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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1905)
TTTR SUNDAY OREGONIAy, PORTLAyD, AUGUST 13, 1905. MISSOURI WELL REPRESFNTED AT THE FAIR FRIENDLINESS OF MISSOURIANS TOWARD EXPOSITION MANIFESTED BY ERECTION OF FINE BUILDING ver. of Grant City. Miss Stella "Walker. of St. Joseph, secretary to the Commis sioners, makes herself popular -with tha visitors to the building. J. E. CrumbaugX of Columbia, is superintendent of tfco building- and exhiibts. Commiss:cnerM- Jimsey Is the only member of the 3card In Portland at present, but he expeit3 his associates shortly. POLLUTED OYSTER BEDS Perils of Culture Amour Toothsome Eastern Bivalves. New York Tribune. The New Jersey State Board of Heilth has been well advised In taking step t prevent the marketing of clams and ni ters irom me snrewsDury iurr u . ess the practice of emptying sewage :nn tit stream Is discontinued. Persons who know anything about oysters, ar i to whom the bivalve, so delicious In !ts perfect state when taken from clem and salt water, means something more tan cold, wet and puffy animal tissue, have long looked with suspicion on the Shn-ws-bury product. Anybody who goes d"wn to Soabright. Long Branch or to any set tlement along that stretch of coast anl sees the hundreds of hotels and cottages which discharge their sewage Into tha mud ditch between the long sand sp't terminating In Sandy Hook and the New Jersey mainland proper, and then st-s to think that those muddy waters ara the home of the Shrewsbury clam and oyster, will be inclined to tak his hilf shells from some other region, if he knows enough to do it. Unfortunately, few persons do know enough to tell a Shrewsbury from a Buzzard's Bay. ar ! the unscrupulous dealer bestows nam's as he plcnses. The only way to protect the public health is to guard the beds from pollution and absolutely stop th taking of shellfish from waters concern ing which tnere is reasonable ground for suspicion. The north branch of the Shrewsburv has enjoyed a better reputation than the south branch, because efforts to use it a. a sewer have been steadily resisted: bu it Is said that some persons have ben THE word Missourlan has a subtle slg- ' I '"''''''"'"'wwmwwwimmmwimbwwb nlflcance to It that is familiar to I r-gT-T . T 7 'J.- ' , uHWW'& .dmW Jil&trZfflm!&toJ 1 J HE word Missourlan has a subtle sig nificance to It that is familiar to nearly every man, woman and child In the United States. "Whenever a Mls .sourlan is mentioned one Instinctively thinks of the time-worn and almost his toric phrase, "I am from Missouri, you have to show me." But this "is not a take-off or a vehicle of ridicule on the Mlssourlans, as It Is true of the people of that leading state of the Northwest, that they demand to be shown. Then if they are satisfied and are assured of a sound foundation upon which to work. they will go ahead and show other people. This peculiar characteristic of the Mls sourlans cropped out at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. When they were, satis fled that the Fair was a legitimate enter prise, backed by a progressive and publlc-Hc-spirited people who had eagerly em braced tho opportunity to Illustrate to the world that Oregon and the Northwest was more than a wilderness or a desert, Missouri inarched to tho front ranks with the other states in the hearty co-operation, which has done so much in making success for the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion. The Mlssourlans knew, from their experience with the greatest fair that has ever been held, the magnitude of the un dertaking attempted by the people of tht Northwest. They were at first awed by the audacity of the people of a new coun try, but this later turned Into admiration, Anally developing in the determination to participate in tho Fair. So Missouri sent her Commissioners to Portland, and notwithstanding that they were 2000 miles from the Ozarks, they erected a building and Installed an exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Exposition that, stand as a monument to the unselfish spirit of friendliness that Missouri has always manifested toward all other states of the Union. The Mlssourlans knew, when they were measuring the situation with a view of participating in the Fair, that their state is famous, and that Its representation would mean an additional feature to the Exposition. It is freely asserted that more people visit the Missouri building than any other state building at the Exposition, it Is situated Just to the right of the main en trance to tho Exposition, fronting the broad avenue along which practically all vllstors pass several times a day. Every . thing about the Missouri building at tracts attention. The first thing notice able Is tho heroic female figure, executed by George Julian Zolnay, of St Louis, to typify Missouri, urns is roouuirai on 31 pedestal at the right of the big semi circular portico, extending from the front of the building. At the very carta of tft buUllnc Mi sour! begins to show herself. In the center of the main circular rotunda Is a display of Missouri products, in front of which is hung a huce picture of Governor Folk, who has gained National renown because of his vigorous and unrelenting fight against graft, which at one time had Missouri within its clutches. At tho rear of the rotunda Is a recess, upon the back wall of