Show I 00 ee 0 OO o I United Slates s f fo o 0 I It 0 ut t t lEil exposition nr r L p pf f C 0 e eThe i The Exhibits of fF est Fish hg and nd g 0 W ld anada Also a Good Showing The United Stat a Favorite ravon Rere flere as Els Artin Art in N tur f th the NorthLand I England Prominent Only in in Fishing W ild G Game e Pro in Ail Cor Cora Corners Corners a ners of the arthA Exhibit of PI i 1 f BY n GRIBAYEDOFF I by Gribayedoff ff j ParIs Aug was an admirable idoL Idea for the exhibition authorities to group in the Same building the d depart part meats ments of forestry fishing and hunting The same individual is 18 not necessarily I I in aa these subjects but at least r appearance of kinship between them aU all whIch makes the combined d display extremely 4 inter Interesting ting ef The eq tot to e tripartite 1 stands m n the Tg h mp do de Mars shore of the right at edge of the Pont dIena ott III the JP rb yta ta pro pre pres 1 s loo l g fo to toward toward ward the by the gIant p destal t t the Tower The structure interiorlY is an 1 enlarged and of Q a for forest est eat shooting boCOtt box appears appear to be en entirely of hewn r The main en entrance trance is on the lev 1 of he wide prom c other sd P Q rs expo Ii j r lff The United d Stat sto the gore As usual usua the J States IS well to the fore and is Indeed almost unIque among the exhibiting nations in fn the respect that her covers with the three classes f fr r which tM the building is de designed designed signed Once again sh has been treat treated treated ed with marked favor Cavor by the i authorities who have allotted to the United States all the circular space at atthe atthe the far end of the long gallery whIch for area and surpasses that of nearly aU all the other countries When the v reaches the Amer American American ican section h is impressed with the excellent taste and striking approprIateness ot of the de and disposition Uon tion of the exhibits From ceiling and the walls hang huge fishermens nets implements of the base etc and the heads of f antlered stags and big wooly buffaloes add immensely to the general decorative desIgn The walls are part partly l ly wainscoted in representative Amer 1 I 7 z HANDSOME TROPHY IN THE FRENCH FORESTRY SECTION enade that continues In fn a straight lIne from the Trocadero steps to the fur end of the Champ de Mars Being bunt built however on the slope ot of the hill hilI just at the waters edge the architect designed a lower story which I should be op on a level with tIlt the terrace I bordering tIle the river This plan afford afforded etI ed a convenient and effective method of presenting the general exhibIt fur facilitated by the erection of an extensive ry runnIng completely around the wide and long buildIng The interIor aspect as observed through the capacious doorway tempts the passerby to enter and when he en enters enters his eye falls upon such an n inter interminable range of things most int interestingly r stingly d splayed displayed that he is not likely to leave the huge palace until he has hai made a thoroUgh tour of it Looking out as if awaiting the chance to dash off into the open air ot of freedom one sees seeH here a big herd of deer and there peeping from trees in a dense wood wild bear foxes wolves and the countless denizens of the theS S fost The branches of the trees over hen are weighed down with winged I creatures of every size and race so sor with their plumage Plumas e This is 1 a 30 sort ot of vestibule sugg of the ilie many nany things within The main area running aU all the width ot of the building and stretchIng back to a depth of ab about ut feet Is occupied by bythe bythe the French exhibit Naturally it is far farand farand and sway away the largest but it is not by any means the most varied or compre Tl This is easily understood In Indeed indeed deed it is a matter of surprIse that Prance FrAnce not much bIgger than one of our states and occupied by a population population tion of should have any forest stretcheS at all or that there should be any wild animalS still left In a coun country country try so Overrun with the human species The French exhibit however is rich in samples of timber and contains a varied end and multitudinous representation of the soft river and stream fish of the court coun country try that atones for the paucity of bIg bIgand bigand and little lIttIe game French Art Alt In Nature Nothing if not artistic the French lae presented their exhibits in the for forestry forestry estry hunting antI and fishing sections in a all visitors At manner that captivates I every turn one falls fails upon some entrancIng Ing ng stage setting repreSenting a dense densey densely ly y wooded corner of the forest of n a Normandy fishing I beach a wild bear hunt in Pie Pic ardy a group roup of cutting the product from the semi semir I r rock jn in a French colony and andI I oystermen rowing home at af after atter ter n a