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                    <text>Bands of the Pan-American Exposition
Frank Cipolla
For the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 upwards of twenty professional bands
were engaged to present five to seven concerts a day between May and October.

In addition, bands played for the military exercises, parades, and other activities
that were a regular feature of the exposition. Why so many bands? By the year

1901, bands were at the zenith of their popularity. They had been an integral part

of the developing cultural and social life of communities during the nineteenth
century, as witnessed by the number of gazebo bandstands that still grace many a

town or village square to this day. New designs in wind instrument manufacture

provided bands with a greater palette of musical sounds for outdoor
performances. Bands became so numerous that, during the Civil War, Congress

ordered the regimental bands of the Union Army to be limited to one band for

each brigade. Following the war years brass bands continued to flourish in large
and small communities alike. Improvements in transportation, mainly the growth

of the railroad system, gave rise to a number of outstanding professional bands
that could easily travel and thus be heard in cities and towns all across the United

States. John Philip Sousa, for example, not only toured the length and breadth of North America with his great band, but also
made four extended trips to Europe as well as a world tour during his long and illustrious career.

Three Buffalo bands, the 65th and 74th Regiment Bands and Scinta's Band were engaged to perform at the
exposition. The first two were local bands under contract to provide music for various regimental functions, but

were free to accept other engagements - a common practice of most military bands at the time. Scinta's Band was
popular with local residents since it coincided with the great period of Italian immigration to Buffalo.

65th Regiment Band

�74th Regiment Band

Scinta Band

�Visitors to the Pan-American Exposition not only could listen to some of the finest bands in the country but also

were treated to an array of the foremost instrumental soloists. Herbert L. Clarke (cornet), Arthur Pryor

(trombone), and Simone Mantia (euphonium), featured performers with the Sousa Band, are still recognized as
legends on their respective instruments. William Paris Chambers was cornet soloist with Francesco Fanciulli's
71st Regiment Band of New York, and cornetist Bohumir Kryl was heard during two engagements, first in August with

Phinney's United States Band and then in October with the band of Frederick Innes. Thomas Brooke's Chicago

Marine Band featured the father and son team of James (father) and Edward Llewellyn as cornet soloists. Edward,

who was in his early twenties at the time, went on to a symphonic career, initially as first trumpeter in the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and then for a long period as principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra.

Simone Mantia

Bohumir Kryl

Herbert L. Clarke

Arthur Pryor

In 1901, Buffalo was the place to be if one wished for the sights and sounds of some of the greatest bands of North

America or to witness the eloquent execution of superlative instrumental soloists.

© 2001 Frank Cipolla
Frank Cipolla is Professor of Music Emeritus, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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The Exposition included educational exhibits as well as a Midway. The educational exhibits showcased the latest advancements in technology, most notably electricity. A major feature was electric lighting which utilized hydroelectric power generated in nearby Niagara Falls. Many of the Exposition buildings, including the prominent Electric Tower, were covered in light-bulbs creating a beautiful and unprecedented sight. The Pan-American Exposition also hosted some of the top engine manufacturers of the time. These companies provided “working exhibits” that actually functioned in the day-to-day operation of the Exposition. The Midway at the Pan-American Exposition provided visitors with entertainment and consisted of more than 42 exhibits. Some of the main attractions of the Midway included the “House Upside Down,” “Cleopatra’s Temple”, and the “Foreign Villages.”&#13;
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The Pan-American Exposition is most widely known as the location of President McKinley’s assassination. On September 6, 1901, while in a receiving line at the Exposition’s Temple of Music, President McKinley was shot twice by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz. McKinley was taken to the Exposition’s hospital where he was operated on by a number of prominent Buffalo surgeons including Roswell Park. The President was then taken to the home of John Milburn, head of the Exposition’s Board of Directors, to recover.  After his condition appeared to improve, McKinley eventually died on September 14, 1901 in the Milburn home due to infection and gangrene from the gun shot wounds.&#13;
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                    <text>1901 and The New Home Entertainment
Robert J. Berkman

Even before the Pan American Exposition, progressive types observed that

we were poised for a revolution in the home. Edison's (and his competitors')
electric light and power systems were already changing the ambient noise

of life from "clank and hiss" to a steady "hum", and soon an array of new
devices lightened the homemaker's burden. Some of these were labor­
saving devices, others were meant to provide home entertainment to fill
the increased leisure hours. Principle among the latter were the

phonograph and the player piano, and while one has become a cultural
force, the other has virtually faded from view.

Edison had invented the phonograph in 1877,
but many years passed before it began to

emerge as a home entertainment device.
Edison's refusal to see it in this light (as

opposed to his original conception of it as an
office dictating machine) began to erode as

competing inventors and entrepreneurs
identified it as a new and profitable industry

waiting to be born. Enormous systems had to
be worked out first - the design and
manufacture of reliable, popularly-priced

phonographs; the materials and means to mass
produce records; and most of all, the great

pop culture complex had to grow up,
Cornetist recording in La Nature, August 1889.
From Hammer Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
eventually encompassing songwriters, music

publishers, theatre owners, celebrity performers of all types, wholesalers, retailers, publicists - not to mention the
later addition of Hollywood, radio, television, and the Internet. Such complexes do not spring into being fully

formed.

Nevertheless, by the mid-1890's the phonograph business was on its way to success. Emile
Berliner's convenient disc records were fast becoming serious competitors to the more

cumbersome wax cylinders then in use, and following much legal wrangling his patents
became the basis of the eponymous Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. This enterprise

led the way to the fulfillment of the phonograph's promise as a home entertainer, at the same

�time eliminating a key participatory attraction of the cylinder phonograph: Participation in home recording was

not possible with discs. This liability (if liability it was) was far outweighed by the discs' ease of use to judge from
the thousands who flocked to Victor's exhibit at the Pan, snapping up miniature souvenir records that bore an

endorsement from John Philip Sousa. (Victor's major competitor, The Columbia Phonograph Co., was also to offer a
Pan Am item. After the assassination of President McKinley, they issued a record of his last speech - though spoken

by an actor.)

Meanwhile, the mechanical piano

had been developing since the late
1860's. At that time owning a piano

was a hallmark of American middle
class respectability and remained so
well into the 20th century. To use it,

however, meant that someone in the

home had to learn to play it. The

usual someone was a daughter,
piano playing being considered

largely a "female accomplishment" imposed upon young ladies without regard to their level of innate musical

talent. It might be guessed that innate musical talent was as scarce then as now, and that a ready market existed
for a mechanical piano player.
The most successful of these piano players was the Pianola, introduced in 1898. Invented by Edwin S. Votey and
brilliantly marketed by the Aeolian Company, the Pianola was already a world-wide phenomenon by the time of
the Pan. Soon enough a huge library of music rolls was available, listing everything from ragtime to Chopin. The

player piano industry also tapped into and contributed to the pop culture complex, including contacts with
songwriters, publishers, pianists, - and even the phonograph record companies. The QRS Music Roll Co. (founded

1900) issued special rolls to be played along with favorite Victor Records.

By 1901, then, both the phonograph and the player piano were in their ascendency. The phonograph, though it

has had fallow periods, has been continuously upgraded technologically and flourishes today as the modern CD

player. Player piano sales, on the other hand, began to slide after 1923 and virtually came to a halt in 1931.

Though there was a nostalgia-driven revival in the 1960's and 70's, that too has subsided to a trickle. Why is this so?

�Of course, several reasons seem self-evident. The rise of free entertainment on radio and the onset of the Great
Depression clearly sent the player piano hurtling toward oblivion. Compared to any phonograph of the time (not to
mention the modern CD player), the player piano was much more expensive and far less portable. The piano itself

began to slip from its place of honor in the home, to the point that any keyboard in the home today is likely to be
a versatile electronic one interfaced to a computer. And pop music, with its increasingly multi-layered sounds and

sonic effects, became less and less suitable for piano adaptation.
But the main reason may be more a sociological one than a technological

one. When playing a Pianola one is actively participating in the making of
the music, a selling point stressed in much early advertising. In fact,

considerable skill is needed to operate a Pianola if anything like "musical"

results are to be obtained. It is not the passive experience that listening to
a record is.

While this "selling point" intrigued many would-be pianists in 1901 and
continues to interest a tiny band of devotees, the general public ultimately
found it too taxing. The player piano's biggest years began in 1916 when,

karaoke-like, the song lyrics began to be printed on well-arranged rolls that
left little for the public to do but pump the pedals and sing along. Singing along with a player piano is a

participatory aspect which requires no skill, just camaraderie and the lack of self-consciousness it inspires. Yet

even this level of participation --- gathering around the player piano for a sing-along --- is a type of fun foreign to
people who were becoming used to receiving their musical entertainment passively.

It is not quite true to say that the mechanical piano has vanished from the

scene. Among the wonders of the early 21st Century are new self-playing
piano systems that are enjoying considerable success in the marketplace, the
paper rolls replaced by hi-tech floppy disks and CDs. These systems are

capable of excellent performances, requiring no interaction by the user

beyond pushing the "play" button. This suggests that in order to appeal to the

21st Century customer, the mechanical piano needed its participatory aspects
eliminated; for while new and wonderful revolutions in daily life undoubtedly
loom, it is unlikely they will rekindle in us a desire to work any harder than
we have to for our home entertainment.

Sic transit gloria pianola!

© 2001 Robert J. Berkman
Robert J. Berkman is Chief Operating Officer of QRS Music Technologies, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y.

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                    <text>The Visual Landscape
Visual culture at the Pan-American Exposition was richly represented throughout the grounds, with the use of

architecture and sculpture as well as artistic exhibits and galleries of fine art. Such visual exhibits were primarily
the work of artists from the United States, although significant contributions were made by other "Pan-American"

countries like Canada, Mexico and Chile. The Albright Art Gallery, building of marble designed to resemble the

temples of Ancient Greece, was to be constructed on the Exposition grounds and was intended to house the Exhibit
of Fine Arts. That it was not completed in time for the Exposition was not lost upon Exposition visitors, as this
imposing building's construction was itself, an exhibit.

"Very few people seem to be aware, and most people seem surprised to be
told, that, whatever else is or is not to be seen at the Pan-American

Exposition, there is to be found there the most complete and representative

exhibition of American art ever yet got together.... One could count upon

the fingers of one hand the men who have made any mark in American art
during [the last quarter of the nineteenth century] who are not here
represented by at least one work; and the cases where the work shown is

not fairly representative are very few and, for one or another reason,
nearly inevitable. The dead and the living, the Americans who paint abroad
and those who stay at home, the figure-painter and the landscape-painter,

the draughtsman and the colorist, the impressionist and the followers of the
latest Parisian fancy-the "black band"-are all here, each doing his best to

show that America has produced something vital and permanently valuable

in art."1

The directors of art, architecture, sculpture and color were unified in the desire to bring to the fair's visitors, their

vision of American civilization and technological prowess of man through an exhibition of the "allied arts." Karl
Bitter's sculpture plan emphasizing the "Progress of Man" was enhanced by the color scheme of C. Y. Turner, the

Director of Color. The overall layout and design of the grounds and the architectural style of the exposition
buildings emphasized what John M. Carèrre and the Board of Architects felt was a uniquely "American" style.

William Coffin, Director of Fine Arts would continue this theme in the installation of an exhibit of the works of
artists primarily from the United States, but also form other countries of Pan-America.
Of course, the commercial goals of the Pan-American Exposition were apparent even in the fair's visual culture.

Evelyn Rumsey Cary's poster, The Spirit of Niagara and Raphael Beck's design for the Exposition's official seal were
works used most heavily in the advertising and marketing material for the Exposition as well as the souvenirs sold

by the thousands to Exposition visitors.

�This portion of the online exhibit examines the "visual culture" of the Pan-American Exposition, from its

architectural layout and use of color, to the formal works exhibited in the Gallery of Fine Arts. Also addressed are

some of the artistic exhibits that appeared in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building—works by such names as
Tiffany &amp; Co. and Gorham. While these artistic exhibits were commercial in nature and outside the perusal of the

Exposition planners, they were never-the-less, awe-inspiring in their artistic nature.
See also, essays related to these subjects, including one describing Buffalo architecture during the period and
another describing the work of the Exposition's official photographer, C. D. Arnold.

"New Panoramic View of the Illumination Looking for the Triumphal Bridge". Photographer: Undetermined. Source: The Latest
and Best Views of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y.: Robert Allen Reid, 1901.

From its inception, the architectural board of the Pan-American Exposition was faced with the challenge of
meeting the expectations and demands of Exposition planners. The architects were charged not only with the
design of the buildings, but also with the development of a formal landscape plan comprising fountains, lagoons,
basins, a large network of canals and extensive horticultural plantings. The plan was also expected to encompass

extensive electrical illumination effects, which presented a new challenge to architects and designers, but also an
opportunity for creative exploration.1

•

The Exposition Formula

•

The Architectural Scheme

•

The Buildings

Reference
Cox, Kenyon. "American Art at Buffalo." The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, and
Art, August 2, 1901.

�The "Exposition Formula"
From an architectural perspective, the Pan-American Exposition

was an example of the very successful utilization of the "Exposition
Formula," which grew from the tone set by the previous world's fairs
in Philadelphia (1876) and Chicago (1893). Joann Thompson

describes some of the common elements of this formula
below2 (applications of these elements to the Pan-American

Exposition follow in parentheses):

•

Evocations of an earlier time. (Spanish Mission and Renaissance

architectural styles.)

•

Several buildings of a common theme or style grouped around a
centralized focal point in a landscaped setting. (The Electric Tower

and buildings on the Court of Fountains.)

•

The exposition as a self-contained city exhibiting the wealth and

diversity of the contemporary world.
(Thousands of exhibits in an economically thriving region of the
country.)

Temple of Music as seen Through the Colonnade.
Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Pan­
American Souvenir by Charles Cutter. Niagara
Falls, N.Y.: Charles Cutter, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry
S. Grant

•

The exposition itself serving as an exhibit. (Illumination, impressive architecture and novel use of color.)

•

A very prominent building as a focal point. (The Electric Tower.)

•

The "secret pleasures" of an Exposition Midway

In applying this formula to the Buffalo Exposition, Thompson wrote, "The prototype [exposition] consist[ed] of

palatial structures situated in a park, the whole of which was to commemorate a particular event or ideal." The

Pan-American Exposition exemplified this formula with "more big buildings and an impressive park setting to
celebrate the supremacy of the United States in the Western Hemisphere."3

The Board of Architects
The Executive Committee of the Exposition Board of Directors was chaired by John N. Scatcherd, who also served
as the chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. Another important figure in the development of the

�grounds was Newcomb Carleton, an engineer who served at the Director of Works. Scatcherd and the Executive
Committee chose those men who would comprise the Exposition's Board of Architects.

John N. Scatcherd. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: The Pan-American Herald, v. 1,

no. 5 (October, 1899) p. 49.

Newcomb Carleton. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: The Pan-American Herald, v.

1, no. 5 (October, 1899) p. 48.

John M. Carrère. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: The Pan-American Herald, v. 1,

no. 2 (August 15, 1899) cover page.

John M. Carrère was selected as the Chairman of the committee with William Welles Bosworth as the Assistant to
the Chair. Both were of Carrère and Hastings in New York and would assume responsibility for the block plan of the

Exposition and the treatment of all grounds and features not assumed by the other members of the board. (John
Carrère would be the architect to design Buffalo's 1907 monument to U. S. President William McKinley, who was

assassinated at the Pan-American Exposition. The McKinley Monument is located in Niagara Square in downtown
Buffalo.)
Robert Swain Peabody (1845-1917), from the Boston firm Peabody and Stearns, designed the Horticultural Group,
the Forestry Building and the Graphic Arts Building.

�An influential architect and writer, Peabody graduated from Harvard in 1866 and later attended the Ecole des

Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to Massachusetts, in 1870, and formed a partnership with John Stoddard Stearns
(1843-1917). The practice of Peabody &amp; Stearns attracted a creative team of skilled architects. Peabody tended to
produce the original sketches and delegate design responsibilities to the younger architects, while Stearns

supervised construction.

George Cary, (1859-1945) of Buffalo. Cary designed the Ethnology Building

and the New York State Building. A Buffalo native, Cary received a formal
education at Harvard, and after graduating in 1883, studied architecture at
Columbia University, with four additional years at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts
in Paris.

Following his return to this country in 1891, Cary opened an office in
Buffalo, and remained in this professional practice throughout his long and

successful career. Among the many public and private buildings he
designed, were:

•

The General Hospital

•

Dental College and several other buildings at the University of Buffalo

•

State Hospital for Malignant Disease

•

The Entrance gate to the Forest Lawn Cemetery at 1411 Delaware Avenue.

An early member and one-time president of the Buffalo Chapter, Cary was

made a Fellow of the Institute in 1892, and from 1908 to 1910 served as a

member of the national Board of Directors of the Fine Arts Academy and

George Cary. Photographer:
Unidentified. Source: Men of Buffalo; a
Collection of Portraits of Men Who
Deserve to Rank as Typical
Representatives of the Best Citizenship,
Foremost Activities and Highest
Aspirations of the City of Buffalo.
Chicago. A. N. Marquis &amp; Co., 1902, p.
411.

the Albright Art Gallery.4

Edward B. Green, of Green &amp; Wicks, Buffalo, N.Y., designed the Electricity
Building and the Machinery and Transportation Building. Green was also the
architect of the Albright Art Gallery. Although plans called for this building
to be constructed as one of two permanent structures of the Exposition, it

would not be completed until 1905.

E.B. Green was born in Utica, NY in 1855 and graduated from Cornell
University with a bachelor of architecture degree in 1878.

After three years in an architectural office, he joined with Sydney Wicks,

an MIT graduate, in opening an architectural practice in Auburn, NY. The
firm of Green and Wicks moved to Buffalo in 1881. Wicks served as a park

Edward B. Green. Photographer: Hall
(Buffalo, N.Y.) Source: The Pan-American
Herald, v. 1, no. 2 (August 15, 1899), p. 4.

commissioner in Buffalo for three years and helped to promote
development of the Parkside community.5

�Today, more than 160 of their Buffalo buildings still stand. Some of the joint projects of Green &amp; Wicks include:

•

Dun Building, Buffalo's first highrise building (110 Pearl Street)

•

Buffalo Savings Bank (545 Main Street)

•

First Presbyterian Church (One Symphony Circle)

August Esenwein (1856-1926), also of Buffalo and a partner in the firm,
Esenwein &amp; Johnson, was the architect of the Temple of Music.

Esenwein, was born in Germany and studied architecture in Paris before
coming to Buffalo in 1880. He was a highly skilled architect and an

excellent salesman who teamed with James Addison Johnson (1865-1939) of
Brewerton, New York.

Johnson was born in Brewerton, NY and trained at the prestigious McKim,

Mead and White in New York City. He had a flair for outstanding ornament,
as evidenced by his design of the spectacular marble floor of the Ellicott
Square Building.6

Many of this team's buildings remain today. A few of these include:

August C. Esenwein. Photographer:
Jansen Source: The Pan-American Herald,
v. 1, no. 2 (August 15, 1899), p. 2.

•

Calumet Building (46-58 West Chippewa Street)

•

Niagara Mohawk Building, originally the General Electric Tower (535 Washington Street)

•

Col. Francis G. Ward Pumping Station, the largest in the world in its day

•

Lafayette High School (370 Lafayette Avenue)

•

Jewett House (313 Summer Street)

•

Buffalo Museum of Science (1020 Humboldt Parkway)

•

The original Lockwood Library, now Abbott Hall on the University at Buffalo's South Campus

NOTE: Cary, E. B. Green and Esenwein had been involved in the planning of the Exposition since its inception. In fact, in 1897,
when the the Exposition was in the planning stages for its original opening in 1899, August Esenwein had served as Director of
Architecture. By October he had already prepared the plans for the buildings before "outside" participants were brought in.7
George Foster Shepley (1860-1903), of Shepley, Rutan &amp; Coolidge, Boston, designed the Manufactures and Liberal

Arts Building as well as the Agriculture Building.
Born in St. Louis and educated at Washington University and MIT. In 1886, he organized the firm of Shepley, Rutan

&amp; Coolidge. The firm inherited H. H. Richardson's practice in 1886 and was responsible for completing many of his

most noteworthy designs.
In 1892, the firm won the competition for the Chicago Public Library which led to the commission for the Art

Institute of Chicago in the following year. The design for the library is a good example of the firm's turn from the

�Richardsonian Romanesque style to the Renaissance Revival associated with
the overall theme of the Pan-American Exposition.

John Galen Howard(1864-1931), created the Exposition's focal point, the
Electric Tower.

Born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and a leader in the American
Renaissance movement, Howard was educated at the MIT (1882-1885) and
the Ecole Des Beaux-arts (1891-1893). He was an apprentice with H. H.

Richardson and then a draftsman with Shepley, Rutan &amp; Coolidge. Later, he

helped found the prestigious practice of Howard, Cauldwell &amp; Morgan in
New York City, and was asked to join the Exposition's Board of Architects.

After practicing in New York, Howard moved to California in 1901 to
execute the Hearst Plan for the University of California, Berkeley, and to

establish the School of Architecture there. He became the School's Director
and a professor of Advanced Design. While teaching and designing the

John Galen Howard. Photographer:
Undetermined. Source: American
Monthly Review of Reviews, v. 23, no.
137 (June 1901), p. 683.

university's new buildings, he maintained a sizable practice in San

Francisco. Some of Howard's houses were designed in the casual Bay Area tradition, but his commercial and public

buildings consistently exhibited his desire to create a progressive classical tradition appropriate for America.
Walter Cook, of Babb, Cook &amp; Willard, New York, was responsible for

designing the Plaza and entrance to the Midway, the Propylæa, and the
Stadium.

James Knox Taylor served the board in an ex-officio capacity. However, as

Supervising Architect of the United States, he was responsible for
overseeing the design of the United States Government Building.

Walter Cook. Photographer:
Undetermined. Source: The Pan­
American Herald, v. 1, no. 2 (August 15,
1899), p. 2.

�Karl Bitter. Photographer: Undetermined. Source: The Criterion, (May 19, 1901), p. 10.

Charles Yardley Turner, Director of Color. Photographer: Undetermined. Source:

The Criterion, (May 19, 1901), p. 10.

Added to the board in ex-officio status, were Charles Yardley Turner, the Director of Color, and Karl Bitter,

Director of Sculpture. The collaboration between Turner, Bitter and the Board of Architects was evidence of
Carrère's vision of one of the greater goals of the Exposition's design:

... At Buffalo, the Board of Architects of the Pan-American Exposition, with a full realization of the importance of the
task imposed upon them and with the desire to avoid reminiscences of the Chicago Exposition, decided that the purpose

of the setting of this Exposition should be to develop a picturesque ensemble on a formal ground plan, introducing
architecture, sculpture, and painting as allied arts.8

References
1.

Joann M. Thompson. The Art and Architecture of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.
Unpublished dissertation. Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, 1980. p. 20.

2.

Ibid., pp. 19-20.

�3.

Ibid., p. 18. Thompson makes and interesting point in comparing the Pan-American Exposition to the world's fairs

of Europe, where the United States was often viewed as "culturally less developed" participants. In the case of the

Buffalo Exposition, which was a hemispherical rather than a true world's fair, "[exposition] producers may have
realized that their United States role vis- à-vis that of the developing Latin and South American countries, was very

similar to that of the United States relative to Europe's example, but with America having the upper hand as the
culturally superior entity to its less developed neighbors."

4.

Information on George Cary from Chuck LaChiusa, "George Cary 1859-1945," Buffalo as an Architectural

Museum.

5.

Information on E.B. Green obtained from "Edward Brodhead Green and Associates," Buffalo as an Architectural

Museum.

6.

Information on August Esenwein from Chuck LaChiusa, "Esenwein &amp; Johnson in Buffalo, NY," Buffalo as an
Architectural Museum.

7.

Pan-American Herald, v.1, no.5 (October 1899) p. 7 ; Thompson, p. 279 n. 12.

8.

8. John M. Carrère, "The Architectural Scheme," Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture
and Art Catalogue to the Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, NY: David Gray, 1901, p. 13. Click

to view the Art Handbook]. See also Kerry S. Grant, The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color and Architecture

at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press, 2001, p. 11.

�The Architectural Scheme
•

The Plan

•

The "Progress of Man"

•

A Definitive Style

•

Architecture and Color

The Plan
John Carrère, Chairman of the Board of
Architects of the Pan-American Exposition, saw
the exposition's layout as an "artistic

composition." Formal symmetry governed the
plan and uniformity of scale was one of the

most important harmonizing factors. Since the
architects also had the advantage of grounds
that lay adjacent to the Frederick Law

The Bridge of the Three Americas, viewed from the Delaware Park
Casino. Photographer: C. D. Arnold, c1900. Source: American Monthly
Review of Reviews, v. 23, no. 137 (June 1901), p. 677.

Olmstead designed Delaware Park, "it was

apparent that the Exposition must be strongly
influenced by its proximity to the Park; but, as
it was out of the question to alter the Park,

even to the extent of removing any great number of its beautiful trees, and it was therefore impossible to extend
the Exposition into the Park, it was decided to extend the Park into the Exposition, ... and thus to make them part

of each other."1
The Exposition view from the Casino and in

Delaware Park. Proximity to Delaware park was
advantageous to planners. The New York State

Building is on the left of the "Bridge of the

Three Americas." To the right is the roof of the

Horticulture building.
The overall "block plan" was based in simple

lines, with the main axis running north and
south, surrounded by the secondary axes.
Carrère referred to the main axis as the "Axis of
the Esplanade," which took the visitor from the

Triumphal Bridge to the Electric Tower. The

A Shaded Walk Near the Triumphal Bridge. Photographer:
Undetermined. Source: Cosmopolitan, v. 31, no. 5 (September 1901), p.
538.

�major buildings were grouped on the secondary axes, with symmetry and balance maintained by placing buildings

of different character and purpose, but similar size and structure directly opposite one another across the main
axis.

" ... the visitor will see what is meant by "formality picturesquely developed" when looking at the attempt to balance
two buildings as totally different in character, purpose, and design as the Horticultural Building on the one side of the
Esplanade and the Government Building on the other, or the Electricity and Manufactures Buildings On the one side of

the main axis and the Liberal Arts and the Agricultural Buildings on the other.... "2
Joann Thompson points out that "[t]he intention behind this arrangement was to achieve a unified effect, which

did not necessarily imply an identical, neatly symmetrical image, but instead, a dialog of similar masses. So, in

spite of the formality of the plan, an element of flexibility was not only desirable, but was actually incorporated
into the designing of the whole."3 Thus while the buildings opposite each other across the main axis differed in
design and ornamentation, they, in essence, were of similar size and shape. The maps below illustrate this

"symmetry of scale."

