The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-17
NORTH CAROLINA AT THE
WORLDS FAIR.

NORTH CAROLINA AT THE
WORLDS FAIR.
Elsewhere in todays paper we print
a very interesting article from the ST.
Louis Lumberman on 1.-The Forestry
Display at the Worlds Fair, which
will have peculiar interest to North
Carolina readers. There is no display
i'm the most wonderful exposition the
world has seen that SurpasseS the
North Carolina forestry exhibit. OF
course there are plenty more gorge
ously and magnificently installed, but
for the simple and effective display
of North Carolina commercial woods
q display that will attract lumbermen
and manufacturers who buy wood
there is not one that attracts more in
terest. The display of furniture made
i'm North Carolina out of North Caro-
lima woods affords object lessons OF
the tremendous growth of the manu-
facture of furniture in the State.
The primacy of North Carolina as
a tobacco State is we'll advertised. In
the tobacco section is an octagonal
base, eighteen feet high. surmounted
by a tobacco globe bearing a ship of
the galleon type, the whole made to
look like yellow graduated smoking
tobacco. 1t is an imposing presenta-
ton, and bears these inscriptions
TOBACCO.
Was first taken from the New to the
Old World
by
a Returning Expedition Sent out by
Sir Walter Raleigh
i'm 1884. from
Wokokcn (Roanoke)
Island,
on the coast of
North Carolina.
"Pitt County.
North Carolina,
Grows More Bright Tobacco than any
other County i'm the United States
While as late as 1885 none at all
was Produced
"GreenyiIle
With its Seven Warehouses Sells An
nually at Public Auction some 49,
900. 900 Pounds of Leaf Tobacco.
Distributed all over the globe"
There will doubtless be other in
scriptions on the base of this magnifi-
cent tobacco base and globe, for Dr.
j. A Blum, of Salem. whose artistic
hand is doing the work. has not yet
q,,ite finished it. The display of to-
bacco, while very fine, is nothing like
so large as it should be, either of the
leaf or the manufactured product.
Winston-Salem furnishes most of the
manufactured product shown. If the
farmers, dealers and manufacturers
will send quantities large enough to
make an imposing display, North Car
olina's tobacco exhibit will lead all
the rest" for Mr.. Bruner has given 1T
a position of commanding Importance.
Samples will not do to impress visit
ors. There must be large quantities
to attract attention. The Kentucky
and Virginia dealers and manufactur-
ers have sent much larger quantities
of leaf and the manufactured product
than North Carolina, but there is still
plenty of time for North Carolina to
strengthen and improve it's exhibit If
it's tobacco men act promptly.
In the Agricultural Building North
Carolina has good exhibits in four
separate places and in the German
Kali Works there are beautiful pic
lures of growing truck and other crops
in North Carolina.
IF ho eli of va icr,1a
at St. Louis is the twenty acres of
bulbs shown by Mr.. III. E. Newberry,
of Magnolia. There is nothing else
like it and it ought to largely increase
this comparatively new industry.
The North Carolina exhibit in the
Mining Building is by far the best the
State has ever made.
There has been no attempt to rival
in magnificence the exhibit of the State
of Missouri, which has spent up
wards of one million dollars in it's ex-
hibit, and has installed the most beau
tiful and artistic display of it's wealth
in soil, mine and factory ever seen
in an exposition. The North Carolina
authorities had only a few thousand
dollars against the hundreds of thou
sands of other States and foreign
countries. Every dollar is made to
tell and in the few lines where North
Carolina is showing its products and
the openings for investors, the ar
rangement is creditable to Mr.. Bru-
ner. Mr.. Holmes, Mr.. Brimley and
their assistants, Messrs. Green, Whar-
ton and others.