The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-22


professional could not excel: here is
drawn work as beautiful as the fine
Mexican work; crochet work and hand
painted work, all pointing to home
loving and domestic life that OBJ
tains in Alaska, no matter what our
notions to the contrary may have been.
More foreigners go 70 Alaska every
year than Americans. 1t Il a favorite
touring point for travellers from Eu-
rope, and it follows that better
knowledge Of the great peninsula pre-
walls among the web informed Euro
peans than among the same class Of
Americans, for personal contact counts
for much.
Two great rooms in the Alaskan
building are set apart for public rest
rooms. The walls are adorned with
many paintings Of Alaskan scenery
Here Is Mount Mckinley, the highest
peak In North America, effectively done
In oil. Here is a large photograph Of
one council Of the Arctic Brotherhood
the great organization of the brains
and enterprise of the towns Of the vast
territory banded together for the pres
ervation Of order, mutual protection in
all things and for the advancement Of
Alaska and the interests Of all You
may sit in the gentlemen's rest room
and read the Alaskan daily papers.
You may read the Nome Daily News
from the most northern city Of this
continent, il not OF the world; the
Whitehorse Evening Star, the Skag-
way Daily Guide, the juneau Daily
Dispatch and tile Record Union, the
Skagway Daily Alaskan, the Ketchlkan
Mining Journal, the Sitka Alaskan and
the Wrangel Sentinel la all these
towns are public schools, some Of them
graded and up TO date, even to vertical
writing and well organized kindergar-
tens.
So many Of US haven't the time to
go to Alaska, even though time were
not money, thar it has been found adj
Yisable to bring Alaska here in every
effective way. A young man will oper-
ate for you stereopticon showing
endless scenes of Alaskan life and So
eiety; industry and opportunities for
It; fish. fowl and fur; glaciers aud
chunks Of glaciers floating as leebergs
on blue bays to scare tourists when
steamers get too close, and all sorts Of
things to make you familiar with Alas
ka as it is today. Scores Of transpar-
encies are between you and the out
door light, and 1t takes more than the
Juggling Of other duties to draw you
away from their magnetic grasp
When an Eskimo wants to catch 4
seal he cuts d hole through the ice ana
with a little clawed tool scratches the
ice near the hole. He keeps this up with
the same patience that fisherman
will watch a red bob on 4 blue lake
BY and BY, II seal happens to be
gtrolling that way, his ear viii catch
the sound, and he win wonder what's
doing near that hole ia the ice He
will follow the sound like a small boy
follows brass band, and when he
comes to the hole he viii stick his head
out of the water to investigate. That
was what the playful Eskimo was
watching for, so he taps the seal on the
head with something hard and takes
him home for dinner and, II the family
be not too large, for subsequent meals
also. Without the seal there might
have been no Eskimos, and without the
Eskimos far less interesting exhibit
from Alaska. Ivory carvings yellow
with great age, family heirlooms of
the Eskimos. curious spoons Of horn
and ivory, patchwork mats made Of
deerskiu hair seal and wolverine hide
are some Of the many things they have
contributed.
The Alaskan exhibit was provided
for BY an appropriation Of $4,000 BY
the government. but the sum was in
adequate, aud what we see here is
really loanexhibit from many sources,
the fund being used TO provide the
building and to pay for the Transports
zion and care of the exhibits
Fair Grounds. ST Louis