The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-24

OatOrS, wild West Show, siberian
Railroad, Deep Sea Divers, Cairo,
Esquimaux, The Magic Whirlpool,
Cliff Dwellers, Battle Abbey, Naval
Exhibit, Old Plantation, Galveston
Flood, Hale's Fire Fighters, New
York to the North Pole, Wirel ess
Telegraphy, Ferris Wheel, Scenic
Railway and the Chinese Village are
very attractive features, particular
among which we will recommend the
Galveston Flood, Battle Abbey, Trip
to the North Pole, Naval Exhibit,
Paris. Infant Incubators, Creation |
and Hagenbeck's.
The foreign buildings and exhibit |
are a source of great wonder. Japan
and Canada in particular show up
magnifcently with their exhibits all
over the grounds. Queen Victoria's
Jubilee presents in the British build
ing are sight for sore eyes so the
saying goes. Every nation made
special efforts to show up well and all
have succeeded. The foreign sect
ion of the Art exhibit was most
beautiful. The American section of
the building had not been opened on
the occasion of our visit.
A source of great qualification to us
was the visit to the PHILIPPINE village.
Here are. about 1900 natives
brought over fol. the Fair, living in
the exact manner as characterizes
their mode Of life in their native
land.
The PHILIPPINE Exposition combines
a scien tic interest for students of
politics, civilization, economics and
ethnology with popular features
which surpass in vital human inter-
est any of the Oriental groups shown
in other parts of the grounds, It
shows the grades in civilization from
the diminutive Negrito, who is only
astep removed from the "missing
link through the dog-eating and
head-hunting Bontoc, and the Moro,
| who is now causing most of the
trouble in the Islands, to the Scout,
who is regular in the United States
Army, and the Visayan. who weaves
fabrics of great beauty. One has
only to visit these natives and watch
their tribal dances, to study the men
and women at work, or witness a dog
feast, to realize their primitive char
acter, and then to pass on to the Con-
stabulary..the beginning of the
Army of the Philipines-represent-
atives of many tribes hostile to each
other, but brought together and har-
monized by the uniform they wear
and the flag they salute. The Pilip-
pine Exposition was organized to show
what has been done and what is be-
ing done, In the Islands. 1t is an
educational exhibit from beginning to
end, and no one should miss it. The
industrial exhibits were not open to
the general public when we visited
the village but in company with Con-
gresham Tawney, wife and daughter,
j. L. Putnam and j. Won Week we
were shown the exhibits by Gustavio
Niederlien, director Of exhibits and
Herbert S. Stone, OF the department
of publicity.
The editorial party assumed their
homeward journey on Sunday, June
II, and arrived in st. Paul Monday
having spent a very profitable week
The editors and their ladies were
well taken care of on the entire trip
and the committee of the Association
deserves more credit than either OF
the scribes can give them for the
painstaking manner in which they
handled the crowd.
| A regrettable accident happened on
the return trip when Miss Amy L..
| Olson fell from the train near Mil
lard, Mo-, owing to the carelessness
of someone in leaving the vestibu,e
doors open. She fell off unbeknown
to the party at about II o'clock at
night when the larger part were in
their berth and was picked up the
following morning by the section
crew. Late advices indicate her
speedy recovery. This is the only
accident which in many years has
marred the pleasure, of the trips of
the Minnesota Editorial Association.
! Barring this accident the trip was
one of the most delightful ones of the
Association and the editors will look
back to it with pleasure. Next year
the annual outing will probably be to
Yellowstone Park.
Mates