Map Showing the Main and Secondary Axes and Illustrating

the Symmetry of Scale. Derived from the 1901 map, Plan of the
Pan-American Exposition to be Held at Buffalo, New York, May 1 -

Nov. 1, 1901, (Plan revised to April 15, 1901). Original map was
drawn by C. E. Peltz and published in Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. From the

collection of the University Archives, State University of New York at
Buffalo.

Axes notes added in 2003; based on information found in John M.
Carrère, "The Architectural Scheme," Art Hand-Book, Official

Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the
Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David
Gray, 1901.

Three-Dimensional Map Illustrating the Axes and

Symmetry of Scale of the Exposition Plan. Derived from
a rendering by Murray Smith, published by Orvis and Smith,
Buffalo, N.Y., [1901]. Original is from the collection of the

Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. In Kerry S.
Grant, The Rainbow City : Celebrating Light, Color and

Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901,
Buffalo, N.Y. : Canisius College Press, 2001.

�"The idea of a comprehensive view arranged along a dominant axis was one which figured frequently in turn-of-the-century City
Beautiful schemes, for which Buffalo's exposition became an example."4

The canal, one of the more popular features of the exposition, may have served an entertainment function by
affording visitors an opportunity to tour the Exposition by boat. To Carrère, however, the waterway had a more

functional purpose in serving as the boundary of the Exposition's main architectural group. Beyond the canal lay
the secondary buildings, restaurants and of course, the Midway. Carrère describes this:

"...In order clearly to define the importance of this architectural setting, and also to make room for the numerous
secondary buildings and side-shows, which could not well be brought into harmony with this main part of the
composition, the very interesting feature of the canal was adopted at the suggestion of the laymen of the Board. This

canal places the main part of the scheme within well-defined and formal limits and permits of all the more freedom
beyond its boundaries. It is the means of separating the discordant elements of the scheme and yet of harmonizing
them."5

On the Canal Between the Stadium (left) and the

Agriculture Building (right). Photographer/Engraver :

Undetermined. Source: Cosmopolitan, v. 31, no. 5 (September
1901), p. 464.

On the Canal Near the Government

Group. Photographer : Undetermined. Source: Pan-American
Exposition Scrapbook [n.p., 1901?]. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant

�Gondola Landing — Grand Canal (Behind the

Electric Tower). Photographer : Undetermined.

Source: The Pan-American and its Midway,
Philadelphia : J. Murray Jordan, 1901, p. 14.

The Grand Canal, with the Fisheries Building
on the Right. Photographer : Undetermined. Source:

Cosmopolitan, v. 31, no. 5 (September 1901), p. 463.

In approaching the Exposition, ideally, the visitor was to enter the grounds via the Lincoln Parkway Gateway.

"From this setting, the full beauty of the Exposition unfolded as a meticulously designed asthetic

experience."6 Indeed, Carrère's intention was to lead the visitor along the principal approach, through the park, "so
that the spectator, as he approaches the Exposition, will see it develop gradually until he reaches the Bridge,

when the entire picture will appear before him and almost burst upon him."7 It is unfortunate that this experience

was missed by the majority of visitors, who, instead of walking into the Exposition through the main gate, arrived

by rail and thus entered the grounds through the north gate (behind the Electric Tower.)8

�The Approach From the Park (Looking South from the Triumphal
Bridge).Photographer : C.D. Arnold (c1901). Source: The Pan-American

Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901, p.
36.

Approaching the Triumphal Bridge From the South

(Carrère's "ideal approach" to the

Exposition).Photographer : C.D. Arnold (c1901).
Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated by C. D.

Arnold. Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901, p. 47.

Outside the Lincoln Gate, Looking North. Photographer : C.D. Arnold

(c1901). Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold.
Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901, p. 50.

�The "Progress of Man"
In addition to serving as components of Carrère's "artistic composition," the buildings of the Pan-American

Exposition were designed and positioned to illustrate a more symbolic ideal which appealed to the Exposition

planners. In the approach to and travel through the grounds, visitors would experience—through the sculpture,
architecture and color—the "intellectual progress of man."
The concept originated with Karl Bitter, the Director of sculpture, who planned symbolic meaning to the exhibit of
sculpture throughout the grounds.
Bitter envisioned a profusion of statuary and fountains decorating the grounds, illustrating in allegory the "Progress

of Man." The concept not only supported but also extended the principal theme of the Exposition: "To celebrate
the achievements of civilization during 100 years of development in the Western Hemisphere." Whereas the

Exposition intended to focus on one century of progress, Bitter chose to illustrate man's story on an evolutionary
scale beginning with representations of his origins. Very much influenced by the spirit of social Darwinism
predominant at the time, Bitter saw in the Exposition an opportunity to depict in allegory and symbol the history

of the development of humanity.9
In his sculpture plan, Karl Bitter described the meaning behind the placement of the principal buildings.

" … We observe that to the left, on the Esplanade, buildings [the Horticulture group] as situated containing, in a

measure, the examples of our natural resources. … All these things, only Nature can provide. …
The other side of the Esplanade, surrounded principally by Government Buildings, invites us to speak of our people and
our institutions. … The institutions of our country form a worthy parallel to our resources. … In distinct separation
from the above two groups, we find another group of buildings devoted to Machinery and Transportation, Electricity,

Manufacture, and the Liberal Arts. What is shown therein is neither a direct product of nature nor attributable to
institutions, but solely to the genius of man, though on the basis of what material nature has provided and what freedom
and liberty the institutions of his country allow him. Those buildings and the Court of Fountains, as well as the Mall,

around which they are located, are therefore devoted to the allegorization of that idea."10

Map Illustrating Bitter's "Progress of Man" as Related to the Ground

Plan of the Pan-American Exposition. Derived from the 1901 map, Plan of
the Pan-American Exposition to be Held at Buffalo, New York, May 1 - Nov. 1,
1901, (Plan revised to April 15, 1901). Original map was drawn by C. E. Peltz and
published in Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. From the collection of the University Archives,

State University of New York at Buffalo.

�Front of the Electric Tower.Photographer : Undetermined. Source: The Pan-American

and its Midway, Philadelphia : J. Murray Jordan, 1901, p. [23.]

In the Exposition plan, the Electric Tower was the focal point of the composition. It represented "...the

culmination of the comingling of Man and Nature, symbolically suggesting man's intellectual and physical

achievement in subduing Nature and harnessing electrical power."11 Bitter also saw the Tower basin and display of
cascades and fountains as representative of Buffalo and the Great Lakes. "Buffalo's importance, growth and
prosperity are chiefly due to the Great Lakes System and the waterways on which it is located. Its commerce and

wealth are a direct offspring of the 'Great Waters,' as the Indians called them."12 Even the coloring of the Electric
Tower suggested "water," specifically the water of Niagara Falls. C.Y. Turner spoke of "the beautiful emerald green

hue of the water as it curls over the crest of Niagara Falls.... In the tower I have given it marked emphasis.... "13

A Definitive Style
Although Director of Architecture, John Carrère, intended to base the formal "scheme" of the Exposition on an

identifiable architectural style, common throughout the plan, there was some question as to what that style would
be. In its promotional publication, The Pan-American Exposition … Its Purpose and Plan, the Exposition Company
explained the ambitions of the Board of Directors, with regard to architecture and theme:

This is to be an American Exposition—North, South and Middle Americas and our Islands of the Seas. Neither Greece

nor Rome, nor yet Turkey come into this thing. It shouldn't be particularly classic, Gothic or Byzantine. Perhaps we

cannot get away altogether from the old principles of construction, but we can at least make an effort to
exemplify American architectural ideas, if we can find them.14

At the turn of the 20th Century, however, there was still controversy as to what could be defined as a uniquely
American architectural style. John Milburn, President of the Exposition Board of Directors, wrote of the

Exposition's "grand idea—the bringing closer together the peoples of this hemisphere in their social, political and

�commercial relations."15 Thus, a style indigenous to both North and South America was certainly a logical
consideration.

The United States Government Building. Modeled after a Spanish cathedral. Photographer : C.D. Arnold (c1901).
Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901, p. 48.

The Spanish-American mission style was the initial choice, although as Julian Hawthorne wrote of the Exposition's

style in 1901, "[t]echnically, it is a liberal rendering of the Spanish Renaissance … it symbolizes our welcome to the
genius of the Latins to mingle their strain with the genius of the Anglo-Saxon."16 The term "Spanish-Renaissance"
appears to be used most often to describe the Exposition, both by contemporary and modern critics, although

there is nearly universal agreement that the style was hardly "pure" in form and that there were conspicuous

deviations.

Watercolor Sketch of an Exposition Restaurant. Artist: C.Y. Turner. Source: The

Delineator, v. 58, no. 1 (July 1901) p. 75.

" ... of all the buildings created, some speak of old mission architecture and some do not.

But, still, happily, although their work ran the whole gamut of architectural orders,
combinations and modifications, yet it came together in harmony. Much of it is

Renaissance of the freest sort; but the Spanish-American idea is dominant there, and makes

itself felt throughout."17

�That the architects were allowed the freedom to deviate from Carrère's formal plan was due in part to the
temporary nature of exposition architecture. Most of the buildings were constructed of staff—a mixture of plaster,

gypsum and hemp usually reserved for decorative sculpture—applied over lath and iron frameworks. Since the

buildings were only intended to last a season, architects could experiment with imaginative decorative effects that
would not have been possible on permanent structures.

Details of a Wall of the Temple of Music. Photographer: C.D. Arnold,

c1901. Source: From the collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical
Society. In Thomas Leary and Elisabeth Sholes, Buffalo's Pan-American
Exposition, Charleston, SC : Arcadia Publishing, 1998, p. 34.

Applying Staff to the Temple of Music's
Wood Frame. Photographer: Undetermined

[C.D. Arnold ?]. Source: From the collection
of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical

Society. In Thomas Leary and Elisabeth
Sholes, Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition,

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Publishing, 1998, p.
21.

"[The architect] looks upon an exposition as an opportunity for artistic experiment and the execution, in temporary

materials, of every dream of his imagination, no matter how fantastic. The fact that these experiments are
temporary encourages him to dare, and one single great success justifies, in his eyes, the entire experiment. He

�dares to do in an exposition, and is allowed to do, what no sensible person would think of attempting in permanent
form."18

Carrère encouraged experimentation—within reasonable bounds—and the transient nature of the buildings afforded

architects the freedom to try new ideas. Thus, The Pan-American Exposition was comprised of buildings
incorporating decorative styles from numerous schools. One can see a drastic difference in the number and
intricacy of decorative features when comparing staff-covered temporary buildings like the Temple of Music and

Horticulture Building, to one designed to be permanent, the New York State Building, which was of the
conservative Doric style and built with marble.

The New York State Building. Artist: Undetermined. [c1900 Pan-American Exposition Company]. Source: Over 100
Views Showing the Grandeur of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York--1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Chas. J. Shults &amp;
Co., 1901.

�The Temple of Music. Photographer : C.D. Arnold (c1901).

Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold.
Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901, p. 54.

The Horticulture Building. Photographer : C.D. Arnold (c1901).

Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold.
Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901, p. 4.

Architecture and Color
In keeping with the notion of a "unified scheme" in the architectural planning of the Exposition, Director of Color,

C.Y. Turner was invited to become a member of the Board of Architects.

�Watercolor Sketch of the Propylæa at the Pan-American Exposition, 1901. Artist : C.Y. Turner. Source: The

Delineator, v. 58, no. 1 (July 1901) p. 74.
Turner, best known as a painter of murals, based his color scheme for the Exposition on Bitter's "Progress of Man"

allegory. He wrote:
In considering a scheme of color treatment for the Pan­
American Exposition, the Architecture, Sculpture, the purpose

and character of the Exposition each had to be taken into
account. The plan of Mr. Karl Bitter, Director of Sculpture, ...

seemed to me a very logical and proper treatment of the
Exposition .... Taking it for granted, then, that as we enter
the grounds from the Park through the forecourt, the

causeway bids welcome to the visitors and the countries

C. Y. Turner's Studio (Making Watercolor Drawings as
Guides for Painting the Exposition
Buildings).Photographer : Undetermined (probably C.D.
Arnold). Source: Scientific American. November 10,
1900, p. 293

taking part in the Exposition, we would come upon the
elementary conditions, that is, the earliest state of man

suggested on one side, and primitive nature on the other. I

concluded that the strongest primary colors should be applied
here, and that as we advance up the grounds the colors

should be more refined and less contrasting, and that the

Tower, which is to suggest the triumph of man's

achievement, should be the lightest and most delicate in
color.19

C. Y. Turner's Studio - Grouping the Models of the Exposition
Buildings.Photographer : Undetermined (probably C.D. Arnold).
Source: Scientific American. November 10, 1900, p. 293.

�Mark Bennett described Turner's process: "To produce the exquisite color effects of the Exposition, Mr. Turner

procured from the architects small sketches of all buildings, from which models were made on the scale of one
sixteenth of an inch to the foot. These were grouped upon a platform 12 by 16 feet, according to the plan

prepared by John M. Carrère, to whom was entrusted the arrangement of the ground plan of the Exposition. Each

model was colored according to the general scheme and its relationship to surrounding buildings was studied. Even
the color of the sky, the grass and flowers, the pools and fountains, was taken into consideration. Many of the

models were painted several times before the proper color note was hit upon to complete the harmony."20

"Mr. Turner, in mapping out his color scheme, adhered to Mr. Bitter's idea of the evolution of man, and one who
takes his first glimpse from the south will notice that the coloring upon the buildings at that point begins with the
cruder colors, the strong reds, yellows, greens, and blues which the barbarian selects, and it gradually melts into
orange reds, gray blues, buffs, and violets, until it culminates at the Electric Tower in ivory yellow, with a setting

of the delicate green which repeats the chromatic note of Niagara Falls."— Ernest Knaufft.

The colors as applied to the principal buildings were described as follows:

21

22

•

Horticulture—orange with details in brilliant blue, green, rose and yellow.

•

Government—yellow, with details in primitive colors.

•

Temple of Music—red.

•

Machinery—greenish gray.

•

Restaurant group—ivory, accentedwithgreen and gold.

•

Electric Tower—ivory, yellow, gold and green.

•

The roofs are generally of red tile, though prominent towers and pinnacles are in many
cases decorated with green, blue green or gold.

•

All buildings have a play of color about their entrances, balconies, pinnacles and

towers.
The Pan-American Exposition was not the first exposition to use color in its
architecture, but “it was the first attempt to completely unite a color scheme with

Watercolor Sketch of the Tower
Entrance, Electricity Building.
Artist : C.Y. Turner.Source: The
Delineator, v. 58, no. 1 (July
1901) p. 79.

the structures in an overall visual impression of meshed coloring.”23 The vibrant color scheme led to the Exposition
being labeled as "The Rainbow City." Although most visitors seemingly approved of the vibrant coloring, it

provoked from contemporary critics reactions "ranging from cautious approval to hoots of derision.... The
polychrome experiment looked unsettling and raucous to contemporary eyes blinded by the dazzling purity of the

�"White City" [1894 Chicago World's Fair.] In the light of expectations generated by the earlier fair, the planners of
the Pan-American were courageous to adopt such a novel color scheme."24

Grounds at Twilight -- Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Artist : Undetermined. Source: From a postcard

produced by the Gray Lithograph Company and printed by the Niagara Envelope Manufcturing Company, Buffalo,

N.Y. c1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

This same color scheme, the subject of controversy and conflicting opinions among critics, was viewed quite

differently as a component of the Expositions nighttime illumination. In fact the illumination itself and the
embellishing effects of the color scheme were almost universally applauded by critics:
… [T]wilight is, next to illuminated night, the enchanted hour at the Exposition... [W]hen the dimming of the low
lights about you warns that the climax of the Exposition day has come, go down to where the great bridge meets the

Esplanade and keep your eyes on the Electric Tower. Faintly the rose-pink color flushes the side of the tall shaft. The
light of the elevator drops twinkling like a falling star through the grillwork of the tower, The rose deepens and deepens

on tower and dome and pinnacle, and then while the throng on the Esplanade holds its breath the light slowly rises to
the brightness of the sun but without the glare, the softness of the moon without its coldness. A wonderful pure, soft
radiance falls over the air, a radiance which brings out every subtle harmony of color, every detail of fretted

architecture, and, behold, that new wonder of the world-the Pan-American night-is born.25

�"Electric Tower - Pan-American Exposition, 1901". Artist : Undetermined. Source: From a postcard produced by
the Gray Lithograph Company and printed by the Niagara Envelope Manufcturing Company, Buffalo, N.Y.

c1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

... [H]e who would visit the exposition at the most opportune time would do well to behold it first at night, and his
station point should be not at the Propylaea entrance, but at the southern end of the grounds, where, standing near

"French's Washington," he may look northward over the Triumphal Causeway between the great pylons toward the
Electrical Tower. Here he will see a unique and imposing sight, that outdoes Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Omaha,-a
sight the world has never seen before. At 8 o'clock the ivory city lies half-veiled in the dusk, when suddenly, but

gradually, on every cornice, every column, every dome, break forth tiny pink buds of light as though some eastern
magician were commanding a Sultan's garden to bloom. A moment more, and the pink lights glow larger and take on a

saffron hue, and the whole exposition lies before us illumined by 500,000 electric flames (the eight-candle power

incandescent light which Mr. Edison, who developed it, has proclaimed his pet)-and these delicate lights, some single,
some bunched, bring out a thousand delicate tints, now playing hide and seek and many cartouches, terminals, and

arabesques, now Rembrandting the stucco reliefs, and delicately toning down the color, till the effect is strikingly

allegro.26

�Of course, the thoughts of Ellen Arnold, an Exposition visitor from Connecticut, sum up what seemed to be the

prevailing opinion of critics and visitors alike,27

"The illumination was something more than wonderful – indescribable –"

General View of Illuminated Exposition Buildings From the West, Taken From Outside the

Grounds. Photographer : Undetermined. Source: Over 100 Views Showing the Grandeur of the Pan-American Exposition,

Buffalo, New York--1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Chas. J. Shults &amp; Co., 1901, p. 40.

References
1.

John M. Carrère, "The Architectural Scheme," Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture
and Art Catalogue to the Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901, p. 10. See

also Joann M. Thompson. The Art and Architecture of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.
Unpublished dissertation. Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, 1980, p. 31 and Kerry S.

Grant, The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,
1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press, 2001, p. 10.

2.

Carrère, p. 15-16.

3.

Christian Brinton, "Art at the Pan-American Exposition," The Critic, v. 38 (June 1901) p. 512 and Walter Cook,

"The Exhibition at Buffalo: Some of the Ideas Which Have Determined its Artistic Character — the Buildings and
Grounds," Scribner's Magazine, v. 29 (June 1901) p. 765; in Thompson, p. 31.
4.

Thompson, p. 31. The "City Beautiful Movement" was a reaction to the increasingly grimy and industrial nature of

19th century cities. City Beautiful proponants called for a harmonious environment characterized by a
paradigmatic arrangement of buildings, open garden spaces and controlled traffic paths. John Brisben Walker
wrote of the Pan-American Exposition as a model for the city of the future. See Walker's "The City of the Future—

A Prophecy," The Cosmopolitan, v. 31, no. 5 (September, 1901) pp. 473-475. For an informative look at the "City

�Beautiful Movement" and Washington, D.C.'s example, see Julie K. Rose's City Beautiful: the 1901 Plan for

Washington D.C. , URL: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/dchome.html.

5.

Carrère, p. 15-16.

6.

Grant, p. 19.

7.

Carrère, p. 15.

8.

Thompson, p. 32; Grant, p. 19.

9.

Grant, p. 12.

10. Karl Bitter, "The Sculpture Plan," Art Handbook, 1901, pp. 49-50.
11. Thompson, p. 35.
12. Bitter, p. 50.
13. C.Y. Turner, "The Color Scheme," Art Handbook, p. 20; Grant, p. 13.
14. Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo May 1 to November 1, 1901. Its Purpose and Plan. [Buffalo, N. Y. : The Pan­
American Exposition Company], 1901, p. 28.

15. John G. Milburn, "The Purposes of the Exposition," Art Handbook, p. 7.
16. Julian Hawthorne, "Some Novelties at the Buffalo Fair," The Cosmopolitan, v. 31, no. 5, (September, 1901) p.
485.

17. Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo May 1 to November 1, 1901. Its Purpose and Plan. p. 30; Joanna Wood refers
to the style as "American Renaissance" in "My Personal View," The Criterion, May 19, 1901, p. 12. In "The Pan­
American on Dedication Day," The American Monthly Review of Reviews, v. 23, no. 137 (June 1901), William

Hotchkiss describes the architecture as "romantic and picturesque" using the term "Free Renaissance" to describe
the buildings' bracketed eves, airy pinnacles, grilled windows, open loggias, square towers, fantastic pilasters and

tile roofs. C.Y. Turner, Director of Color, wrote, “… the Spanish Renaissance was in the minds of most of [the
Board of Architects] the most suitable style. At a later period, this was changed to Free Renaissance, which, of

course, permitted the introduction of Italian, German and French Renaissance,” in “Organization as Applied to

Art,” The Cosmopolitan, v.31 no.5 (September 1901) p.493; Also using this term is Kerry S. Grant, who offers
detailed descriptions of the style and coloring of individual buildings in The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light,
Color and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press,

2001. Finally, see Joann Thompson's dissertation, The Art and Architecture of the Pan-American Exposition,

Buffalo, New York, 1901, (Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, 1980) where the terms used to
describe the architecture at the Pan-American Exposition include"quasi Spanish style," "free-form Spanish-

oriented structures" and "fantasy buildings of a freely interpreted Spanish style."
18. Carrère, p. 12.
19. Turner, p. 20.

20. The Pan-American Exposition and How to See It : A Complete Art Souvenir, ed. Mark Bennett, Buffalo, NY : Goff
Company, 1901, [pp. 9-10.]

21. 21. Ernest Knaufft. "Artistic Effects of the Pan-American Exposition." The American Monthly Review of Reviews,
v.23, no.137 (June 1901) p. 689. In a lecture by Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, founders of
the Uncrowned Queens Project, it was suggested that Turner's color scheme may have also been analogous to

prevalent attitudes regarding race and the relationship of "white" America to its African- and Native-American
populations as well as its "darker" and "subordinate" Central and South American neighbors. Darker, cruder colors
(or skin) were viewed as savage, primitive and, as Knaufft states, "barbarian" whereas with progress, evolution and

civilization, man grew to be represented by colors that were lighter, pastel-like and more subtle—in essence,

�"whiter." While there is no direct evidence to show that the use of color to convey this attitude was a conscious
decision of Turner or the Exposition planners, the larger societal tendency to equate dark to "primitive" and light to

"civilized," must not be discounted. From a lecture presented on"The Role and Representation of African
Americans and Persons of Color in the Pan-American Exposition. Presented at the University Archives, University

at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, July 12, 2001. More information on this topic may be
found in the history section of the Uncrowned Queens web site, URL:

http://wings.buffalo.edu/uncrownedqueens/files/history.htm.

22. Bennett, [p. 10.]
23. Thompson, p. 86.
24. Ibid., pp. 79, 85. Also see Grant, pp. 113-116 and Thomas Leary and Elisabeth Sholes, Buffalo's Pan-American
Exposition, Charleston, SC : Arcadia Publishing, 1998, pp. 27-46. Katherine V. McHenry wrote in the June 1901
issue of Brush and Pencil, "Whatever be the popular verdict, whether the consensus of opinion be in favor of a

monochrome scheme, such as was employed at Chicago in 1893, or of a varied, symbolic scheme, such as prevails
in the Pan-American, it is to the credit of the promoters of this latter exposition that they had the hardihood to
undertake what former exposition managers feared to attempt, and the ability to carry it out to a successful issue,"
(p.156).

25. Mary Bronson Harrt, "How to See the Pan-American Exposition," Everybody's Magazine, v.5, no.26 (October
1901.) The full text of Harrt's article is available on Sue Eck's "Doing the Pan..."

26. Knaufft, p. 687.
27. Ellen Arnold, in a letter to her sister Hannah Allen of Putnam, Conn., September 12, 1901. Private collection.
Courtesy of Brenda Battleson.

�The Exposition Buildings
When David Gray, editor of the Art Hand-Book1, was compiling descriptive information for the buildings of the Pan­
American Exposition, he sought out the architects themselves:

"The descriptions of the chief buildings of the Pan-American Exposition have been written for the Art Hand-Book
(except in a few instances) by the architects that designed them. It is felt by the Editor, therefore, that they may be

presented as accurate and official descriptions of the Exposition architecture.— Editor."

Each of the following pages begins with such descriptions as published in the Art Hand-book. Additional material,

including third-party descriptions, criticism, detailed renderings and photographic images will follow.

•

Pylons of Triumphal Causeway

•

The Restaurant Buildings And Arcades

•

The Curved Pergolas

•

The Stadium

•

The Esplanade Band Stands

•

The Propylæa

•

The Government Building

•

The Electricity Building

•

The Ethnology Building

•

The Bazaar Building

•

The Terraces

•

The Acetylene Building

•

Manufactures And Liberal Arts Building

•

The Machinery Building

•

Pergola Buildings

•

The Temple of Music

•

Agricultural Building

•

The Horticultural Group

•

The Electric Tower

•

The New York State Building

•

The Old Spanish Mission

•

The Fire-Proof Art Building

•

The Plaza

•

State, Foreign, And Auxiliary Buildings

Birdseye View of the Pan­

American Exposition. Artist:
Rendering by Harry Fenn after
drawings by Carrère and

Hastings Source: Kerry S.
Grant. The Rainbow City:

Celebrating Light, Color, and
Architecture at the Pan-American
Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Image
from the collection of the

Buffalo and Erie Country
Historical Society.

�Related Maps

Building Map of the Pan-American Exposition. Artist: Rendering

by Murray Smith? Source: Published by Orvis and Smith, 1901. From the

collection of the Buffalo and Erie Country Historical Society.

