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green, an inch and a half wide, all around the top of the plate next to 

 the edge, with a monogram of the same color in the center composed 

 of the initial letters of the name of the exposition. 



The engravings used with this article were made from photo- 

 graphs taken on Wednesday afternoon, May 4th. Being at the 

 Administration Building that afternoon, I arranged to have an artist 

 come the next morning and take these pictures, intending to have 

 Air. Redpath standing by when the picture was taken, but instead of 

 waiting till morning the artist went down immediately after my 

 leaving the office, and as I had not at that time spoken to Mr. Red- 

 path about itj the pictures were taken without any familiar face 

 accompanying them, which I regret. This is the only instance as 

 far as my connection with the fair is concerned where the manage- 

 ment or any one connected with it succeeded in getting ahead of a 

 promise. , 



The photographs referred to are two, one showing what was in- 

 tended in the original plan to be the rear view of the installation, 

 though circumstances have made it the front view. I refer to the 

 picture showing the lattice door in the center with the picture of Mr. 

 Gideon at the left of it. This view faces towards the center of the 

 hall, an.d the sign above it, "Fruits of Minnesota," can be seen 

 and read without difficulty from that point, which is several hundred 

 feet away, there being clear space in that direction. The other pic- 

 ture is a quartering view of what would be the front of the installa- 

 tion if our space had happened to have been laid out with the long 

 side the other way. It does not show to good advantage in the 

 picture, for reasons that those who are accustomed to taking photo- 

 graphs will understand. The turntable to the right of the picture 

 is the same size as the one at the left and of course is not far enough 

 away to make any such difference in the apparent size as is shown 

 in the picture. The post seen on the inside of the rail is somewhat 

 of an injury to the installation but not so much of a one as appears 

 from this photograph. This view of the exhibit is really the most 

 attractive one, and the picture by no means does it justice. In 

 neither of these pictures can the fruit in the glass refrigerator cases 

 be seen on account of the distance and angle to the glass at which 

 the instrument stood, but to passersby it is as plainly to be seen 

 under these glass covers as on the open shelves. A thermometer 

 in the refrigerator cases shows a temperature of from 48 to 50 de- 

 grees, in which, of course, cold storage apples can be kept much better 

 than on open shelves. It is in these cases that small fruits, such as 

 strawberries, raspberries, etc., that would scarcely keep at all on the 

 open shelves, will be shown. 



