Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-06-23
EXHIBIT
IS ~|NAUGURATED
One of the Most Interesting Sec
tions of the Worlds Fair.
A GREAT PARADE OF NATIVES
All Sorts Were Seen, From b
Naked, Head = Hunting Igor
roles to the HighIy-Trained
Scouts and ConstabuIary.

~. iouAS, odhC bhC 6iSot-
est parade of the tribal people of the
far east which the United States has
ever witnessed, the Philippine EXPOSE
ton at the Worlds fair was formally
opened to the public in its entirety to-
day, and was, at the same time, offered
by DR.. W. P. Wilson, chairman of the
Philippine exposition board, to Col.
Clarence R. Edwards, chief of insular
affairs of the war department. Col.
Edwards, who, as Gen. Lawton's adj
jutant, was with the latter at the time
of his tragic death in the Philippines,
after receiving for the war department
the great exposition of the territory
which he helped to win for the United
States, in turn committed it to the
keeping of President Francis, Of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
The exercises took place from the
grandstand erected on the large parade
grounds of the Philippine c~onstabulary.
From this stand Col. Edwards reviewed
the panorama Of native life, realizing
for the first time what q strong picture
of the Philippine islands the exposition
board has painted to the order of the
war department, and how broad a story
of economic development has been Of
fered the ethnologist.
Eleven Hundred Natives.
Eleven hundred natives of the Philip
pine islands, led by the native bands
of the Philippine scouts and the
constabulary, presented the greatest
museum Of economic gradations, from
the most primitive man up, which
any portion. of the civilized world
has ever had the opportunity to
enjoy. From the dwarf Negrito.
the aboriginal race of the peo-
pie known to the e~thnologist, the
islands, and one of the most primitive
people known to the ethnoloist, the
story of the far east was unfoldeL
through varying grades of civilization
up to the highly skilled Tagalog anG
Visayan and the well-disciplined wear
er Of the United States uniform, 440 o.
whom marched by in the scouts bat.
talon.
A Diversity of Peoples.
The timid, weakly-developed Negrito
who lights his fire by saving one stick
of bamboo with another, and is 20 re-
markably skillful with his bow and
poisoned arrow; the b~eautifully-de-
veloped d~og-eating and head-hunting
Igorrote, wearing only a continuous
smile and a pair of four-in-hand trous-
ers; the ~treacherous Lanao Moro, still,
given to cannibalistic practices, ant
even now slaughtering United States
soldiers in Mindanao; the friendly Sa-
NAL Moro, whose village over the
waters of Arrowhead lake is the Ven
ice of the Worlds fair; the lnnd-tilling
Tinguiane; the mining Suyoc Igorrote
and the beautiful Visayan maiden and
courtly Visayan dandy were all seen in
the procession, representing villages Of
native life to be found on the Philip
pine exposition grounds.
A Variety OF Music.
Native tomtomS n long tree-trunl
drums were heard and the 80 Visayans
were accompanied by the skilled Wis
ayan orchestra of 16 pieces. The tree
dwelling Moro, for once, accommodated
himself to a movement over something
besides the limbs of the large oal
which he inhabits with his small dog
kennel hut on the exposition grounds.
All of the exhibit buildings wert
opened, and with $4,000 electric lights
to aid, will be open until II o'clocl
each night. There are buildings o
commerce, forestry, fisheries, agricul
ture, manufactures, education, mode
school, art, ~ethnology, fine arts ant
war, the latter filled with war material
being a copy of the walled city of Ma
Mia,