Plan of the Pan-American Exposition to be Held at Buffalo, New
York, May 1-Nov 1, 1901. Artist: Rendering by C. E. Peltz. Source: From
the collection of the University Archives, University at Buffalo

Reference
1 .Art Handbook, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the Pan-American Exposition. Ed.
David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901.

�Pylons of Triumphal Causeway1
By John M. Carrer

of Carrère and Hastings
The architectural purpose of the Triumphal Causeway is to balance the Electric Tower and to establish an
entrance-portal to the great courts of the Exposition proper. As a gateway from the natural landscape of the park

into the formal scheme of the Exposition it was desirable that it should have both the elements of dignity and
exposition gaiety. The four Pylons are monumental in size, being 40 by 50 feet, and in color suggest stone. From

the water-level to the base of the equestrian figures it is 116 feet. The avenue between them is 140 feet wide, the

center line of which is the main axis of the Exposition, with the Electric Tower at one end and the statue of

General Washington at the other. The sculpture which decorates the Pylons carries out the idea of national power
and glory welcoming the world to the Exposition. The garlands of shields and the colored flags which festoon them

lend an air of gaiety, and subtly suggest the idea of the draw-bridge leading from the natural outer park to the

beauties in the creation of which man has been the chief factor.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Curved Pergolas1
By John M. Carrer

of Carrère and Hastings
These structures curve from the Triumphal Causeway to the eastward and westward, tending to connect the
Pylons with the Esplanades and to unify the architectural composition of the whole plan. They were designed to

provide covered shelters for the visitors, and are an adaptation of the Pompeiian trellis, but on a larger scale and

more elaborate. Double rows of columns make a wide nave and two side aisles with a pediment at either end. The
side aisles are divided into bays, thus forming retired places for the visitors to sit and listen to the music on the

Esplanades, and watch the gondolas on the water of the East and West lakes. Since being designed these buildings
have been converted into open-air restaurants. They are gay in color treatment and suggestive of the exposition
spirit.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Esplanade Band Stands1
By J. M. Lyall
At the Architectural Bureau on the Exposition grounds a number of clever and able young designers were
employed, some of them being ex-students of the École des Beaux Arts of Paris, and it was decided to give them

some opportunity for individual expression in some of the minor constructions about the grounds, so that a system

of competitions was instituted for designers for some of these things, among others, for the Esplanade band
stands. The design executed was the work of Mr. J. M. Lyall of New York. It is thoroughly original in form and very

expressive of its purpose, with its four great sounding-boards under the domed roofs and the gay and festive
character of its flowery detail. Another of these competitions was for the bridge at the south end of the Venice

Canal. This was the work of Mr. Frere Champney, also of New York.

References
1 . Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the
Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Government Building1
From The United States Government Officers J. Knox Taylor,

Superintendent
This building more than any other on the grounds is Spanish-American in its architecture, directly suggesting the
type of the Mexican church. It closely resembles the great Cathedral of the City of Mexico. The treatment of the
columns in the portico shows the influence of the modern French spirit, and the quadriga on the dome, as well as
the general form of the building, which is distinctly that of an exposition building, prevents it from being a

misapplied copy. The ground-plan is the same as that of the Horticultural Group of buildings opposite, both of
which were agreed upon when the plan of the grounds was laid out. It consists of a large center building with

dome and two flanking square pavilions connecting with each center building by semicircular arcades. The large
center mass is made picturesque by numerous small towers and gilded domes and the use of picturesque Mexican

gables at the north and south ends. The stately portico fronting on the Esplanade is not only impressive in its
composition, but pleasantly suggestive of the United States Capitol at Washington, a suggestion which the public of
America has come to look for in every building representing the national government.

References
1 . Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the
Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Ethnology Building1
By George Cary
The character of this building is classic in outline, with Renaissance decorative treatment. It is situated at the
eastern junction of the Grand Esplanade and the Court of Fountains. The building is circular in plan, with the main

entrances on the diagonal axis; between and connecting these is a continuous colonnade with a decorative frieze
over the windows. The colonnade is raised some seven feet above the level of the Grand Esplanade, giving a

covered portico or loggia commanding a pleasing view. Surmounting this colonnade is a terrace, with balustrade

decorated with Martiny's "Torch-Bearer. "Over each entrance is a pediment containing McNeil's ethnological group,
forming the decorative motive of the tympanum, and back of and above each pediment is Phimister Proctor's

"Quadriga," made by him for the United States Government Building at the Paris Exposition of 1900. The building is

covered by a dome like that of the Pantheon at Rome. The dome of the Ethnology Building is capped by a
decorative cresting, the highest point being 150 feet. Hidden by the cresting is the skylight opening which lights
the interior. Surrounding the dome, in eight of the sixteen panels, are eagles measuring 16 feet over all, and
below these are eight circular windows in the encircling shaft, lighting the upper gallery. Surmounting each of

these windows, and standing below the eagles, is Brewster's ethnological group, described elsewhere. The building
covers about 20,000 square feet. There are two octagonal galleries, the first one being 25 feet above the floor,
and the second one 21 feet above that. These galleries and the roof terrace are made accessible by staircases

located at the side of each entrance. The eight decorated piers of the interior support eight arches, forming the
octagon which, with the pendatives, carries the dome. The galleries encircle the octagon, leaving all open space
under the dome 80 feet in diameter and 120 feet in height.

Inscriptions For Ethnology Building.
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I. "Knowledge Begins In Wonder."—Plato, Aristotle, Langley.

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II. "Speak To The Earth, And It Shall Teach Thee."—Job xii, 8

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III. "Nothing That Is Human Is Alien To Me."— Terence.

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IV. "And Hath Made Of One Blood All Nations Of Men."—Acts xvii, 26.

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V. "What a Piece Of Work is a Man!"—Shakspere, Hamlet, ii. 2.

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VI. "All Are Needed By Each One."—Emerson, Each and All.

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VII. "The Weakest Among Us Has a Gift."—Ruskin.

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VIII. "No Se Gano' Zamora En Una Hora."—Cervantes, part ii. chap. lxxi.

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IX. "O rich and various Man! thou palace of sight and sound, carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the

unfathomable galaxy; in thy brain, the geometry of the City of God; in thy heart, the bower of love and the realms of
right and wrong."

�References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Terraces1
By John M. Carrer

of Carrère and Hastings
These are four terraces running north and south on either side of the Court of Lilies and the Court of Cypresses.
They were erected not only to form these retired courts and provide easy passageways from one building to
another, but also to furnish elevated resting-places as points of vantage from which the public might view the
illuminations and fountain effects. They were inspired by the famous architectural treatment of the lake at the

Parc Monceau, Paris. The row of gaines, executed by Professor L. Amateis, which bear the trellis, is, however, a
new feature.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building1
By George F. Shepley, of Shepley, Rutan &amp; Coolidge
The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building occupies a space 350 by 500 feet, with a courtyard in the center 132 by

170 feet. A cloister extends around the interior of this courtyard, and it was intended to place in the center a
fountain surrounded by statues and ornamental trees; but after the building was completed it was found necessary
to roof the courtyard over in order to provide more space for exhibits. The south or principal front of the building,

which is 500 feet long, faces the Court of the Cypresses. In the center of this front is placed the principal feature

of the building, which is a great dome rising to a height of 130 feet, surrounded by four towers. At the corners of
the building are pavilions surmounted with smaller domes. The west façade, toward the Court of the Fountains, is

kept simple and low in order to give greater value to the Electric Tower at the end of the Court of Fountains. A
little more prominence is given to the front on the Mall, where the entrance is under a pediment some 96 feet in

height, which is surmounted by winged figures. The east front, which faces the Canal, is treated in a similar

manner to the west front. The building is entered from the center of all four sides, and also from the pavilions on
the corners. An arcaded loggia, with a groined ceiling, extends around the building on all sides and gives a

convenient resting-place sheltered from the sun and rain.

The treatment of the exterior is a free treatment of Spanish Renaissance, the idea being to give, by means of color
and decoration, an expression of gaiety and lightness as far removed as possible from the serious buildings of other

exhibitions held in this country. The cornice is formed by the rafters of the roof projecting over, and is treated
richly with color and carving. On the front of the building, between the arches, are placed the seals of the

governments of the various South American republics. Over the main entrance is a group of statuary typifying the

Arts and Manufactures. This group and the winged figures over the entrance on the Mall are by Mr. Bela Pratt of
Boston.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�Pergola Buildings1
By John M. Carrer, of Carrère and Hastings
In the four Pergola Buildings of the Exposition a unique treatment has been applied, making a structure of heavy
character look light and arbor-like from the exterior. This effect has been secured by trellis verandas on the front
and back. The Pergola Buildings are adapted to serve either as exhibit buildings or as restaurants.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�Agriculture Building1
By George F. Shepley, of Shepley, Rutan &amp; Coolidge
The Agricultural Building is situated at the east of the Electric Tower, the narrow front, 150 feet in length, facing
the Court of Fountains, and the principal front, 500 feet in length, on the Mall. This building is treated with great

simplicity and very few features. The principal entrance is toward the Mall, facing the Manufactures and Liberal

Arts Building. Around this entrance is the greatest amount of enrichment. The decorations are designed with fruit,
vegetables, and flowers, expressing the character of the building; and the large corbels are in the form of heads of

animals of the field. This idea is carried around in the decorations of the cornice. There is a loggia on the south
side of the building, overlooking the Mall, formed of arches resting on single columns, with a ceiling of groined

vaulting. The treatment of the exterior, like that of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, designed by the

same architect, is Spanish Renaissance, adapted to express a spirit of exposition gaiety.

�References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Electric Tower1
By John Galen Howard
Every artistic composition, whether it be a picture, a piece of sculpture, or a group of buildings, can be said to
have a focus-some Point or dominant feature which serves as a resting-place for the eye. The Electric Tower, by
reason of its height and its central position, is such a focus in the midst of the main group of buildings of the Pan­
American Exposition. Since this may be called the Age of Electricity, it was fitting that the focal point of the

Exposition should be so designed as to afford an opportunity of accentuating that fact by a lavish display of
electric power. This display is in the form of a majestic fountain and a scheme of brilliant illumination. The source

of the power is Niagara, and this is suggested not alone by the fountain and the basin at the base of the tower, but

by various groups of statuary in the wings, which have been designed to symbolize the great bodies of water which
are tributary to the stupendous cataract. The following groups occupy the niches at the extreme ends of the
curved wings, and are arranged from west to east in order: Lake Michigan, by Mr. Louis A. Gudebrod; Lake

Superior, by Mr. Philip Martiny; Lake Ontario, by Mr. Ralph Goddard; Lake St. Clair, by Mr. Henry Baerer; Lake
Huron, by Mr. Philip Martiny; Lake Erie, by Mr. Carl E. Tefft. The spandrels of the niche in the south face of the
tower and the smaller ones above the arch of entrance on the north side were modeled by Mr. Adolph A. Weinman,
under the direction of Mr. Karl Bitter. They represent the four rivers Niagara, Buffalo, St. Lawrence, and St. Clair.

The keystones of these arches were modeled by the same sculptor. Another feature of the sculptural
embellishment of the tower which deserves special note is the Pan-American escutcheon on the south front of the

shaft of the tower, above the water niche. This was modeled by Mr. Philip Martiny and Mr. Michele Giusti. Mr.
Martiny was also the sculptor of the torch-bearers crowning the four corners of the terminal pavilions, and of the

groups typifying Progress which embellish the pyramidal pylons on the east, west, and north sides of the tower.
The groups ornamenting the pylons on the south side adjoining the water niche were modeled by Mr. George Gray

Barnard, and typify "The Great Waters in the Time of the Indian" and "The Great Waters in the Time of the White
Man." The frieze with children, garlands of fruit, and eagles, beneath the loggia at the top of the shaft, was
executed by Mr. Karl Bitter. The Goddess of Light which crowns the tower is the design of Mr. Herbert Adams, and

is 16 feet in height. The total height of the tower is 389 feet. The shaft of the tower is 77 ½ feet square at the

base and is built with steel framework, the walls being of staff. The colonnades which form the curved wings at
the sides of the tower have an extreme width of 255 feet. The promenades on these colonnades afford a fine view

of the court and the other main buildings. If one approaches the tower from the north, he may cross a bridge,
enter, and take an elevator to the lantern at a level of 252 feet, which commands a superb outlook of the

Exposition and the surrounding country. Aside from its function as an observatory, the interior of the tower is
made of service to the people by means of restaurants.
As regards the architectural design of the Electric Tower, it may be called essentially American. As in the other
buildings, use has here been made of classic and Renaissance forms, and certain "influences" may perhaps be

pointed out by the critic; but the tower cannot be said to have been designed in any strictly defined traditional
"style." It shows the trend of thought in this country, and may be taken as an example of modern American

architecture.

�References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Old Spanish Mission1
By John Galen Howard
This reproduction of an old Spanish mission is situated south of the Stadium and directly northeast of the

northeastern turn of the environing Canal. It is built in the style of the old Spanish missions, the east wing being

almost a reproduction of the Mission of Santa Barbara, California. A chapel, cloisters, courts, and a shop, arranged
about a garden on the banks of the Canal, compose the group, the walls stained with age, and the tiled roof green
with moss.

A low, heavy tower with tiled dome, the walls thick and low, with window openings grilled with heavy wooden
bars, suggest Father Salvierderra in "Ramona" and the abode of the Franciscan monks of to-day. Fully in keeping is
the lavishly planted garden, picturesque in its pointed cedars, its cocoanut- trees, palms, and plants imported

from the tropics, while a fountain graces the center, about which are grouped marble columns Supporting
branching beams, on which are perched gay-plumaged parrots and macaws. Entering from the dike-walk on the
Canal side, and passing through the arch under the tower, this garden is reached. Shut out at once from all the stir
and whirl of the Exposition, surrounded by flowers and brilliantly colored birds, and the green of tropical trees,

one is in some measure prepared for the quiet pictures within the building. To the west of the garden the shop is
entered, with walls wainscoted with patterns in the style of old Cordova leathers, and hung with scenery papers

suggesting a landscape of forests and distant mountains. The chapel, wainscoted with marble and rich with
columns of mosaic and marble, serves as a fitting frame for the beautiful windows of the Leland Stanford Junior
University of California, which is built in the mission style of architecture. These windows were executed in an

artist's studio in New York, and were to be placed this summer; but Mrs. Stanford has permitted their exhibition
here before installing them in the university building. Looking through the archways south of the garden, a

cloistered court is seen, about which implements of the farm are picturesquely arranged, suggesting the early
monastic days when the brothers of the mission tilled the land, and worked in the shops among brilliant colors and
artistic surroundings, with music and flowers and gardens to make their day's labor a pleasure, and their life one of

peace and quiet and repose. And over all hangs the bell, whose story, so well told by Bessie Chandler, would seem
to bring the legend home to us to-day.

The Two Bells
Long years ago, so runs the ancient story,
Two bells were sent from Spain to that far clime
New found beyond the sea, that, to God's glory,

And in his house, together they might chime.

�2
And to this day one bell is safely swinging

Within its shelt'ring tower, where, clear and free,
It hallows each day with its mellow ringing.

The other bell, the mate, was lost at sea.

3 And when in gentle chimes the bell is pealing,
The people listen; for they say they hear
An echo from the distant ocean stealing:

It is the lost one's answer, faint, yet clear.

Bessie Chandler.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Plaza1
By Walter Cook, of Babb, Cook &amp; Willard
The square to which the name of the Plaza has been given is a nearly isolated unit of the general composition,
being situated at its extreme north end, on a somewhat lower level than the parts immediately touching it. For

this reason, and on account of the very intimate connection between the buildings and the square which they
surround, the entire treatment of both buildings and grounds was put in the same hands- the one exception to the

general rule which prevailed elsewhere. The Electrical Tower of Mr. Howard, which dominates, and was meant to

dominate, the whole scheme, terminates the Plaza on the south side. The other buildings have purposely been
kept somewhat smaller in scale and less monumental in character, in order to give to the tower its full value. And

as the tower on the southside faces the Court of Fountains, in which water is the great feature, the Plaza itself has
been treated without basins or fountains, in order to secure a contrast of treatment. The middle of the square is

occupied by a Sunken Garden, surrounded by a double balustrade inclosing a terrace from which steps descend to
the garden itself, the center of which is occupied by a band-stand. The four corners of the terrace are occupied by

pavilions, which are intended to be let to concessionaires. The whole is intended to form a resting-place for

visitors out of the direct line of communication.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Restaurant Buildings and Arcades1
By Walter Cook, of Babb, Cook &amp; Willard
On either side or the square are buildings closely resembling one an- other, and having a double use. The lower

part of each is largely an open arcade, forming the entrance on the one side to the Midway, and on the other to
the Stadium. The remainder of these buildings serve as restaurants. The style of architecture adopted in these

buildings is freely reminiscent of Spanish examples, and of their descendants in Spanish America, while no single
building bas been taken as a prototype. The character of the exhibition, in which only the Americas are

represented, naturally suggested this inspiration, which is indeed evident in many other parts of the grounds. And
it is this character which suggested calling the little square the Plaza.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Stadium1
By Walter Cook, of Babb, Cook &amp; Willard
In the mass of this amphitheater a great simplicity of style has been followed. The exterior is a series of columns
with arches between; the seats in the interior back up against this arcade, and are terminated by a sort of attic,
forming a promenade around the entire building, covered with gaily colored awnings and decorated with flags.

On the east the Colonnade becomes an open screen, giving a view through it to the fields beyond, and with

openings, each of which is provided with a portcullis. When these are open they afford entrance to the various
cavalcades or processions which are to give representations during the Exposition.

On the west end is the main entrance, and above this the tribune, in which the seats are covered by a roof. This
feature contains the festal part of the Stadium; the forms are light, representing in part bronze (while those in the

Stadium proper are stone forms), and here the greatest amount of color and decoration has been used, the general
idea being to accent this motive and make it contrast by its gaiety with the comparative simplicity of the rest of
the building.

The dimensions of the Stadium are, length, about 680 feet, and width, 450 feet. The arena has been laid out to
obtain a quarter-mile running-track. Its extreme dimensions are about 569 feet in length and 260 feet in width.

The seating capacity is about 12,000. It is intended to reproduce the spirit of the Pan-Athenaic Stadium cut in the
side of Mount Pentelicus, near Athens.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Propylæa1
By Walter Cook, of Babb, Cook &amp; Willard
The north side of the Plaza is occupied by a colonnade surmounted by a sort of pergola with green vines and

flanked by two large archways giving access from the railroad station. This structure, to which the name of the
Propylæa has been given, forms the northerly end of the whole architectural composition of the Exposition. It is

treated in a very free style, as regards the two archways especially, and seeks above all to manifest the Exposition
character and be a gay festival entrance to a great fair.
In the buildings themselves but little statuary has been used; on the other hand, both statues and vases are
employed freely in the treatment of the balustrades, and under the colonnade of the Propylæa.

The visitors to the Stadium pass under the arcade of the building on the east side of the Plaza, traverse a small
open-air vestibule defined by balustrades, and enter the Stadium itself.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Electricity Building1
By Green &amp; Wicks
In style and spirit the Electricity Building is similar to the Machinery Building, by the same architects. The
endeavor has been made to adapt the Spanish mission style of building, together with Renaissance features, to the
purposes of the modern exposition and to add to it an air of gaiety and color. The architectural features of the

Electricity Building recur in the Machinery Building, and are set forth under that head. The Electricity Building is

500 feet in length, 150 feet in width, and 160 feet in height.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Bazaar Building1
By William Welles Bosworth
Situated beyond the Canal at the junction of the Mall and the Midway, and fronting on the Midway, was the only
large building outside the main scheme which was built by the Exposition Company. Destined for the exhibit and
sale of all sorts of bijoux and souvenirs, the character of the design was studied to express a gaiety and "laisser

aller" spirit consistent with the uses of the building. To express this spirit no style in the history of architecture is

so well adapted as that of the French trellis-decorated buildings of the epoch of Louis xv, though it is dangerous

when not used with restraint, being the expression of a generation renowned for moral decadence. When used as
in this instance, where it is merely applied as surface decoration to a building composed with strong structural

masses of wall surfaces in their relation to openings and great simplicity of architectural line and silhouette, it has

great charm. The groups of children surmounting the balustrade, as well as the decorative bronzed figures in the
niches between the windows, are the work of the sculptor Isidore Konti.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Acetylene Building1
William Welles Bosworth
The Acetylene Building, situated on the Mall at the west of the Machinery Building and across the Canal, was built

by the Exposition Company for the exhibits of the acetylene industry. Just opposite from the Bazaar Building, it
shows an interesting contrast in architectural style. The main structural elements are equally simple and frank;

ample openings for light give it the museum or exhibit-building character, while the seriousness of the nature of

its exhibits is expressed by the reserve with which the ornament is applied in well-defined architectural limits, and
the particular nature of the exhibits is made evident to the careful observer in the symbolism of the ornaments

themselves. The evolution of lighting methods is worked out in the ornaments around the windows, from the fire
brand below up through the candle and classic lamp to the acetylene burner at the top, while above the cornice

are groups of children holding acetylene torches which light the globe by M. Loester.1

The Acetylene Building. Photographer: Undetermined. Source: Cosmopolitan, v. 31, no. 5 (September 1901) p.
472.

�To exhibit and promote the benefits of commercial and domestic use of acetylene gas over traditional fuels, a

stand-alone building was constructed opposite the Bazaar Building, just west of the Electricity and Machinery
Buildings. The Acelylene Building held exhibits by the Union Carbide company, which distributed the pamplet "The

Story of Acetylene."

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Machinery Building1
By Green &amp; Wicks
In considering a style of architecture for the Machinery Building the thought impressed itself of the fundamental
idea of the Exposition - Pan-American: that is, a style expressive of "all the Americas." The logical thing to do,
therefore, was to adopt the Spanish-American Renaissance, the typical style of architecture of this continent. It is
a style that lends itself readily to exposition buildings, for it is not too serious and can readily be made gay and

expressive of the exposition spirit. The mission building is the product of that period in Mexico and Lower

California when the Jesuits and Franciscan friars practically ruled the country. They built many of these low,
comfortable, arcaded, cloister-like structures. The early types, however, are too somber, though well suited, with

their great covering-space, low roofs, and cool arcades, for exposition buildings. The style needs enlivenment,
ornament, and color. These qualities have been taken from later and more pretentious Spanish buildings. The
Machinery Building was built around a court intended to be the chief feature of the building, as it was in the old
Spanish structures, their peculiar charm being due to this quiet, retired court, with its flowers and pools of water.

The court, however, in this case has been taken for exposition purposes, owing to the demand for greater space by
exhibitors. The façade of the building presents an arcaded, cloister-like appearance, the oak-timbered

overhanging eaves producing the shadow. In the center of each face are placed the important entrances. On the
north and south façade the entrances are flanked with towers, which form the most noticeable feature. The
entrances between these towers are ornamented with single and double columns. They are flanked by arcades
extending each way to the low corner pavilions. These are also used as entrances, and are ornamented in the

manner of the Spanish Renaissance. The roofs are covered with the typical Spanish mission tile, and the window
openings with copies of the wrought-iron work peculiar to the Spanish style of building. The Machinery Building is

500 feet long by 350 feet wide, and the highest towers are 170 feet in height.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Temple of Music1
Designed By Esenwein &amp; Johnson
The south front of the Temple of Music faces on the East Esplanade, the east front upon the Main Court. It
corresponds on the general plan to the Ethnology Building, which occupies the corresponding position on the east
side of the Main Court, and the motif of its design is similar. The ground-plan of the building is Square, being 150

feet on a side. It is surmounted by a dome 180 feet high, suggestive in proportions of the dome of the Pantheon at
Rome. In treatment the building is highly ornate. It is profusely decorated with pilasters sculptured in relief, and

over each of the four pediments is a sculptured group by Konti. The auditorium of the building seats twenty-two
hundred people, and contains one of the largest organs built in the United States. The building is used for musical
recitals and choruses.

The Temple of Music also has the infamous distinction of being the building in which President William McKinley

was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on Sept. 6, 1901.

�Temple of Music as seen

Through the
Colonnade. Photographer:
Unidentified. Source:
Pan­

American Souvenir by Charles

Cutter. Niagara Falls, N.Y.:
Charles Cutter, 1901.

Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Horticultural Group1
Designed By R. S. Peabody, of Peabody &amp; Stearns
The Horticultural Group, so called, including the Horticultural Building and the Graphic Arts and Mines pavilions,
corresponds in plan to the Government Group, and was designed to balance with it on the west end of the

Esplanade. Its type of architecture is more suggestive of the buildings of northern Italy than of Spanish America.

The loggias of the Graphic Arts and Mines pavilions are reproductions of the Villa Madonna at Rome, one of the

most graceful of the productions of the Italian Renaissance. The modeling of the vaulted ceilings of these loggias is

remarkably fine for exposition work, and the color treatment here is especially successful. In general composition
the main building is formed on the plan of a Greek cross, with four huge arches on the principal axes and small

octagonal pavilions filling in the corners. Above the whole rises a cupola, surmounted by an airy lantern. The

entrance from the Esplanade is framed under an ample pediment ornamented with rich decorations in relief, and,
picked out in color like the majolica work of Italy, it forms a beautiful background to the Fountain of Nature. The
extreme height of the building is 240 feet.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The New York State Building1
By George Cary
The New York State Building is situated on the north side of the west bay of the park lake, near the Elmwood
Avenue entrance. Used as the New York State Building during the Exposition, it is to remain afterward a
permanent building for the Buffalo Historical Society. The building is of white Vermont marble, in the classic order

of architecture known as the Greek Doric, being of the same order as the Parthenon at Athens, by Pericles. This
would seem best to harmonize with the Albright Art Gallery on the opposite side of the water, designed in the

spirit of the Erechtheum, which stands with the Parthenon on the Acropolis.

The Greek Doric is suggestive of solidity and force, has little carving, and its lines are all curved slightly upward.
As exhibited in the monuments of the age of Pericles at Athens, the Greek Doric combines with solidity and force
the most subtle and delicate refinement of outlines and proportions that architecture has known.

The building is a rectangle about 120 x 80 feet, and 50 feet high. On the north front is located the statue

"Aspiration," by Mrs. Harry Paine Whitney. The northern façade is faced with three-quarter columns, and the
entrance is through a vestibule, the bronze doors of which were the gift of the president of the Buffalo Historical
Society, Mr. Andrew Langdon. The panels in these doors, representing "History" and "Ethnology," are the work of
Perry. On the south, dividing the paths leading to the park, are Andersen's equestrian groups called "Progress," and

between these two on the axis of the building is Andersen's bronze group termed "Affinity." As the starting-point of
the grand marble staircase leading up to the southern entrance stands Elwell's statue of "Intelligence," described

elsewhere.