which Is an immense picture of a Missouri farm scene, made entirely out of corn, wheat and other agricultural products. It Is one of the most beautiful rand wondorful works of art of Its kind that has ever been made. The front right-hand corner of the Mis souri building Is occupied by a commo dunxK nsrfor iar- ladle. wblU bJc rcotn for the use of men is In the rear of this. In the men's apartments there Is an ex tensive display of Missouri products. The front rooms on the other side are devoted chiefly to educational exhibits. Here, ar ranged In volumes, uniformly bound, can be found specimens of work done in every school in Missouri. Hero also is located the register, which already contains the names of hundreds of Mlssourlans, who made the long trip from the Middle West to see the Western World's Fair. In this room the notable book edited by Walter Williams, entitled "The Slate of Missouri; an Autobiography," Is on band, and many copies are given away to visi tors who evince an Interest In the state. The main exhibit chamber, rich with products Is back of this room. It la unl xarsaJlv jqrded Jhul MLwuiri' com display at the Exposition leads all. Mis souri takes pride in her corn crop, and this product of the soil Is as valuable an asset to the state as it is to Kansas, which Is more generally renowned for Its waving cornfields. The great zinc mines of the Joplln district, lead mines of the Flat River district, and the wonderful coal deposits of Northern Missouri, and many other minerals found in the state, have all contributed to a remarkable and an extensive mineral exhibit. Missouri Is not generally spoken of as a mining region, but there are very few states In tho Union that have more valuable min eral deposits than it- Still more pictures, made out of agricultural products, are to bo found In this room, notably among, which Is a barnyard scone, showing a dozen or mora Missouri mules. The Mis souri cow Is also plctorially displayed through the cereal art. In an annex at the rear of tho build ing Is installed the Missouri fine arts exhibit. Missouri Is the only state that makes such a display here. The collec tion comes from St. Louis, where It was gathered under the auspices of the St. Louis Artists Guild. Among the paint ers represented ara F. L. Stoddard. Carl Gustave Waldeck. F. O. Sylvester and other well-known St. Loulsana. There are sculptural triumphs of Brlnghurst, Zolnay and others, with a fine showing of ceramics and artistic books printed In Missouri. Missouri's Interests at the Fair are looked after by the 9tate Commissioners, Robert H. Kern, of St. Louis; K E. R 1 MeJimsey. of St. Joseph, and EL 9. Gar- surreptltlously turning sewage into that part of the river. As for the south branch. It suggests Colerldgo's question about the Rhine after it washes the City of Cologne. The State Board of Health believes that a typhoid outbreak which occurred some timft ago at Oceanic was caused by clams taken from the south branch, and directs the attention of tha Town Boards "to the risk that may at tend the further use of clams taken from said polluted waters." No doubt the planters who" nroduct Is thus condemned will &e Indignant. Tha Board like the experts who discover cop- salts in canned peas, win u ue- nounced because it "hurts business , out no business has a right to prospur which threatens the public health. An embargo upon all oysters from an uninspected bed until oystermen wero aroused to 3top pol lution would be better than the continued spread of typhoid. The New Jersey oys termen are not the only menace to the community. Along Jamaica Bay oysters are taken from beds dangerously near sawers or, what Is worse, put to "fatten" that Is. to get sick and swell up from absorbing brackish water In creeks which are heavily loaded with house and stable drainage. With the great growth of population In the metropolitan dis trict the purity of all the adjacent watern Is endangered, and none of them should be used for the culture of shellfish ex cept under the most rigid Inspection. Tliugs and Labor Unions. Sacramento (CaL) Bee. There was formerly a great outcry ever the tortures Inflicted by savage tribes In the Philippines upon American soWlers who fell Into their clutches. But ne thing much worse was told of the barbarous natives of certain parts of Luzon than is laid to the door of a band of Chicago strikers who kept William Wilder a cap tive for three weeks, starving ana tortur ing him Into a condition of almost hope less Insanity. He is described as wrecked In both mind and body, and not likely to long survive the horrible treatment he received. When smch outrages as. thl are committed in the United States, Union Labor organizations should not only de nounce them but strain every nerve to bring to justice the infamous wretches who may bo found guilty. Seldom, how ever, are the doers of such crimes fer reted out and punished. It Is very un likely that the Team3tera' Union, of Chi cago, directly under reproach because of the Wilder affair, will pay the least at tention to It. But the time should coma when no thug will be tolerated in a Labor Union. . . i Delayed. Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Hiram Offen How long were yea In your last place? New servant Jlst a month, ma'am. Mrs. Hiram Offen Indeed 1 What waa the trouble? New Servant Th trouble was that; X eot sick an couldn't l'ave no soonerj