat roof
and on the roof will stand heroic figures
of Indians, the first users of tobacco. To-
bacco plants viii also be growing on the
top From the centre of the roof will rise
huge globe, seventy-five feet in circum-
ference. The globe will be entirely COW
cred with tobacco The land is to be
shown by the darker coolred tobacco,
while the waters will be represented by
the bright types. The great river systems
of the world are shown by threads of gol-
den leaf running through the dark brown.
Attached to the top of the globe, and
sailing in a golden sea of leaf tobacco viii
be a graceful ship, with its hull of dark
brown tobacco nesting in its yellow bed,
and the sails and ropes of other shades
This ship represents the rturn to England
Of Sir Walter Raleigh with the first cargo
of tobacco from the new world.
Surrounding the pagoda are four large
exhibit spaces. In one of these all the ma
chinery used in the manufacture of plug
tobacco is to be shown. Some of the ma
chinery will be in operation, and the fin
ished product is to be made in full view of
the visitor from the leaf eco taken
from warehouses elsewhere in the great
exhibit Diagonally across the pagoda
space is to be another machinery exhibit
and here will be manufactured the gran
ular and plug-cut smoking tobacco, fine
cuts and snuffs. Two spaces are given
over to the manufacture of cigarettes,
both by hand and machinery
Entering the great paralelogram by
the main aisle from the east, the visitor
will find large exhibit spaces on either
side devoted to display of the machinery,
tools and appliances used in the cultiva-
ton of tobacco.
The next section will be one of absorb
ing interest. -Four large plots are given
over in the actual cultivation of tobacco
Soil adapted to the various tobaceos have
been spread and real fields of real tobacco
will be seen growing.
I'm a central space created by these four
growing fields of tobacco will be erected
a curing barn.
In the curing barn the tobacco leaves
fashioned into hand, will be suspended on
sticks and placed in the section where the
temperature is regulated for the proper
curing. Experts will watch the process
and remove it at the proper time. and
place more in the barn to undergo the
curing process.
THE next section to be entered will be
long and narrow. The main thing here
sought is to show how the product is hand
led IN warehouses A large warehouse
Will be built; on the floors are to be shown
hogsheads OF tobacco and great piles of the
leaf spreid out in tempting way On
these floors the sales will be made, the auc-
tioneers and buyers going from one to
another and inspecting the various
grades All around the sides of the ware
house in glass enclosures will be the fin
ished products of the tobacco growing
States.
"At either end the warehouse will
be constructed two large steel beds show
ing how the plants must be started.
The final section of the great exhibit
space is to be occupied by the cigar MAX
ers. On the right the Havana cigar
makers will hold forth There will be
many of them and they will make their |
wares by hand with that dizziness that |
has made the Havana cigar famous wher-
ever civilization has touched.
No less interesting will be the exhibit
Of the American cigar makers in similar
~ sized space removed from the Cubans
only by spacious aisle Here will be |
numerous American cigar makers busily /
engaged in the manufacture of the do
nestle brands