Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-07-20
NEW MEXICO
AT ST. LOUIS
Herbert J. Hagerman Of the Ter.
ritoriaI Exposition Board
Describes the Fine
Exhibits.
AN ARTISTIC BUILDING
A Leader In Apples and Other Products
"A Striking Neurological
Display.
Special Correspondence of the New

Special Correspondence Of the New
Mexican.
The citizens of New Mexico have
good reason to feel satisfied with the
showing the Territory is making at the
st. Louis Exposition. In some respects
the exhibits compare very favorably
with those, not only of other territor
les, but of rich states which have had
many times over 100000 to spend, sew
eral years for preparation and no un
certainties as to boards and appropria.
tions. The educational exhibit, for in.
stance, under the able supervision of
Professor H. A. Owen, is exciting the
approval and astonishment of eastern
ers, whose hazy ideas about the west
receive a strong and wholesome read
justment when they see by photographs
and actual work results, that New Mex
leo is, in proportion to its population,
in no way behind the older states in
its public school system, and far
ahead of many in other educational
institutions.
While several members of the Board
were, at first, opposed to using any
part of the small appropriation for a
building, there are none of them, am
sure, who do not feel very glad that
they were overruled by the majority
in that regard. Architect I. H. Rapp
has succeeded in accomplishing a
building entirely suitable for our pur-
poses, quite within reason from the
point of view of expense, and in such
good lasts and so appropriate as to
excite the admiration of many visitors
who are inclined to criticize the stiff
ness and unmeaning formality of many
of the larger and more expensive state
structures. The furnishings and decor
ations, with the exception of a few
pieces of Tiffany glass, which, perhaps
require a more ornate setting, are in
excellent taste. There are not too
many pictures; the old lace and silver,
collected by the Ladies Auxiliary
Board, are very appropriate and very
interesting. Mrs. Douglas, the matron
Of the building fills her position zeal
rusly and tactfully receiving the New
Mexican and many other visitors to
the building with cordiality, and ex-
planning to them the various interest
ing objects in the room.
1t is very fortunate that certain mis-
understandings in regard to the dis
play of mineral collections prepared
by the Territorial School of Mines,
were satisfactorily arranged, as that
collection, together with others pre-
pared by F. A. Jones and w. M. Por-
terfield, make up fine exhibit, very
creditable indeed to the Territory.
While it is somewhat overwhelmed by
the magnificently appointed display OF
Colorado, Immediately adjacent to 1t,
it is superior to the exhibits of some
other states more exclusively mineral
producing than New Mexico.
The beautifully arranged anthropo-
logical exhibit of New Mexico in the
Administration Building, consisting of
the valuable Harvey collection and
some splendid blankets contributed
by Arthur Seligman, Of Santa Fe, is
highly interesting. From an artistic
standpoint of view, it cannot fail to
please any one who delights in the
beautiful, and that it is very superior
from a scientific standpoint is already
proven by the great interest it has ex.
cited in men qualified to Judge, who
pronounce it by far the best collection
of it's kind at the Exposition and one
of the best ever brought together.
Our exhibit in the Horticultural
Building and that in the Agricultural
Building, both under the supervision
of Mr.. Graham, of Roswell, while
greatly handicapped by the long con-
tinued drought in most parts of the
Territory, and the difficulty in getting
exhibits from many localities, are now
in very much better shape than at the
opening of the Fair. Up to the time
left st. Louis, there was, excepting q
certain amount Of fruit preserved in
jars very little but cold storage ap
pies in the Horticultural Building
Fortunately it is quality not quantity
that counts in the fresh fruit exhibits
and in quality our apples have abso
lutely no superiors and few equals II
that huge building A great state like
Missouri, with many carloads OF 19O'
apples in cold storage, must give thu
palm to us, with only few hundred
boxes to draw from. In several varie
ties, such as Winesap, Black Twig, ant
Ben Davis, we were superior to them
Our 1903 Winsaps particularly
aroused much interest, some of then
remaining in fine shape on the table
more than eight weeks after being ia
ken out of cold storage; a very remark
able record from pomologist's stand
point. Our apple display, like the edu
.cational, is doing the Territory a grea
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