Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-07-30
WDRO PICTURES
From The Exposition at San Fran
neutrality-suspicious. of Buildings For
The Folks Who Must Stay at Home
BY One Who Was There.

The following descriptions of build
ings at the Panama Pacific Exposi-
tion at San Francisco, were written
by Miss Madge Aldrich who was visit
ing the Exposition, for the benefit of
her grandmother, Mrs. Julia G. Al
drich; Mrs. Aldrich with her usual
generous spirit has sent US the manu-
script in order that we may publish
these descriptions for the benefit of
others who like herself are unable to
visit the Exposition:
Palace of Agriculture.
The exhibits of the Filipinos and
of the Japanese in all departments
are extensive and varied. The Philip
pine agricultural exhibit is particular
iy interesting many different
fibres used in making cloth-the prin-
ciple fibre, the banana fibre, tree cot
ton and the Manila hemp which is
used extensively in making cloth as
we'll as rope and other things. Phe
pineapple fibre makes the finest, most
exquisite cloth imaginable.
The New Zealand exhibit, with its
dairy products, gums, resin, etc., is
especially worthy of note because OF
its very excellent illustrations of the
improved living conditions of the
working people provided for by the
New Zealand Workers Dwelling Acts.
There are many other foreign ex-
hibits showing products of each as
well as the United States Govern
ment Experiment Station work, in
cluding the preservation of forests
and an example of the use of forests
in retaining moisture in the soil and
the prevention of erosion and flooding
Among the State exhibits in this de-
partment Washington and Oregon
were very striking with their booths
of logs and Oregon's one-farm ex.
hibit as we'll as that of the William.
mette Valley were well worth seeing
From one 10-acre farm in. Linn coun'
| ty, Oregon there are three hundred
ard forty-one products grown with
out irrigation. From one farm II
Rogue River Valley, six hundred an6
seventy different products.
Kansas. with her sunf1owers. corr
and ether grains was very effective
Iowa with her immense horn of out
pouring yellow corn of macnlficen
size; Louisiana with her cotton, to
bacco and sugar; Virginia with
wonde rful one-farm exhibit and mum
erous other states are all We'll repre-
sented.
Palace of Horticulture.
Oregon is justly proud of having
won the horticultural prize at tn
Exposition among so many wonderful
exhibits. This was probably du
partly to the very appropriate ant
unique booth of logs and partly t.
the wonderful Hood River displa,
which, besides the not-to-be-excelle'
display of its fruit is original an
distinctive. Inside of gigantic red ap
pie is reproduced the Hood River Val
LEY, snow-capped Mt. Hood rising il
majestic grandeur above it all.
Montana's splendid exhibit of ap
pies deserve mention as well as tn
Hawaiian display of real honest-to
goodness pineapples growing in tn
building. This appears to be tn
only comfortable warm place in Sa
Francisco. Here for the first tim
YOU may shed your coat and ca
pineapples served to the strain OF
palm-hidden Hawaiian orchestra.
In another part of the building yo
may see raisins seeded and boxe
oranges graded wrapped and packe
Just as they are in real packln
house. Then there are the most wor
uerful orchids and other flowers c
marvellous beauty as well as odd an
curious plants of tropical and sem
tropical countries among which
the beautiful fern of Australia. /
The French Building.
Here you must go early ii yo
would avoid the rush and even the
you must patiently stand in line unit
the door is opened and must meek
obey that "Splendiferous" being-tf
guard when he says in tones OF de
potic authority, Move on! Keep
the right, "And you can get only OF
stingy little glimpse of those ado
able Paris gowns"
Women! Women! Old and youn
rich and poor, smartly dressed al
dowdily dressed all flock here, wit
out regard to "race, color or previo7
condition of servitude" And not
women either; though as heard OF
middle-aged world-hardened man r
mark in an affectedly prim manne
to his companion, another man of t
same sort: "This is no place for
| young man." The bodices OF e
models were extremely loV.
III But they didn't move on and out al
| let others take their places, it was
| be noticed. Perhaps with such STR
| orders to "keep to the right, tn
couldn't.
II A young lady who was looking |
some such exhibit as this, but OF t
store called "City of Paris" in t
"Varied Industries" building stopp
| long, lean spectacled person, L
mistakably of the school marin ty
and asked, "Can you tell me VINE
the "City of Paris" is?
| "It's in France, of course" snapp
out the school marm' but see he
| young lady, Pm not here to hear g'
graphy classes. I'm on vacation
Then she went on, remarking to
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