The southern entrance is through a portico 61 x feet, embellished by ten Doric columns, and commanding a view

of the park lake, the electric fountains, and the park.
The floor-level is taken 7 feet above ground to the north, while to the south the grade is kept at the ground-level

of the basement, so as to get good light, and to enter the bicycle-room and other rooms of the basement direct.
The height of the basement is 14 feet. Here is the dining-room, facing the park to the south, the bicycle-room,
kitchen, and janitor's quarters (entered from the hall and from outside), also boiler-rooms, etc., and the storage

room to the west, under the audience-hall. The ground or first floor is 15 feet high. Here is the audience-hall,
which seats 250 persons.

The library occupies the eastern end of the building on this floor, and between the library and the audience-hall is
the grand hall, stairway, and gallery. This grand hall, finished in black marble and gold, the largest room on this

floor, may be given over to museum purposes, opening up into the upper floor to be used for larger relics.
North of this grand hall is the lobby, giving access to the governor's room to the east, a committee-room to the

west, to cloak-rooms and toilet-rooms, as well as an entrance to all the other rooms on this floor.
The second floor runs up into the roof, making the rooms 18 feet high. It is lighted entirely by skylights, and will
be used for museum purposes.

�The building is absolutely fire-proof. It is planned to accommodate not only the ultimate needs of the Historical

Society, but also the immediate needs of the Exposition. It is provided with a heating and ventilating plant, and is
lighted by a thousand electric lights.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�The Fire-Proof Art Building1
By Green &amp; Wicks
The Art Building is built of rough red brick, of attractive color, laid in a wide joint. Its central architectural
feature is the Statuary Court in the interior. The architectural details of the exterior are Spanish Renaissance,
resembling those of the palace in Palma, on the island of Majorca. The cornice of the building is old brown oak.

Surrounding the structure, at the level of the first floor, are niches containing antique statues. The Art Building is

220 feet in length, 105 feet in width, and 34 feet in height. This structure was erected to provide temporarily for
the exhibits of fine arts when an unforeseen delay in securing the marble for the Albright Art Gallery made it

impossible to complete that building in time for the Exposition.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

�State, Foreign, and Auxiliary Buildings1

The Forestry Building
Designed by the Exposition Architectural Bureau. —The Forestry Building is situated northwest and adjacent to the
Indian Mound, which is conspicuous in the southeastern corner of the Exposition grounds. It was intended to house
the forestry exhibit in the south pavilion of the Horticultural Group, now known as the Mines Building, but a

change in this plan was necessitated, and a separate structure was erected. The Forestry Building is built of logs in
the manner of the settlers' log cabins. It is 150 feet long by 100 feet wide, and presents an interesting contrast

with the complex and highly developed examples of architecture in the Main Court.

Ohio State Building
A low, gracefully proportioned building, with wide verandas, classic in treatment, designed by John Eisemann,

Cleveland, Ohio.

Illinois State Building
A combination of the classic and Italian Renaissance styles, designed by J. M. White of Champaign, Illinois.

Honduras Building
A pavilion, Spanish in style, with cupola treatment of roof.

Cuban Building
Spanish Renaissance, with dome, designed by James Ackerman of Buffalo.

�Chile Building
Built of structural steel and closed in with glass, designed by C. I. Williams of Dayton, Ohio.

Porto Rican Building
A small pavilion of staff, with beams and ornamental timbers disclosed.

Pennsylvania State Building
An attractive structure, colonial in styles, with cupola, designed by the State Superintendent of Grounds and
Buildings, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

New England States Building
This structure, representing the New England States combined, is a type of early New England colonial building,
colored to give the effect of red brick and white marble. It was designed by Josephine W. Chapman of Boston,

Massachusetts.

Guatemalan Building
A square frame structure, classic in treatment.

Santo Domingo Building
A small frame structure, painted in white and cream, designed by C. I. Williams of Dayton, Ohio.

�Michican State Building
A handsome structure, pure colonial in style, designed by George H. Barbour of Detroit, Michigan.

New Jersey State Building
A small structure, Spanish in treatment, designed by A. C. Jenkinson of Newark, New Jersey.

Ecuador Building
Noticeable by its high gable and Queen Anne style of outline, designed by James &amp; Leo of New York City.

Minnesota State Building
Spanish Renaissance in treatment, designed by Dudley &amp; Beardsley of Buffalo, New York.

WISCONSIN STATE BUILDING
Classic roof and Gothic treatment of windows and doorways, designed by A. C. Clas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dakota State Building
The striking feature of this building is a castellated tower, the remainder of the structure being accorded a
Spanish treatment.

�Mexican Building
An attractive building of Spanish architecture.

Knights Of The Maccabees Building
A small but pleasant structure, Spanish Renaissance in style.

A. O. U. W. Building
Spanish in treatment, with second story open to serve as roof garden.

Ordinance Building
Spanish in treatment, designed by the United States Government Architectural Bureau, J. Knox Taylor,

Superintendent.

Dairy Building
A reproduction of a Swiss chalet, designed by the Exposition Architectural Bureau.

Service Building
Spanish in style, designed by the Exposition Architectural Bureau.

�Larkin Soap Building
The main structure is classic in treatment, and is surmounted by a dome in the spirit of the Italian Renaissance,

designed by Lansing &amp; Beierl of Buffalo, New York.

References
1. Text quoted directly from the Art Hand-Book, Official Handbook of Architecture and Sculpture and Art Catalogue to the

Pan-American Exposition. Ed. David Gray. Buffalo, N.Y.: David Gray, 1901. Sources of the images are noted with

each.

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                    <text>Immigrant Communities of Buffalo and the

Pan-American Exposition
The immigrant1 settlements of Buffalo must

have felt a particular interest in the PanAmerican Exposition, because they found both

their countries of origin and the United States
depicted in new and interesting ways. Because
Buffalo was a major transportation hub in the

19th century and early 20th century, immigrants
and their families made up a large and growing

portion of the population.
The participation of Buffalo's ethnic populations
in the Pan-American Exposition varied. There

were prominent citizens like Mayor Conrad

Diehl, and George Urban, Jr., both of whom
were sons of German immigrants, serving on the

Exposition's Board of Directors. The more
infamous Leon Czolgosz, who was of Polish

descent and whose actions as the assassin of
President William McKinley, deeply shamed and

angered Buffalo's Polish community. Czolgosz
was not a resident of Buffalo, but has certainly

become linked to the city and the Exposition.

Nina Morgana

Less prominent but no less influential were the
laborers who dug the canals and operated the

railroads as well as those recruited to work in the concessions as waiters, entertainers, and other employees. One
such employee, Nina Morgana, was the daughter of Italian immigrants to Buffalo, and as a child sang at the "Venice
in America" exhibit. She would eventually go on to perform with the Metropolitan Opera.

Many immigrants traveled to Buffalo in 1901, expressly to work in the exhibits and concessions on the Midway.
Examples are the Bavarian brass band members at "Alt Nürnberg," and the gondoliers at the "Venice in America"

concession. Although Buffalo was a relatively progressive city at the turn of the century, there is little question
that these exhibits promoted the ethnic stereotypes typical of 1901 America. Exposition planners and promoters

had little use for cultural sensitivity, since their exhibits were designed to draw crowds and make money. Thus,
the "exotic" nature of various ethnic cultures and the stereotypical behavior of their employees was emphasized

and encouraged. For many fairgoers, these "exhibits" were their first exposure to foreign culture.2

�This component of the online exhibit is limited to addressing four of the larger immigrant communities existing in

Buffalo at the time of the Pan-American Exposition:

•

German

•

Italian

•

Polish

•

Irish

Admittedly, the exhibit is heavily weighted toward participation of the more prominent members of these ethnic
communities. For instance, the German-American population of Buffalo had become quite prominent in business
and politics by 1901, so of course, there is quite a bit of information available. Other ethnic groups, Buffalo's

Italian, Polish and Irish populations, still dominated the skilled and unskilled labor fields of the working class at the

turn of the century. Certainly these groups were represented in some capacity at the Exposition, as builders,

concession workers, police and firemen, etc. However, evidence and artifacts related to those who actually
"worked" to build and operate the fair have not been as forthcoming. Indeed, readers with any such information

are encouraged to contact this exhibit's Web Development Team since our research in this area is ongoing.

Notes:
1.

Buffalo as in many other cities, ethnic populations formed communities within communities, thus maintaining
strong ties to many cultural and ethnic traditions. In this online exhibit, the term "immigrant" is not limited to those

born in another country but includes multiple generations within a particular ethnic community.
2.

There were dozens of cultures represented at the Exposition. Some, like the "Esquimaux Village" and "Beautiful
Orient" were isolated to the midway. Other countries, like Mexico, had midway attractions as well as more

culturally accurate representation in the Ethnology exhibits and Mexico's own commissioned building. It is
unfortunate that we do not have the resources or information available to comprehensively exhibit information on
all of these areas. We will, however update our listing of related links as more resources on cultural representation

at the Pan-American Exposition become available.

Related Resources
•

Cuba at the Pan-Am. Matthew Kirisits. Available online at UB and the Pan American Exposition, University at

Buffalo. http://ubpanam.buffalo.edu/cuba/cuba.html. As of 2005, The above link is no longer live. Please refer to the
archived version of Mr. Kirisits' work at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ubpanam.buffalo.edu/cuba/cuba.html

�The German Community of Buffalo and the

Pan-American Exposition
German immigrants had been arriving in Buffalo in significant numbers since its early days with many becoming

prosperous in areas of business and politics. By 1901 some of the leading entrepeneurs in the brewing, flour
milling, tanning and meat-packing industries were first or second generation German-Americans. It is not surprising
that many of these leaders were in some way involved in nearly all aspects of the Pan-American Exposition.

•

Buffalo's German-led Industry

•

Buffalo's German-American Leaders and the Pan-American Exposition

•

German Culture in 1901 Buffalo

•

Alt Nurnberg: German Culture on the Midway

Buffalo's German-led Industry
Buffalo's German population in 1901 included a number of very

influential, often wealthy businessmen, many of whom attained
prominance through the business dominated by Buffalo's German
population throughout the 19th century--brewing. In the 1840's

small plants had first been established by such Buffalo brewing
pioneers Jacob Roos, J. F. Schanzlin and Hoffman, and Joseph

Friedman. By the latter part of the nineteenth century, however,
breweries with names like Germania, Magnus-Beck, Gerhard-Lang,

and the German-American Brewing Company were successfully

competing with their counterparts in cities like Milwaukee. In

1896, Buffalo's 19 breweries produced an output of 652,340 barrels.
The majority of these companies were still managed by German­
American founders and/or their descendents. William

Simon, Edward G. Becker, Alois and Philip Schaeffer, Charles
Pankow, Christian Trapp, Col. John L. Schwarts--all were big names
in the brewing industry who were also prominent Buffalo citizens.

Advertisement for Maltosia. Produced by the
German-American Brewing Company Source:
Deutsch-Amerikanische Historische und
Biographische Gesellschaft. Buffalo und sein
Deutschtum : Deutsch- Amerikanische Historische
und Biographische Gesellschaft. [Buffalo, N.Y.?] :
Die Gesellschaft], 1911-1912.

�Buffalo's brewers were major investors in the Pan-American Exposition as well. According to the
Buffalo Commerical, by February 1, 1899, Buffalo brewers had purchased $55,800 in subscriptions of Pan-American

Exposition stock.

German-American Brewery. Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: A History of the City of Buffalo : Its Men and
Institutions : Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens.
Buffalo, N.Y. : Buffalo Evening News, 1908. p.135

The Magnus-Beck Brewery. Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: A History of the City of Buffalo : Its Men and
Institutions : Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens.
Buffalo, N.Y. : Buffalo Evening News, 1908. p.132.

Of course, brewing was not the only area where Buffalo's german population excelled. By 1901 the city also

boasted German-American leaders like Charles Fix (business &amp; politics), Frank Snyder (trucking and

cartage), Edward G. Becker (brewing &amp; banking), George Zimmerman (lumber &amp; banking) Christian Klinck and Jacob
Dold (meatpacking), F.C.M. Lautz (soap), Jacob Schoellkopf and Sons (tanning, flour mills, hydro-electric power,
brewing, banking, etc.), George Urban Jr. (flour mills, hydro-electric power), and Christian and Louis Stephen

Kurtzmann (pianos). Conrad Diehl, the mayor of Buffalo in 1901, was also of German descent.

The Kurtzmann Factories, Buffalo, N.Y. Source: Deutsch-Amerikanische
Historische und Biographische Gesellschaft. Buffalo und sein Deutschtum :
Deutsch- Amerikanische Historische und Biographische Gesellschaft. [Buffalo,
N.Y.?] : Die Gesellschaft], 1911-1912.

�Louis Stephen Kurtzmann, President of C. Kurtzmann &amp; Co., Manufacturer of Pianos.
Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Men of Buffalo: A Collection of Portraits of Men
Who Deserve to Rank as Typical Representatives of the Best Citizenship, Foremost
Activities and Highest Aspirations of the City of Buffalo. Chicago: A.N. Marquis &amp; Co.,
1902, p.257.

Buffalo's German-American Leaders and the Pan-American
Exposition
Because the Pan-American Exposition was, after all, a way to show off the city and its industries, many of these

individuals worked hard to bring the to Buffalo. Four members of the Board of Directors of the Exposition were
either German or of German descent--Conrad Diehl, August Esenwein, George Urban, Jr., and F.C.M. Lautz.

Conrad Diehl, Mayor of
Buffalo

August Carl Esenwein,
Architect. Photographer:
Unidentified. Source: DeutschAmerikanische Historische und
Biographische Gesellschaft.
Buffalo und sein Deutschtum :
Deutsch- Amerikanische
Historische und Biographische
Gesellschaft. [Buffalo, N.Y.?] :
Die Gesellschaft], 1911-1912.

Frederick C. M. Lautz.
Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: Men of Buffalo: A
Collection of Portraits of Men
Who Deserve to Rank as Typical
Representatives of the Best
Citizenship, Foremost Activities
and Highest Aspirations of the
City of Buffalo. Chicago: A.N.
Marquis &amp; Co., 1902, p. 286.

George Urban, Jr.
Photographer:
Unidentified. Source: A
History of the City of
Buffalo : Its Men and
Institutions : Biographical
Sketches of Leading
Citizens. Buffalo, N.Y. :
Buffalo Evening News,
1908, p. 192.

�The architect who designed the Temple of Music, August Esenwein, was from Germany, as were many of the

musicians and directors who performed at the Pan American Exposition. The huge "Saengerfest" or festival of
German choral music, which took place during the Exposition, brought at least ten thousand people to the fair.

"Alt Nürnberg", or "old Nuremberg," replicated several historic buildings in Nuremberg, as well as a large open-air

restaurant and concert area on the Midway. Within the buildings were reproductions of artwork and other cultural
treasures of Germany.

The Exposition Illuminated
German Americans were an influential group in Buffalo society at the time, and they had reason for pride in their

representation at the Pan-American Exposition.

German Culture in 1901 Buffalo
German settlers in Buffalo started forming singing societies before the
Civil War. By 1901, these included the Buffalo Sängerbund, Liedertafel,

Liederkranz, Germania Singing Society, Orpheus, and the Harugari
Männerchor. From June 24 to 27, 1901, Buffalo welcomed a huge crowd

of German-American singers from all over North America, for the 1901
Saengerfest. F. C. M Lautz led the organizational effort, while John

Lund conducted the enormous adult choir, and Joseph Mischka, an

immigrant from Bohemia (then part of Austria-Hungary) and, in 1901,
Director of Music for the Buffalo School System, directed about 3500
children in a concert at the 74th Regiment (now the Connecticut Street

Armory) - the only building large enough to accommodate the concerts.

John Lund, Conductor. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Geschichte der
Deutschen in Buffalo und Erie County, N.Y. / mit biographien und illustrationen
hervorragender Deutsch- Amerikaner, welche zur Entwickelung der Stadt Buffalo
beigetragen haben. (History of the Germans of Buffalo and Erie County). Buffalo,
N.Y. : Reinecke &amp; Zesch, 1897 (1898 printing), p. 172.

�Alt Nürnberg: German Culture on the Midway

View of the Restaurant at Alt Nürnberg.Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Cosmopolitan,
vol. 31, no. 5 (September 1901), p. 476

Bavarian Guard at Alt Nürnberg.Photographer: C.D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American

Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901. p. 10. Courtesy of Kerry
S. Grant

"Alt Nürnberg", or "old Nuremberg," replicated several historic buildings in Nuremberg, as well as a large open-air restaurant

and concert area on the Midway. Within the buildings were reproductions of artwork and other cultural treasures of Germany.

Alt Nürnberg on the Midway. Photographer: C.D.

Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition
Illustrated by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D.

Arnold, 1901. p. 110. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant

�View of Alt Nürnberg. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September 1901), p. 486

Other sources
Information on the history of Germans and German-Americans in Buffalo include:
1.

Susan Kriegbaum-Hanks' website Archivaria.com looks at the history of the Geman Community in Buffalo,
including discussion of the German singing societies.

2.

Geschichte der Deutschen in Buffalo und Erie County, N.Y. / mit biographien und illustrationen hervorragender

Deutsch- Amerikaner, welche zur Entwickelung der Stadt Buffalo beigetragen haben. (History of the Germans of

Buffalo and Erie County). Buffalo, N.Y. : Reinecke &amp; Zesch, 1897 (1898 printing)

3.

Deutsch-Amerikanische Historische und Biographische Gesellschaft. Buffalo und sein Deutschtum : DeutschAmerikanische Historische und Biographische Gesellschaft. [Buffalo, N.Y.?] : Die Gesellschaft], 1911-1912.

�The Italian Community of Buffalo and the

Pan-American Exposition

Buffalo's "Little Italy"
Of the major ethnic groups populating Buffalo at the turn of the century, the

Italians were by far the newest immigrants to the city, with the first large

groups having arrived in the mid-1880's. A colony known as "Little Italy"
developed on the city's West Side, in the extreme southwest corner of Main

Street, extending from Niagara Street's northern tip westward to the

waterfront. Most residents of this crowded and often crime-ridden area "Canal
Zone" hailed from Sicilian coastal towns. Smaller settlements of Italian
immigrants developed on the east side and farther north, although these areas

were settled by natives of Basilicata, Calabria and Campania. For the most

part, these Italian enclaves were segregated from Buffalo society, even from
the other ethnic communities inhabiting the city. Indeed, of the ethnic groups

populating Buffalo during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Italians
were the most residentially segregated. While this fostered a sense of identity

among Italians, it also " facilitated their exclusion from Buffalo's wider social
life.1

Horace O. (Orazio) Lanza. Class of
1901, Dept. of Law, University of
Buffalo, Class "Orator".
Photographer: UnidentifiedSource:
Iris (yearbook) vol. 4 "Pan-American
edition," 1901. Courtesy of the
University at Buffalo Archives.

Italians were not well represented in the police force or in the political life of Buffalo. Supporting a family

required considerable ingenuity, and usually several wage-earners, so most young people were unable to attend
school beyond age 13. A few Italian immigrants had become doctors and lawyers and entrepreneurs in Buffalo; the

whole community celebrated when became the first Italian graduate of University at Buffalo Law School in 1901.

Most of Buffalos' Italians (69%)2 were employed as laborers, in most cases seasonal outdoor laborers. Virginia Yans-

McLaughlan attributes this to the agrarian background of most of the Italians who emmigrated to Buffalo from the
southern portions of Italy.

"Most Italian men chose outdoor work, to which their cultural background permitted a ready adjustment.... A

small upper class, 1 percent of of working-age first-generation males, headed the occupational hierarchy.
Macaroni manufacturers, who exploited Buffalo's importance as a grain port, and produce merchants, who profited

from the city's location near northwestern New York's fruit belt, were in this elite group.... Real estate dealers in
this elite group sold homes in the Italian quarter to Italians; doctors, lawyers, a few bankers and businessmen

served the expanding needs of the immigrant community and established their reputations within it's confines....

�Little Italy's most successful men owed their achievements to expertise obtained abroad of to the tastes and needs
of the ethnic community. [During this period] very few distinguished themselves in the world outside the ghetto."

July 13. 1901 p.7, col.2

Buffalo Maeearoni &amp; Vermicelli Works.

H. Messersmith,
302 - 310 Michigan ST.
Non perdete tempo ad ammobigliare la vostra
casa per la Pan-American
Un letto con rete o materasso per $4.65
Il piu' grande buon mercatoal mondo
Com modi di querciasolida a specchio Francesc per $6.35
Tavole da Cucina $1.25
Sedic da camera da pranzo per 85c e piu'

Louis (or Luigi) Onetto was a prominent Buffalo businessman, an importer and manufacturer of pasta. This
advertisement appeared in the July 13, 1901 edition of Il Corriere Italiano.

3

�Whereas 87% of working-age males in Buffalo's Italian community worked in the "lower echelons of the
occupational hierarchy,"[s]killed workers—tailors, shoemakers, building trades—headed this group.4 In fact, these

were all trades locally associated with Italians. It is not surprising then to find that Italian immigrants in Buffalo
worked as stonecutters, skilled craftsmen, and laborers in the construction of the Pan-American Exposition.

Buffalo's Italians and the Pan-American Exposition
In addition to their contributions in building the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo's Italians were represented by
the many who staffed the Midway concession, "Venice in America." The gondoliers and mandolinists, some hired

directly from Italy, some from the Italian community in Buffalo, were a memorable part of the Exposition. "Venice
in America" highlighted many of the cultural treasures of Italy. Some of the mandolinists or guitarists employed at

the Venice in America concession were: Antonio Gugino, Giuseppe Leone, Ciro Laduca, Luigi Lomanto, Liborio

Maggio, Giuseppe Ortolani, Salvatore Ortolani, Giuseppe Vacanti.
The following excerpt from Richard Barry's The Granduers of the Exposition, certainly romanticized "Venice in
America".

"Venice in American is the chief landing dock of the boats that make the most delightful trip within the Exposition

grounds: the canal route that circumnavigates the rainbow city by day and the city of light by night. The Venetian
gondoliers chant their gay songs there, and many a carol of midnight joy rings across the silent water. Not even the

clearest, softest note from the silvery throat of the most celebrated contralto can equal the lustrous diapason of
delicious melody that floats as free and languorous from the lips of those Venetian boatmen and laughing soubrettes as

the song of the red-breasted thrush at daybreak. It dies away in the night air like the memory of a dream while in the
distance, with soft lamps from the neighboring bazaars shedding their soft radiance on the canal, and with boatloads of
people gliding through the luminous water to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets buxom girls in blue dance and

blithesome tarantella."5

Strolling Musicians in
"Venice in
America". Photographer:

Unidentified. Source:
Cosmopolitan, vol.31,
no. 5 (September 1901),
p.479. Courtesy of Kerry

S. Grant.

�Scenes of Venice in America

Gondolas on canal in Venice in America. Photographer: Unidentified.

Source: Richard Barry. The Granduers of the Exposition. Buffalo, N.Y. :

Robert Allen Reid, 1901. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo Archives.

Musicians in "Venice in America".Photographer: Unidentified. Source:
Pan-Am Scrapbook. n.p.: 1901? Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant..

Nina Morgana was another Buffalo resident recruited to perform in "Venice in
America." Morgana was known as Baby (or Child) Patti during her early years in
Buffalo, after the famous singer Adelina Patti. Contemporary articles claimed

that she was from Italy, but most souces state that she was born in Buffalo.
Morgana sang locally in Buffalo churches and schools from the age of four, but

her performances at the Pan-American Exposition presented her talents to a
much larger audience. She would go on to study in Italy and perform with such
greats as Enrico Caruso. See more about Nina Morgana in the Music and Musicians

at the Pan-American Exposition.

Nina Morgana (center)

�At the turn of the century, Italian music, especially opera, popular songs and instrumental music, was very popular
in Buffalo and throughout the United States. Italian-American bands including the Scinta band (Buffalo) and the

Fanciulli band (New York), played at the Exposition and were in high demand for concerts, dances and social

events. There were no microphones or electric amplifiers, and recorded music on wax cylinders was only available
to the wealthy. Below are pictures of Buffalo's Scinta Band, directed by Serafino Scinta and the University of

Buffalo's 1901 Mandolin Club.

Scinta Band of Buffalo

"University of Buffalo Mandolin and Guitar Club," 1901. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Iris (yearbook) vol. 4 "Pan­
American edition," 1901. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo Archives

�Il Corriere Italiano
Although Italians were a relatively new immigrant group in 1901
Buffalo, Italian churches, mutual-aid organizations, cultural

groups, and a newspaper, IL Corriere Italiano, were thriving in the

crowded Canal Zone. IL Corriere Italiano was probably Buffalo's
most important Italian language newspaper. "It was the first
successful organization run by Italians designed to serve the

entire community."6

Ferdinando Magnani, editor of IL Corriere Italiano, also published a
book, La Cittá di Buffalo, N.Y.,explaining and praising Buffalo to

potential immigrants from Italy. Magnani supplemented his
earnings by teaching and translating as seen in the advertisement

below.

IL Corriere Italiano kept Buffalo's Italians informed of local
happenings as well as news from Italy. There were numerous

articles on the Pan-American Exposition, including a "Pan"-related

poem. The paper reproduced below announces the September 14,
1901 death of president William McKinley, who was shot by

anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Exposition.
Ferdinando Magnani. Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: Ferdinando Magnani. La Cítta di Buffalo,
N.Y. : e paesi circonvicini e le colonie Italiane.
Buffalo, N.Y. : Tipografie editrice Italiana, 1908.

F. Magnani
English,

French and

Latin

131
Broadway
Buffalo

into Italian
Translator &amp;
Teacher

�Il Presidente McKinley e' Morto. Front page of Il Corriere Italiano announcing the death of President McKinley
Source: Photocopy from microfilm. Il Corriere Italiano, September 14, 1901. p.1.

�Finally, this poem, written by Upilio Nuti and was published in IL Corriere Italiano, June 22, 1901. The translation
below is courtesy of Serafino Pocari. It is not clear whether or not Mr. Nuti was a resident of Buffalo or one of the

many people who came to the city to work at or visit the Exposition.

