The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-02

q. LoUTe. Mo- June 9Th, 1904,

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. June 27th. 1901.
Messrs Editors The Fair is ready for you,
the crowd IL here and have found the place
where You can stop at q reasonable price. Two
young men have erected tents In q grove of
apple trees near the middle entrance on the
south side. called Skinker road entrance, which
Is near the Palace Of Agriculture. They are
from Tennessee and have gone to considerable
expense, having city water and bathrooms,
spring-bottom beds and cots. for which they
charge 50 cents per day, $2.25 per week. or spe-
cial rates by the month. A tent and three dou-
BILE beds for six persons will be furnished at s25
per month. A store is convenient and persons
can have breakfast and light lunch and get sup
per on the Fair grounds or can do light house
keeping; so make up your parties and come
along. The Market street cars at Union Sta
ton take you direct to Skinker entrance. They
have offered me 10 per cent reduction on all
persons who come through reading this, and l
offer the discount to you, SO show them this or
see me at Block Z. Palace Of Agriculture, and
get this reduction.
This tent city Is two short squares from the
auditorium of the Christian Endeavor Hotel.
Mr.. @. N. Crittenton, founder of the Florence
Crittenton Mission for fallen girls, has taken
charge Of the services during the Fair. and meet
ings are held each night during the week except
Saturday night, and also Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. NJ. Wilbourn, o solo singer from California,
is training chorus for the services. Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett, Of Alexander, Va, general
superintendent of the sixty -four homes, is also
here. Mr.. Crittenton is New York merchant
who spends his money maintaining these homes.
They are named for his daughter Florence,
who died when quite young. He has private
car, "Good News, in which he travels from city
to city. One Of the homes is in Baltimore, it
having been started in what was then High
Street M. e. Church, while Rev. Solomon Ger
man was pastor.
As school is over" think it will not be amiss
to tell you Of the Palace of Education and Social
Economy. As many students will come to this
Exposition will state for the benefit of those
who had not thought of coming that the first
Sunday was here the minister heard preach.
who is a learned scholar, stated that this Expo
sition was a better school than years of study in
any college or university. 1t is place where
knowledge can be obtained far beyond your
greatest expectation, and those who do not
come will miss the chance of their life. Palace
of Education is 525x750 feet and stands on the
left of Main avenue and next to the Cascades
and is one of the two buildings surrounded by
the lagoons. The centre aisles are occupied by
exhibits of leading universities and colleges.
among them being Johns Hopkins University
and Woman's College, of Baltimore Harvard.
Cornell, vassar, Columbia University, of New
York city, and many others. The Woman's Col
lege shows large picture of Baltimore's burnt
district. One side of the building is devoted to
the several states showing their public and
other schools. A large space is taken up by for
eign countries in their school exhibits. A Sec
ton is devoted to exhibits by pupils of the
schools for the blind. For three weeks the Kan
sas City, Kan, and Jacksonville. ILL.,. two state
schools have had pupils here and the crowd be-
fore each space shows what interest is taken in
this grand work. Other state schools will also
take their place. 1t is to be hoped that Mary
land will not be left out.
The q. S. Department of Agriculture and
some of the State Agricultural Colleges have
made fine joint exhibit, showing all depart
ments of the work. This is exceedingly in
teresting and viii show how smart a person
must be to be an up-to-d date farmer. It takes q
brighter man to be a farmer than to conduct
any other business, If he wishes to excel, as
many more branches are covered in that voca-
ton. This exhibit shows departments of fertili-
GERS, live stock, animal husbandry, dairy, sugar
trades and shipping, rural economy, architec-
ture, electrical engineering, &C.; also home
economics for girls. as taught in the girls de-
partment of Minnesota Agricultural College.
Forty-eight states and territories have Agricul-
tural Colleges and have received to date $31 co.,.
600 from the U. s. Government. Maryland has
received .OOO yet the majority of farmers in
our State derive no benefit from this great store
house of research and knowledge because they
do not avail themselves of the bulletins issued
and mailed free to every one who applies for
them. The o. s. Department Of Agriculture
also furnishes free to anyone any bulletin on any
subject they publish. Notwithstanding this is
all free for the asking. yet almost every farmer
The Social Economy is shown on the opposite
side from the public schools, and the most fitting
thing is the exhibit of the Salvation Army,
which has done so much for the unfortunate.
Here also is shown exhibits of reformatories.
training schools, hospitals for the sick and in
jured, institutions for feeble minded, police de-
partment and jail, charities and all that tends to
help society to be better. The National Chill
dren's Home Societies of twenty-six states have
received in twenty-one years %, 600 children and
spent last year $23O,O0O Altogether this is q
great centre of learning. The Japs beat all the
rest of the nations for being in everything. They
are here in Social Economy and exhibit their
hospital for infectious diseases among their ami
mails and show the treatment of sick cows,
horses, &c. The Japs eat fish instead OF meat,
which accounts in part for their being SO small.
The Pennsylvania State Building is draped in
mourning for thirty days in memory of Senator
Quay. The Society of the Sons of the Revolu-
ton met two days in this building, about 200
delegates being present.
The four policemen guarding the Liberty Bell
weigh over half ton and their combined height
is over 25 feet.
Mr.. John A. Scott, of Western Run, Baltimore
county, who had been here assisting with the in
stallation of the Maryland exhibit in the Palace
of Agriculture, has left for his home.
W. H. R,
PRETTY SOON, the Department of Agriculture
predicts, all the nacaroni sold in America will
be made of American wheat. So recently as
1889 the department sent an agent abroad to
look for seed of the hard wheats used in maca-
roni making, and he brought home good
load of samples. The result has been that last
year the Dakotas alone raised 10, 10000 BUSH
els of the new grain, which is tough and hardy
and good climate resister. Three years ago
not single factory in the country was using
macaroni wheat in making macaroni. This
food, when made from ordinary bread -four
is of inferior quality. In 1908 we imported
more than million dollars worth of macaroni
and yermicelli. Macaroni -four makes excel
lent griddle cakes; on the whole, it seems to
be case to say, Welcome, stranger" The
Russian immigrants who settled in the West
made the wheat popular. It was the kind
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