The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-23

ready. For instance. in the agricul-
tural building would say that half
OF the booths are ready and seem to
be finished. There is so much all
ready and in place that you get a
complete exhibit Of agriculture. al
though you do not see every country
or every state fully prepared. 1t is
doubtless true that something new
and some finishing touches may be
added to a third of the exhibits for
many months, but no one need be
afraid of going right now, this beau
tiful time of the year, and receiving
his moneys worth. He will get ad-
mission into fifty million dollar show
for fifty cents.
What is true of the agricultural
building is true to a large extent Of
other palaces of displays, while in
many of the buildings everything ap-
pears to be finished and complete
This is true notably of the govern
ment building and of the fisheries
building nearby. Both of these dis
plays by the United States are similar
to displays made at Chicago and Buff
falO. Many of the same exhibits are
here, although there are many de-
partments more complete and nat
the workings of the postoffice depart
ment are graphically shown in a new
way by score or more of individual
exhibits of moving pictures free to
all. There is section of a battleship
showing the ward rooms. the officers
quarters. the ammunition rooms. the
guns etc. There is a model of one
coast defense gun which shoots a ton
of metal tWenty-one miles
In the government building there is
an opportunity given each one to see
the workings of the x-ray machine.
could readily count the bones in my left
hand, holding the lens in my right. I
was pleased to see here an exhibit made
by the government, without the know
ledge of the Continental Creamery
company, of several brands of this COM
pany's product, and samples showing
the methods in which the butter is put
up. I noticed one brand, Parksdale,
after the president of the COM
pany.
The displays in the transportation
building are full and practically COM
plete. There is a great array of loco
motives and of cars from the first kind
down to the new designs Just out of
the shops. The Pullman company ex-
hibits a magnificent train and the WISH
tor is permitted to pass through 1t
from one end to the other. There never
was such an exhibit of automobiles.
The makers of street cars have a very
large number. There are double decked
cars. like those in London. Ny atten-
ton was attracted by a strikingly IA
miliar old yellow ark on wheels. which
still preserved its lettering. Transfer
Station to Asylum" The car was num-
Der 20 and a placard announced: In
continuous service from 1887 to 1904 at
Kansas" Owing to the recent
splendid reorganization of our street
car facilities, the installation of new
cars and equipment, it was certainly
gratifying to the. Topeka visitor that
this date on this placard did not read
1905. When a Topekan sees this car
he has a distinct shock that the town
is disgraced, but he is somewhat ap-
peased when he realizes that such cars
are now has beens.'
The writer spent six days at the Fair,
was fairly diligent. but there are pro
badly a hundred distinct buildings and
exhibits in which he did not find time
to enter, and in many of the buildings
only a cursory examination was made.
One could easily spend a day in the
government building alone.
One of the most interesting por-
lions of the ground is the tract of
forty-seven acres devoted to the Phil
ippines The insular government has
spent eight hundred thousand dollars
here and the exposition company two
hundred thousand. The manager of
the Philippine company in charge said
that the United States government
had not been called upon for any ex-
penditure for this particular display
There are eleven hundred natives
within this enclosure and there are in
dividuals from forty odd tribes from
the lowest to the most intelligent.
There were a lot of Morros whose
brothers are just now giving General
Wood considerable trouble in the is
lands. These panticular Morros We're
dressed in rainbow attire that would
match Josephs coat in colors- The
Igorrote village shows the novels and
huts in fac smile in which these low
grade human beings dwell. They
were almost naked; their clothing
could be easily made from an ordinary
towel, or even from a sash a yard or
two long. They eat and sleep a good
deal like dogs and if they were dogs,
instead of men, might be called can
nibals, for they are dog eaters. At the
time of our visit Saey had just killed
bulldog and were dressing it, as
butcher would a sheep, taking off the
hide and cutting up the parts, and
throwing them into kettle of boiling
water.
While our party of hundred or
more newspaper men were at this
place a dog feast dance was given:
score of the natives beating tom-toms
danced about in a circle Going to
the other extreme, there were 43O ma
tive scouts well dressed in United
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