The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-15
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Exhibits at St. Louis.

Virginia Exhibits at St. Louis.
81 we have already referred to the Viz
GINA exhibits at st. Louis but We have
to add that all Virginians ~ who who
{ have visited the st. Louis Exposition
and have taken the trouble to visit
the EXHIBITS Of their own State
must hnvo been greatly graft filed Is. by
Tile display which has been made Of
the products of the Old Dominion.
81 With only. SO. 600 to meet all expenses,
The Virginia. commissioners have made
&eSl,ibitss which comp are 2favorably with WI \
+ those Of States that have spent over ten
Il times as much. There are four separate
s,ecialfe Tha Horticultural, where
the apples OF Virginia. are shown in great
E4profusion, variety and excellence, is one
i or the liandsomest. fnot the handsomcst
4 exhibit Of tho kind in the great hortcnl-
tnral hall and was given the place OF.
honor and consrcuousness next to
4 AfissourTs.
The agricultural exhibit would be de-
3 lightful surprise TO any one. IN variety
and character 1t was not surpassed. 1t
wa s quite novel to see Virginia figuring
u a the great peanut State, and along side
OF it. cotton. tobacco, wheat and corn
V Of tho highest perfection. The writer had
TO 20 to st. Louis to learn that there were
nearly thirty cotton oil mills In the
Is State OF Virginia, and that the cotton Of
4 this State speciaily sought for by
the manufacturers Of certain fine articles.
The commissioners have shown excel
lent taste in having large colored trans
parent photographs made Of the fields,
fIocks and herds of the various sec
tions OF the State, One Of the most re-
markable exhibits on the whole ground
WAS the oyster display of Virginia. It'll
great art the commissioners had fashion
ed in absolute fac timile large number
of specimens Of the finest Virginia
oysters Nothing like them had ever been
rs seen by tens OF thousands of people. who
had been accustomed only to the canned
a article of the western cities These
a oysters were made of wax, and were tho
exact reproduction Of the identical oyster
taken from the shell, In which 1t was
shown, and, AS mere works OF art, were
we'll worth seeing. In the same section
were shown the wild fowls and animals
& OF Virginia and specimens Of Its forest
timber. i5.
There. too, was a wonderful display OF
thu Richmond Cedar Works. which Is
10, 4 ho fact
mandatory Of wooden ware In the
world.
In the transportation building there Is
AZ placed at the head of long line of en-.
gines an enormous freight locomotive re.
\ Gently built for the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad by the Richmond Locomotive
y Works.
FE Among the other very attractive am
Il striking exhibits by the State was on,
by the Charlottesville wooden mills, whose
cloths were shown not only In the de
partment Of manufactures, but In the ex
hlbit of the United States government
as tile caGels at West Point are CLOTHED
z In the cloth Of that company,
In the department Of mines nh,
metalurgy the Virginia exhibits wcr
most admirable. especially in coal. coke
slate. building stones and iron ore, Til
a whole was gotten M with greatskll, an
was an Instructive lesson 10 the most o
the YrgInians themselves " the grep
resources OF their ssate
u The Virginia State building. which ha
~ been constructed as almost a fac sla,ii
Of Monticello, " an that one could wis
10 represent the historical character an
refinement Of The Slate. The anllau
furniture which was SO kindly lent i
Mrs. Harhaugh, Of this city. exsctl
suits the character Of building, and siy'
an air of elegance and antiquity 10 II
whole, xh.sh fifty illustrates tie el.a-