New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-22

photographs, charts of statistics, etc.
From the University down, the entire
public school system of the state is
shown, including the normals, the
high and graded schools of st. Paul
and Minneapolis and of the second
airy towns of the state, the state grad
ed schools, semi-graded and rural
schools. Especial attention has been
given to manual training and art
work and it is all most Systematically
and effectively grouped. The booth
itself is of oak in mission brown
stain, the walls are of a deep blue
burlap and in no least particular has
anything been sighted or cheapened
or any note of discord been allowed
to creep in to mar its beauty, while
every feature OF the states unrivaled
school system is shown.
a Ruined Fish Exhibit.
This is not only the first time in
the history of expositions that there
has been a building devoted wholly to
education, but for the first time there
is Forestry and Game and Fish
ment plant Here Minnesota's
Board arranged for one of it's most
attractive displays. ST. Louis is the
very center of the district from which
the state draws much the larger part
of it's summer tourist business. Full
ly Is per cent it is said, of those who
come to the state to hunt and fish
come from that section. The impor-
lance of the game and fish depart
| ment, can, therefore, be readily APP
preciated Minnesota was one of
three states to attempt a live fish dis
play. Eghty-four lineal feet of
aquaria were built and these are as
fine as are in the building. The Ex-
position Company agreed on it's part
to furnish refrigerated water free for
the tanks. The exact location of the
trout tanks was demanded so that
the water supply might be regulated
with regard to the temperature need
ed by the various species of fish
shown. Without this assurance of re-
frigerated water no state would have
dreamed of trying to show live fish
or fish culture, but it is not fur
| nished. There are no refrigeration
connections and the fish die almost as
soon as transferred from the cool
waters of the lakes and streams to
| the tepid water of the tanks. Penn
| sylvania has ten thousand dollars in
vested in its fish displays, and Mis-
souri, as much more. Their tanks are
| practically empty of fish. Fortunate
ly Minnesota did not invest as much
| money by two-thirds, for when it
took down a car of splendid pike,
| pickerel, muscallonge and kindred fish,
they lived only few hours. The
fish exhibitors as the saying is event
| clear in the air" when they saw Min
| nesota's fish. They SAID that they
| never before had seen such splendid
specimens put on exhibition alive.
Fine Showing Of Game.
The States game exhibit is a clever
conception. 1t is scene in the nor
| thern pine woods in Minnesota.
| Built as a cyclorama, in the fore
ground is pine forest with birch
| openings, while you look back in the
far distance to a beautiful lake scene.
At one side are three splenuid speci-
mems of moose, COW and two bucks,
mounted as if coming through the
timber. The leader has scented dan
ger and stops with his head thrown
| high in the air. The second is hes
| itating, but the third is still on the
run. On the other side of the scene
| are three red deer, one browsing, one
| lying down and one eating from the
| trees. A large caribou is in the fore
ground; there are also badgers, black
| bears, wolves, foxes, mink and game
| birds, owls and hawks, etc. The
whole making a most effective scenic
| picture. 1t is wholly different from
any other exhibit and receives great
| praise. Besides this scene is small
| space where are shown mounted
heads of moose and deer, mounted
fish, ETC., with maps and photographs.
Agriculture.
| Three of Minnesota's exhibits are
in the Palace of Agriculture. Agri-
culture itself occupies space sixty
two by fifty feet. It is very credit
able exhibit, and the Bread and But
ter State,'' the name won at Buffalo,
is made secure. The central feature
| here is a great refrigerator case set
on a platform about five feet high.
This platform is circling with steps
at the front leading to the top and
| the sides are plates of glass back Of
which is shown the flower of the
leading country mills, which also is
| shown in small silk sacks attractive
| Iy dig 1d0 refrigerator lGScll
is octagonal. The floor space is ten
by eight feet and it's triple plate
glass sides rise fifteen feet above the
| platform. In this is to be a monu-
mental piece in butter carrying out
the domestic idea of Minnesota as the
home state. There is pedestal with
nearly a life size figure at each cor
ner representing Agriculture, Dairy
ing, Education and Mining, and on
! the face of one side is medallion of
| Gov. Van SAINT. Growing this ped
estal is the seated figure Of a mother
giving to her little child piece of
bread and butter. The entrance to
| the booth is an imposing triumphal
archway twenty-eight feet high and
crowned with banners and flags. The
| sides and face of the arch are of plate
| glass, two of them fourteen feet long
| and back of them on velvet are beau
| tiful designs in grains and grasses.
Horticulture.
| The one remaining department of