Deseret Evening News | 1900-05-17 | Page 3 | A Big Filipino Display

A BIG BIC FILIPINO V Ills It Is I a or ol for 1 th mth To ro Un t l tho I lr 11 In III lito ho san Francisco Cal Ma May 17 toI ol F FP P If Wider is II hick back from bl his third lIlt to the Pl Philippines In III the interest of oC tb the lan l institutIon and I is here are on his hll wa way to Washington with the lInt lot of a collection of that aggregate about pieces baying mu an intrinsic value of something Ilk like and constitute an exhaustive ex of the manufactures manufacture trades arts tools tool I domestic utensils costumes Weapons weapon I woods wood and nd industries ut of th the Philippine islands Th of the will arrive III tilt ibo course ut the next two mintha Th whole display will fIrst he be arranged at the exhibition that tbt will op open n nat at t Buffalo next Ma May the collection will be returned to Washing Washington ton and arranged as I a Filipino depart nent he Ut the 1 Col Co Hilder says that tb the greatest an and most mOlt profitable Industry of the Ibe future In the Philippines will be that con COD connected with the of at III cent ceat Umber timber that tbt covets tb the There Then are extensive groves of hard bard cabinet woods wood and nd other woods un known to the commercial world n nb lie b hu also made mad a collection of all tb the fibres fibre of the country amon among them the OD one from which ManIla rope rop is t md made Tb ThIs fibre he be says I Is not lImp hemp at t all 11 but from a specIes peel of ha ba hanana nana Datta pecUliar to the Philippines Next to tb the hard woods wood thee lIbers will be of great lItt commercial