Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-15


hibit Of fruit. grain, grasses and minerals
that Is second to none, showing what that
state Ia doing IA the way Of holding out
an invitation to men and capital TO come
within tie borders.
The exhibit Of South Dakota is largely
grain, but there Ia enough OF the hortI-
cultural to show conciusiveiy that the
state Is not taking n back seat for any Of
It's neighbors.
Fine Nebraska EXHIBIT.
or course. Ntbraska is the "old re-
liable" and n showing an enormous
quantity Of grain. alfalfa and other for
age plants. Corn Is featured and the
eyes OF the visitors will open wide when
they gaze upon the enormous and varied
display OF this cereal. Then, too, Ne
braska Is not 90 far behind in the way
OF showing fruits. II is there with the
goods"
The three tents outside the Coliseum
arc given over 70 the exhibitors OF farm
and ranch machinery. In them there are
steam engines sufficiently large TO carry
a half dozen plows; great pumps for
raising water to spread over the land for
Irrigation. Then there are scores OF
UlANNAntH NihN hAN ~ Nnc uANhNG VI AhbOi
saving devices, intended to make the
work OF the far mer and rancher easier.
The interior OF the Coliseum never was
as attractive as now. II was only a few
days ago that the Ak-Sar- Ben coronation
ball was held and the Land show man
agement has made arrangements with the
Knights OF Ak-Sar-Ben so that most OF
the royal trapplngs and decorations have
been left in place. Their bright colors.
mingiing with those OF the fruit and the
golden grain, form a picture that the
most skilled artist would envy.
The illuminatlons OF the building are
something that IL most artistic, a. we'll
as beautiful. Besides the myriad OF tri-
eolored electric lights. typical OF the Ak
sar-Ben festivities. there are thousands
OF incandescents. which, when turned on,
will illuminate the building until it's In
terror at night will be as bright as at
noon. To light the building, besides the
numerous ares and hundreds OF fancy
lights around the booths, there will be
f,600 sixteen-candlepowe incandesoants
Hastily arranged In the ceiling and in
festOons around the walls and up through
the center.
The great doors at the south end Of
the Coliseum viii be used as the main
entrance 10 the building. When entering
these the spectator viii get an impress.
sion that will be lasting. Up through
the center OF the great building Tor dis
lance Of 800 feet tho spectator will walk
through colonnade twenty feet wide.
This coionnade consists OF twenty col
umns. white and In imitation OF mabrble,
set twenty feet apart and each sur
mounted by a life-sized allegorlcal fig
pre. The columns are tweuty-seven feet
high.
Walking from the south entrance up
the colonnade to the north. as the visitor
approaches the stage. he will be CON
fronted by panorama OF moving pic
lures, or rather one picture painted upon
a canvas sixteen feet in height and 800
feet In length. This picture moves in
three directions, mp and down and TO the
left. On Il Is painted by eminent artists
scenes portraying the development OF the
\ west. The artist lets his imagination
start with the time when Lewis and
Clark passed up the Missouri river on
their voyage OF discovery. Then step by
step he takes up the development OF the
central and the Pacific west, finishing
with the conditions as they exist at ths
present time.