Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-07-06
NATIONS ARE MANY.
All People Of the World Are to Be
at St. Louis.
Seven Million Dollars the Sum They
VIII Spend In Participat1on-WoD
derful Displays and Beautl-
full National Pavilions.

Over forty foreign nations are to be
represented officially at the Worlds
Fair in st. Louis This means that all
these nations will send important ex-
hibits that they will have official rep
| resentatives at the exposition, and that
most of them will build or have built
national pavilions on the grounds
Such a gathering of the nations OF the
world was never known before. Every
nation Of any consequence is included
in the list No previous exposition has
been able to attract such a universal
participation. The flags of all the ma
lions of the world will be floating IN
the air near Skinker road when the
exposition throws open its gates April
80, and such a scene will be presented
as no man has witnessed since the be-
ginning of civilization.
All the great nations and number
| of the lesser ones are erecting build
| ings of their own on the grounds.
Some of the foreign government build
ings already are completed, while
| many others are we'll under way.
| Some few of the smaller ones are yet
to be started. Hundreds of workmen,
some of them sent from their respec-
tive countries, are working away on
the foreign buildings with might ana
main, and satisfactory progress Is be-
ing made
Following is the list, alphabetically
arranged, of the foreign nations that
have given official assurance OF par
ticipation: Argentine, Austria, Bel
GUM, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Canada,
Ceylon, Chill, Colombia, Costa RIGA,
Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt,
France, Germany, Great Britain.
Guadeloupe, Honduras, British Hon.
duras, Hayti, India, Italy, Japan, Ko-
rea, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, New
Zealand, Netherlands. Peru, Persia,
Paraguay, Russia, Salvador, Sweden,
Siam, San Domingo, Spain, Turkey,
Uruguay.
North and South, East and West,
| Orient and Occident, Arctic and equa-
torial lands are included in this list.
All continents and many island nations
are represented. Governments so old
that they may be deemed ancient Of
years are to participate along with the
! baby nations, such as Cuba, and per-
haps also little Panama, the latest to
be received into the family of nations.
The men and women who will be
in charge of the foreign buildings and
exhibits will represent every language,
every race and every hue Of skin. In
their clothing they will be uninten-
tional exhibits of the various costumes
of the world. Modes of dress, manners
and languages will mix and m1ngle
in a marvellous composite. There will
be, however, no tower Of Babel difficult
ties for the world has advanced far
since Bible days and the nations are
no longer strangers to each other.
| Expeditions such as this serve to make
| nations mutually acquainted. At St.
Louis there will be introductions, so
| to speak, OF nation to nation, and
those that have been comparative
| strangers will become acquainted and
exchange civilities.
In their buildings the nations will
show the various styles of architecture.
China's pavilion is typically Chinese.
| The Ceylon bungalow represents the
style of building popular in the great
| tea colony. Japan, with her castle on
the hill, exhibits Japanese architecture
France reproduces the Grand Trianon,
grounds and all. Great Britain con-
| tributes a replica of the famous Or
angery at Kensington, surrounded by
quaint old English garden of the
| style popular two hundred years ago.
Cuba's building is patterned after a
| Havana residence.
In addition 10 the displays in their
own buildings, the nations will show
important exhibits in the grand pal
aces of the exposition, according to
the classification arranged by the d.
vision of exhibits.
Agents of the exposition in foreign
lands are sending most encouraging
reports. showing that universal inter-
est is being taken in the enterprise
The fact that approximately $1,000 600
will be expended by these forty ma
lions for their participation in the
Worlds Fair serves to give some idea
| as to the extent of the exhibits and
the imposing character of the foreign