The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-09-03
At The Seattle Fair
A Day In The Gov
ernment Building
An Interesting Account Of the
A-Y-P Exposition.
BY Our Special Correspondent.
Prof. A. ID. Bradf.eId
Concluded from last week)

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war ships. and in large iron tank a
model Of the great dry dock dewey,
that was made in the United States and
towed across the Atlantic; flag taken
from the Maine" after it was blown
up; group Of wax models showing the
treatment of patient in the marine hos
pital. This is so life-like that many
think it real on first looking at it.
In the Department OF the Interior
ones attention is attracted to the patent
office display where combination piano
and violin player is giving concerts and
harvesting machines in miniature are
going all the time The little farmer
who continually drives his team around
his meadow moving grass which continu-
ally rises again before he gets around,
always attracts a crowd. There is a
steam turbine, the latest triumph in CON
nection with steam engines
The display showing what the govern
ment is doing for the Indians is another
interesting feature Of the Interior De-
partment. There are harness. wagons
and many other things made by them
that are just as good as those made by
whites. Their school work, too, is a sur
prise to all who think the Indian incapa-
bic Of much mental development. The
special drawings are as good as those
done by any Of the other schools. In an
other column Of this issue is a letter cop
led from one OF the many on exhibition
here. | selected this one as it gives
very good idea of what is done at Indian
schools.
In the Postoftice Department hundreds
OF samples OF stamps and postal cards
from all nations Of the world stuffed
models showing how the mail is carried
in different regions, one Of an Alaska dog
team, another Of a native of Porto Rico
on his mule. There is stamp cancel
ling machine that will cancel 10000
stamps an hour The most curious dis
r1}4ly was the collection of articles that
We're sent to the dead letter office. They
~included all kinds of jewelry, fancy work,
revolyers, snakes, quantity carved work,
Chinese dolls and idols, pigs tail with
a ribbon tied to it, about six hundred
civil war soldiers tin types that had been
sent in envelopes improperly addressed on
account of the excitement of the time. In
this collection was letter written on a
shingle, another on a cuff. Outside on
short section of track is a steel mail car
such as is i'll use on railroads today An
attendant explains the method of hand
ling mails on trains and tries to impress
visitors with the Importance OF properly
addressing mail matter; 10, 145, l72 letters
were sent to the dead letter office last
year On the wall of the car are letters
improperly addressed. One is as fol-
lows. Mrs. Julia NJ Cary, Puget
Sound, Wash" AS there are many
postoflices on the Sound no effort was
made 10 find the person addressed. An
other letter was sent from France ad-
dressed thus: ''Messieur A. Y. Dretz,
III Yessler Way, Wash, u S. A." Al
though the name Of the town . lacking
the clerks were able to find one in Wash
ington with Yessler Way and the letter
was delivered after a brief delay. A let
ter addressed as follows was promptly de-
livered to Minnie Jones notwithstanding
the eccentricity Of it's address:
Bear me away at rapid rate
To ToDli,, 4outt, ATiag,,,r;
There in the Office let me lie
Till Minnie Jones comes tripping by ="
The Department of Agriculture has a
l tempting display of fruits and vegetables
of all kinds; specimens of vegetation and
parts of animals showing how insects
and parasites work their destruction;
models Of irrigated farms; models show
ing how to make good roads; weather
bureau kites and other instruments for
making observations.
In the Department Of Commerce and
Labor are large maps of coast and geodic
surveys; all kinds of telescope and sur
veying instruments for making calcula-
tions on land and sea; bronze-aluminum
monuments for making international
boundaries; immense lanterns used i'll
lighthouses; models in miniature Of light
houses; fog bells, horns and whistles
with the apparatus for sounding them by
wave motion.
The Smithsonian Institute tour national
museum) has fine display here. There
are many show cases containing curious
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