"Pan"

Back then, almost a year ago,

All' Espoalzlone.

When I rushed here by train
One thing hit me right away
As I wandered around the town

And this inexplicable novelty
That wandered about my mind

For months, both night and day
It seemed to be everywhere.

I gazed at the Exposition's symbols
Reproduced in skillets and wondered
What mysterious connection united them?

I fabbricati che souo abibiti all' Esposizione di prodotti
viventi, restano all' entrata di Est Amherst St. e per la
importanza delle svariatissime mostre destano L'interesse di
tutti i visitatori che vi accorrono gia', quantunque non siano
peranco del tutto all’ordine.

I liked the burden better than its carrier!
Oh Pan-American! I am grateful to know that in English
"Pan" means "frying pan" [padella].

Buffalo, June 19, 1901

“Pan”
Alloraquando, quasi un anno fa

col treno in fretta me ne venni qui

—Upilio Nuti

una cosa all'istante mi colpi'

su e giu' girandolando la citta'.
E questa inesplicabil novita'
per cui per vari mesi si smarri'
la mente mia, ognor la notte e el di',

era che in tutte le localita'

miravo embkemi de l'Esposizione
riprodotti in padelle e non sapevo

qual mai li unisse arcana connessione.
A me conviene il basto e non la sella!

o Pan-American! questo a te devo
che in lingua inglese "Pan" vuol dir padella.

Buffalo, 19 Giugno 1901.

Upilio Nun

"Pan". Author: Upilio Nuti. Source: Photocopy from
microfilm. Il Corriere Italiano, June 22, 1901. p.1, col.
4-5.

�References
1.

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin. Family nd Community : Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930. Ithaca : Cornell
University Press, 1977, p.116.

2.

Ibid., p. 45.

3.

Ibid., p. 44.

4.

Ibid., p. 46.

5.

Richard Barry. The Granduers of the Exposition. Buffalo, NY : Robert Allen Reid, 1901.

6.

Yans-McLaughlin, p. 123.

For additional information on the history of Italian Immigrants in
Buffalo see:
•

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin. Like the Fingers of the Hand: the Family and Community Life of First-Generation Italian
Americans in Buffalo, New York, 1880-1930. Unpublished dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1970.

•

Ferdinando Magnani. La Cítta di Buffalo, N.Y. : e paesi circonvicini e le colonie Italiane. Buffalo, N.Y. : Tipografie
editrice Italiana, 1908.

�The Polish Community of Buffalo and the

Pan-American Exposition
In 1901, Buffalo "Polonia" made up a large percentage of Buffalo's population. The population of Poles had grown

from roughly 6.5% of the city'stotal population in 1881 to nearly 20% by 1904.1 The wave of immigrants arriving in
the later 19th century traveled from a Poland that was not unified but instead under the rule of three neighboring

powers—Prussia, Austria and Russia. That there was no consular support for this divided region is, in part, why

there was no clear representation of Polish culture at the Pan-American Exposition.
Those Poles who settled in Buffalo did, however, have a clear sense of national identity. They saw themselves as

Polish regardless of the political control of the regions from which they arrived. There was clear animosity towards
those countries controlling their homeland, which often translated into friction between Buffalo's Polish
community and those of other immigrant groups, especially the Germans. Still, Polonia developed a strong
economic and cultural base in Buffalo, primarily on the East Side, where there were several newspapers,

publishers, retailers, and manufacturers. Polish churches, schools, music, sports, and mutual-aid societies grew to
be a central part of the Buffalo Pole's life.

See Buffalo "Polonia at the Turn of the Century" for more information on the growth of the Polish Community leading

up to the Pan-American Exposition.

Franciszek (Francis) Fronczak
Most of Buffalo's Polish immigrants worked as general laborers, hired for

canal digging and street building.2It is not surprising then, that Poles
worked in the construction of the Exposition and on the railroads that

brought visitors to the grounds. Encouraged by community leaders,

Buffalo's Poles even bought shares of Pan-American Exposition
stock. Franciszek Fronczak, born in Buffalo to Polish immigrant parents,

was a young and articulate doctor, who graduated both from Canisius
College and the University of Buffalo Medical School. Although only in his
mid-twenties, he took a leadership role in the Polish community,

encouraging participation in the Pan-American Exposition, and chairing
the convention of the Alliance of Polish Singers, which met in Buffalo in

1901. Fronczak is still highly respected for his varied roles as doctor,

Buffalo's health commissioner (starting in 1910), journalist, and
supporter of Poland's independence.

Franciszek (Francis) E. Fronczak. Photo
credit: Unidentified. Source: Album
pamiatkowe i przewodnik handlowy : osady
polskiej w miescie Buffalo, z do aczeniem
okolicznych miejscowósci ze stanu New
York. Buffalo, N.Y. : Wydane staraniem i nak
. Polskiej Spó ki Wydawniczej, 1906-1909.
Courtesy of the University at Buffalo University Libraries Polish Collection.

�It is interesting to note that during this period, the Polish community was becoming more politically active but was
still relatively isolated from the rest of Buffalo society. Partially by choice and also due to the ethnic prejudices of

both the Poles and their neighbors, Buffalo Polonia was a remote and self-sufficient colony within the city. Yet
many Poles were willing to participate in both the building and financial support of the Pan-American Exposition.

This is certainly a testament to the influence of leaders like Fronczak.

The following letter appeared in the January 26, 1899 Buffalo Express in a section of the paper where daily lists of

Exposition subscribers (those who purchased stock) were listed.
January 25, 1899

Henry W. Sprague:

Dear Sir — Enclosed please find a number of Polish subscribers whom I have seen within a few hours. We have so far
subscribed here almost $4,000, and hope to be able to add enough to make $10,000 from the Polish citizens of Buffalo.

May this mite be a token of our sincerity in the enterprise. Hoping to have the priviledge of sending another list in a

few days, I am

Very truly yours
Francis E. Fronczak

The Polish Press and the Exposition

Polak Amerykanski Press.

Stanislaw Slisz (seated in the
center), with staff. Photo credit:

Unidentified. Source: Album

pamiatkowe i przewodnik
handlowy : osady polskiej w

miescie Buffalo, z do aczeniem
okolicznych miejscowósci ze stanu
New York. Buffalo, N.Y. : Wydane
staraniem i nak . Polskiej Spó ki

Wydawniczej, 1906-1909. Courtesy
of the University at Buffalo University Libraries Polish
Collection.

�The most popular Polish-language newspaper in 1901 was the
daily Polak w Ameryce , which had circulation over 6,000 in a local
population of about 75,000 Poles. The paper began publication in

1885 under the name Ojczyzna. By 1887 the name had changed
to Polak w Ameryce, which translates as "The Pole in

America." Stanislaw Slisz and his brother Jozef, both of whom came
to Buffalo in 1885, became the publishers of Polak w Ameryce. The

Slisz's Polak Amerykanski Press also published magazines and books
for Polish-speaking people throughout the United States.

Other Polish newspapers at the time of the Pan-American Exposition
were, Gazeta Buffaloska(Buffalo Gazette), the Echo, the Slonce (Sun),

and the Warta (Guard)

The Polak w Ameryce promoted the Pan-American Exposition and

urged Polish residents to buy shares. The response must have
gratified the promoters: about 230 Poles bought roughly $8,300 worth

of Exposition Company shares. (Overall, 11,000 investors spent $1.5

million on Pan-American shares.) At a time when hourly pay for
railroad workers, for example, was 14 to 16 cents, a ten-dollar

Advertisment for Pan-American Exposition
Company Stock. Source: This advertisment
appeared in the March 31, 1899 issue of Polak
w Ameryce. The image was digitized from a
microfilm copy. Listed in the ad are the
Exposition's Board of Directors.

expenditure was considerable. This represented a strong commitment

of Polish immigrants to their adopted city. The advertisement at right appeared in the March 31, 1899 issue
of Polak w Ameryce.

The Polish Singers' Alliance
From August 19 to 22, 1901 Polish singers came to Buffalo and the Pan-American Exposition from all over the
United States. Several local singing societies, including the Lutnia ("lute") and Chopin choral societies, took part in
the Polish Singers' Alliance competition and concerts, which were very well attended and favorably reviewed in the

English, Polish and German presses.

•

"Sons of Plucky Poland" appeared in the August 19, 1901 Buffalo Courier.

•

"Polish Singers Convene" appeared in the August 19, 1901 Buffalo Express.

�Polish Singing Societies of Buffalo

Chopin Choral Society.Photo credit: Unidentified. Source:

Album pamiatkowe i przewodnik handlowy : osady polskiej w

miescie Buffalo, z do aczeniem okolicznych miejscowósci ze stanu
New York. Buffalo, N.Y. : Wydane staraniem i nak . Polskiej Spó ki

Wydawniczej, 1906-1909. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo University Libraries Polish Collection.

Kalina Choral Society.Photo credit: Unidentified. Source: Album

pamiatkowe i przewodnik handlowy : osady polskiej w miescie
Buffalo, z do aczeniem okolicznych miejscowósci ze stanu New

York. Buffalo, N.Y. : Wydane staraniem i nak . Polskiej Spó ki
Wydawniczej, 1906-1909. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo -

University Libraries Polish Collection.

Lutnia Choral Society.Photo credit: Unidentified. Source: Album

pamiatkowe i przewodnik handlowy : osady polskiej w miescie
Buffalo, z do aczeniem okolicznych miejscowósci ze stanu New

York. Buffalo, N.Y. : Wydane staraniem i nak . Polskiej Spó ki

Wydawniczej, 1906-1909. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo University Libraries Polish Collection.

Wanda Choral Society.Photo credit: Unidentified. Source:

Album pamiatkowe i przewodnik handlowy : osady polskiej w
miescie Buffalo, z do aczeniem okolicznych miejscowósci ze stanu
New York. Buffalo, N.Y. : Wydane staraniem i nak . Polskiej Spó ki
Wydawniczej, 1906-1909. Courtesy of the University at Buffalo -

University Libraries Polish Collection.

�Assassination and the Polish Community
In 1901, workers were still agitating for union-organizing

rights and for the eight-hour day, but strikes and worker
demonstrations were commonly crushed by private troops
(e.g., the Pinkertons) and government forces (police,

National Guard). Wages for laborers were low, workdays
were 10 or more hours, six days a week, and most
children went to work at age 13 or 14. Like most other

immigrants groups, the Poles, generally thought of as
industrous workers, were caught in this difficult

situation, and only the educated few were able to rise

above it. One who did not manage to rise above it was
Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed laborer who came to
Buffalo and the Exposition intending to shoot President

William McKinley. He did just that on September 6, 1901
and on September 14, the President died.

The fact that he was the American-born son of a Polish

immigrant was a source of shame and anger for Poles in
Buffalo. The planned parade and celebration of Polish

Day at the Pan-American Exposition were canceled by

community leaders, despite months of preparation. The Polish-language press was apparently shocked and
disgusted at the assassination. Police arrested a number of Polish residents, some of whom were held for

questioning, as well as a number of Italians. However, no conspiracy was discovered—Czolgosz had acted
independently.

Indeed, the assassination of President

Poles Are Incensed.

McKinley was a setback to Buffalo's

Polish community. However, despite

this and the many prejudices and

Mass Meeting last Nightde
nounced the Assassin.
Disgrace To The Name

barriers faced, Buffalo's Polish

Americans would grow to achieve
success in the professions, business

and politics of subsequent years,
while still maintaining their sense of

ethnic pride.

�References:
1.

Eugene Edward Obidinski. Ethnic to status group : a study of Polish Americans in Buffalo. Unpublished

dissertation --State University of New York at Buffalo, 1968; quoted in Stanislawa Tillson, Transformation of the
Polish Sub-Community in Western New York : the Case of Buffalo. Unpublished dissertation -- Uniwersytet

Warszawski, 1976, p. 10.
2.

Tillson, p. 9.

Additional Resources:
•

Ann T. Skulicz. Rise of the Buffalo "Polonia", 1887-1900. Unpublished thesis-University of Buffalo, 1951.

•

Ksiega Pamiatkowa, Zlotego Jubileuszu Osady Polskiej i Parafji Sw. Stanislawa, B. i M. w Buffalo, New York, 1873­

1923. [Buffalo, N.Y.] Nakladem Komitetu Wydawniczego [1923].

•

Album pamiatkowe i przewodnik handlowy : osady polskiej w miescie Buffalo, z do aczeniem okolicznych miejscowósci
ze stanu New York. Buffalo, N.Y. : Wydane staraniem i nak . Polskiej Spó ki Wydawniczej, 1906-1909.

For information on the meatpacking industry of Buffalo's East Side, see Fred Jablonski's East Buffalo 1846-1976 at
http://geocities.com/richslon/eastbuf.html. There is a "Pan-Am" section as well as a "Gallery," which discusses the

East Side stockyards, meatpackers and purveyors, most of whom were leaders in the German or Polish communities.

Update Sept. 2009: Unfortunately, as of 2008, the link is no longer valid. Try using the Wayback Web to access the

archived pages at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://geocities.com/richslon/eastbuf.html

�The Irish Community of Buffalo and the

Pan-American Exposition
By 1901, there was a well-established Irish community living and working in Buffalo, for the Irish, like the

Germans, were among the earliest of Buffalo's settlers. Most of the city's Irish emigrated from their home country
in response to the Irish Famine, and arrived in Buffalo during a period when the city was rapidly growing as a grain

port. As the century progressed, Buffalo would become a major transportation hub for shipping and rail and a

center of heavy industry. Both the German and Irish immigrants played major roles in the city's growth. However,

while the Germans became part of Buffalo's political and economic mainstream, the Irish were somewhat socially
isolated by century's end, in part because they maintained a much stronger ethnic identity, with emphasis on

family ties, Ireland and the Catholic church.

The Irish were an integral part of the labor force during the periods of Buffalo's heaviest growth. It is difficult to
say with any certainty, however, exactly what role the Irish as a group, may have played in the Pan-American

Exposition. With the exception of a few diocese-supported publications, there were no ethnic Irish newspapers to
refer to1, and personal accounts have been difficult to obtain. Nonetheless, there is ample evidence allowing us to

speculate as to just what role Buffalo's Irish community played in the construction and operation of the Exposition.

•

The First Ward

•

The Great Strike of 1899 (The Scoopers Strike)

•

Building the Exposition

•

The Exposition Fire Department

•

Railroad Day

•

Irish Sports Week

�The First Ward
While it is estimated that there may have been as few at 400 Irish-born in

Buffalo in the early 1830's2, within 20 years, the population had grown to over

ten thousand. Most were Catholic and arrived in the years following the Great

Irish Famine. They settled primarily in the First Ward, a low-lying area south of
the city's central business district near the waterfront, which was lined with

grain elevators, warehouses and factories. Buffalo's first Roman Catholic

Bishop, Fr. John Timon, organized the St. Vincent de Paul Society to aid those
immigrants escaping the famine and established St. Brigid's Roman Catholic

Church in response. The church became the spiritual and social center of the

First Ward and while originally home to families of numerous ethnicities, by

1880, 70% of the ward's population was Irish.3
In the early periods of settlement, most of Buffalo's Irish were unskilled or

semiskilled laborers who worked in the regions immediately adjacent to the

First Ward—as longshoremen, at the nearby Buffalo Union Furnace, and on the
railroads. Because of the First Ward's proximity to the numerous grain elevators
that lined the Buffalo River, the city's "grain-scoopers" were predominantly

Irish. William Jenkins writes,

Bishop John Timon. Image credit:
The Sage Sons &amp; Co. Lithograph Co.,
Buffalo, N.Y. n.d. Source: Charles G.
Deuther. The Life and Times of the
Rt. Rev. John Timon, D.D., First
Roman Catholic Bishop of the
Diocese of Buffalo. Buffalo, N.Y. :
Charles G. Deuther, 1870.
Frontispiece.

[Eastern elevator, Buffalo, N.Y.]

The milieu of the First Ward was akin to a small industrial town where,
rather than the Satanic mill, the Irish lived in the shadow of the grain
elevator. Many Irish immigrant livelihoods depended on the latter
building, developed by Joseph Dart in 1842.4

Scooping was seasonal work, dependent upon the traffic of shipping on the Great Lakes and Erie canal. During the
winter Irish laborers often took work on the railroads or as workers in other capacities such as digging canals and

warehouse slips and repairing Buffalo's sea walls.5 Indeed, by 1900, the railroads were employing a significant
number of Buffalo's Irish, as were the foundries, mills and factories. But "scooping" was a job that became almost
exclusively associated with the Irish and one of the more pivotal events in the history of the Buffalo involved this

group of laborers at a time when the city was planning for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.

�The Great Strike of 1899
In the spring of 1899, while Buffalo leaders were engaged in planning the Pan­

American Exposition to be held 2 years later, scoopers, freight handlers and

other dock workers on the city's waterfront went on strike, bringing Great

Lakes commercial transport to a standstill. The scoopers were not protesting
against the lake shipping companies or local industrialists, rather, their
complaints were waged against the freight contractors—fellow Irish saloon

bosses common in the First Ward, who held exclusive contracts with the

elevators and shipping companies to control the labor supply. William Connors,
in particular, was the grain contractor against whom this strike was directed.

He was an Irish saloon-keeper who "contracted with shipping companies to
unload grain from ships in Buffalo's harbor, and then in turn signed on men to

do work. This arrangement was highly profitable for Connors, but also highly

exploitative, since the men worked on a day-by-day basis with no job security,

Bishop James Quigley

and Connors picked the men who spent the most money in his saloon to perform the labor."6

The strike created a volatile environment and could easily have lead to violence between the strikers and the
Connors camp. Despite their notoriety for anti-labor crackdowns, police and City officials exhibited restraint,

although both Connors and the scoopers accused them of favoritism. The police did not support Connor's attempts
to bring in scab labor and "Democratic Mayor Conrad Diehl, finding himself in an awkward position, took no public

stand. The Common Council, according to its printed proceedings, did not discuss the strike..."7 and the
administration's overall apathy toward the dockside labor unrest was apparant.

The Buffalo Star commented "During this crisis, what has our city government done? Talked Pan-American, with a
thousand families struggling against starvation."8

Bishop James Quigley proved to be an important force in the dispute, defending the Irish workers against Irish
contractor interests, and calling the saloon-system immoral. He was joined in the attack on Connors' forces by
other clergyman, including Protestants from the city's leading churches.9Despite the tension and the disruption to

lake commerce, the strike was a relatively peaceful victory for the strikers (only one man was killed) and led to
reforms in the saloon-boss system of labor, much to the benefit of the scoopers, longshoremen and other freight

handlers.10

�Images of Buffalo's Grain Elevators, ca.1900 (Adjacent to the First

Ward)

Unloading wheat into elevators, Buffalo. Photographer: Unidentified. Published: c1900 /

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011477. "Badger State" and "Lackawanna Green Bay Line" on ship.

Collection: Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection. Repository: Library of Congress

Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Source:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections

An Old timer at C.T.T. elevator, Buffalo, N.Y. Photographer: Unidentified. Published:

[ca.1900] / Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012926. "Badger State" and "Lackawanna Green Bay Line"
on ship. Collection: Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection. Repository: Library of

Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Source:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/

Great Northern elevator and shipping, Buffalo, N.Y. Photographer: Unidentified.

Published: 1900 / Detroit Publishing Co. no. 012924. "Andaste of Ishpeming" on left
freighter; "I.W. Nicholas" on center freighter; and "B.L. Pennington" on right freighter.
Collection: Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection. Repository: Library of

Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Source:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections

River and elevators, Buffalo.Photographer: Unidentified. Published: [c1900] / Detroit
Publishing Co. no. 011470. Collection: Detroit Publishing Company Photograph

Collection. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington,
D.C. 20540 USA. Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections

�River and elevators, Buffalo, foot of Michigan St. Photographer: Unidentified.
Published: c1900 / Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011468. Collection: Detroit Publishing

Company Photograph Collection. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Source:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections

River and elevators, Buffalo, foot of Main St. Photographer: Unidentified.
Published: c1900 / Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011469. Collection: Detroit Publishing
Company Photograph Collection. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Source:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/

Building the Exposition
The Scoopers Strike may give the impression that most of Buffalo's Irish were
unskilled laborers. It is true that most of the immigrants arriving during the 1850's
began work as unskilled or semiskilled laborers. There were very few entrepreneurs
and only two factory owners in 1855—William Carland, who owned Gothic Hall and

made ready-made men's clothing, and Augustine Keogh, who manufactured
pianofortes.11
By 1900 however, the Irish had become well established in the semiskilled and

skilled trades and were making strides in what we would refer to today as "white

collar" jobs. In looking at a sample of Irish surnames in the 1900 Buffalo Directory one

can see a noticeable increase over previous years in the number of professionals,
clerks, shopkeepers and, among women, teachers. Most significant, however, were
the numbers of tradesmen listed, especially, blacksmiths, carpenters, bricklayers,

molders and other construction related occupations. Over 16% of the sample fell into
the category of "skilled trade", while 12% were laborers, and 10% worked for the

railroads.12
With so many involved in construction-related occupations, we can speculate that

Buffalo's Irish played some sort of role in the actual construction of the Exposition. It

was well advertised throughout the period newspapers that the pay for construction

Workers on the Exposition
Grounds.Photographer:
Unidentified. Source: Thomas
E. Leary and Elizabeth C.
Sholes. Buffalo's Pan-American
Exposition. Charleston, SC :
Arcadia Publishing, c1998,
p.19. From the collection of
the Buffalo and Erie County
Historical Society.

work at the Exposition grounds was very good and that laborers were coming to Buffalo from all parts of the

�country. With good pay and and abundance of construction work, it is safe to assume that the Irish tradesmen and
laborers were involved in building construction and in operation of the railroads running to and from the grounds.
It is unfortunate that, without any first-hand accounts, we can only speculate at this point.

The Exposition Fire Department

Temporary Battalion No. 7: Engine 33.Buffalo Fire
Department - 1901. Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: Courtesy of The Buffalo Firefighters
Historical Society. Note the Midway Entrance and
Indian Congress Exhibit in the background.

Hook and Ladder Co. 10

The Buffalo Fire Department, with its heavy representation of Irish-Americans, was charged with fire protection of
the Pan-American Exposition grounds with five fire companies assigned to protect the property and people at the

fair. These five companies made up temporary Battalion No. 7, and included Engine 33, which consisted of a

combination chemical engine and hose wagon, along with two horses. Engine 33 was located at the South Midway
near the Indian Congress, and its crew included members of Buffalo's Irish and German communities. Hook &amp;

Ladder 10 is shown with their 65 foot Gleason &amp; Bailey truck in front of their quarters near the Belt Line Station on
the exhibition grounds.

�The Buffalo Fire Department's Alarm Office Journal for September 6, 1901 indicates the general call received by
the office when President William McKinley was shot in the Temple of Music at 4:10 p.m. Source: Courtesy of The

Buffalo Firefighters Historical Society]
Occupations in the police and fire services have been historically, if not stereotypically, linked to Irish immigrants.

In the case of Buffalo, separate research by William Jenkins and Sidney Harring and supports the stereotype. The

Buffalo Fire Department, never formally organized as a paid fire service until 1880, had a disproportionately large

number of Irish. Jenkins found that in 1900, of the Department's captains, lieutenants and firemen, the percentage
of Irish was 39.5, 18, and 37.7 respectively.13

This was also the case with the city's police department. "The plethora of Irish names in the annual reports of the

Buffalo Board of Police is testament to the strong representation of the first- and second- generation Irish of the
city on the force."14 Indeed, in reviewing the 10 precincts and 2 substations existing in 1900, Harring found that 8

of the 12 police captains had Irish surnames, as did 72% of the officers.15

Railroad Day

Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Office of the Division Engineer.

Many of Buffalo's Irish
immigrants were employed as

A.Division
Vander
Hoek,
Engineer.
Personal:

Buffalo, N. Y.

Sept.

11th, 1901.

laborers on the railroads that

served the city, bringing out-of­

Subject: observing

Railroad day as

Holiday.

town visitors to Buffalo. They
worked as switchmen, yard

supervisors, conductors,
The Railroad company has decided not to observe Railroad day

engineers, signalmen and freight

handlers. As a thriving railroad

at the Pan-American Exposition as a holiday.

The regular work of the department is not to

center in 1901, the Pan­
American Exposition was within
a single day's journey by rail for

interfered with.

However, you may give leavea of absence to such persons as desired, where
this

can be done

without interference

to the work, or safety of thetraf ic.

No free transportation, however, will be granted or special.

millions, and many special
excursion trains and private cars
arrived at the Exposition Depot,

to out until your return, in your place, notifying

located at the northern end of

arrangements made, so

the exposition grounds.

in rendering assistance.

However, as noted in this letter,

that

in case of trouble, there

will be no delay

Yours truly, A. Vander Hoek,

railway business took

Division Engineer.

precedence over the pleasures

of the Pan for the employees of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

this office of the

"Railroad Day" Letter. Source: Courtesy of Tom Blake

�Irish Sports Week
The only Pan-American Exposition event to feature some aspect of Irish culture was "Irish Sports Week," which took
place from August 28-31, 1901. Events included Gaelic games as well as other Irish running and jumping events,
which were held in the stadium located on the Exposition grounds. These activities gave local Irish-Americans a
chance to compete against individuals and teams from other areas and to showcase their national sports before an
international audience.

Pan-American Exposition

Stadium. Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: The Latest and Best Views of the

Pan-American Exposition. Buffalo, N.Y.:
Robert Allan Reid, 1901.

The highlight of the games was an Irish football match where spectators were treated to a free fight. "For
roughness it has got the regulation college game scraped to a polish. Black eyes, bloody noses and cracked heads

were much in evidence by the time the first half was over. The game resembled a free fight more than anything
else."16

Press coverage by the Buffalo Evening News indicates that the reception for the Irish sporting events was rather
lukewarm, in part because the games were so poorly organized and promoted. On August 30th, the News reported
that "[t]he Irish sports in the Stadium have been so carelessly managed that they attracted but little interest

yesterday."17 However, articles do describe the excitement of hurling, a game somewhat on the order of lacrosse.

