The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-01
TEN ACRES PHILIPPINE LIFE.
No Fish Exhibit to Compare With
the One at the Great Big
Worlds Fair.
Especial to the Palladium


St. Louis, September 3O.-In his
address as presiding officer of the
Universal Congress of Lawyers and
-Jurists, In session here at the Ex-
position, Justice David J. Brewer, of
the United States Supreme Court,
said: "There are to be seen twenty
acres Of Philippine life and not a
square rod Of constitution.
Justice Brewer is mistaken. The
eminent jurist does violence to the
reputation Of the legal fraternity for
accuracy Of statement. There are
forty-seven acres in the Philippine
reservation, or encampment, consti-
tuting the most interesting and in
structiye expositions of the industrial
and educational progress Of a race
ever brought together by any nation.
And Justice Brewer is also in err
ror when he says mot square rod
Of constitution is to be seen. Cop-
les Of the constitution-not a square
rod, but all of it-may be seen in the
Palace Of Education and in the
United States Government Building
on the hill. Moreover, copy Of that
precious document may be seen in the.
office of Judge Ferris, General Consul
for the Exposition, here in the Ad-
ministration Building.
With these two corrections the
statement of Justice Brewer may be
said to be substantially correct.
The statement Of the eminent jur-
ist is merely another illustration of
the inability of the human mind to
grasp this Exposition, to take in its
bigness, to comprehend it's magni-
tude. as it We're. Over in the building
of the United States Commission Of
Fish and Fisheries / met Mr.. A. A.
Crane, cashier Of the National Bank
of Commerce, of Minneapolis. He
had a camera strapped to his back
and gave every evidence of "doing'
the Fair intelligently and thoroughly.
"Well, what do you think of the Ex-
position?" / inquired.
~ have only one criticism to
make,' he replied cit is simply
too big for the human mind to grasp
or take in. But it is all magnific-
ent.'
This is the common complaint about
the Fair, but it merely emphasizes
the Importance of intelligent selec-
ton. If person comes here for ten
days he must first get comprehen-
sive idea of what is to be seen and
then sit down and quietly determine
what he must "cut OUT He can
easily map out a program that will
embrace only the things that appeal
to his interest Or curiosity.
To show how easy it is for people
/ to stay here a week or more and 60
away without seeing the Exposition
I overheard some pilgrims from Du-
buque. Iowa, seated at nearby ta-
BILE in a restaurant. lamenting that
the Exposition had ''No fish exhibit
to compare with the one at the Chi
caeo FAIR 1t turned out that they
had seen only the fish exhibit in the
Forestry and Fisheries building and
had missed the building of the Unit
/ ed States Fish Commission, where
may be seen the finest aquariums and
the best collection of live fish ever
brought together. Here is a beau
| tifal $4,000 structure, built In the
classic Roman style, devoted exclu,
Esively to the display and exploitation
of the United States Fish Commits
sions enterprises and the exhibition o1
food fishes and shell fish, AROUND
the walls inside the building are glas:
tanks containing both salt and fresl
water fish. Here are myriads OF
brook and lake trout, the curiou:
!. sheepheads. the COW fish witt
horns. the hippo1campus or sea hor
ses. The glass tanks are larger anC
more substantial looking than thos'
seen in the fisheries building at til,
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