busy day All these tableaux represent their subjects to the life lite the surroundings to the en the effect incalculably I IThen Then there are the latest things in inthe inthe the way of fishing tackle for be it understood three out 9 of every five Frenchmen of the city and country are ardent disciples of Walton And as a display of game and var varied 4 led Implements of the chase M 8 the 1 ost enthusiastic coul could even eYen conjure 1 his sWeetest t dream The timber exhibIt of France Is dis displayed displayed played in several fashions Photo Photographs Photographs graphs are shown of the tallest the and th densest trees as seen In fn life Ufe Huge blocks of wood are artistically about to mani manifest feat fest the dimensions of some French trees reea And to Indicate the surface and beauty of French woods collection a of several hundred species iut in the form and sIze of books are shown back to back lI in a book case precisely as if they were component parts of u library The Tho French exhibit probably occupIes occupies I pIes of the entire building and unlike the display of an any other country has a space of the same Width and length on the two main floors and In fn the galleries overhead Frances Russia is of cours course her h ne next t door loor neighbor in the For Forest t buIlding The empire ts is appropriately represented although one looks in vain for specimens of the strange anima races that people that uge land The wolf of cou coue c Is shown his lonely way across a trackless waste of snow and Russian bears white foxes etc dd an unusual character to the ex Then there are infinite in r variety and exquisite in beauty The collection of RussIan woods lent bythe by bythe the imperial imperia ministry ot of agri and ana domains seems limitless in vari van vanI I oty x A fine exhibit is also alBa made of the RussIan cork Industry a conspicuous fl p being n a Moscow church made entirely of cork A thoroughly inter Is also ma male e of the great I Russian fisherIes embracing odd pro prof f r ceases of artificial models model of en enormous I establishments for tor preservIng fish f After the French and RussIan ex exi i I hibits infinitely the b t hal dis displays plays cr ar those e Ot of t th United Sta Stat s Japan Japi Sw J al Cano Canada a The of England G any l u lib B iUlI I d ia fa Jevel evel of t the e oth r countries this being true rue of England and German which excel n many woods The collection of Amer AmerIcan Amerlean lean Ican game birds Is the largest in all the vast building and there is i a veritable menagerie of the animals or of forest mountain and The section I 1 most com completE om and interesting The United Statts fish commission is represented by 3 a very veo comprehensive exhibit A Amodel Amodel model is shown of a bi big fish hatchery on Lake Erie and of the car of the commission illustrating the methods of transporting the he living Jiving fish for tranS tranSplanting transplanting planting etc The commission also sends three large showcases filled with of every variety of American fish of which ev even n edible ones are absolutely unknown An admirable exhibit is also s sent nt bythe by bythe the st e df cit in shape of an enormous model of a GlOucester fishery a port of harbor the wharves buildings flake yards marine etc to find nd lying in iii the the dIfferent class of craft em played l in the industry One large showcase 15 devoted to a demonstration of the Atlantic coast lob lobster lobster ster indu industry tr showIng the method of catching the he s succulent an and displaying the model of the bIggest loster ever caught off the New Jersey shore which is regarded by Eu Europ Europ rop an n visitors as a species of sea seiL ele elephant pliant A fishermans outfit of twenty years ago is in comparison with the devices employed b by r hIm at this end of the century The exhibit of American shotguns and rifles is thoroughly representative of f the chief manufacturers and dealers throughout all aIt Darts of the United States Man Many lit little littie tie tle details invest their display with eX exceptional interest One of these for instance is a st steel el plate about fourteen Inches long by eight inc inches es wide and anda a quarter of all an inch in thickness on Which Is shown the head ot of an chief Upon one ers era that the outlines are perforated and a label reveals that the plate served as a target at a distance of feet when tim thE man blazed at it with a certain make of American rie loaded with a small calibre bullet One corner comer the American Section is devoted to a display of from the United States shown by polished and unpolished slabs as well as by a series of photographs illustrating the trees in their na natural state The pic tures of the gigantic redwoods edwoods of Call fornia are naturally a nb theme of r to Europeans Japans exhibit like that of the United States is complete in the several br es Her great