"It is pretty rough fun, but it is fast and the crowd liked it."18

Irish Sports
In The Stadium,
The Hurling Match Was Ex
citing, But the Jiggers
Failed to Jig.
There was a long delay yesterday aft
ernoon in the Stadium before the Irish
sports were ran off, and when the games
took place the sport was not of the
widly exciting kind, with the exception
of the hurling match, a game some
what on the order of lacrosse.
It is
pretty rough fun, but it is fast and the
crowd liked it.
The Irish jiggers didn't jig because
the management had thoughtfully
neglected to hire a fiddler, and a jig
without a fiddler would be it melancholy
affair, indeed, so the event was declared
off, much to the disappointment of the
four young men who had entered for it.

Article: "Irish Sports in the Stadium."Digitized photocopy. Source: "Irish Sports in

the Stadium." Buffalo Evening News, August 29, 1901.

�The Irish Sports

Conclude Today.
Yesterday's Performances Were
Free From Violence—Gunn
Won a Prize.

Article: "Irish Sports Conclude Today."Source: "Irish Sports

in the Stadium." Buffalo Evening News, August 31, 1901.

The Irish sports at the Stadium yesterday
took as a snore civillized aspect.
The O'Connell football team did not appear,
having left in a huff for
their
happy home in New York. The Klekhams,
who kicked everything else also
the day before, played a mild and proper
game with the all Irebands and won
by the score of 6 to 5.

Irish Football
A Free Fight,
Article: "Irish Foodball a Free Fight."Digitized photocopy.

Source: "Irish Sports in the Stadium." Buffalo Evening News, August

30, 1901.

Plenty of Slugging in the
Game in the Stadium
Yes
terday-Other Games.
The Irish sports in the Stadium have
been so carelessly managed that they
attracted but little interest yesterday.

The races are slow, and the entries.In
most or the events have dwindled
almost to the vanishing point.

The feature of yesterday's programme
was the game of Irish football. 13 men
to a team. For roughness it has got the

regulation college game scraped to a
polish. Black eyes, bloody noses and
cracked heads were much in evidence
by the time the first hal: was over. The
game resembled a free flight more than
anything else.

�References
1.

In 1852, Bishop Timon brought D'Arcy McGee from Boston to Buffalo to publish the Buffalo American Celt and
Catholic Citizenalthough it was to be edited by future politician, Michael Hagan, "to provide in English, news of
diocesan affairs and reminders of religious obligations and to interpret public questions from a non-partisan, but

wholly Catholic viewpoint." In 1853, when McGee proved too partisan, Timon "guided" the American Celt's

successor The Sentinel, edited by Hagan. David A. Gerber. The making of an American pluralism : Buffalo, New
York, 1825-60. Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 1989, p. 153, 293. It is unclear as to when

the Sentinel ceased publication, but in the latter decades of the century Buffalo had no Irish newpaper.
2.

Quoted in Gerber, p. 122.

3.

William M. Jenkins. "In the Shadow of the Grain Elevator: A Portrait of an Irish Neighborhood in Buffalo New
York in the nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Éire-Ireland, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, v. 37,

no.1/2 (Spring/Summer, 2002), p. 20

4.

Ibid., pp. 23-24.

5.

David A. Gerber. The Making of an American pluralism, p. 125.

6.

Sidney Lee Harring. The Buffalo Police—1872-1915: Industrialization, Social Unrest and the Development of the

Police Institution.Unpublished dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976. pp. 138-139. Note: Harring

reports that the name of the contractor was James Connors. In an email dated June 10, 2006, A.M.Beiter informed

me that that the contactor involved in the dispute was William Connors, not James -- B.L. Battleson, June 12,
2006..

7.

Brenda K. Shelton."The Grain Shovellers' Strike of 1899." Labor History, v.9 1968, p. 220.

8.

Ibid.

9.

Sidney Lee Harring. The Buffalo Police—1872-1915, p. 139.

10. David A. Gerber. The Making of an American pluralism, p. 143.
11. A sample of 975 Irish surnames, spanning from O'Boyle to O'Toole was taken from The Buffalo Directory,

(Buffalo, NY : The Courier Company of Buffalo, 1900.) Occupations studies fell into the following categories:
laborer (12%), skilled laborer (16%), railroad worker (10%), scooper (3%), police or fire department (5%),
saloonkeeper (3%), and teacher (3%). There were other occupations listed, including a handful of professionals
and entrepeneurs, as well as contractors and foremen. While not at all scientific, this sampling does give an overall
sense that by 1900, those Irish-born and of Irish descent in Buffalo were no longer primarily unskilled laborers, as

they were a few decades prior.
12. William M. Jenkins. Social and Geographic Mobility Among the Irish in Canada and the United States: a
Comparative Study of Toronto, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York, 1880-1910. Unpublished dissertation, University

of Toronto, 2001, p. 315.

13. Ibid.
14. Harring, p.120.
15. "Irish Football a Free Fight." Buffalo Evening News, August 30, 1901.
16. Ibid.
17. "Irish Sports in the Stadium." Buffalo Evening News, August 29, 1901.

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Introduction

A general overview of music at the Pan-American Exposition, with a map of the music venues on the Exposition grounds.

The Temple of Music

Background information about the major musical venue at the Exposition, with twenty-eight images, including those of the
Temple under construction, its interior, daylight and nightime shots from different perspectives, and architectural drawings.
Four images of the Isidore Konti sculptures that adorned the building are included.

•

Bandstands

Eleven images of the Plaza, Esplanade, and Casino bandstands.

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Sheet Music

Twenty-eight pieces of sheet music written for or about the Exposition, including songs lamenting the death of President
McKinley. Audio files of some of the pieces are also available.

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Bands

Bands that performed at the Exposition, including eighteen images.

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Music Guide

Music at the Pan-American Exposition: Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901 was the official guide to "scheduled"

music performed at the major musical venues at the Exposition. It includes a description of the Emmons Howard organ in
the Temple of Music, portraits of and biographical information about the organists who were scheduled to perform, and

descriptions and images of the bands that performed. The page contains an index to this guide and a link to the complete

guide, viewable page by page.

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Personal Accounts and Stories

The three personal accounts of musical activities at the Exposition include an excerpt from John Philip Sousa's
autobiography, a description of the circumstances under which Victor Herbert's composition Pan-Americana was submitted
to the Exposition competition, and Benita Gray's diary account of two visits to the Exposition, including one during which

she sang at the Welsh Day choral competition on September 20, 1901. Mrs. Gray's diary entries make many references to
buildings and events at the Exposition and links have been provided to allow the user to see many of the same sights that

she may have seen.Also included is a page about singer Nina Morgana, who sang at the Exposition at age nine and went on
to a successful career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

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Ethnic Music

Ten images of some of the types of ethnic music performed at the Exposition, including Mexican, Italian, Philippine,
Middle Eastern, and African. Images of four instruments from the African Village now in the collections of the Buffalo
Museum of Science are included.

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Organ and Organists

Images, description, and specifications of the Emmons Howard organ in the Temple of Music, with further information
about some of the noted organists who performed at the Exposition.

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Instruments

Background on some of the other instruments displayed at the Exposition, including images of the Steinway piano still
located in the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society's building, which was the New York State Building during the

time of the Exposition.

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Essays

Essays contributed by Robert Berkman on player pianos and Frank Cipolla on bands at the turn of the century.

�Introduction
Music was a major component of the many offerings of
the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, 1901. It

encompassed orchestral, band, organ, choral, and
ethnic music, as well as performances by noted
vocalists and instrumentalists. Displays and
demonstrations of instrument manufacturers were also

part of the Exposition's musical offerings. The following
statement in the Final Report of the Pan-American

Exposition Company summarizes the quantity of band
and orchestra music alone that was offered.

With the exception of but a few weeks three bands, or two
bands and one orchestra, were in attendance and played twice

each day during the Exposition. It will thus be seen that an
average of six band or orchestra concerts were given each day
and evening, or an approximate total number of one thousand

such concerts were given during the period of the Exposition.
The great majority of the classical music performed by
the bands and orchestras could be classified as either

Plaza Bandstand - Closeup. View: Close-up of the bandstand in
the Plaza showing the ornately detailed columns and roof.
Photographer: Unidentified, probably C. D. Arnold. Source:
Music at the Pan-American Exposition: Organists, Orchestras,
Bands, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

"light classics" or other classical works that had already been assimilated into the public's musical taste.
Arrangements of operatic works can be found on programs of the bands (especially Wagner), orchestras, and organ

recitalists. Among the programmed works are many by composers whose names are no longer readily familiar to

us. In short, the musical programming was geared towards the popular taste and more adventuresome
contemporary music was ignored. But the panoply of music provided by the different venues of the Exposition was
nonetheless impressive.

The map below shows the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition with the bandstands and Temple of
Music highlighted. These were the major venues for performance of concert music at the Exposition. Other venues

of concert music included an occasional use of the Stadium and demonstrations of new musical instruments in the

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Midway too was always alive with music at such sites as Alt Nürnberg,
Beautiful Orient, Hawaii, Streets of Mexico, Venice in America, African Village, and the Japanese Village.

��The Temple of Music
The Temple of Music was designed to function as both concert hall and ceremonial stage. The members of the
music committee had originally requested that a larger building be constructed to house concerts of instrumental

and choral music. Financial constraints altered the plan, reducing the size of the hall and adapting it for

multifunctional use. Upon completion, it stood 150 x 150 feet with a dome rising 180 feet above the floor of the

Temple. Its seating capacity was 2,200.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: Color Rendering of the Temple of Music, by the architects Esenwein
&amp; Johnson. Source: Kerry S. Grant. The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color, and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, 1901. Image from the collection of the Buffalo and Erie Country Historical Society.

�The Temple was built by architect August C. Esenwein at a cost of $85,000
($1,695,778.33 in 2001 dollars). Esenwein utilized an Italian Renaissance style in

keeping with the overall architectural plan of the Free Renaissance style adopted by
the Exposition Board of Architects led by John M. Carrère. The building bore

elaborate decorative elements and four large sculptures by Isidore Konti over each of
the four entrances. The color of the building, inside and out, was designed by Charles

Yardley Turner to fit into his color scheme for the entire Exposition. Turner's colors

for the Temple included red for the foundation with accents of blue, pale green, and
terra cotta.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American
Exposition. View: Architectural drawing of the
Temple of Music. Source: "The Music Hall of the
Pan-American Exposition." Engineering Record,
vol. 43, no. 6, (Feb. 9, 1901) pp.132-134.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: The Temple of Music, with scaffolding. Notice the ornamental staff
being applied to the hardwood building frame. Photographer: C. D. Arnold? Source: Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition by
Thomas Leary and Elizabeth Sholes with the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, Charleston, SC : Arcadia Publishing,
c1998.

�The Temple of Music at the Pan­
American Exposition. View: Close­
up of one of the walls of the
Temple of Music showing the
ornate detail of the bas-relief
sculpture. Photographer: C. D.
Arnold. Source: Buffalo's Pan­
American Exposition by Thomas
Leary and Elizabeth Sholes with
the Buffalo and Erie County
Historical Society, Charleston, SC :
Arcadia Publishing, c1998, p. 34.

The Temple of Music at
the Pan-American
Exposition. View: The
Temple of Music, with
sign reading "Music
Building", under
construction, December
5, 1900. Notice the men
working on the dome of
the building.
Photographer: C. D.
Arnold? Source:
Buffalo's Pan-American
Exposition by Thomas
Leary and Elizabeth
Sholes with the Buffalo
and Erie County
Historical Society,
Charleston, SC : Arcadia
Publishing, c1998, p. 21.

�Images of the Completed Temple of Music
The Temple of Music at
the Pan-American
Exposition. View: Temple
of Music from the West,
showing formal gardens.
Photographer:
Unidentified. Source:
The Rand-McNally Hand­
Book to the Pan­
American Exposition,
Buffalo and Niagara
Falls. Chicago and New
York: Rand, McNally &amp;
Co., 1901. Courtesy of
Kerry S. Grant.

The Temple of
Music atPan
the­
American
Exposition. View:
Temple of Music,
with Machinery
and
Transportation
Building on the
right and the
Mines Building
beyond the
Temple on the
left.
Photographer:
Unidentified.
Source:
Pan­
American
Exposition
Scrapbook [N. P.,
1901?]. Courtesy
of Kerry S. Grant.

�he Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: The Fountain of Abundance in front of the Temple of
Music. Photographer: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrtated, by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y.,
1901. p. 54. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�The Temple of Music at
the Pan-American
Exposition. View: Looking
South from the Electric
Tower, this photograph
was taken at a height of
over 300 feet. It shows
the buildings around the
Court of Fountains,
including the Temple of
Music on the right and
the Ethnology Building
facing it on the left. The
Esplanade, with both its
bandstands, is also
visible. Photographer: C.
D. Arnold. Source: The
Pan-American Exposition
Illustrated, by C. D.
Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y.,
1901. p. 26. Courtesy of
Kerry S. Grant.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: Dedication Day at the Pan-American Exposition.
Dignitaries line up to enter the Temple of Music for the ceremonial dedication of the Exposition on May 20,
1901. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge both spoke as part of the
ceremonies. Part of the Fountain of Abundance is visible in the lower right and the Horticulture Building is
visible to the left of the Temple of Music. Photographer: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition
Illustrated, by C. D. Arnold, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. P. 29. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: Temple of Music as
seen through the colonnade. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Pan­
American Souvenir by Charles Cutter. Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Charles Cutter,
1901 Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: The Temple of Music as viewed from near the Manufactures and
Liberal Arts Building, across the Cascade and the Fountain of Abundance. The Mines Building is visible to the left of the Temple
and the towers of the Buffalo Insane Asylum can be seen on the left horizon. Photographer: Arthur Hewitt. Source: Everybody's
Magazine, v. 5, no. 26, Oct. 1901, Pan-American Exposition Number, p. 432. Published by John Wanamaker. Courtesy of Kerry S.
Grant.

�The Temple of Music at the Pan­
American Exposition. View:
Looking towards the Triumphal
Bridge, across the Court of
Fountains, with the Temple of
Music on the right. Both the
East and West Esplanade
Bandstands are visible on either
side of the Triumphal Bridge.
Photographer: Arthur Hewitt.
Source: Everybody's Magazine,
v. 5, no. 26, Oct. 1901, Pan­
American Exposition Number, p.
425. Published by John
Wanamaker. Courtesy of Kerry
S. Grant.

The Temple of
Music atPan
the­
American
Exposition. View:
Temple of Music
from across the
Esplanade
fountains.
Photographer:
Unidentified.
Source: The
Rand-McNally
Hand-Book to the
Pan-American
Exposition,
Buffalo and
Niagara Falls.
Chicago and New
York: Rand,
McNally &amp; Co.,
1901. Courtesy of
Kerry S. Grant.
Temple Of Music —Looking Across Esplanade Court.

�The Temple of Music at the
Pan-American Exposition.
View: Temple of Music
from south of the
Ethnology Building.
Photographer:
Unidentified. Source: The
Latest and Best Views of
the Pan-American
Exposition. Buffalo, N.Y.:
Robert Allan Reid, 1901.
Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

The Temple of
Music atPan
the­
American
Exposition. View:
Temple of Music
from the
Esplanade Court,
with Ethnology and
U.S. Government
Buildings to the
right. The West
Esplanade
bandstand is
visible between the
two buildings.
Photographer:
Unidentified.
Source: Pan­
American Souvenir
by Charles Cutter.
Niagara Falls, N.Y.:
Charles Cutter,
1901. Courtesy of
Kerry S. Grant

�The Temple of Music at
the Pan-American
Exposition. View:
Temple of Music with
West Esplanade
bandstand in
foreground.
Photographer:
Unidentified. Source:
Pan-American Souvenir
by Charles Cutter.
Niagara Falls, N.Y.:
Charles Cutter, 1901.
Courtesy of Kerry S.
Grant.

With its vibrant exterior color scheme, the artistic effects of illuminating of Temple of Music impressed even the

most ardent critics of the period. It is unfortunate that surviving photographs, while impressive in their own right,
do not truly reflect the role of color in this awe-inspiring exhibit of ornamental lighting.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: Night scene
of the Temple of Music looking across the Cascade with its illuminated
fountains. The West Esplanade Bandstand is visible to the left of the
Temple. Photographer: Arthur Hewitt. Source: Everybody's Magazine, v.
5, no. 26, Oct. 1901, Pan-American Exposition Number, p. 399. Published
by John Wanamaker. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: Night scene from the Ethnology Building
towards the Temple of Music. The Fountain of Abundance was illuminated by lights placed inside the
circumference of the base, with additional lights placed along the pedestal supporting the group of
dancing children. Photographer: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated, by C. D.
Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. p. 32. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�Sculpture at the Temple of Music
In keeping with the ornate style of the Temple of Music, four large groups of statuary were placed above the

arches of each of the four entrances. These sculptures by Isidore Konti depicted sacred, lyric, dance, and heroic
music.

Sculpture at the Temple of Music - Gay Music "Music of the Dance".
Sculptor: Isidore Konti. Source: Music at the Pan-American
Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. [Buffalo,
N.Y.: Pan-American Exposition Co.], 1901. p.2. Courtesy of Kerry S.
Grant.

Sculpture at the Temple of Music - Heroic Music. Sculptor:
Isidore Konti. Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition,
Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. [Buffalo, N.Y.:
Pan-American Exposition Co.], 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.
Grant

�Sculpture at the Temple of Music - Sacred Music. Sculptor:
Isidore Konti. Source: Music at the Pan-American
Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901.
[Buffalo, N.Y.: Pan-American Exposition Co.], 1901. p.29.
Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Sculpture at the Temple of Music - Lyric Music. Sculptor:
Isidore Konti. Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition,
Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. [Buffalo, N.Y.:
Pan-American Exposition Co.], 1901. p.29. Courtesy of Kerry S.
Grant.

�The Assassination of President William McKinley
Unfortunately, the Temple of Music has become inextricably linked with the assassination of President William

McKinley. The President was attending a reception in his honor at the Temple on September 6th when Leon
Czolgosz stepped from the crowd and shot McKinley with a 32-caliber handgun. McKinley died eight days later,
September 14th. Although the Temple of Music continued to serve its original functions, it had become a site of
morbid curiosity for many visitors to the Exposition.

The Temple of Music at
the Pan-American
Exposition. View:
Rendering of the interior
of the Temple of Music,
showing the position of
the organ, by the
architects Esenwein &amp;
Johnson. Source: Kerry S.
Grant. The Rainbow City:
Celebrating Light, Color,
and Architecture at the
Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, 1901. Image from
the collection of the
Buffalo and Erie Country
Historical Society.

The Temple of Music at the
Pan-American Exposition.
View: The interior of the
Temple of Music showing the
stage with music stands in
place, the Emmons Howard
organ to the right, and in the
foreground, the platform
where President William
McKinley was shot by Leon
Czolgosz September 6, 1901.
The floor is marked at the spot
where the President was
standing. Photographer: C. D.
Arnold. Source: Buffalo's
Pan­
American Exposition by
Thomas Leary and Elizabeth
Sholes with the Buffalo and
Erie County Historical Society,
Charleston, SC : Arcadia
Publishing, c1998, p. 123.

�The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: Rendering of the interior of the Temple of Music, main entrance.
Artist: unidentified. Source: McHenry, Katherine V. "Color Scheme at the Pan-American." Brush and Pencil, v. 3, no. 8 (June
1901), p. 152.

�The Temple of Music at the
Pan-American Exposition.
View: A candid photograph of
the interior of the Temple of
Music, showing the organ
pipes on the left.
Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: Music Library.
University at Buffalo, the State
University of New York

The Temple of Music at the
Pan-American Exposition.
View: Architectural drawing
of the Temple of Music.
Source: "The Music Hall of
the Pan-American
Exposition." Engineering
Record, vol. 43, no. 6, (Feb. 9,
1901) pp.132-134.

Images of the interior of the Temple of Music, including (above center) the spot where the President McKinley was

shot.

�The postcards below are two of many printed that linked "the martyred President" with the image of the Temple of

Music.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition View: Color Postcard of the Temple of Music.
Published by F. F. Rick &amp; Cie., [1901?]. Source: Music Library. University at Buffalo, the State
University of New York.

The Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition. View: Color Postcard of the Temple of Music, with
inset of President William McKinley. Published by Retrograph Co., [1901?]. Source: Music Library. University
at Buffalo, the State University of New York.

�Bandstands
There were five bandstands on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition. These included the Plaza bandstand,

north of the Electric Tower, the East and West bandstands in the Esplanade near the Temple of Music, the Casino
bandstand on the shore of the lake close to where the Casino building stands today, and another bandstand on the

lake near what is now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The heavy schedule of band performances kept these
bandstands in almost constant use throughout the Exposition. Return to the introduction page to see a map of the

bandstand locations.

Plaza Bandstand

Plaza Bandstand. View: The Plaza, with its bandstand in a sunken garden, just north of the Electric Tower. The
view is eastward towards one of the two restaurants that bordered the Plaza. The Propylaea is on the right.

Photographer: Unidentified, probably C. D. Arnold. Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition: Organists,
Orchestras, Bands, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�Plaza Bandstand Closeup. View: Close-up

of the bandstand in the

Plaza showing the
ornately detailed columns
and roof. Photographer:

Unidentified, probably C.
D. Arnold. Source: Music
at the Pan-American

Exposition: Organists,
Orchestras, Bands, 1901.
Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant.

Plaza Bandstand
Looking

Southeast. View: The
Plaza bandstand with
the Stadium entrance

and restaurant, and

Agriculture Building to

its left. The smaller
buildings as drink

concessions.
Photographer:
Unidentified.
Source: Pan-American

Souvenir by Charles
Cutter. Niagara Falls,
N.Y.: Charles Cutter,
1901. Courtesy of

Kerry S. Grant.

�Illuminated Plaza Bandstand with Electric Tower. View:
The Plaza bandstand illuminated in night scene with Electric

Tower behind it. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Pan­
American Souvenir by Charles Cutter. Niagara Falls, N.Y.:
Charles Cutter, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Plaza Bandstand with Electric
Tower. View: The Plaza

Bandstand with the Electric
Tower in the background.

Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: The Rand-McNally

Photo-Views of the Pan-American

Exposition: A Choice Collection of
Illustrations of the Main Points of

Interest at the Rainbow City,
Including Buildings, Statuary,

Electrical Effects, Landscape, and
Midway Scenes. Chicago: Rand,
McNally &amp; Co., 1901. Courtesy

of Kerry S. Grant.

�Plaza Bandstand Illuminated. View: The Plaza Bandstand illuminated at night. The Propylaea is in the background.
Photographer: Unidentified.

The bandstands at the Pan-American were designed by J.M. Lyall of New York. He, like many of the young,
fledgling architects employed at the Exposition, was assigned the responsibility of designing minor constructions. A

recent graduate of the Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Lyall and his "untried" colleagues hoped that their work at the

Exposition would gain them notice. Lyall's bandstands were "circular pavilions roofed over in shell-like fashion and
reminiscent of the fantastic effects achieved in the larger structures built at the the Paris Exposition in 1900.
Completely in keeping with the festival nature of the Pan-American, the unassuming bandstands expressed more

immediately the gaiety of a temporary city than the more developed, larger buildings."1

�Esplanade Bandstands: East and West

Esplanade Bandstands. View:

Looking South from the Electric

Tower, this photograph was taken
at a height of over 300 feet. It
shows the buildings around the

Court of Fountains, including the
Temple of Music on the right and
the Ethnology Building facing it

on the left. The Esplanade, with
both its bandstands, is also

visible. Photographer: C. D.

Arnold. Source: The Pan-American
Exposition Illustrated, by C. D.

Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. p.

26. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

East Esplanade
Bandstand. View: The East

Esplanade bandstand looking

towards the Triumphal Bridge.
Photographer: C. D. Arnold
Source: The Pan-American

Exposition Illustrated, by C. D.
Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. p.
40. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�East Esplanade Bandstand - Illuminated. View: The East Esplanade bandstand illuminated in night scene, with
Ethnology Building behind. Photographer: Unidentified (C. D. Arnold?). Source: Kerry S. Grant. The Rainbow City:

Celebrating Light, Color, and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo 1901, p. 111. Photo from the
collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.

West Esplanade Bandstand Illuminated. View: The West Esplanade bandstand illuminated in night scene, with
Temple of Music and Electric Tower. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Pan-American Souvenir by Charles

Cutter, Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Charles Cutter, 1901 Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�Casino bandstand with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in background. This postcard scene is probably dated between

1904 and 1910.

Reference
1. Joann Marie Thompson. The Art and Architecture of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901. Unpublished

dissertation, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, 1980. pp. 75-76.

�Sheet Music of the Pan-American
Exposition
There has always been a component of the American sheet music industry that capitalized upon current events to
increase sales. The Pan-American Exposition was not excluded from this practice. At least three dozen
compositions were written to celebrate some aspect of the Exposition or to commemorate the death of President

William McKinley. This output includes works by band leaders such as Thomas Preston Brooke, John Philip Sousa,
and Francesco Fanciulli, who came to the Exposition to perform with their bands. Sheet music at the turn of the

century was still prevalently issued in the larger format with illustrated title pages. The illustrations include

portraits of band leaders and dignitaries, views of Exposition buildings and scenes, and general boosterism for the

Exposition and the city of Buffalo.

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Songs

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Laments for McKinley

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Piano Music

Songs

Are You a Buffalo?

Words by Edward P. Moran ; music by Harry von Tilzer. New York : Shapiro, Bernstein &amp; Von Tilzer, c1901. At head
of title: The craze of the century. Color illustration with four buffalo head Order of Buffaloes insignia surrounding
a photographic portrait of Carroll Johnson by Bushnell. A second copy has a photographic portrait of Lew.

Dockstader on the same background. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

�At the Pan-American Fair in 1901 / by Theo. Douglas.
[Buffalo, NY] (45 North Division St.) : Graser Bros., printers, c1899. Issued with: Two Boys in Blue : dedicated to
the 13th Reg't., U.S. Infantry / by Edward C. Koeppen. Includes 7 p. of advertisements for local merchants and 1 p.

story of the 13th Regiment's part in a battle on San Juan Hill. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

At the Pan-American Fair in 1901, By Theo. Douglas.

