The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-05
Philippines Will Have
Fine Worlds Fair Exhibit

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 4.-Strange
and wonderful things from the Philip
pine islands will be shown in a grand
exhibit covering forty, acres -in.,the
western section of the worlds fair
grounds at st. Louis. @9fGa Ja@fS 9'F
The insular government has made
a liberal appropriation for this exhib5
it and the sum will be still further in
creased by individuals and commercial
organizations in the American pos
sessions in the Pacific ocean. The
large area set apart for the exhibits
will TEEN with life and industry, and
the many phases of the Philippine life,
will be accurately 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 tenaciously adhered to. The
fortyacre exhibit of the Philippine
archipelago is on a rolling piece of
ground Immediately west of the palace
of agriculture. A portion of Arrows
head lake is included. The Filipinos
will reproduce on the worlds fair
grounds typical Filipino villages; for
example, lake dwelling built upon the
wooden uprights. A market square will
be constructed with buildings of varied
architecture. Typical Filipino indus
Churches will be reproduced and the
tries will be illustrated In them
rights and ceremonies shown. In the
market square a market will be held
every day for the various tribes, rep
resentatives of which will make up
the populationnof the villages. One
building will be devoted to agriculture,
in which will be shown, sugar, coffee,
will be devoted to forestry This
structure, 40 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. Tail timber, bamboo,
ETC., will be shown in rotunda, which
will eliminate in a tour 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 banks, dive
stuffs, medicinal plants, herbs, etc.
One pavilion will be devoted to ill
Illustrating the work Of the Filipino
women. Another will contain war
exhibit, contributions to which will be
made by native Filipinos and Amerf
cans who have seen service in the
archipelago. A pavilion will be de-
voted to a Filipino library and lectuse
hall.
A valuable feature of the exhibit will
consist of third-class observatory of
the Philippine islands, made by the
meteorological observatory at Manila.
1t will contain not only all the instru-
mentS, but also charts and maps show
Ing Genealogical conditions Of the
Philippine archipelago, rain charts;
charts representing the isobars and
isotherms. Others will illustrate the
pressure of air, trade winds, typhoons,
etc.
The fiber exhibition of the Philippines
will embrace the Manila plant, a.
banana tree, bearing inedible fruit. Its
fiber produces the strongest ropes and
cables made. It will include ranlie.
and all the fiber plants grown in the
archipelago. The great numbers of
varieties shown and the actual process
Of Transforming the fibrous plants into
the finished product, will be an inter-
esting 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 a full COL
lection of fbers in various stages of
manufacture. All sorts of nlanufact
ured fabrics from vegetable fibers will
be shown. from the coarsest burIaps
and rattan lnattings to the wonderfuI-,