The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-10-29
Correspondence Baltimore County linton.
LETTER FROM THE WORLDS FAIR.


ond prize in minutes and 40 seconds, made the |
fastest record for shearing single sheep IN |
minute and 48 seconds. L. c. Kelly. Of Sherlock,
Mich. won the first prize in the contest for quail
ity, a silver cup valued at $50. The contest was
for the best shorn sheep. time not to exceed
minutes. The winners are all young men and
professional sheep shearers. They used the
Chicago flexible sheep shearing machine. run by
electric power. Other contests By agricultural
college students with hand machines also took
place during the show. On thesame day, before
the sheep shearing contest, John Yeager, Of st.
Louis, clipped with the same machine in 10
minutes and l5 seconds the PAGER Reno, that has
q record of 2:06.
The poultry and pigeon show commenced To-
day and will continue two weeks. There are
over 1900 entries from over Al states and terri
tories, Of which between 900 and 5000 are chick
ems. The white Wyandotte leads with over 800
entries. This is the largest poultry show ever
gotten together. Several millionaires are rep
resented, the Vanderbilt chickens from the Bit
more farms at Nashville, N. c., and the Have
myer flock being here. Poultry breeding stands
well up among the leading industries OF the
United States, being first, so some OF these
chicken men say. Those only accustomed to
seeing the ''barnyard fowl on the average farm
can hardly believe that the sale of eggs and
chickens exceeded most If not all the other
products Of the farm. It stands second or third
in the State of Missouri, where corn. mules and
cattle are immense factors in agricultural lines.
This being the fact in Missouri one can easily
see how the chicken viii lead ia many OF the.
up DC tne ietlufug industry. for money and time
invested the good all around hen is the best
regular, steady producer of money of anything
on the farm.
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and continues throughout the week.
"Hellen Keller Day" was observed last week.
Miss Keller has the distinction of being the only
individual in the world for whom the Exposition
authorities set apart special day. She has been
blind, deaf and dumb since girl of few years
of age. this threefold afiiction being the result
Of sickness. When about years old an attempt
was made to teach her by spelling in the palm of
her hand the names of such things as "cake."
doll. ETC.. at the same time giving her these
things. For about II years Miss Annie Sullivan
has stood by this unfortunate girl and has taught
her, until now she is one of the best educated
persons of her age in the country. She has been
taught to articulate so that those accustomed to
hear her can understand her. She "seesr with
her hands, being able to distinguish colors by
feeling. thing seemingly incredible. She talks
by holding Miss Sullivan's banda 'hand to
hand talk" Her address to the best audience
that crowded the large hall on the Fair grounds
shows what remarkable hold she has taken with
the American people. everybody wanting to see
her. Her address was made into Miss Sullivan's
hand, and by the latter repeated to Mr.. Francis,
president of the Exposition, who delivered it to
the audience. 1t was a most remarkable adj
dress, couched in beautiful language and ended
with "God bless the nation that provides educa-
ton for her children" Her address to the pe-
pie of St. Louis, given to the press upon her de-
parture, was in the nature of letter of thanks
for the way she had been made to enjoy her trip
to "see" the Fair, and concluded by saying che
hoped st. Louis would soon have a President Of
the United States from among its citizens.
The American Association of Farmers Insti-
tute workers held their ninth annual meeting
last week in the Palace of Agriculture. These
institutes are growing rapidly throughout the
United States and an increasing interest is man.
ifested each succeeding year. Farmers are miss
ing great deal each winter by not attending
them, and when Maryland has hers the coming
winter they should be attended by every farmer
Canada has a squash weighing 403 lbs. in the
Palace of Agriculture. and also takes the cake'
for biggest manglewurzels and rutabagas. while
Oklohoma has the biggest watermelon. weighing
115 lbs. Their baby melon weighs 81 lbs.
One of the most interesting side shows and one
that is not fake is the Museum of Fine Arts and
Antique Collections of II. Ephraim Benguiat, of
San Francisco, Cal. 1t is undoubtedly the best
collection Of antiques on the grounds. and the
owner claims it to be the best in the United
States. A Damascus palace GIT years old is
shown having haan faisan asssss ssss zzsssl<.sss
here. The walls are inlaid wood and tiles. Also
an Oriental princess tomb, q Persian rug, cost
ing $38,OOO; royal silk comfort, which took II
persons Is years to make; royal carriage, for
merly owned by the King of Portugal; Hebrew
marriage certificates, Jewish temple at Jerusa-
lem, parchment roll, the same as used in the
time of Christ. where it was unrolled as read and
rolled up on corresponding roller; large EN-
broidered Flemish TAPESTRY, where Nero is ex-
planning to his wife that all Christians should be
killed, and companion piece where Christians
were thrown into coliseum with wild beasts,
are only few Of the many fine and rare things
to be seen.
An attraction which many Fair visitors take
in while here is the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
popularity known as Shaw's Gardens In 1900, at
Sheffield, England, Henry Shaw was born. He
came to this. country and located at st. Louis,
engaging in the hardware business In 1849 he
built summer residence in the suburbs and
planted flower garden in the rear of his house.
ground until 1880 when he died, it contain
ed As acres. Additions have been made by his
trustees uuti now ut contains 125 acres. His will
provided that this garden should be forever per-
petuated and left his entire estate, excepting
few small requests, for its maintenance. and the
public is admitted free each week day during
the year and on two Sundays-the first in June
and September. The appraised value of the
gardens is now $750,0O0 and the library kept in
what was once his city residence but which, ac-
cording to his will, was moved out to the gar
dens, is valued at $4,000. They have 1,1S5 pub
locations coming to it annually and anyone in
terested in gardening or flowers can get any of
their books on botany or gardening loaned to
them for study. Provision is also made where
by young men can live there and study the art
of cultivating flowers. The income from this
estate is about $4,000 and $4,000 is used in
maintaining the gardens. Plans are being pre-
pared for laying out new grounds recently ac-
quired for American plants and shrubs. The
present gardens contain plants and shrubs from
about every nation on the globe. Over 1900
specimens are shown of shrubs, trees, flowers
and ferns. Here one can see plants from Japan,
China. Philippine Islands, India and all other
foreign countries growing along side of native
plants. They have collection of over half
0O0 The main dollhouse has the following quo
tation from the Bible: "Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will towards
men," On building of brick and stone, called
the Museum Building, is inscribed; botanical
Museum and Library, Founded 1859 by Henry
Shaw" In front is a monument dedicated ITO
the memory of Thomas Nuttall, born in Eng
land, l7S6; died September, 1859; the Father of
Western American Botany" On a small round
pavilion near Mr.. Shaw's mausoleum is inscrib-
ed: 10 Lord, how manifold are thy works. In
wisdom hast Thou made them ALL" This is very
appropriate, for it is fully borne out when one
looks around and sees the many varieties in
shapes and colors of the plants. trees and flowers
He built his mausoleum before he died. It is
octagon shape and built of granite with eight
plate glass windows with stained glass borders
and marble floor. A statue of himself in re-
clining posture and covered with mantel rests
in the centre. An iron fence encloses about
half an acre of ground around his resting place.
Thousands annually visit these gardens. Why
should not some one give to the people of