[Buffalo, NY] (45 North Division St.) : Graser Bros., printers, c1899. Issued with: Two Boys in Blue : dedicated to
the 13th Reg't., U.S. Infantry / by Edward C. Koeppen. Includes 7 p. of advertisements for local merchants and 1 p.

story of the 13th Regiment's part in a battle on San Juan Hill. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Don't Put Me Off at Buffalo Any More, Words by William Jerome ; music by Jean Scwartz.
New York : Shapiro, Bernstein &amp; Von Tilzer, c1901. Color illustration of four scenes depicted in the song, two

scenes of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and a photographic portrait of Maude Nugent. Courtesy of
the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Hurrah for Buffalo, 1901 : Souvenir Song, Words and melody by Myron Fowler Near ; harmony by Mary Holden

Near.
Buffalo (269 Main St.), N.Y. : Denton, Cottier and Daniels, c1901. Negative print (white on dark blue). Illustration:

�small images of Niagara Falls, a buffalo head, and the Electric Tower at the Pan-American Exposition. Courtesy of
the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

The Lilliputian Queen, By Erwin C. Koeppen.
[S.l.] : E.C. Koeppen?, c1901. "Respectfully dedicated to Chiquita, the doll lady". At head of title: "The Mascot of
the Pan-American Exposition." Back cover contains advertisements for Bostock's Great Animal Arena at the Pan­

American Exposition.

Pan. Pan. Pan., Words by Will. D. Cobb ; music by Gus. Edwards.

New York : Howley, Haviland &amp; Dresser, c1901. Dedicated to "The Kid." Color illustration of three women and two

men entering the grounds of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Two black and white photographs of the

composer and lyricist are in the lower corners. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Put Me Off at Buffalo : the One and Only Buffalo Song, Words by Harry Dillon ; music by John Dillon.
New York : M. Witmark &amp; Sons, c1895. Plate no. 2024. At head of title: "The souvenir song of the Exposition." Color

illustration: four stereotypical representations of five ethnic groups, African, Turkish, Native American, Asian, and

Southern American. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

�A Trip to Buffalo : A Musical Extravaganza. In Buffalo, Lyrics by Harry B. Marshall ; music by William Loraine.
New York : M. Witmark &amp; Sons, c1901. Plate no.: 3908-3. Color illustration of gondolier boats on canal at the 1901

Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, with the Exposition grounds in the background. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie
County Public Library.

A Trip to Buffalo : AMusical Extravaganza. Maidie Come Be My Lady, Lyrics by Harry B. Marshall ; music by

William Loraine.
New York : M. Witmark &amp; Sons, c1901. Plate no.: 4552-4. Color illustration of gondolier boats on canal at the 1901

Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, with the Exposition grounds in the background. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie
County Public Library.

A Trip to Buffalo : A Musical Extravaganza. An Oriental Maid, Lyrics by Harry B. Marshall ; music by William

Loraine.
New York : M. Witmark &amp; Sons, c1901. Plate no.: 3902-3. Color illustration of gondolier boats on canal at the 1901

Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, with the Exposition grounds in the background. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie
County Public Library.

�A Trip to Buffalo : Descriptive, by Theo. Bendix.
New York : M. Witmark &amp; Sons, c1901. Plate no.: 3848-6. Green, white, and black title page illustration of a

traveler arriving at the Pan American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, New York. Courtesy of Brenda Battleson.

Laments for President William McKinley
Just as composers participated in the celebration of the Pan-American Exposition by composing music about or

dedicated to the Exposition, so did many write music to commemorate the death of President William McKinley.

Beautiful Isle of Somewhere, Music by J. S. Fearis ; words by Jessie Brown Pounds.

Chicago : Forster Music, c1901. Three arrangements in one copy: soprano solo with organ or piano acc., quartet of
men's voices, or a quartet of women's voices. At head of title: As sung at the funeral of our martyred president

William McKinley by the Euterpean Quartette. Illustration: photograph of William McKinley in center over
photographs of members of the Euterpean Quartette, Harriet Levinger, FannieLevinger, Jeannette Bauhof, and
Katherine Baehrens. The photographs are set within a decorative frame, lithographed by Falk &amp; Co. University at
Buffalo, The State University of New York. Music Library.

A Hymn, Words and music by Milton H. Kohn ; arr. by Lee Orean Smith.
New York : Vandersloot Music Co., c1901. Illustration: portrait of President William McKinley / drawn by A. J.

Dewey. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library

�McKinley's Memorial March : in memory of our late beloved President, Arranged by Harry J. Lincoln.

Williamsport, Pa. : United States Music Co., c1901. Text of poem: In memory of our beloved President / by C. A.
Mulliner on p. [2]. Illustration: photograph of William S. McKinley. University at Buffalo, The State University of
New York. Music Library.

Our Country's Loss, Words composed and music arranged by Mrs. Harry D. Hedger.

Boston, Mass. : Mrs. Harry D. Hedger, c1902. Illustration: photograph of President William McKinley set between

two U.S. flags and a photograph of Mrs. Harry D. Hedger, captioned "First lady cycle rider in the U.S.A." University

Archives. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

President Wm. McKinley's Favorite Hymns : words and music., Nearer, my God, to Thee and Lead Kindly Light.

Chicago : Edwards Deutsch &amp; Heitmann, 1901. Illustration: portrait of Pres. William McKinley set inside wreath,
below eagle holding U.S. banner. Brief biography of McKinley on back cover. University at Buffalo, The State

University of New York. Music Library.

�Piano Music

The Buffalo March : For the Piano, By Thomas Preston Brooke, conductor of the Chicago Marine Band.
Cincinnati : John Church Co., c1901. Plate no.: 13882-4. At head of title: "Dedicated to the Pan-American

Exposition." Illustration: a portrait of Thomas Preston Brooke set inside wreath and a buffalo jumping through the
letter B in the title. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

The Electric Century March and Two Step, By F. Fanciulli, Bandmaster 71st Reg't Band.
New York : W. Paris Chambers, c1901. "Respectfully dedicated to the Hon. W.I. Buchanan, Director General, Pan-

American Exposition 1901." Color illustration: the Electric Tower at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.

Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Exposition March and Two Step, By W. Franklin Hartenstine.
Buffalo, N.Y. (269 Main St.) : Denton, Cottier &amp; Daniels, c1900. At head of title: To the directors of the Pan­

American Exposition. Color illustration: the official medallion logo of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo

/ Raphael Beck, pinx. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

�From Mexico to Buffalo : March, Composed by A.F. Weldon.
Chicago, Ill. : N. Nelson, c1901. Illustration: oval photographs of the Castle of Chapultepec, the National Palace,

City of Mexico, and Francisco E. Lacroix, in setting with Mexican and United States flags. University at Buffalo, The
State University of New York. Music Library.

The Invincible Eagle March, By John Philip Sousa.
Cincinnati : John Church Co., c1901. Plate no. 13962-4. Illustration: portrait of Sousa. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp;
Erie County Public Library.

March of the Buffaloes : Two-step, Composed by Fred. L. Ryder.

Chicago : McKinley Music, c1901. Illustration: a herd of buffalo. University at Buffalo, The State University of New
York. Music Library.

The Pan-American Cake Walk, By Harry J. Weiler.
Buffalo, N.Y. : Harry J. Weiler, c1900. At head of caption title: Respectfully dedicated to the directors of the Pan

American Exposition, 1901, Buffalo, N.Y. Color illustration: a buffalo set within a frying pan inside a red, white,
and blue banner, with eagle atop. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

�The Pan-American : characteristic March and Two-Step, Composed by Estelle Edwards.

Baltimore, MD. : Cohen &amp; Hughes, c1901. At head of title: Respectfully dedicated to Hon. Chas. B. Aycock,
Governor of North Carolina. Color illustration: Native American holding a globe in which the title is set / Rickert.
Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Pan-American Exposition March : Two-step, op. 29, By H. Geo. Evans.
With 2nd work by Evans: D.M. V. March : Two-step, op. 28Johnstown, Pa. : Pepper-Evans Music Co.,

c1901.Illustration: inset photo. of H. Geo. Evans University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Music
Library.

Pan-American Exposition March and Two Step, Composed by E. B. Ralph.
Buffalo, N.Y. (269 Main St.) : Denton, Cottier &amp; Daniels, c1898. "Dedicated to Fred. C. M. Lautz, Buffalo, N.Y."

Issued in 1898 with title page illustrated with photographic portraits of J. M. Brinker, Pres. And Fred. C. M. Lautz,
Treasurer of the Pan-American Exposition Co. Issued in 1901 with photograph of sculpture by Isidore Konti titled

"Gay Music", exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition in the Temple of Music. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie
County Public Library.

�Pan-American Exposition March and Two-Step, By Hans S. Liné.

Chicago : Windsor Music, c1901. Color illustration: drawings of three buildings from the 1901 Pan-American

Exposition in Buffalo: the U.S. Government Building, the Albright Art Gallery, and the Service Building. Courtesy of
the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Pan-American Exposition: Three Step, Composed by Ida A. Gethoefer.
Buffalo, N.Y. (269 Main St.) : Denton, Cottier &amp; Daniels, c1898. "Dedicated to Johannes Gelbke." Color illustration:

image Native American in headdress set inside a frying pan. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Pan-American March : Buffalo 1901, By Edward D. Anderson.
Washington D.C. : Sanders &amp; Stayman, c1899. At head of title: To the Board of Directors Pan-American Exposition.

Color illustration: photograph of a buffalo. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Pan-American March : for piano, op. 44, By D. F. Bradley.
Utica, N.Y. : D.F. Bradley, c1901. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Music Library.

�The Pan-American March, op. 195, By B. P. Austin.

Hammondsport, N.Y.: Hammondsport Music Co., c1901. "Dedicated to the Exposition at Buffalo, N.Y." Illustration:
photograph of the United States Government building at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Set on red, white, and
blue background. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Pan-American : March and Two Step, By James. H. Austin.
New York : Richard A. Saalfield, c1901. Illustration: drawing of North and South America shaking hands, symbolized

by George Washington and Simon Bolivar. University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Music Library.

Pan-American March and Two-Step, Composed by E. R. Wright.

Fargo, N.D. : Stones Music House, c1900. At head of caption title: To the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo 1901.

Color illustration: photographic portrait of the composer (?) set inside a medallion on a ribbon. University at
Buffalo, The State University of New York. Music Library.

Pan-American : Two-step and March of 1901, By Homer R. S. Klock.
Stamford, Conn. : Homer R.S. Klock, c1900. Illustration: inset photo. of H. Geo. EvansUniversity at Buffalo, The
State University of New York. Music Library.

�Pan-American Waltz, Composed by Meranda H. Haussauer.
Buffalo, N.Y. (217 Virginia St.) : J.S. &amp; M.H. Haussauer, c1899. Color illustration: map of North and South America.

Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Panamericana : morceau charateristique, By Victor Herbert.
New York : M. Witmark &amp; Sons, 1901. Plate no.: 4551-4. At head of title: to John G. Milburn, Esq. President of the

Pan American Exposition Buffalo N.Y. Color illustration: the Pan-American Exposition at night. Courtesy of the

Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library. Audio: Performance by University at Buffalo faculty member, pianist Stephen

Manes. Recorded June 9, 2001, 2:30 p.m. in the Lobby of Slee Hall during June in Buffalo.

�Bands at the Pan-American Exposition
While only two full orchestras were engaged to perform at the Exposition, at least twenty-six different bands

played at the various venues throughout the Exposition grounds. The bands selected to perform included some of
the most successful and popular bands in the United States. Among the most significant band directors to bring

their ensembles to Buffalo were John Philip Sousa, Thomas Preston Brooke, Jean M. Missud, Patrick Conway,
Francesco Fanciulli, Frederick Neil Innes, and Frederick Phinney.
Band music was immensely popular at the turn of century in the United States. Professional bands free of military

restrictions maintained hectic touring schedules and many towns and cities across the country proudly supported
local municipal bands. The repertoire of these bands, especially the professional ensembles with virtuoso soloists,
drew heavily upon arrangements of music from opera and the symphonic literature. Many Americans were first

exposed to music of Wagner, Verdi, Rossini, Weber, Mozart, Beethoven, and other classical composers through

arrangements played by bands.
A related essay by Frank Cipolla is also available.

The following bands performed at the Exposition:

65th Regiment Band

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Schedule of the 65th Regiment Band - June 22, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Smith College Day" (June 22, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 3-4.

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Schedule of the 65th Regiment Band - July 4, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition "Independence Day" (July 4, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 4-5

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Schedule of the 65th Regiment Band - July 9, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition (July 9, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 3-[4].

74th Regiment Band

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Schedule of the 74th Regiment Band - June 11, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - (June 11, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 3, 4.

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Schedule of the 74th Regiment Band - June 22, 1901 Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition -

"Smith College Day" (June 11, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp.2 &amp; 4.

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Schedule of the 74th Regiment Band - July 4, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition "Independence Day" (July 4, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 4.

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Schedule of the 74th Regiment Band - July 9, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition (July 9, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. [4]-5.

Scinta's Band

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Schedule of the Scinta Band - August 3, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition -

"Midway Day" (August 3, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 2.

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Schedule of the Scinta Band - August 21, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition "Louisiana Day" (August 21, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 3.

�71st Regiment Band

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�Sousa's Band

Photograph taken at Paris Exposition, May 12, 1900

From: New York, N.Y.
Director: John Philip Sousa
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant

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John Philip Sousa with the Hawaiian Band

Photo credit: n/a. Source: The Cosmopolitan, v. 31, no. 5 (September 1901) p. 504.
Is this John Philip Sousa? Two images by C. D. Arnold of a person who resembles Sousa.

�Robertson's Band

From: Albany, N.Y.
Director: Orville A. Robertson
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant
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Schedule of Sousa's Band - June 11, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition - (June 11,

1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901, p. 4.

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Schedule of Sousa's Band - June 22, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition - "Smith

College Day" (June 22, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 3, 5.

�Ithaca Band

From: Ithaca, N.Y.
Director: Patrick Conway
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant

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Innes' Band

From: New York, N.Y.
Director: Frederick

Neil Innes
Source: Music at the
Pan-American

Exposition, Organists,
Orchestras, Bands,

Buffalo, 1901.
Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant

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Schedule of the Innes Band - October 9, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition - "New

York State Day" (October 9, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 3-4.

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Schedule of the Innes Band - October 17, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition -

"University of Buffalo Day" (October 17, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 3, 5.

1st Regiment Band
Chicago, Ill.
Director: J. F. Hostrauser No image available

Boston Ladies' Military Band
From: Boston,

Mass.
Director: D.
W. Howard

Source: Music
at the Pan­

American
Exposition,

Organists,
Orchestras,

Bands,

Buffalo, 1901.
Courtesy of
Kerry S. Grant

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�Brooke's Marine Band

From: Chicago, Ill.
Director: Thomas Preston Brooke
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant

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Schedule of the Brooke's Chicago Marine Band - September 13, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan­
American Exposition - (September 13, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901

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Schedule of the Brooke's Chicago Marine Band - September 26, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan­
American Exposition - (September 26, 1901) Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 4-[5].

�Carlisle Indian Band

From: Carlisle, Pa.
Director: Joel Bernice Ettinger
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant

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Schedule of the Carlisle Indian Band - August 3, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Midway Day" (August 3, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p.3.

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Schedule of the Carlisle Indian Band - August 21, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Louisiana Day" (August 21, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 4.

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Schedule of the Carlisle Indian Band - August 25, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - (August 25, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901, p.2-4.

�Detroit Concert Band
Detroit, Mich. No image available

Elgin Band

From: Elgin, Ill.
Director: Joseph Hecker
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant
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Schedule of the Elgin Band - July 9, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition - (July 9,

1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p.5

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Schedule of the Elgin Band - August 3, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American Exposition -

"Midway Day" (August 3, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 2-3.

�Kirk's Band
Cleveland, Ohio
Director: William Kirk

No image available

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Sept. 5 program

Newsboys' Band of Michigan
Grand Rapids, MI
No image available

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Aug. 21 program

Phinney's United States Band

�From: Chicago, Ill. and New York, N.Y.
Director: Frederick Phinney Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo,

1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant
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Schedule of the Phinney's United States Band - August 21, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Louisiana Day" (August 21, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p.3, 5.

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Schedule of the Phinney's United States Band - August 25, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - (August 25, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p.2-3, 5.

Salem Cadet Band

From: Salem, Mass. Director: Jean M. Missud Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras,
Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant

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Schedule of the Salem Cadet Band - September 5, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "President's Day" (September 5, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 7.

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Schedule of the Salem Cadet Band - September 13, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - (September 13, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 2, 4.

Weber's Band
Cincinnati, Ohio
Director: John C. Weber

No image available

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Sept. 26 program

13th Regiment Band

�From: Hamilton, Ontario
Director: George Robinson
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant

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19th Regiment Band

From: St. Catharines, Ontario
Director: William Peel
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant
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�48th Highlanders Band

From: Toronto, Ontario
Director: John Slatter
Source: Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S.

Grant
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Schedule of 48th Highlanders Band - August 29, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Cuba Day - Medina Day" (August 29, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901.

�First Artillery Band

From: Mexico City, Mexico
Director: Ricardo Pacheco

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Schedule of the Mexican 1st Artillery Band - June 22, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Smith College Day" (June 22, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. pp. 3-5.

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Schedule of the Mexican 1st Artillery Band - July 4, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Independence Day" (July 4, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p.4

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Schedule of the Mexican 1st Artillery Band - July 9, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - (July 9, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 6.

�Havana Municipal Band

From: Havana, Cuba
Director: Guillermo M. Tomas
Source: Cuba en la Exposición pan americana de Buffalo, 1901. Habana: Impr. de V. Lopez Veiga, 1901.

The following text from Cuba en la Exposición pan americana de Buffalo, 1901, p. 129-130, makes note of the

acclaim this band achieved at the Exposition and elsewhere.
It is safe to say that nothing in connection with the Buffalo Exposition attracted greater interest, or contributed more to the

pleasure of visitors from all countries and all climes, than did the music of the Police or Municipal Band of the City of Havana.
Under the direction of its director, Sr. Guillermo M. Tomas, this band gained a renown in the United States such as has been

seldom won by any musical organization from a foreign country.
At the opening of the Wisconsin Building, where now famous musicians were invited to contribute to the pleasure of the
entertainment, Mr. Tomas, was presented with a gold medal of artistic workmanship as a tribute to his ability as a leader. Another

gold medal from the citizens of Boston was bestowed upon him which bears the following inscription "To Capt. G. M. Tomas,

for his magnificent interpretation of our 'Star Spangled Banner". A letter which accompanied the present, contains the following.
"As Americans and Patriots we have always loved the Star Spangled Banner, but not until we heard it interpreted by you, have

we fully appreciated the true inspiration embodied in our own hymn."

�The Director General of the Exposition, Mr. Buchanan, in response to requests, not only from commissioners of the various states
but from the representatives of the Spanish American Republica, induced this band to give evening concerts in the Central
Esplanade during their stay in Buffalo. The celebration of Cuba's day at the Buffalo Exposition will ever be remembered by

Cubans and Americans alike, as a pleasurable and significant event, which can but foreshadow happier times to come.

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Schedule of the Havana Municipal Band - July 4, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Independence Day" (July 4, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901. p. 4

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Schedule of the Havana Municipal Band - August 29, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan-American

Exposition - "Cuba Day - Medina Day" (August 29, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901.

Royal Bavarian Band

Director: Herr Peuppus

�Music at the Pan-American Exposition,

Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo,
1901: Index
Music at the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901 was the

official guide published by the Pan-American Exposition Company. It contains a history of the
organ built by Emmons Howard, biographies of seventy-one of the organists who performed at
the Temple of Music during the exposition, a schedule of band performances, and brief histories

of the major bands performing at the exposition. It also contains images of most of the organists,

band directors, soloists, and bands, the Temple of Music and its sculpture, and scenes of the
bandstands. Having been prepared before all arrangements had been made for performances, the

guide does not contain a complete listing of all organists or bands that eventually performed at
the Exposition.
"The Coral Harp" - Cover Art for the Guide,
Music at the Pan-American Exposition,
Organists, Orchestras, Bands. Artist: Alice
Russell Glenny. Source: Cover page for Music at
the Pan-American Exposition, Organists,
Orchestras, Bands. [Buffalo, N.Y.: Pan-American
Exposition Co.], 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Indexes
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Organists

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Conductors

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Soloist

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Bands and Orchestras

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Temple of Music and Other Scenes

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Sculpture Depicting Music

Indexes to the organists, conductors, soloists, bands and orchestras, images of
the Temple of Music and other Exposition scenes, and sculpture in Music at
the Pan-American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo,
1901 are available below.

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Allen, Nathan Henry

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Lang, Benjamin Johnson

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Archer, Frederic

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Lawrence, John Porter

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Bernier, Joseph Arthur

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Maynard, Emily Loucetta

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Carl, William C.

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McConnell, Mary Florence

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Carter, George Buonaparte

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Miller, Russell King

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Clark, Seth Colegrove

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Percy, Richard Truman

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Clarke, Robert Alexander Hallam

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Radcliffe, Thomas

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Clemens, Charles E.

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Reed, William

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Colson, William Brewster

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Riddell, Ione Bush

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Corey, N. J.

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Riesberg, F. W.

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Cushing, Samuel Dayton

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Salter, Sumner

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Dethier, Gaston Marie

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Sanborn, E. Russell

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Donahoe, J. Frank

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Sans-Souci, Gertrude

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Donley, W. H.

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Schwartz, William Charles

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Dunkley, Ferdinand

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Shelley, Harry Rowe

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Dussault, J. D.

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Simms, Frank Henry

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Eddy, Clarence

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Smith, Charles Wenham

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Fairclough, William Erving

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Smith, Gerrit

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Falk, Louis

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Spenser, Fanny M,

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Fisher, Mary Chappell

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Stanley, Walter Peck

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Flagler, Isaac Van Vleck

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Stein, Christian Adolph

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Frese, Ernest Gustav August

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Sterling, Winthrop Smith

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Galloway, Charles

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Stewart, H. J.

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Garratt, C. Percival

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Thunder, Henry Gordon

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Gibson, S. Archer

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Tipton, James Benton

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Gomph, William J.

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Truette, Everett E.

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Hammond, William Churchill

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Tyler, Abram Ray

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Heaton, Walter

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Vibbard, Henry Leonard

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Hendy, Henry Stuart

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Vincent, Henry B.

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Hewlett, William Henry

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Warren, Samuel P.

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Houseley, Henry

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Webster, Andrew T.

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Hunt, Hamlin H.

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Wild, Harrison M.

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Jarrett, William Sheridan

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Wilkins, Herve Dwight

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Jepson, Harry Benjamin

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Woodman, Raymond Huntington

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Jordan, Albert David

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York, Francis L.

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Zehm, Harry J.

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Brooke, Thomas Preston

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Pacheco, Ricardo

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Conway, Patrick

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Peel, William

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Fanciulli, Francesco

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Phinney, Frederick

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Hecker, Joseph

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Powell, John

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Herbert, Victor

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Robertson, Orville A.

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Innes, F. N.

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Robinson, George

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Lund, John

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Scinta, Serafino

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Miller, Justus G.

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Slatter, John

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Missud, Jean M.

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Sousa, John Philip

Soloists
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Bendell, Alfred S.

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Hardy, Grace

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Cookingham, Mayo

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Yeaton, Belle B

Band Schedule, including three bands not listed

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First Artillery Band, Mexico City

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Innes' Band, New York, N.Y.
Ithaca Band, Ithaca, N.Y.

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13th Regiment Band, Hamilton Ontario

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19th Regiment Band, St. Catherines, Ontario

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Ladies' Military Band, Boston, Mass.

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48th Highlanders Band, Toronto, Ontario

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Pan-American Orchestra, Buffalo, N.Y.

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65th Regiment Band, Buffalo, N.Y.

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Phinney's United States Band, Chicago, Ill., New

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74th Regiment Band, Buffalo, N.Y.

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Pittsburgh Orchestra, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Brooke's Marine Band, Chicago, Ill.

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Robertson's Band, Albany, N.Y.

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Carlisle Indian Band, Carlisle, Pa.

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Salem Cadet Band, Salem, Mass.

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Elgin Band, Elgin, Ill.

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Scinta's Band, Buffalo, N.Y.

71st Regiment Band, New York, N.Y.

York, N.Y.

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Sousa's Band, New York, N.Y.

Temple of Music and Other Scenes
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Temple of Music

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Band Stand in Plaza

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Temple of Music Interior

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Plaza with band stand at center

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Temple of Music Organ

Sculpture by Isidore Konti depicting music
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Gay Music

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Heroic Music

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Sacred Music

�Personal Accounts and Stories
Nina Morgana
Sang at the Pan-American Exposition as a nine-year old child. She later went on to a successful

singing career at the Metropolitan Opera. Her story, with news clippings from 1901.

Benita Gray
Visited the Pan-American Exposition two times. Her second visit included a performance during the

Welsh Day choral competition as a member of the Philharmonic Society of Utica. Her diary account
contains numerous references to places and events at the Exposition and in the Buffalo area.

Victor Herbert
Had close friends in Buffalo (see below) well before the Pan-American Exposition. Selections from
his letters about the Exposition reveal concerns about the financial well-being of the Exposition.

Henry Toepfer
Buffalo violinist, was friends with both Victor Herbert and John Lund (1859-1925; sometimes
spelled Lunt). Herbert conducted the Pittsburgh Orchestra at the Exposition; Lund conducted

the Pan-American Orchestra, made up of fifty musicians from the New York Philharmonic

and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Toepfer was instrumental in getting the Herbert

composition, Panamericana submitted to the Exposition music committee. As a
result, Panamericana won the award for composition at the Exposition.

John Philip Sousa
His band were at the Pan-American Exposition June 10-July 7. Sousa played a part in establishing a

nightly ritual at the Exposition. However, his account of the events vary from those found in the
Final Report of the Pan-American Exposition Company.

�Nina Morgana
Nina Morgana, coloratura soprano, was born in Buffalo November 15, 1891

(this date has been verified from her birth certificate by James A. Drake; she is
listed in the Grosses Sängerlexikon as being born in 1895) at 292 The Terrace.

Morgana was known as Baby (or Child) Patti during her early years in
Buffalo, after the famous singer Adelina Patti. She sang locally in Buffalo

churches and schools from the age of four, but her performances at the Pan­
American Exposition's Venice in America site in 1901 presented her talents to

a much larger audience.

Morgana auditioned for world-famous tenor Enrico Caruso during one of his

concert trips to Buffalo in May 1908. After hearing Morgana sing for him at
the Iroquois Hotel, Caruso wrote to Morgana that he would make

arrangements for her to study with Teresa Arkel, a legendary soprano and
vocal instructor. Morgana went to Italy to study with Arkel from 1909 to 1915.

