Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1904-12-08

JAMES
state carried of numerous medals for
her agricultural products. The state
had another exhibit in one other
building. in the mining building
there were shown some fine specimens
Of coal, clay and the surprisingly
beautiful objects that had been made
from tho clays Of North Dakota.
The Roosevelt cabin in the North
Dakota building was an object of con-
stant attendance from visitors all
over the United States. 1t was the
original cabin in which the president
for merly lived in North Dakota, and
had Commissioner Bartlett been in
clined. this cabin could have been
placed in an enclosure, an admission
fee charged, and great fortune
made, but it was absolutely free to
all VINO came to look at it, and the
popularity of the president was strik-
ingly attested by the thousands of
names written on the walls, and even
on the objects of interest hanging on
the walls Of the cabin. In spite of
requests not to disfgure the walls of
the cabin. by writing upon them,
visitors names can be found in every
spot large enough to write on. The
presence of Roosevelt's cabin in the
North Dakota exhibit End the atten-
tion that it attracted became SUBJ
jects of general comment at the fair.
and number Of the old time Mis-
souri, democrats told Commissioner
Bartlett that they attributed the
majority il Missouri for tile republic
can ticket, this year, to nothing else
than the presence of R0osevelt's
cabin at the exposition. Many an
old coon hunter and farmer of Mis-
sodri who has lived in the back woods,
and who visited the Roosevelt cabin
thought that any man who was big
enough to be president and who had
lived in a house of that kind was
good enough for them to vote for.
At tho presidents recent visit Of one
day to the exposition he made a
special request to have the program
changed so that he could see his old
cabin. Mrs. Roosevelt, and Miss
Alice, entered the lowly structure
"ith him, and it goes without saying
that the recollections of his former
residence in North Dakota were
strong upon him. The work of pack
ing up the exhibit is already Gnder
way, and Commissioner Bartlett and
assistants are active in the matter.
1t is probable that most of the ex-
hibits will be taken to Portland for
the great Lewis and Clark exhibition
to be held next summer. Besides
the numerous exhibits that North
Dakota presented Of interest to
intending settlers, the demonstra-
ti0ns 'of the use of Macaroni -four
were noted with interest by thou
sands. An expert cook was secured
in St. Louis, a range erected in the
building and food prepared from this
-four, and samples Of the same d. is
tIibuted to all who asked for them.
The excellence of such foods frem
MacarOHi wheat was a revelation ITO
people who tasted the biscuits,
spaghetti, ana other articles of food
prepar ed from the flour. 1t is be-
lieved that if any exhibit of the pro-
ducts of North Dakota could do
adequate .Sustice to the state. the ex
hibits situated in the agricultural
building would do SO. Considering
vastness OF the exhibition, its great
concourse of exhibits from every
country On the, globe ia which
nations Wed with each othes to excel,
the exhibition of any one state ol
the union could not naturally be re-
garded as prominent object of the
whole but North Dakota got more
than her share of attention.
The great fair is over, and the
work of preparation and consum-
nation beginning with NICK inley,
and ending with Roosevelt is prae-
tically closed. The..memories Of the
event will be ever present IN the
minds of the hlndreds of thousands
of visitors, and those who went even
for Few days are glad they did, be-
cause it is very probable that within
the presnet generation no such world
event will ever be witnessed.
No country on earth but the United
States has the ability and the re-
sources to construct such an im-
mense exhibit which meant the erec-
tion practically of a city, and for a
special purpose Of show ing the pro-
gress Of the world and Of this coun-
try in particular in the last decade.
The exhibition in itself, buildings,
grounds, exhibits and concessions was
said 10 have cost over $50, 900, 600.
The governments loan has been re-