The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-10-11
MESSENGER, TUESDAY. OCTOBER IL, 1904

a very practical one, and the writer
wishes that a hundred thousand from
North Carolina could go there. There
are molly two sad thoughts in regard
TO such an exposition One that SO
few people from home can see its gso-
ries and the other that the whole fab
Tic must be destroyed ard go like the
creation of a dream or like "Aladin's
Palace OF a Night To think that
these vast structures. which from the
ioutside seem built to endure for all
time. must be wrecked is saddening in
deed. AT Chicago the buildings were
of steel, upon which staff was placed
and the ~wreckings cost so great a sum
that there was hardly any salvage.
but at st. Louis steel is not used.
Wood forms the frame work. upon
this STAFF being placed and the salvage
Iwf1l be very considerable.
OF course. the most glorious sight of
all the exposition is that at night look
ing towards the Festival Hall and it's
great colonnade in honor of the IA
slater which were formed out OF the
territory purchased by this country
from France in 1904. The buildings
are on a bluff and electrically Iumin-
,ated fountains, the changing glories
Iof the buildings above. with their
imyriads of white. red and green cleo
trio lights. the glorious plaza am
Louis. bordered by magniicently de-
signed n illuminated buildings.
form a picture, the most beautiful
this earth has never produced. IT
really seems to be an inspired creation
a vision of the Apocalypse. OF ii.
ione never tires. The air is made musi-
cal with the plaSh Of the fountains.
the music of some OF the finest bands
i'm the world and with strange and I'M
familiar music from the Italian gon-
nlGC Snofn1 oncf1 IN
whose two oarsmen with graceful
sweep send the craft along the water
waves. the scene is so exquisite as to
become positively ~unearthly, and to
add TO il the high sweet tenor of one
Iof the g~ondolierS gives an added fla
Ivor. An automobile ride by night
will be found a charming way to get
iglimpses Of the glories of the greatest
of all Worlds fairs. The one criti-
Icism about the fair is its v~astness. its
great space. MOI in six months could
the closest observer see it all. No
matter hat may be the avocation of
any person such a visitor viii find
GpecialtieS to attract and improve and
stimulate.
For the first time in a great many
years the negro cuts no figure at an
exposition. The brother in black Is
mot in evidence at all at St. Louis x
icept on the Pullman cars and in the
suburbs. There are q few specimens
tof him at the exposition, but he has no
building and of him it might be said,
in the words of a comic poet.
oh, no. we never mention him..
His name is never heard"
Of course, there are lots of negroes
i'm the west, thousands of them and
they cut some political figure in In
diana and Illinois and possibly other
Estates, but industrially they are not
counted. Two afternoons were spent
by the writer in what may be termed
Ia study. short as it of what our
friend KiDling called The White
Mans Burden" in other words our
new lieges in the Philippines and else
where and incidentally our old time
friend, the Indian. Aside from what
may be called the glories of the cx-
position, to the writer the most inter-
testing things were the Philippine ex-
Ihibit and the BOer war. The Filipino
is, to use a phrase, here to stay" that
is not in this country, but as a part
of it. and it will add very much to
the views of anneXationists to see the
philippine exhibit and the people, that
is, the higher classes OF the latter.
From the V~isayans to the Allegretos
us indeed a far cry. No negroes are
lower thar the Negretos: no.. not in
darkest Africa. while the Visayans
are bright, adaptable and skilled in
!every way. graceful in and
really an elevated people, though Of
course not reaching the Anglo-Saxon
standard, which, by the way, the
lAnglo-SaXons have established for
themselves. The greatest drawing
lcard in the Philippine exhibit are the
IIgorOtes. Very fine figures they are.
and give the fullest opportunity for
the study of the future. The gentle
Imam, i- tIic la-o
i'm fact, almost exactly Is our pro-
lgenitor Adam was after the lament
able incident at the fruit tree. Yet
jpeoDle, and the ladies especially, seem
ito revel in the sights of this section,
and h writer never say a queerer
sight than was. presented by a group
lof these dog eaters seated upon brass
idrums during an interval of rest from
their tom-toming and surrounded by
a bevy or lovely girls to teach the dog
leatrS how to say the English words
iand indeed these gentlemen in brown
had made such progress that they
were able to indulge in a little
american poetry. each line hav
ing a touch of love in it. something
(which quite suits the palate of the far
least, where. as u friend Kipline
Says There amt no ten command
iments." The combination of dog
%IeaterS, nin~ety-nine n hundredths
naked, the pretty girl spectators, the
native huts like dog Kennels in which
the Igorotes live at night, the head:
. lof ogs and of cattle. relics Of feast:
? Iindulged in by our new wards, vagran1
/, beer bottles on the ground, the clam.
loring for cigars and mum" which i:
, Ia short cut Filipino way of saying
!. money, all a I'D a scene unrivall.
, led in oddly. Then n could go no
:. Imany yards and see the wild Moro.
: living in their Bamboo houses ovel
: Ithe water OF the lake, and thence tC
Z lthc village whence the dainty littl,
, ,Bagobos dwell. OF the latter peopl,
) There are only 5000 in all and abou
l $50 are at the exposition. Their chic
: lis with the party. Their clothing i
, lample and is entirely covered will
D tbeads, being the most beautiful seen,
lat the exposition. They get the bead
| from the Chinese. The Vysayan
, tdreSS as we do while the Negretoe