Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-21
Walls Of Spacious Structures Are Soon
Reduced to Wreck.
PLANS FOR NEXT SHOW START
Preparations Contemplate Bigger and
Better Exhibition in 1909,
MUCH DETAIL IN CLOSING UP
Clerks and Department Heads Are
Busy Sending out Orders for
Premiums 20 the Success
full Exhibitors.

As the walls of Jericho fel lat the blast
OF rams horn so the National Corn ex-
position fell Sunday morning at the sound
OF the sledge hammer, and by evening Il
was practically wreck, while as a strange
coincidence to it's close w. e. F,indley, the
draughtsman in Architect John McDonald's
office who designed the buildings. died at
his home as the buildings he had designed
were fast disappearing
Soon after the gates closed Saturday
night the work of removing the exposition
buildings began. the exhibitors packed all
nlght and all day Sunday: almost every
concession disappeared before o'clock
sunday night, and the interior which was
SO gay and the great buildings throbbinR
with life before midnight, were a desolate
sight before daybreak. 1t was like the tran
sition which takes place when the first
chill frost changes the scene and season
from summer to fall.
Inc force of clerks in the entry and
award department at work constantly
mailing orders for premiums for exhibitors
who did not wait for the finish or could not
attend to the exposition, and the affairs of
the big show will be in good shape within
a short time. There are stll some awards
to be decided. These are tho first pre-
miums in some of the wheat classes and
the winners may not be known for several
days.
The exposition management will maintain
an office on the grounds for day or two
and then probably return to the uptown
office in the Bee building where the busl-
ness of the exposition will be settled.
Plans for Next Year.
10 ,itto
day or two and look over the work. 1t
probably will be late in January before a
meeting is held to consider the first stems
for organizing an exposition for next year,
which they expect to do.
The management is no wsatisfied that a
National Corn exposition will attract peo-
pie from all parts of this country and even
from continents beyond. The people of the
west appreciated the National Corn expo
sition for they came regardless of the fact
that the railroads failed to give reduced
rates to Omaha after many of them made
definite promises of the rates and even
authorized the announcement at one time
that exposition would be given the same
fair treatment the state and interstate
fairs. Coming as 1t did Immediately follow
ing the International Livestock exposition
held in Chicago and to which rates were
much larger and of so much more general
interest chat the people paid their full fare
to see the Omaha show.
Many of those who were connected with
the exposition have left for their homes,
including the professors from the agricul-
tural colleges, who hastened to get to their
homes for the holidays. Eugene D. Funk.
president of the National Corn association,
left for his home when the exposition
closed. Mr.. Funk had received word from
Mrs. Funk Friday morning that one of
his children was i'll, dangerously so. For
while he contemplated going, but finally
said, 'Ill stay in the harness, the child
is in good hands" And he remained to
see the work of the exposition completed.
DomInguez VIII Bisit.
Zeferino Domnguez, the Mexican, left
last evening for Ames, where he will spend
a day with Prof p. G.. Holden and the
professors at the Iowa Agricultural college.
From there he will go to Moline, ILL.,, for
a day or two then back to Omaha to spend
Christmas. Immediately after Christmas
lie will go to Bloomington to be the guest
of Mr.. Funk for time. where he will go
over all the Funk farms. which comprise
some 5000 acres, all belonging to Mr. Funk
and his brothers.
guez sent the Mexican exhibit of corn to
the management of the exposition with
the wish that it be held as a permanent
exhibit.
II will bring each year" he said. types
of the corn grown in all the states of
Mexico, and we will see II 1t improves.
We cannot tell yet how much good this
exposition has done. but ten years from
now We Mexicans will show how much
Good it has done U.S."
The following is the letter which Mr..
Dominguez sent with the exhibit:
Il. f. Sturgess Secretary National Corn
Exposition, Omaha: My Dear Sir-I brought
to the exposition a collection OF corn in
the ear. rePresenting the types produced in
in my opinion, the average production OF
each state and to every ear Is attached A
tag which shows the amount of precipita-
ton and the frequency Of the same, as
we'll as the average temperature in the
locality during the time Of growing.
Nobody can appreciate the work that has
been accomplished in making It possible
to secure this collection Of corn than this
institution and the thought occurred 10 me
to donate It to you in order that you may
have the most effective statistic OF the
corn produced in the sister southern Re
public OF Mexico. ! think that the time,
work and money spent TO produce this
collection is highly repaid by what have
tional Corn exposition. and In what il
promises for the future of my country and
your country and hope that Il will be.
which l give you viii always show what
Mexico produces. Understand we, produce
these types Of corn with the primitive
plow which I have shown youi with dis
advantages i'm obtaining seed, and we can
do much better-you can appreciate how
much, when you know that we have little
or no modern machinery
Please accept this collection With my
highest personal regards. Cordially yours,
ZEPHERINO DOMINGUEZ.
Thoroughly Satisfied.
Among friends, who included President
Funk, G. w. Wattles Rome Miller and the
newspaper men, the Mexican planter dis
tributed other articles In his collection and
expressed himself as thoroughly satisfied
with the exposition and delighted with the