1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



959 



THE HONEY EXHIBIT AT THE COLUM- 

 BUS CENTENNIAL. 



DR. A. B. MASON TKM.S SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 



fRIEND KOOT: -In order to intelligibly de- 

 scribe the cut of a portion of the " Centennial 

 Honey Exhibit" at Columbus, from Sept. -tth 

 to Oct. 19th last, it may be well to say that the 

 oflicers of the Ohio Centennial Exposition at 

 ray request, and according to a plan I furnished, 

 erected a building- ;?(} x 60 feet for the purpose of 

 displaying honey and the appliances of the apiary. 

 At each side of the building was a platform raised 

 two feet from the ground, and made seven feet 

 wide. In the center of the building was another 

 platform, raised six inches, and eight feet wide, 

 reaching to within about seven feet of the ends of 

 the building. At each end of the building was a 

 narrow raised platform, two feet high and eight 



sticks out by his knee. We all regretted that we 

 didn't have that new carpet put down before the In- 

 ternational Convention paid us that visit on the 5tli 

 of Oct. It made every thing in the building look 

 very much nicer. Even the e.xhibltors looked and 

 felt better. 



I hardly know how to describe the picture, for it 

 will be utterly impossible to give a correct idea of 

 the exhibit from it; but I think I can safely say that 

 the most important and valuable part of the picture 

 is at the left, sitting on the wheelbarrow; and if 

 that part of it was as good as some of the other 

 parts, your readers would at once recognize the 

 familiar face of Dr. C. C. Miller. Im sure I don't 

 know what "ever possessed him" to sit off in one 

 corner like that, unlessitwashis— his— his— extreme 

 modesty. P. Benson, on page 24, of Gleanings for 

 ISSV, informs us that "I inevitable accmupenny- 

 inent of troo grateness is modes'tj-." 



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A. I. 'root. 



A I'AKTlAi: VIEW' OK THE Al'IAKL^N EXHIBIT AT THE COLUMBUS CENTENNIAL. 



feet long. Under the front edge of the side plat- 

 forms, the space was boarded up, and doors were 

 put in, so as to furnish a safe place to store the box- 

 es, etc., that the exhibitors brought their honey in. 

 Between the side and central platforms were 

 passageways, seven feet wide, and the ground in 

 these passagewaj's was covered with old tan-bark. 

 The bark became so nearly worn out by the thou- 

 sands on thousands of feet that walked on it, that, 

 during the next to the last week of the exposition, 

 one evening after the people had stopped visiting 

 the building my son Lyman and myself took one of 

 A. I. Koot's wheelbarrows and wheeled enough nice 

 new sawdust to give the passageways a nice new 

 clean carpet that added very materially to the beau- 

 ty and attractiveness of the display. Dr. C. C. Mil- 

 ler can be seen sitting on the wheelbarrow at the 

 left of the picture. All that can be seen of the 

 wheelbarrow is a portion of one of the handles that 



At the right of the picture may be seen a part of a 

 man's hat and face. This man stands in one of the 

 passageways that run the length of the building and 

 Separate the exhibit of supplies on the middle plat- 

 form from the exhibits of honey on the further side 

 of the building on the raised platform. 



In the center of the low platform, and extending 

 from the end to the wheelbariow on which Dr. Mil- 

 ler is sitting, is a long wide table covered with cloth . 

 The table was " made to order" in a few minutes by 

 your Mr. Whipple, Mr. Will Turner, and my son Ellis. 

 I furnished the table-clotli, and "the boys " soon 

 had things arranged in "applepie order." Before 

 the exhibition opened, the exhibitors became thor- 

 oughly and practically convinced that " eternal vig- 

 ilance" would have to be the watchword if the 

 exhildt was kept intact. Some of the visitors' hands 

 were so sticky that it seemed (]uite difficult forthem 

 to lay down what they had taken in their hands to 



