Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-08-31
NATIONAL
CONSERVATION
EXPOSITION
SHOW Will Be Op.
ened by Wireless Signal
From President

Knoxville, Aug. 339.--A wireless mes
, signal for the opening in this city oil
Monday next of the National ConserVa-
| ton Exposition. the first in the HISTORY
of the county devoted to the cause %
conservation. The message is eXpecttc
at 10 a. -. at the wireless station ~
the exposition grounds.
Governor Hooper, of Tennessee, Mayor
|Heiskell of Knoxville and r. L. Wright.
president Of the exposition. will partici-
pate in the openging ceremonies, The
exposition will continue through Septem-
Der and October and while designed prl-
MARTY to teach the lesson of conversa-
ton" is extended also to demonstrate
the commercial and Industrial advance of
the south.
; The exposition grounds with lakes and
drives embrace more than 100 acres on
which have been erected eleven large
buildings with a total of 100000 Zee. OF
floor space. Thu buildings are the Lib
eral .Arto, the Land, with an auditorium
annex seating 1000 persons, the Wcm-
ans, the Child Welfare, the East Ten
nessee, the All-Soutll, the Mines and
Minerals, the Art, the, Live Stock, the
Poultry and the Negro.
Exhibits have been furnished by the
federal government as well as by all
of the southern States and will dis
play many kinds. of natural resources.
The larger southern cities will be rep
by individual exhibits. Conser-
walton of human life. health and energy,
as well as of the land, water and forests
viii be emphasized.
In it's conception, in its aims and pur-
reads the Official description, the
Conversation Exposition is
unique; it is unique in other respects.
of the past have always been
held to commemorate and to celebrate
something that has been accomplished:
the National Conservation Exposition, on
the other hand, looks toward the future.
1t will stand out as the sign of some
thing that is to be done.
The exhibits of the United States
will be most complete and all will be de-
signed to teach these conservation les
In the good roads exhibit, the for
estry, the mines, the land. and in other
the federal displays will be de-
voted entirely to the subject of conserva-
ton in its different branches. So, too,
the different state exhibits are designed
not only to show the progress made in
ways by these states, but also
to bring out the conservation idea.
"rhcrc is installed Il most complete
exhibit designed to show to cX-
position visitors the necessity Of conserv
ing health and to show them how this
best can be done. This exhibit was az
by experts. IT treats the subject
of health in many different ways
The child walfare exhibit, the lirst
made in the South, is under the
direction of Miss Julia c. Lathrop, head
of the children's bureau Of the United
department of labor. The Russell
Sage foundation Of New York and other
institutions are deeply in
in this department. 1t will be
to an exposition Of the best and
The most advanced methods of conserv- I
ing the health and strength of the grow
ing child.
''Tlle woman's department has a large
of exhibits that will show wom-
an in both city and country how they
may conserve their energy and their
health in the performance Of their daily |
duties
A number Of special days devoted to
features of the exposition have
oeen arranged. a congress of farmers
md livestock breeders will be held from
II to September 16. at which
Pinchot will preside. There will