The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-10-29
WORLDS FAIR LETTER.
sor,etblng About the State Buildings
and History.

E,his Exposition sfo imposing anu iheer-
.,;nu Muctu money has been spent
.,or them, considerable amount OF it
living been raised by subscription
q uong patriotic people when the legis-
.,nres OF their States have refused or
q rsolected to supply the funds. Larger
INNS OF money haye been expended upon
soto buildings here than was ever
.novn at an exposition before, and
,b,rty-seven Of the forty-hve States are
[.oresented by individual buildings,
-h,cb serve as rest houses, rendezvous,
Do.totices and temporary homes for
,,d,ors to the Exposition from those
s,s,ea and for the exhibition OF historic
4 and other articles which are too pre-
iOus to be placed in the big exposition
building. Sixteen OF the thirty-seven
STATE buildings are typical and instruct-
sye from various points Of view, and
srelye are reproductions Of the homes of
treat men or of buildings in which great
events have occurred. Scattered among
mem, in striking contrast to the gram
,eur Of the Exposition palaces, are sew
raj log cabins in which heroes OF our
a,ation and others have been born or have
.pent the humble years Of their lives.
H Scotland has contributed an accurate
replica Of the cottage in which Robert
Burns lived at Ayr, and within it are
Exhibited many interesting relics and
manuscripts Of his poems.
In the Irish village, in connection with
seyeral other historic relics, is a model
n humble cabin which is claimed to
Nave been the ancestral home of the
zleKineys in County Antrim, and IL is
Isserted that the great-grandfather of
be late President was taken out of this
abin one night in 1893 and hanged for
De participation in rebellion.
"a A log cabin, in which Patrick Henry
SAID to have lived, built on his farm in
Virginia, has been brought here and To-
<ated across the street from the Virginia
ate Building. BY paying t0'cents you
|3re allowed to enter it and talk with
Mrs. Self, venerable colored woman,
sho celebrated her one hundred and first
Birthday last June. She has nve gene
ations of children around her, but is in
possession of all her faculties, and shows
be method of preparing, spinning and
eaving Of cotton that was used in her
buth.
In the Agricultural buildings is the
kadquarters cabin of the Maltese Cross
snch near Medora, N. D., in which
heodore Roosevelt spent most of his
me from 1888 to 1885, and we are shown
ysral interesting relics Of that period
the career OF our strenuous President,
cluding his favorite rocking chair,
ench made of a hewn log upon which
used to sit outside the cabin door, and
pair Of blue oYeralls labeled "Teddy's
unday Trousers.
Only step above the Virginia log
Pbin is the New Hampshire building,
Pc plainest kind of frame structure,
lthout eaves-which makes it look like
man without eyebrows, in which
PANEL Webster was born. 1t is filled
ith interesting furniture and household
FucleS Of his period. Some OF them
elonged to his family.
The next building is the headquarters
Vermont and reproduction of the
od Constitution House,; in the Town
Windsor, where the first State con-
Fitution OF the United States was pre-
ared and adopted in 1777, and that con-
llanon contained the first prohibition
slavery ever promulgated. The Ver-
ont commissioners have permitted
Pneoody to maintain cheap restau-
Fnl In their house, which is scarcely
'editaole to wealthy State.
Inc Virginia building is an admira-
Y and accurate reproduction OF the
Ome oil Thomas Jefferson at Monticello,
eaf Oharlottesville, Va. IL was de-
ghed BY Mr.. Jefferson himself and does
~ conform in any way to the traditio-
. iueas OF "Jeffersonian simplicity
~ everybody knows that the "sim-
iicity' period OF Mr.. Jefferson's career
S'ea only three years when he was
iuuidate for reelection ais President.
l'uough ne was the father of the
'h0cfatic party, and his soul was
ufsung with ambition to demonstrate
y equalty OF all mankind, Mr.. Jeffer-
'n Always lived like an arisJocrat. The
uuuiag contains Jefferson's portrait by
-, and his statue which usually
aauS In the library of the University
Virginia. Beside it are the busts OF
sO0'ner distinguished sons OF Virginia,
Nssf Allan Poe and Matthew Fontaine
'u'yI tine Pathfinder of the Seas.
~ state OF Maryland also claims Poe
uer SON. and has hung his portrait
her State building.
iae Virginia building is filled with
~'eS'ing relics OF JEFFERSON and his
my including a clock he brought from
~ In l765, which st1l keeps good
eryce,
~, s4' New Jersey building is repro
AOa Oh the Ford Tavern at Morris
a IVY which was Washington's head-
,,is s.'efS LOT two winters during the reyo-