The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-18
VERSATILE ORTIZ CAROLINA.
At the Worlds Fair She Will Show a UNIQUE
Hunters Lodge

lures in that States exhibit in the Palace
of Forestry, Fish and Game, at the Uni
versal Exposition of 1904 at st. Louis.
There will be other exhibits, equally valu-
able, in the Agriculture, Horticulture,
Mines and Manufacturing departments,
but no one will appeal to all classes more
than the hunters lodge and its surround
| ings.
The hunters lodge viii be a typical
structure standing in the center of a large
parallelogram prominently situated in the
Forestry Palace. On the one side will
| be the forestry features and on the 9th
er will be the natural history display,
the lodge being on neutral ground and
partaking of all the characteristics OF
both. North Carolina timbers will be
used in the construction of the lodge The
| floors will be covered with rugs made
from the skins of animals slain in the
chase in North Carolina forests and
mountains. The walls will be decorated
with mounted specimens of all the wild
animals and birds that are to be found in
their State whose extreme length is sos IA
miles and whose greatest breadth Is 1874
miles, extending from the Atlantic ocean
west to the Smoky mountains that sep
arate it from Tennessee The streams of
the mountain, forest and ocean all con-
| tribute fish from their waters to enrich
the exhibit. They are beautifully mount
ed and used for decorative purposes and
appear as natural as when they were in
their natural element.
In a great hollow tree in front of the
lodge the visitor may take a peep and
see the den of an opossum with the dam
surrounded by her young. The taxider-
mist has faithfully treated his subject
and it is difficult to conceive that the
animals, in their various attitudes, are not
really alive.
The walls and ceilings are decorated
with the weapons used in the chase and
IN the tackle used for catching fish. The
bows and arrows used by the Indians be-
fore the advent of the white man with his
more deadly rifle and shot gun, are artis-
tically grouped with the arms used by
modern hunters. Suspended from the
high ceiling are the seines and other APP
paratus, while on the walls are rods and
fishing outfits of all periods. In the cen
ter of the lodge are a desk and chairs
and cosy corners abound in all parts of the
lodge, which is meant as headquarters for
North Carolinians and other visitors who
may want place to rest while in the
great palace.
When Columbus discovered America in
1892, there stood in a mountain gorge in
Cherokee county, North Carolina, a tulip
poplar tree that was then 400 years old.
For four more centuries it grew and
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der that it might enter into an exhibit
for the Worlds Fair at st. Louis. The
great tree was Is feet in diameter at the
base when it was cut. The gorge in
which it grew was so inaccessible, being
forty miles from railroad that it was
impracticable to obtain a section near
the base. Forty feet up where the tree
was l. e more than six feet in diameter,
disk was cut. This has been polished
and will occupy place in front of the
hunters lodge. On the polished disk has
been engraved the important historical
events of the North State from the time
that Sir Walter Raleigh, the gallant ca
Waller from Queen Elizabeth's court, took
possession of the land in his sovereign s
name on July 4, 1884, through the Colonial
days during the revolution and up to the
| present time Another section of the
wonderful OLD tree will stand like monu-
ment in the forestry exhibit 1t is ten
feet high. A portion has been dressed,
polished and vanished, while the lower
portion is covered with the bark. Other
trees are shown in equally attractive and
in different forms.
North Carolina, occupying a common
ground between the sub-tropical growth
of the South and the hardy products of
the Northern ATTITUDES, produces crops OF
almost endless varieties. In the eastern
part of the State the soil is mostly of
alluvial formation and cotton, corn, to-
bacco, peanuts and potatoes are leading
products. Stones fruits and pears, small
fruits and garden products yield abund-
antly. Toward the mountain region OF
the west corn, wheat, rye, oats, hay, APP
pies, sorghum and buckwheat are always
profitable crops. All of these will be
drawn upon to make a complete exhibit
for the agriculture and horticulture de-
partments. But it is in the tobacco ex-
hibit that North Carolina will take an
especially commanding part IN the great
universal exhibit of tobacco arranged for
the fdldce OF Agriculture Dy Cnlel lay
lor and Superintendent of Special Exhibits
Thomas K. Bruner, who is native North
Carolnian and for sixteen years Secre-
tary of the State Board of Agriculture.
With her annual production of 127,000,0O0
pounds of tobacco she is easily the second
State in the Union in the quantity pro-
duced, and in quality no State Is her SUI
perior.
North Carolina will also make com
manding display in the Palace CT Mines
and Metallurgy. Mr.. j. Holmes, the
chief of the department, is himself a
North Carolinian, and is State Geologist
Gold, silver, copper and iron abound III
various parts of the State, and in marbles
and building stone the State Is especially
rich Cubes of the stone will be shown
in the natural state and shafts OF the
stone susceptible of a fine polish will make
an attractive display.
| In the precious stone North Carolina
occupies a proud position. Her exhibit
at the Wold's Fair will cover wider
range, probably, than any other State
Diamonds. while not found so freely as il
| South Africa, are frequently found il