Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-23


OF the earth for 1000 feet and study
the operations OF coal mining.
a mantel piece made entirely OF
china, and the property of Emperor
Francis Joseph, is an interesting
feature of the Hungarian exhibit.
A nursery has been provided for in
the Kansas building A small hospital
is also instituted in that building.
Venezuela's exhibit in the palace OF
forestry, fish and game shows 200
district fibres from trees, 600 kinds OF
wood and complete exhibit of drugs
prepared from plants, bring the first
of the kind ever exhibited in this
country.
A cabinet of mineral specimens
from Nevada, which consumed Is
years in collection and represents an
actual cost of $4,000, is exhibited by
Nevada in the mines and metallurgy
building.
The German medical exhibit in the
palace of education contains modern
appliances and apparatus for the
treatment of disease for the most
trivial to cholera, smallpox and the
bubonic plague.
The first pair of shoes turned out
by the model shoe factory in the
palace of manufactures was presented
TO President Roosevelt. They are OF
patent Kid leather and represent
American workmanship and material
throughout.
The Chicago sanitary and ship canA
is accurately shown in the palace OF
liberal arts by colOred models, ex,
hibited by the sanitary district oil
Chicago. This canal extends from
Chicago to Joliet, H., and has cost
about S300O0000.
There is one spot on the wall of the
administration building of the Igorrote
village which will not be painted. On
this wallis surface is cartoon of the
Negrito Chief Yamut drawn by Homer
Davenport, the noted cartoonist. On
his visit to the lgorrote village during
press week he was impressed with
the derby hat and civilized attire OF
the leader of the race. Promptly on
the side of the building he drew a
characteristic likeness which con.
vulsed the natives with laughter
Beside ii he placed a faithful copy Of
the diminutive monkey. which capers
on its perch near the veranda of the
building. The cartoon is already
covered with glass, a frame around IL
being nailed to the rough pine boards
Fine Nootkan Indians from Clayo
quot. Alaska, are part OF the
ethnology exhibit. This tribe is now
almost extinct, there being but about
$50 representatives living. They are
expert in basket weaving and carving
OF silver. ivory, bone and wood.
One of the most interesting Indian
habitalions is the grass lodge of the
school building. This dwelling is 40
feet In diameter, and is round, re-,
senbllng big beehive OF the old
fashioned kind, 1t was built almost
entirely by the women OF the Wichita
tribe, while the male members OF the
band stood by and offered suggestions
The first part of the building process
was To set 'orked poles IN the ground,
upon which cross-pleces were laid.
Then many smaller aud larger poles.
slim and flexible, We're stuck in the
ground all around this interior frame,
work, in circle. the top end being
bent To common center and tied to-
gether. Many rows of still smaller
poles or switches We're placed around
these poles in horizontal direction
and securely tied on, This formed the
framework of the lodge. which was
now ready for the application of the
roof covering. The Wichita suuaws
neatly matched the entire lodge with
long wisps of dried grass brought
from their native prairies for the
purpose. Layer after layer of the
Siass WAS put On, beginning at the
bottom, so that each layer overlappeo
the one below it. Thus a rain-proof
covering was made. The grass
lodge has a narrow door through
which the tall Indians make their
entry and exit by STOPPING. Inside
the lodge is costly arranged-after
the Indian idea of high life. The grass
lodge formerly was in general use
amongst the Indians of this tribe.
but when they learned from other
tribes that II is much easier TO make
tepees of sticks and hides, which may
be carried away at pleasure when
moving is desirable, the wichitas
adopted the tepee and the grass
lodge because almost unknown to the
present generation. The older men
of the tribe gave instructions as TO
the method of constructing the worlds
fair grass lodge.