The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1904-11-10
vINITA FAIR
Wanderers
They See a Jap Trying to Saw
a Board With an American
Saw.

st. Louis, Nov. 5.--The other day
while walking through the Japan
ese section Of the Forestry building
we saw Jap carpenter wrestling with
an American saw. IL was one OF the
funniest sights of the exposition. He
was to saw board in two end instead
OF doing IL the way they do In japan
he was trying his best to initiate the
American carpenter 10 Is In this
initiative faculty OF the Jap's, indeed,
that makes them by far the most In
teresCing people at the Fair. The
efforts Of the Igorrotes and the Moros
TO talk English are funny enough, but
not half so funny as the performances
OF the Japs when they get hold Of
American tools. The Jap could Dull
the saw toward him easy enough
they pull everything toward them In
Japan when IL came to pushing
It the saw doubled up, the Jap strug-
gled and grew red In the face and
looked as though he wanted TO swear,
and as there are no ''swear words" In
the japanese language, he naturally
would have TO swear In English. But
he finally cut the board In two after
much laborious pulling and struggling
and he surveyed the result with much
satisfaction. While he was doing this
one Of the beavers in the pool near by
could have built one OF his dome
shaped houses, divided into compart-
ments, and he would have done II
quietly, smoothly and without any
cuss-words. And yet we seem TO re-
gard the bipeds as belonging to a
higher order OF intelligence than the
quadrupeds. am told that the Jap
carpenter pulls or draws the plane,
saw, and every other tool toward him.
The idea OF pushing or showing the
tool along has never occurred to him.
And yet no race is acquiring the idea
Of American 'pushn so rapidly as the
Japanese. The Japs are pushing hard
to make up for lost time and even
now are engaged ina desperate strug-
gle 10 push Russia OF the map.
John and Jane and l are having
some difficulty In deciding which are
the most interesting sights we have
seen so far at the Fair. We took a
vote on IL last night. OF course John
voted In favor OF the airships at once
but when We confined him to the
exhibit palaces he was inclined TO re-
gard the big revolving and running
locomotive IN the center OF the Trans
portation building as the most impress
siye sight, although he was very much
in the making Of incandescent lamps,
the whole process OF which IS shown
IN the Electricity building. 1t was
the first time l ever knew that all the
air was pumped out OF the glass globes
before they are sealed up ready for
use. No wonder they 20 OF with a
loud explosion when hit with some
thing. The work Of making these
wonderful little lamps embraces
about fifteen processes all done by the
skillful and deft fingers Of women,
and all presented in such a way as TO
be plainly seen by Worlds Fair vIsi-
tors.
Jane thinks the most interesting
thing she has seen Is the demonstra-
ton by the government Of the hatch
ny Of salmon from the tiny pea
shaped pink eggs to the mlnnows that
90 swimming about BY the thousands.
For myself ! doubt IL could pick out
any one thing and say II was the most
interesting thing have seen at the
Fair.
Nna