Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-01-16
Twelve Days at st. Louis.
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Aho W~ainngforo ManuIdcIuAANo
Company of Vermont had a credit
able display; their leaders being grass
hooks, corn knives, and q meat cutter
that was used for several things.
They told me they had sold 10000 OF
those especial knives after going 10
st. Louis.
One of the attractions in Machinery
hall was the display of E. & t. Falr-
banks Scale Company of st. johns
bury. The range of their scales Is
from 300 600 pounds to 10000 OF a
pound and each machine had a per-
feet finish. At the main entrance OF
the exhibit is one of their best attrac-
tons, representing all that is artistic
and modern in the scale line. 1t was
a machine made of polished oak ana
brass with a black walnut cap on
which the name Fairbanks stands out
prominently. Its platform is a slab OF
onyx, and a registering device gave
the correct weight of nearly 300 peo-
pie who stepped thereon each day.
A bright boy in uniform gave a print
ed slip to each one with weight there
on. One of their old scales was there,
made Owe 20 years ago and sold to a
Passumpsic grocer which has been in
continued use ever since. There was
the original application for patent IN
the inventors own handwriting n
signed "Thaddeus Fairbanks" and
"Erastus Fairbanks.
South Dakota had a building 73x86
feet. Its main room vas finished
through the second story to the roof
and it's walls we're finished into panels
with polished timber and the inside of
each panel was a picture made or
kernels of corn, oats, wheat, rye,
maize and fax.
North Dakota expended her fund of
$50, 900 in her display booths in the
different buildings, thatin agriculture
being the best. In the Agricultural
building was the cabin occupied by
4IC6AdCuu QSOCbC fOlU UAO JN~AS
he was there. In it was an immense
buffalo hide, a trophy of his taking.
The Maine state building was of
logs 6Ox140 feet and cost $40, 900. 1t
was cut and fitted in the Maine woods,
taken down and carried to st. Louis.
The inside is fitted up as a modern
club house with every convenience.
The display of butter and cheese
covered over one acre and cost $780,
900. Ten states had statuary, life size,
modelled of butter. The animal and
human figures! were grouped very
artistically and we'll they might be
for the best modelers who worked at
the Fair were hired to do the work.
Missouri paid $500 for her work
alone.
The cost of the Philippine encamp-
ment was owe 81, 800, 600. You
find all grades of intelligence from the
lowest dog eaters to those of mixed
Spanish blood who have high capa-
bilities. The display covers AZ acres.
On the lake shore and out in the water
are huts of the Moros built just as
they are in the Islands, and their fish
ing nets and traps are all in position
showing how they are used. Just az
day is dawning, 200 naked Igorot
warriors kill and eat their dogs and
have a war dance and not more than
200 yards away 400 Filipinos of a
higher intelligence in army blue are
called by bugle to a soldiers duties,
The main bridge cross the lake is q
reproduction of the Bridge of Spain al
Manila and leads to the walled city
and reservation. In the war museum
there seems to be every known KIND
of weapon. Cannon from the most
modern to those made of old boiler
tubes, and bamboo wound with wire
Small arms were displayed from the
old b~lunderbuss and flint lock to the
Mauser and the ugly headed K O.
the Irocot, spiked at one end. Such
murderous looking knives, the bolo
kriss and the curly kriss, the most
wicked of all weapons, were displayed
One look at these weapons would
convince one that the users of them
were not fit to govern themselves fol
years to come. There were severa
tribes of Moros and the hatred is sucf
that an armed guard was necessary
They believe in the Mohammedan faitf
and that faith forbids the taking o
photographs so that is strictly forbid
den.
In the fish and game building
are several hundred specimens of fsl
among which is the mollusks will
= shells FIVE feet wide. Birds of rar,
1 shape and plumage: a python 80 fee
| long and a good many inches around
! coiled ready to strike; hooded cobr;