New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

date for the occupants to move in. It
will start right and depend on that
fact to help it finish right.
Still another Improvement over past
expositions is the fact that many
buildings are to be permanent. They
Will be turned over to the State uni
versity, on whose campus the fair is
held. This saves a useless waste and
shows good business judgment. One
OF these permanent buildings is that Of
forestry, which is to be made wholly of
logs from the gigantic trees of the
northwest. Most of the other build
ings are in the French renaissance
style. That Of New York state is a
Seward at Auburn. There is also to
| be fine statue of Seward, the man
who purchased Alaska at time when
| the wise blockheads Of the day grinned
and called it Stewards iceberg" Peo-
pie who look far ahead are always de-
rided by those superior worldlings who
| cannot see an inch in front of their
noses.
A Temperance Festival.
| A fourth upward step made by the
Seattle fair is that it is to be ssdry."
The state law provides that liquor
shall not be sold near the university,
and the law will remain in force,
though it is not because of the statute
F! alone that tntoxicants will be prohibit
ed in and about the exposition grounds.
The new departure will be a recogni-
ton of the great and growing temper
ance sentiment throughout the coun-
try Thus the enterprise is to be made
prophecy Of the future in more ways
than one. The experiment will be
watched with interest, and friends Of
temperance will doubtless see that the
fair does not suffer because it has de-
throned King Alcohol and banished
him from its domain.
Every exposition has had it's mid
way, where the barker banks and Co.
ney Island shows are in evidence. In
St. Louis this was "the Pike" In Sc
attic it is to have a name still more
original, .'the Pay Streak" Any one
who has ever travelled the midway and
has seen the dimes and quarters melt
ing through his fingers will recognize
the appropriateness of the title
There are to be many other novel
ties. For one thing, a Siberian village
will show to civilization a really primi-
tive people. The human race is sup
posed to have had its earliest home in
Asia, and it can readily be imagined
that these Siberians have not changed
their modes of living since the distant
days Of the first man. They live in
tents, kill their game with rude weap-
ons, allowing none of the blood to es-
cape, pray to the devil and propitiate
him with blood offerings and Stay
their own hopelessly sick, aged and
cripples. The village that has beer
brought to Seattle had one child born
since Its advent. This young Sibe-
rian and others will be features of the
village.
Another unique feature is a fox
farm, the exhibitor being a man who
has actually started such a farm, on
which foxes are bred for their furs.
Stewards Iceberg"
Perhaps the greatest spectacular fea-
ture of the exposition is q gigantic
cyclorama Of Alaska. The enterprise
was originally started to exhibit to the
world the possibilities of Uncle Sans
arctic possession of the Yukon valley
both on American and Canadian terri |
tory. The popular idea of Alaska is a
land Of "cold and gold" As matter
of fact, it is a country with great pos
sibilities in agriculture. 1t is no far
ther north than Finland, and the eli
mate is even milder than in the ex-
IRENE north of Europe. 1t is now real
lied that some day Stewards iceberg"
may be the home of prosperous mil
lions, and it is for the purpose of has
tening that time that the A.-Y.-P.
was originally planned. Then the Pa
cific idea was added, and all countries
bordering the great ocean were invited |
to participate. It will be a strange
blending Of the polar and the tropic, of |
the Eskimo and the Tagalog. In it the
American people will be given an op-
portunity to become acquainted with
''the little brown brother" There will |
be Philippine exhibit such as never
has been beheld at any other fair This
Is likewise true Of Hawaii, a section of |
one Of whose famous parks is to repro
duced. Japan here will give by far the
fullest display Of her industries and
life ever beheld at an exposition, in
Guiding not only the wonderful Nippon
Of today, but that even more romantic
Nippon of the old days Of the samurai
Essentially all the Pacific countries |
will be represented, as well as most Of
the American states and some Of the
European nations.
In a scenic way the location of the
fair is ideal. 1t is located between
two lakes, giving it more than a mile |
and a half Of water front 1t is liter
ally fair in the forest, the buildings
arising in picturesque manner among