national fisherIes are elucidated by a series of superbly colored plates sup supplemented supplemented by bi a colle of extraordInary sea shells among which isone one of a Japanese oyster that must have haye been as big as a ye ir old babY Ev Even n the most American Americ n ama ania amateur fisherman would find things to enlighten and delight hIm in the col collection collection lection of Japanese hooks lines and flies The woods of Japan Jalan are chiefly rep represented represented resented by no a varl variegated te pt of reeds and bamboo rods t that at are thoroughly typIcal or of the vegetable growth of that far way land The piece nce of the Japan Japanese ese exhIbits e even evell thap f t f is the collection of d ad J plumaged b that represent a be bet t Jd Wg r iid v I JY Zou na clorin lor in the rainbow or orthe the Im imagination on the dazzling gwi winks gs or boweS bodieS of those feathered marvels Yet et other t the e most Q Ing of alL appear to be the varIous races of white birds bird that fly through that land of sunshIne Three specimens sped mens of these songsters are exhibited the about the size at f a sparrow the Hato which is almost as large as asa asa a partridge and the matu that seem to be much bigger than 3 a snowflake All of them are absolutely by a single trace of darker hue Exhibits of the North Land The SwedIsh exhibit is devoted chief chiefly ly to a demonstration of the great r producing character ot of that country but It is presented so picturesquely picturesquely as to attract the attention of everyone The moat c fea features features tures are large models ofa of a great saw aw mill on the coa coast t of the kingdom showing the port Incoming lumber banks bank the mill rAilway homes etc all very lifelike and nat natural natural ural Another r represents a bit bitof bitof of primeval Swedish forest peopled with its northland bIrds Hollands exhibit almost exclusively concerns her s sea a fisheries illustrated by admirable stage settings s showing the in their typIcal typIcal Ical costumes going guing about their dally daily occupations in their quaint way models give a perfect view of a big establishment t for salting herrings herring S at and or of an pack packIng Ing in house at The minIstry of the interior also sends samples of Dutch timber and specimens of the game birds o the little kingdom om exhibit Is arranged to show to te wild and interesting character of that country with its rich forests through which stalk say sav savage age bear and timid and its rapidly rusl ng rivers filled with all varieties of fish An unusual feature of the Hungarian display is the facade en enclosing 1 closing the exhibits on which are hung enormous collections r Inters and antlered heads lent br the occasion by such illustrious hunters as the Era Em Emperor Francis Joseph the Grand Duke Joseph Augustus and Counts Fred FrederIc FrederIc erIc and Almasy Canada Wins tile the Prize Our neighbor Canada is mos most t worthily re represented r in the forestry building Indeed from the collection of precious or serviceable timbers sent Canada makes maltes much the best roest show of all the competing countrIes All through the sections are to be seen photographs of growing trees of every vart variety ty and an odd ap consists In the fact that each separate picture is framed in the wood of the tree photographed And not only by prints Is the Canadian lumber richness shown but by blocks planks slabs and suitable bits of furniture con constructed constructed from the representative Um tim Umber her ber You are literally In a forest of wood whose redolent odors permeate the whole space Incidentally only some fine specImens of Canadian big game are shown wandering through the virgin woods or perched in the branches of mammoth trees When the judges visited the forestry building they like every visitor were most Impressed by Canadas tubber exhibit and that country was awarded the first DT prize ze for the forest exhibit consists simply ly of implements of the chase and fishIng of her wood and cord indus industry industry try Germany shoWs only an ordInary collection of hunting hanting guns Austria contents herself with all an instinctive exposition of her forest and bird life and Belgium shows nothing but a col of dressed furs 7 ii 0 f iIi I a s REGISTERED TREES AND AD POTS stimulated their cultivation an and Ira im importation that practically anyone any one can own one now Gardners of the OrI Orient nt can supply them at short notice un unless Unless less the registered vari variety ty is required The These latter are the result of time and cannot be forced like the common dwarf that sells for a few dollars Good sums are still paid for a regis registered tree in a registered pot chiefly of course for the value of the two ar an articles tides but partly also for the tho dis taste In knowing how o 10 combine porcelain and to ad advantage vanta vantage e r |