The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-02-12

wide, enclosing 1900 square feet of
space. The facades will present beauti-
full outlines in gold, and the ornamental
lions viii be the white cotton balls and
green leaves, and baskets o'erfowing
with the snow-white bolls. The columns
will be ornamented with cotton hulls and
leaves and lint, Characteristic of the pur-
poses for which the facade is to be used.
In the center of the facade will rise a
dome, forty feet in diameter and GO
feet high, crowned with piece of sculp-
ture, in staff, representing the spirit of
the Cotton Industry" This statue is a
female figure standing in a field of grow
ing cotton, and the fairy threads from
the bolls rise to shuttle which she
holds in her uplifted right hand, and
then they are windblown to the left and
form a graceful, airy like drapery, thus
illustrating the cotton-g growing industry
from the field to the loom. Over each
doorway leading to the interior of the
dome will appear two nude female fig
ures, in staff, one standing and operat-
ing an oil press, and the other reclin-
ing and holding a glass in her uplifted
right hand to catch the dripping oil.
The design for this double facade for
the special cotton exhibit was made by
Mr.. G.. F. Green, of the Department of
Agriculture of the Fair.
The exterior ornamentation of the
dome will be executed by the Worlds
Fair Commission from the State of
Texas, and will be appropriate to the
cotton industry.
All the cotton-growing States of the
Union will contribute to this special
exhibit, where will be seen the cotton
staples of the entire country. A service
aisle, seven feet wide, will run through
the center of this special exhibit, and on
either side will be seen the cotton dis
plays from the various states. The
State of Mississippi is to do herself
proud by placing the ornamentation of
the interior of the dome and installing
there a most elaborate and artistic cot
ton exhibit that will surpass anything
, of the kind ever attempted before. In
/ the exact center of the interior of the
dome will appear old 'King Cotton" a
wax statue thirty feet high, sitting on
his throne, amidst scenes typical of the
cotton fields of the south. This sculp-
tural piece is now being executed by
New Orleans artists at cost of $4,000
No one knows whether it will be Brown
! or Sully. One striking feature of the
Mississippi display will be Southern
{; cottonfeld, in which five negroes, made
/, in wax, will appear in the familiar at
/, titude of picking the white bolls and
singing their plantation songs.
Alabama will appear in the special
cotton exhibit with life-like outdoor
scenes and also machinery showing the
growth of the feecy staple and its tran.
sition through the mill and conversion
! into the manufactured product.
| Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Indian
1 Territory and Oklahoma will also be
represented by Characteristic cotton dis
plays that will contain many surprises.
This special exhibit will also have
comprehensive displays of all the by
/ products of cotton. The finer grades
of cotton seed oil for table nse, the
cheaper grades for lard compounds, and
soaps made from the still cruder grades
will be shown. The cottonseed meal ano
, bulls for food for cattle and as ferti
lizers will be seen.
Cotton implement machinery, includ
ing the new process gin, slowly moving
will be on exhibition here, with the
round bale Implements of the cultiva
ton, harvesting and baling of cotton viii
be shown, and few cotton clothes te
demonstrate the result of processes.
The machinery to be seen in the spec
ial cotton exhibit of the Agriculture
Palace is only to illustrate the processes
of handling the staple from the field tt
the mill door, The visitor can 60 to the
Palace of Manufactures and see the pro
cess again taken up and continued to the
completed cloth, and ON to the finished
garment ready to wear. Here will bt
in operation spinning machinery ane
looms and other apparatus that will takt
the cotton as it is delivered at the mil
door and turn out the cloth, and theI
this is passed to other machinery il
| operation that will turn out cottoI
aprons, shirts, handkerchiefs and a great
variety of articles. Knitting machinery
will be running and making hosiery, ant
other machines will make collars anG
cuffs.
In the Varied Industries Palace thu
visitor will see the finest display o.
textile fabrics ever given at any expo
sition. Many foreign countries will b.
represented Also cotton threads will b.
seen here, and fabrics of cotton, pure Of
mixed, plain or figured, unbleached, DYED
or printed, and cotton laces, velvets, rib
bons and counterpanes.
! Thus cotton growing, cotton harvest