Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-19

--s o portry IN the NlNlu loi l1il U l'i y
original materials, or exact
models or photographs of them,
"a much as possible of the
,rawledge hidden between the covers
students many-voiunied history
ssthe United States and its possessions.
l. the purpose of the exhibit of the
,;.hsonian institution and the United
e4ot.s National museum at the Alaska
y,kon- Pacific exposition in Seattle.
,i,n has been directed particularly to-
ward showing the beginnings and de-
document OF various human interests
a,d culture in Alaska, Hawaii. the
philtnnine Islands, and other Pacific
,,i,sSessions. and that part OF. tile United
rtates west OF the Rocky mountains.
,2a,,, before: and after the white man
apansed original ideas and methods OF
living
nnrever. is not limited to the far west.
certain features of the development of
,hc country as a whole are pictured
among them land and water Transports
,ion a, medalic and photographic his
tory. or history shown by maps at
various periods, and also novel col
lection showing the territorial eXpan-
sion OF our country by means Of re-
nroductions Of the treaties. the orig
mails of which are carefully guarded
IN the archives of the state depart
mont, by which the various tracts OF
land were added.
A feature Of particularly timely In
terest is the collection OF perfect mod
els lust made. of the compounds of
large buildings so far. eXcavated on the
Casa Glande reservation in Arizona un-
der the direction OF the institution.
The settlement around these buildings,
st!l for the most part buried beneath
the desert sands, is Il remnant of 4
prehistoric American civilization en-
ioyed probably by the ancestors Of the
Indians, but as yet disclosed to us only
in its main points. The ruins have
proved of such archaeological Importance
as to have earned the name of an Amer
lean Pompeii. destroyed not in a night
by a volcanic eruption, but by con-
turtles Of wind-bown sands.
These exhibits are housed in tho U. S.
government buildings that stand out
on the side of hill. the main struc-
turc in the center, thanked by four pa
yilions devoted to the bureau of fish
and fisheries. and to Atlanta. Hawaii
and the Philippine Islands, respectively.
The central hall of the main building
is the space allotted to this particular
summary of United States history.
EMINENT AMERICANS.
Around the walls. embracing the eW-
dences of progress in the various sec
Of colored portraits of eminent persons
associated with the discovery and his
tory of America from Columbus, Cabot,
and Americas Vespucius, through ex-
porers. statesmen. jurists, philan-
thropists, men of literature science.
and art, naval and military heroes, to
Admiral Dewey, Mr.. Roosevelt, and
President Taft Of today With these
are associated portraits of such men as
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark,
George Vancouver John Mclaughlin,
George Alternately, John A. Suffer, Bret
Harte, John Bidwell. and others who
played Important parts In the history OF
the Pacific coast and Alaska Hawaii
is represented by portraits OF members
ofsthe royal family from Kamehameha
to Queen Lliuokalani. together with
photographs of Garritt p. Judd, Peter
j. Gulick and other Americans promi-
nent in Hawaiian history For the
Philippines. portraits of Jose RIAL
Emelio Aguinaldo. and others, includ-
Ing asnumber of prominent Americans,
have been collected.
To supplement this portrait gallery
there have been gathered many re-
productions of paintings of historic
scenes and landmarks, a catalogue OF
which alone would wildly summarize
american political events for the last
three centuries. Perhaps the most
striking of these is great Photographic
enlargement of the original Declara-
ton of Independence showing the sig
natures of men who by their act of
signing this epochal document made
themselves forever famous.
novel bit OF history collected by Mr.
w. dec. Ravenel. who had charge OF
the installation of the whole exhibit ana
VINO is the representative of the in
stitution and museum on the govern
ment board. and lent through the cour-
tesy of Mr.. Glenn Brown, is the de-
ye!opment of the United States capt.
tol building shown by architects ele-
vations, including those of Thornton
and Walter. and Views at different peri
DDS especially before and after the
burning by the British in 1914
HOW RAILROADS GREW.
A graphic story OF the advance in
civilization is embodied in the models
of various means of water ana land
transportation. On sea, from the Santa
Maria of Columbus, the Susan Constant
OF the jamestown settlers, the Halt
Moon Of Henry Hudson, and the May
hover Of the Pilgrims, a great progress
Is pictured through Robert Fulton's
Nlermont, the first really successful
steamboat, and the Savannah, the first
Steamboat to cross the Atlantic, to the