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
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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
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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