Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-08-16
WAR EXHIBITION TO
Open IN CHICAGO
People Will Have a Chance to See
how Our Boys Fight and What
They Fight With.
1T is A GOVERNMENT SHOW
Seventeen Carloads of Trophies Cap
cured From the Huns and Material
Used by the AIIies-BattlefieId
to Be Reproduced.

Chicago Sam wants the peo-
DIe of this part of the country to know
more o. the life of their boys in the
war zone of France, and more about
the weapons they, their allies and their
enemies use. Therefore the govern
rnent will open an immense war ex-
alibition in Chicago September 2, to
continue until September Is. The ex-
libits include all sorts of war material
and innumerable trophies captured
from the Huns.
Et is not private money making
affair, but an official exposition, given
by the government through the COM
-nittee on public information and the
illinois State Council Of Defense, and
En- which the governments of France,
Great Britain, Canada, Italy, and Bel
GUM participate. Nothing is for sale.
Nothing is to be promoted. The adj
mission fee will be very small, and If 1t
aoays the bare expenses of bringing the
exhibits here and placing them before
The public, that is all that is wanted.
II there should be a surplus, it goes
lby law into the United States treas
uIry and reduces by that much the bur-
e1ens Of the taxpayer.
Will Reproduce Battlefield.
Tt will be battlefield, reproduced
faithfully to the smallest detail, within
Gfse limitations Of the grounds. Front
Zine trenches will be there, laid out by
ff1e very officer who laid them out in
that Flanders battlefield where the
Princess Pats fought until there are
s1ow but three men left alive Of the
original regiment.
It will show No Mans Land-aH but
che CHASTITY death scenes and one can
we'll Imagine them-that strip Of
ground ruled over by jealous Death
where neither Boche nor human being
stares set foot except by stealth and in
sa-fle darkest hour of night. No Mans
land. with its great cellars digged by
shells, with it's plowed and torn and
g1uiverized dirt and gravel, with it's
wilderness of barbed wire entangle-
tnAents, with its wrecks Of guns and
wagons and airplanes.
II3b tlIu SAFllt SIlOWu, WIFI
ef1e blessed sign of the Red Cross at the
entrance-favorite mark for German
Smells
Gums of all sizes and kinds, with sol
fiiers and sailors to man them and
show how they are used; afrplanes,
signal stations, listening posts, fire con-
. erol everything that can be
. - GoII
I shown
Show American Trophies.
OF the greatest interest to Ameri-
cans viii be the war material used by
our boys, and the trophies captured by
them from the enemy. Oh, yes, there
fare guns and plumber of all kinds taken
from the proud Germans by the Yankee
ssboys-and if it be possible to get them
here in time there will be big display
of cannon captured by Chicago troops
in the great battle now raging between
1.-THE Marine and the Aisne.
The italian exhibit contains a great
wnany specimens of Austrian guns and
shells. There is an incendiary bomb
dropped on Venice in an effort to burn
that splendid city; an Austrian floating
mine guns from Austrian submarines;
taken from Austrian sub
destroyed by the italian navy,
and the innumerable forms of rifles,
trench tools, shells, periscopes, bay
,nnets. and clothing used by the italian
army.
Remembering their beloved cathedral
of Reims, the French have placed with
their exhibit a shrine, wrecked by the
Germans. But they also have spoils
rtal1en in the hottest battles-guns and
gun carriages, "whiz-bangs," trench
unortars, mine wefers, German S-inch
Gncendiary shells, airplanes Of the
type (which tried to destroy Paris, and
Zeppelin bombs. There is a complete
exhibitor the famous French field gun
the ''75," so-called because it's caliber
rs rs millimeters.
Guns From Cruiser Emdsn.
The British exhibit includes guns
from the cruiser Emden, which Brit
1sEA ship destroyed; guns taken from
che Turks; guns captured in GallipoH,
aaud all manner of wreckage from
score Of battlefelds Of great interest
are the British medals awarded for con-
@picuous bravery or great service to
the empire.
Canada, of course, sets great store
by her trophies from famous Vimy
Ridge, Passchendaele, Ypres and wher-
ever the rugged fighters met the Hun
Different Then