The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-02
At The FAIR
japanese and Russians-An Exhibi-
tion of Pipe Making.

st. Louis, October Poor old
Russia! Two subjects of the Gar,
clad in their long "cossacks'' sitting
tailor fashion on benches in one end
of the Palace of Varie Industries.
making pipes of Caucasian Kisil-
wood and inlaying them with bits of
silver. Around the vacant benches
dismantled boxes and other pathetic
reminders of the suddenness with
which grim war called Russia away
from the work of installing an ex-
hibit Of her industrial progress.
There are also some amber trinkets
offered for sale but the greater part
of the space reserved for Russia is
vacant.
This is Russia's exhibit at the
great University Exposition Of the
Twentieth century progressive men
making Kisilwood pipes! And yet the
work requires much patient skill An
incision is made in the Kisilwood, a
tiny strip of silver inserted, clipped
off and deftly driven in with a small
hammer. By this tedious process
very pretty designs are worked into
bowls of these pipes. But how large
a factor is the making of the Kisil-
wood pipes in Il twentieth century
progress? Only a very small part Of
the human family is interested in
pipes and the few pipe fields that are
left do not care for silver inlaid ones.
Moreover, if there were any big de-
mand in this country for silver in
laid Kisilwood pipes ONE ingenious
yankee would soon invent a machine
that would make them out Of butter
nut-wood, or some other wood, at
the rate of a thousand an hour.
/ am told that there is a little
wooden cottage Of one room Of curl
Gus design made by Russian carpen-
tiers in one of the exhibit palaces but
I have not found it. And how about
the busy, Industrious, little Jap? Did
the war call him away from the Expo
sition and prevent his participation in
it? Not much. 1t merely stimulated
him to greater endeavor. 1t quicken
ed and intensified his determination
to give to the world the most COM
plete demonstration of the progress
Of Japan in all the arts and indus
tries ever given by the island en-
pire.
IF a man suddenly dropped from
the top Of the De Forest wireless tel
egraph tower into the midst Of the
Exposition, without knowing any
thing about its purpose or scope, he
might easily get the impression that
Japan and Germany were making a
joint Exposition Of their industrial
progress. The flag of Japan greets
the eye at every turn, and the Jap
himself, quiet, studious and unob-
trusive, is in evidence everywhere.
The part he has played in the building
of this great Exposition is a fine IL
l~ustration Of what "the silent little
man." can do when he goes about his
business with purpose, knowledge and
determination.
l was forcibly reminded of Japan's
prominence in the Exposition by a
stroll through the Forestry and Fish
cries building. l had seen the flag of
Japan everywhere, but what had the
Mikado to exhibit in forestry and
fisheries? Everything under the
oriental sun. Although the Jap
anese have extensive exhibits in every
building in addition to their beautiful
pavillions and gardens, here in the
Forestry building there is a greater
revelation of the genius and sou
ces as a people than may be seen in
any other building. Here is this won
derland may be seen a welding of fit
ness and beauty and a utilization of
the waste that lies about those who