Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-23
PRESCOTT WOMON
 AT EXPOSITION
Describes Some Beauti= fulState Buildings.
Arizona Has the Cosiest and Most Artistic Building on the
 Grounds.

St. Louis, Nov. 16. Editor Journal Miner: promised to tell you some thing about the state buildings this week. We haven't visited all of them but have found those we have visited very interesting and wouldn't take a good deal for the rest and comfort we have taken in them.
 The Mississippi building closed the first of November and we didn't see the exhibits which were relics of lief. ferson Davis mostly. It contained even the bed he died upon and the clothes he was captured in and these clothes don't support the old story that when captured he was attired in female wearing apparel.
 The majority of the state buildings don't contain any exhibits but are de- signed and arranged for the comfort and ease of visitors. Several of them have writing materials free fur the use of anyone and it makes one feel ashamed for such a deed as l saw a man do the other day when he deliber- ately got up and walked away with a whole rad of the paper.
 The weather has not been cold up to the present time, but comfortabl stoves and gas logs have been placed in all of the state buildings and in the Maine building, which is built in the style of a spacious old log house. There is an old fashioned wide mouthed fire place and on the haerth blazed an inn mense log. I think I mentioned in my last article that Arizona was the cos jest and most artistic little building on the ground. The floors and chairs are covered with beautiful Navajo rugs and the walls are ,adorned with Indian plaques and baskets and Arizo- ma pictures. 1 noticed particularly that Tucson was the only town which was represented in pictures. Upon in- quiry 1 learned that it was the only town which took the trobule to send the pictures in. Whats the matter witk Prescott and Phoenix and all the other towns of Arizona?
 To the visiting public of St. Louis they are not in it in Arizona. There is an interesting exhibit of ancient Indian implements, also fine exhibit of picture frames, etc., of Arizona cactus wood. 1 was captivated by the Indian territory building. The ladies parlor is a gem and the dressing room contains an exquisite dressing table with toilet articles complete even to a powder box and puff, but 1 hunted in vain for the hostess. One of the ladies in an other building told me that the hostess was a man. This building contains some unusually fine speci- mems of needle work and baskets and leather work, also some very fine paintings and water colors, and the entire exhibit is the work of Indians.
 Oklahoma contains an equally good exhibit of Indian work. New Mexico has beautiful exhi bit of silver and gold filigree work also many relics. The coat worn ty Aguinaldo when cap- tuIed is exhibited, the property of Mrs. Otero.
 The most unqiue building on the ground IS the state of Washington built in the form of a square five stories high tapering from a room about fifty feet square to one about fifteen feet square, surrounded by balcony from which one gets fine view of the grounds. Each corner of the building is supported by timber running from the ground to the tor of the building 110 feet in lentgh, cut from a single tree without splice. The building is crowded from top to bot tom with agricultural products, woods, marble, paintings photographs of lovely places and scenery of the state and not one thing is for sale.
 The Minnesota building contains spacious reception rooms elegantly furnished with furniture made of nat ural woods oiled, without stain or varnish and mortised together without nail or screw. Some of it is beauti- fully inlaid with copper and other woods. Every piece of furniture was made by the pupils of the manual training departments of the public schools of that state.
 South Dakota is an interesting