After a successful 1915 debut at La Scala, Morgana joined Enrico Caruso for
concert tours of the United States from 1917 to 1919.

Portrait of Nina Morgana, ca.1902. This
portrait of Nina Morgana appeared in the
Buffalo Courier, November 16, 1902, the year
after her performances at the Exposition. Photo
credit: unknown. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie
County Public Library.

Nina Morgana (center) with other musicians at Venice
in America at the Pan-American Exposition,

1901. Photo credit: Undetermined. Source: Richard. H.

Barry. Snap Shots on the Midway of the Pan-Am Expo,
including characteristic scenes …. Buffalo, N.Y. : Robert
Allan Reid, 1901, p.98. Courtesy of James A. Drake.

Photograph courtesy of James A. Drake.

�Clever Child Vocalist
Baby Patti delights all who
hear her.

Article: "Clever Child Vocalist - Baby Patti delights all who hear her." Source:
Photocopy of a 1901 Buffalo Newspaper Clipping - exact source unknown. Courtesy of

the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library. Note: While this article reports that she was

Favorite At Exposition

born in Palermo, Italy, most sources state that Nina Morgana was born in Buffalo.

Pretty Little Italian Singer Is
The Guest Of Honor At Many
Entertainments
It is little wonder that Baby Patti, who
sings in the Italian Theater and in the
Streets in Venice in America is a
vorite
with all who visit the Midway at
fa
the exposition. Although she is but nine
years old her singing enchants all who
hear her. and well deserves for her the
famous name of Patti.
Baby Patti made her professional debut
at the opening of the exposition, but has
been well known for her singing, in
church and educational circles, ever since
site was four years old. She sings mostly
in Italian, although a few of her selectios
are in English, of which the most
beautiful one is "
The Holy City."

Nina Morgana performing at "Venice in America." Photo Credit: Undetermined. Source: Source:
Richard. H. Barry. Snap Shots on the Midway of the Pan-Am Expo, including characteristic scenes .
Buffalo, N.Y. : Robert Allan Reid, 1901, p.99.

Nina Morgana sang her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1920 in the role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto.
She remained on the roster at the Metropolitan Opera House until 1935. She married Caruso's secretary, Bruno

Zirato, on June 15, 1921. Mr. Zirato later served as Assistant Manager of the New York Philharmonic and as
publicity chief of the Colon Opera House in Buenos Aires. Nina Morgana died in Ithaca, N. Y. on July 8, 1986. 1

�The Metropolitan Musical Bureau
Presents

ENRICO CARUSO
In Concert

Nina Morgana
Suprano

Elias Breeskin Violinist

Program for Performance by Enrico Caruso and Nina Morgana (cover

page only). October 11, 1918 at the Broadway Auditorium, Buffalo, N.Y.

Assisting Artists
Salvatore Fucito At the Piano For
Nr. Caruso Aan Miss Morgana L. T.
Grunberg At The Piano For Mr. Bre skin

Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library.

Friday Evening, October 11th,
Broadway Auditorium
buffalo. N. Y.
Local Director:

Mrs. Mes

Davis Smith

Buffalo's Met Stars- II
Newspaper Clipping: "Caruso Told Her That She'd Be

a Great Singer." Author: Harvey Elsaesser. Source:
Photocopy of scrapbook newsclipping--Buffalo Evening

News, May 3, 1969. Courtesy of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County
Public Library.

Caruso Told Her
That She’d Be
A Great Singer

Nina Morgana Zirato Dies at 94;
Served as Caruso's Assisting Artist
Nina Morgan Zurato, [il egible], a
Buffalo native and the last living person
to have sang on the same stage
with Enrico [illegible], died Tuesday
(July 8, 1980) in Ithaca.
Miss Morgana, a noted opera and
concert singer with the New York
Metropolitan Opera, was the widow
of the former managing director of
the New York Philharmonic, Bruno
[illegible].
Her long singing career was
launched during the Pan American
Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. "She
was billed as "The Baby Patti" and
sang for [illegible] while standing in a
gondola in the Italian exhibit. She
then studied for four years with the
legendary Theresa Arkel to Milan.
Italy
During a Liberty Bond rally in
1917, she met the famed [illegible] Caruso,
who was so impressed with her

Obituary from Buffalo News, Thursday, July 10, 1986.

Nina Morgana Zirato's Obituary.Source: Newsclipping--Buffalo
News, Thursday, July 10, 1986. Courtesy of J. Warren Perry.

�Diary Account of Benita Gray's Visits to the

Pan-American Exposition
Introduction
In August 1901 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Gray of Utica, N.Y. traveled to Buffalo to attend a
Prohibition convention and visit the Pan-American Exposition. They were there several

days. Then in September, Mrs. (Benita) Gray returned to Buffalo to sing in the winning

mixed chorus from Utica during "Welsh Day" at the Exposition when there was an
Eisteddfod (music competition) being held on September 20. She recorded her experiences

in a travel journal kept for such occasions. Her granddaughter, Carolyn E. Fix, having
inherited her journal, has transcribed the Buffalo portion of her journal for its historical

value.
Samples of the Handwritten Pages of Benita Gray's Journal. Source: Kindly

provided by Carolyn E. Fix, the grandaughter of Benita Gray.

Cover of Mrs. William C. (Benita)
Gray's Journal. Source: Kindly
provided by Carolyn E. Fix, the
grandaughter of Benita Gray.

Sample 1 | Sample 2

Buffalo, July 31, 1901.
After some disappointments we started for Buffalo, Will and I, on the

Fast Mail at 2:25 P.M. [from Utica, NY]. Nothing of importance
transpired and we arrived in B. at 8:10 after riding on four or five
different cars. We found Uncle Simon Staley's(?) house at 834 Prospect

Ave. They have a boy Arthur about 7 1/2 years old. They are very

comfortably situated. They were not expecting us as they had not

received my letter. We visited awhile, then went to bed.

Will and I got up at 6 and took a walk out on Front St. to get a glimpse
of the Niagara River and Lake Erie; the view was fine. Aunt Sim had

breakfast ready when we returned. After eating Will and I went down
the street and walked around a little. Then took a car to Con.

[Convention] Hall to the National Prohibition Committee. There I saw

Dr. Tasely, Mr. L--- , Mr. Long and several others whom I knew. At noon

Portrait of Benita Gray with her husband,
William Gray, of Utica, N.Y.Photo Credit: G.S.
Sandford. Source: Courtesy of Carolyn E. Fix.

we went to Allens restaurant for dinner and then went to the Con. in
the P.M. Took a trolley and rode up around the Pan Am. Gate and to the

�Con. Wrote to Evelina [her daughter, age 6, my mother]. Then went to the Yacht Club home wharf at the foot of
Porter Ave. Saw a number of yachts and some large lake steamers. Got back to the house at 11 P.M.
In the morning helped Auntie. Then Auntie, Will, Arthur and I went to the Con. and spent the day there until 12:30

A.M. Then went home to tea and left Arthur. [Then went back to the Con. where] we saw John G. Hutchinson of
the famous Hutchinson family who used to give concerts as long ago as I can remember. He sang for us. [He was]

almost 90 years old. Oliver Stewart gave an address; also Fred Victor of N.Y. City. In the eve was the Grand
National Oratorical Contest, which was good but altogether too long. I got very tired.

Saturday. [August 3]
Auntie, Will, Arthur and I went to the Pan
American. Went along the Midway. There were

56,000 people on the grounds, as this was
"Midway Day". We went through the

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Buildings. After
lunch we went with the crowd to the Stadium.

There we saw 10,000 homing pigeons
liberated, balloon ascensions, races, etc., etc.
Electric Tower at
Night.Photographer: Arthur
Hewitt. Source: Everybody's
Magazine, v. 5, no. 26, Oct.
1901, Pan-American
Exposition Number, p. 395.
Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Went into the Temple of Music where the band

was playing. Sat and rested awhile. Ate our
supper, then went to the Liberal Arts Building

awhile.

Went and sat in front of the Electric Tower. Of all the beautiful sights our

Portions of the Midway Day
Program.Source: Official Daily Program
of the Pan-American Exposition "Midway Day" (August 3, 1901). Buffalo,
N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901.

eyes ever saw, this beats all we ever heard of. Thought of as dreamed
about. In the eve they altogether look like a city of light. We could hardly get away, but we did and sat on the

bank of the Lake and watched the beautiful Electric Fountain illuminated by all the colors of the rainbow. Got
back to the house about ten. I was quite tired.

Sunday [August 4]
Wrote a little. Uncle, Will, Auntie and I went to Normal (?) Memorial M.E. Church. Enjoyed the service very much.
Mr. wrote to Alma after dinner. In the P.M. we all went to Forest Lawn Cemetery to cousin Frankie's grave. Walked

�around a good deal; met Mr. Wordwell. Saw a beautiful lake with hundreds of goldfish in it and swans. Also some
fine monuments in glass cases; one of a little girl, one of a young man that died suddenly just as his mother was
handing him a rose. Saw the Crematory (?). Then came back to the house and had supper. Auntie, Will, Arthur and

I went back to the same church, visited awhile, then went to bed early.

Monday [August 5]
Will went to find some feather renovators [he was in that business]. We met him at ten o'clock at the foot of Main
St. wharf. Took the steamer Superiorand went to Crystal Beach. That is a fine sandy beach on the Canadian side of
Lake Erie about 10 miles from Buffalo. There are some fine hotels and a great many cottages there where people

are spending their summers. Then we met Mr. and Miss Beechwood of Utica and had our lunch there. The boat was

late, so we did not get back to B. till four. Auntie and Arthur went home and Will and I went down to the wharf to
see the grain boats and elevators, which was a great sight. Then went through several large dry goods stores and

made some purchases. Had soda water in one. Went and sat in the park and rested and ate popcorn. Got home at

eight, had a late supper and wrote some.

New York State Building. Artist: Unidentified. Source: From a postcard produced by the Niagara Envelope

Manufactory, Buffalo, N. Y., 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�Tuesday [August 6]
Will and I got an early start to the Exposition. Visited the N.Y. State Building, Life-Saving Station, and South
American, Cuba, Mexico, Alaska, Puerto Rico, U.S. Government, and Model Dairy [buildings]. Took a ride on the
smallest railroad in the world and wrote our names in the biggest book in the world. Met Auntie and Arthur at 1

o'clock, had our lunch and went in the Manufacturers Building. In the Music Hall heard a grand organ recital. It

rained. We visited the Electrical Building. Auntie and Arthur went home early. We had lunch and went around and

through the Midway. Got back to the house about 9 o'clock. Saw John Royhill.

Wednesday [August 7]
It rained in the morn. About 9 we went through the market with Auntie, then Will and I went to the Pan. Went in
the East Amherst Gate. Visited the Canadian, Missouri,Agricultural and Railroad [buildings]. Then we went in the

Fish Commission. Saw the famous Tiffany diamond worth 100,000 dollars, also his case of jewelry worth 1,000,000
dollars. Went in the New York State Building, saw a lot on the Midway and got home about eight. Quite tired.

Wrote to Mrs. Johnson and Eva Jones.

Venice in America. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: The Pan-American and Its Midway. Philadelphia: J. Murray

Jordan, 1901.

�Thursday [August 8]
Got up early. Arthur and I took a walk down on Seventh and Front avenues. Then Will
and I went up to the Ex. and visited the Ostrich farm, [and the] Agricultural, Penn., N.J.,
New England, Chile, Ohio, and Minnesota buildings. Had dinner at the Nebraska Sod

House. Saw the Art Gallery. Wrote to [several friends], went in Venice in America,
Machinery and Manufacturers [buildings]. Had lunch at the Dairy and waited to see the

Tiffany Fountain lighted up. Got back to the house at 9 o'clock. My Auntie had a chicken
supper.
Niagara Falls

Friday [August 9]
Got up at 6 o'clock, packed my satchels, bade them goodbye. Started for Niagara Falls at 9:35. The sight is a grand

one that I shall never forget. Took a ride on the Maid of the Mist; had to wear rubber cloaks. Then Will and I took a
ride on the wirtrell (?) Railroad. Also took the Grand Gorge Route, it was a grand ride. Saw the Suspension Bridge.
Then went to Lewiston and saw the head of Lake Ontario. Then went back to Niagara Village and took a walk out

on the grand bridge to Goat Island. Got our lunch. Took the 3:45 train back to Buffalo and expected to leave for

Utica at 5:15, but could not 'till 7:10. Nothing of importance transpired on the homeward stretch, except a hard
thunderstorm and a minor accident which detained us about 30 minutes. Arrived in Utica about 1:20 A.M. Sat.

morn and at home sweet home at two. Found all safe and sound.

Utica, the next Monday
cousin Ruth Broadwell and daughter Creta (?) Merriman came

and stayed until the next Friday. I went with them. Mina,
Evelina and Alma came from Lebanon Sat. the 10th to tea at

Edwina's., [to] Mrs. Chas. Griffins of 8 West St. and then to

Mrs. Miller at 233 Rutger St. E. [Edwina?] and I went as far as
Rome with them and spent the day with Eva [Evalina?]. When
we arrived home [201 Howard Ave.] we found "Carrie Nation"
and her hatchet at our house. She spent the night with us.

[She was the famous radical prohibitionist who traveled
around chopping up liquor bars with her hatchet. Therefore
Carry Nation

�she was not welcome in many hotels and had to stay in private homes. My grandmother was also an ardent
Prohibitionist.]

The Philharmonic Society gave a supper in the Auditorium. I went and when I got home I found Mrs. Pratt here

from New Haven. She stayed a week. The next Tuesday, Glen Leigh came, she stayed 'till Friday. Wed. Mrs. Barker
came from Oneida Castle, she stayed one night. Then Mrs. Rowlands spent the P.M. Mag. and a Mrs. Celingman (?)

of Chicago called. Nellie and Evelina started for Rome and did not get back 'till Sat. 11 A.M. Aug. 31.

Sept. 2. Labor Day. Henry Lee(?) and wife of Webster, Ia, came. They stayed 'till Thursday. Spent most of my time
with them.

Friday [Sept. 6]
President McKinley was shot and wounded at the Pan. Am. In Buffalo.

Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley. Photographed September 5,

1901 by the Department of Police, Buffalo N.Y. Copy courtesy of the Buffalo and Erie County
Histoical Society.

President William McKinley.Photographer: Francis B. Johnston. Source: The Life of William
McKinley, Including a Genealogical Record of the McKinley Family and Copious Extracts From the

Late President's Public Speeches, Messages to Congress, Proclamations, and Other State Papers .

New York, P. F. Collier &amp; Sons, 1901.

�[Sept. 10]
Was my 46th birthday and also my 23rd wedding anniversary. The Philharmonic Society gave a concert at the State

Hospital. Friday eve we gave a grand concert at the Auditorium; made our two hundred dollars. President McKinley
died at the Milburn House in Buffalo at 2 A.M. Sat. morn., the 14th of Sept.

Buffalo, Wed. morn the 18th
The Philharmonic Society started for Buffalo at 8:58. The 125 members arrived at our destination at 2:30 P.M. [We

then] went to the Ansteth Hotel on the corner of Grant and Military. Later Edwina, Leroy Jones and I went to the
Pan American and visited Machinery Hall and the Temple of Music. The Brooks Marine Band [i.e. Thomas Preston

Brooke's Chicago Marine Band] was just playing The Sweetest Story Ever Told when we went in. Then we saw the
Tiffany Fountain. Met Roy and Lee, had lunch together and went down to the Midway. Went back to our hotel at

11 o'clock and had coffee.

Thursday [the 19th]
Everything closed on account of the President's funeral We had
a rehearsal in Dearborn Street Baptist Church. Then most of
the chorus went to Niagara Falls. Edwina and I went up on

Prospect Ave. to call on Aunt Staley(?). Found her sick in bed.
Went downtown and had dinner at the "Acorn". Went to the
top of Ellicott Sq. Then went to see the Milburn Home where

McKinley died. Spent the P.M. and eve at Emma Ayres at 128
Norwood Ave. Had a very pleasant time. Got back to the

Ansteth at 10 o'clock.

Friday morn [the 20th]. Edwina, Leroy, Miss Philpott and I took

Funeral cortege of President McKinley on Delaware
Avenue, Buffalo.Photographer: Unidentified. Source: A
Buffalo, NY newspaper clipping from September 19,
1901.

a car for the Ex. Had a lot of fun. Visited the N.Y. State

Building, Mines, Horticultural, Government, and Dairy [exhibits], and several State buildings and ate our lunch
near the [Nebraska] sod house. Spent most of the P.M. in the Temple of Music at the Welsh Day Eisteddfod [music

competition]. Our Cecilians Ladies Chorus of 32 voices won first prize of $175.00. Miss Philpott and I went in

�Agricultural Hall and then had a boat ride on the Canal.
Met E.[Edwina?], had our lunch and went to the Temple

of Music for the evening session. Our Haydens [male
chorus] won second prize of $75.00, our Helen Griffith
first prize of $10.00 for alto solo and the pieces we [the

chorus] sang were "We Never Will Bow Down" [by Handel]
and "God So Loved the World" [by Sir John Stainer]. Prof A­
----- , Adjudicator.

The Temple of Music Interior. Artist: Esenwein and Johnson,
Architects. Source: Kerry S. Grant. The Rainbow City :
Celebrating Light, Color, and Architecture at the Pan­
American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo, N.Y. : Canisius
College Press, 2001. From the collection of the Buffalo and
Erie County Historical Society.

Prof. I. T. Daniel was our conductor [and Daniel
Protheroe conducted the Eisteddfod]. And last but not
least our mixed chorus of 125 voices, the Philharmonic

Society of Utica, sang and won first prize of $1,000.00.
(This is the chorus to which I belong). And all of
the jollyfications I ever saw, that took the lead. We had

coffee and did not go to bed 'till the wee small hours. The house did not quiet down 'till 4 A.M.

Welsh DAY.
Program For Eisteddfod.
1
2
3
4

5

6
7
8

9

Afternoon Session. Temple Of Music, 2 P. M.

Overture.
.............
....... Prof. Edward Broome, Montreal, Canada.
Introduction of the Conductor, W. E. Powell (Gwilym Eryri) Chicago, Ill,
Address by the President, Rev D. Rhoslyn Davis, Allegheny City, Pa.
Singing, “Hen Wlad by Nhadau” Conducted by Prof. Wm. Ap Madoc,
Chicago, Ill.
Bass Solo Competition, “Now Heaven in Fullest Glory" "Haydn's Creation"
Prize $10.00
Soprano Solo Competition, “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” “Handel’s
Messiah” Prize $10.00
Adjudication on Bass Solo
Female Chorus Competition, “Lullaby” (Brahm) and “Bridal of the Birds”
1st Prize $175.00, 2nd Prize $75.00,
Adjudication on Soprano Solo
evening Session, Temple Of Music, 8 P. M.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

9
10
11
12

Overture.
.. Prof. Edward Broome, Montreal, Canada.
Short Address by the Conductor, W. E. Powell, (Gwilym Eryri), Chicago.
Singing, Conducted by Prof. Dan'l Protheroe
Tenor Solo Competition, “In Native Worth” “Haydn's Creation” Prize $10.00
Adjudication on Ladies Chorus
Male Chorus Competition “song of the Pilgrim” (J. Hayden Morris Mus.
Bac 1st Prize $175.00., 2nd Prize $75.00.
Adjudication on Tenor Solo
Contralto Solo Competition, “He was Despised” “Handel’s Messiah” Prize
$10.00
Adjudication on Male Chorus
Adjudication on Contralto Solo.
Mixed Chorus, Chief Competition, “God So Loved the World” (Sir J. Stainer)
and "We Never Will Bow Down" (Handel) 1st Prize $1,000.00, 2nd
Prize $150.00
Adjudication on Mixed Chorus

Welsh Day Program for Eisteddfod.Source: Official Daily Program
of the Pan-American Exposition - "Welsh Day" (September 20,
1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition Company, 1901, p.2

The Philharmonics.

Popular and Successful Musical
Organization.
It will be a long time before the re
cent achievement of the Utica Philhar
monic Society at the Pan-American
Eisteddfod will be forgotten. In compe
tition with capable singers from other
parts of the country they easily carried
off first prize, thus winning honor for
themselves and reflecting credit upon
the city.

A

Utica Newsclipping: "The Philharmonics". Source: The

Saturday Globe, October 8, 1901

�Sat. morn. Edwina, Leroy, Miss Philpott and myself took a car downtown, had breakfast at the "Acorn" and did
some shopping. Edwina left us to start for Utica. The rest

Amusements.

went to the Ex. and visited the Forestry, Indian Village,
and Fish Commission [exhibits]. Then we took dinner at
the Nebraska Sod House and went in Manufactory Hall.

Saw Miss Libbie Ansleth Alaske(?) and met Leroy. We then
went to the Johnstown Flood Bazaar and up and down the

Midway. We left the grounds early, went to the Hotel and
dressed in a hurry. We gave a grand concert in the
Convention Hall in the City of Buffalo, which was a

"success". Did not get up very early.

Sunday. Packed our baggage and breakfasted. Leroy and I

took a car and went to the Lake Erie front. Most of our

chorus went home early Sunday morn. Called at Auntie's.
She and Arthur went back to the Ansteth [Hotel] as she

Grand Concert
City Convention Hail,
(Corner Virginia. St. and Elmwood Arc.)

Saturday Evening,

Sept.

21,

Given by the Prize Winners of the
Eisteddfod (Welsh Musical Festival)
Selections will be rendered by the male,
female and mixed choirs of from 50 to 125
voices each, who win the prizes at the
Eisteddfod held in the Temple of Music
at the, Pan-American on Welsh Day, Sep
tember 20; also solos by the winners of
Buffalo Courier, Sept. 19, 1901

Friday and Saturday.

and they [the Ansteths?] were old friends and they had a turkey dinner. Then all hands had our pictures taken by

J.P. Williams in back of the house. We started for Utica at 3:10 P.M. Arrived here at 9:15 all safe and sound. Took
a bath and went to bed at 11. Very tired and with quite a hard cold

The Utica, N.Y. Philharmonic Choir, 1901. Photographer: Carl K. Frey. Source: Utica Newspaper Clipping.
(Possibly the Saturday Globe?)

Benita Gray is visible in the photograph directly behindthe woman in the first row with a dark waist-tie (just to left
of center gentleman).
Tuesday eve, Oct 1. Had a meeting called to give Prof. Daniel $100.00, Miss Utter, our pianist, $25.00; Bert White

Sect. and Mr. William Tree(?) $10.00 each. The balance was then divided equally among the 125 singers [which

figures out at $6.84 each]. [The average annual income in 1900 was $400.]

�Victor Herbert
Victor Herbert and the Pittsburgh Orchestra were hired to

perform at the Pan-American Exposition for a period
towards the end of the Exposition. Herbert had close

friends in Buffalo, including conductor John Lund and

violinist Henry Toepfer. But he also had concerns about the
financial arrangements with the Exposition Company.

These concerns are reflected in some brief letters from
Victor Herbert to George Henry Wilson, manager of the
Pittsburgh Orchestra.1

June 9th, 1900
Dear Mr. Wilson,

Yours of June 7th at hand. As to the Buffalo Expo., 4 or 5
weeks would be very acceptable. It would be best to get
September and October time, in one way, on the other hand

if the Expo. Is not a great financial success it is much better
to get time in the early part of the affair; you're sure of your

Victor Herbert

money then.
I have had experiences of this kind. You will always have to figure in R.R. exp. both ways, no matter what part of the

engagement you take.
If you charge them $3000 a week on a minimum 4 weeks engagement, as you suggest, it's about right....

The shooting of President McKinley on September 6, 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition heightened Herbert's
concerns about financial arrangements with the Exposition Company. He stated the following in a letter written to

Wilson September 14th, the day of McKinley's deatth.
The deplorable death of the president will certainly settle that one extra week in Buffalo. Under the
circumstances we can't expect to get it. They are certainly getting it "in the neck."

�Pittsburgh Orchestra. From: Pittsburgh, Pa. Conductor: Victor Herbert. Source: Music at the Pan-American

Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.
In a September 25th letter to Wilson, Herbert expressed his concerns about being paid for the Exposition

engagement.
As to the Buffalo engagement I want to say this: Lund with his orchestra played from 2-4 and 8-10. I hope this will be

our time too. Since we can't play in the open air, I don't see how or why they should shift us around much. I will send

you the program tomorrow. I've had a terrible cold and was unable to do anything but cough and sneeze. I hope that
you will see that we get all the advertising we ought to have before we arrive and when we get there. I know that the

Buffalo Expo. People are very hard up, and that several of the organizations had the devil's own time to collect the
money due them. They are perfectly honest all right enough, but they don't seem to have it! I hope however they will
do some business from now on and that we will have no trouble of that kind.

After Wilson apparently replied that the contract with the Exposition could be broken, Herbert replied in part with
the following on October 1st.

What I said about Buffalo was that I knew they had had hard times paying their attractions, but that they didfinally. I

don't see how we could ask then now "if the money was all right" at this time. All we can do now is to hope for a better

attendance at the fair, and to insist upon prompt payment ... when the time comes.

�Victor Herbert's Panamericana
Victor Herbert also contributed to the Pan-American Exposition by

composing a work, Panamericana: Morceau Characteristique, for the orchestra
to perform. The work, dedicated to the President of the Pan-American

Exposition, John Milburn, was first played at the Exposition on October 14th
in the Temple of Music.

In another letter to Wilson, Herbert stated the following about his

piece, Panamericana:

The piece is of the more popular order and will make a hit. The first part is
"supposed" to be "Indian" the second part "ragtime" (modern America) and

the trio "Cuban" or Spanish character.

Cover Art for Victor Herbert's
Panamericana: Morceau
Characteristique. Source: Panamericana
: morceau charateristique / by Victor
Herbert. New York : M. Witmark &amp; Sons,
1901. Courtesy of the Buffalo and Erie
County Public Library

The program for the October 17th performances by the

Pittsburgh Orchestra conducted by Victor Herbert. The

evening concert featured the performance
of Panamericana.

Schedule of Victor Herbert's Pittsburgh Orchestra -

October 17, 1901. Source: Official Daily Program of the

Pan-American Exposition - "University of Buffalo Day"

(October 17, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition
Company, 1901. pp. 4-5.

Reference:
1. All of the quotes are from Edward N. Waters's
book, Victor Herbert: A Life in Music, New York: Macmillan,

1955.

�Henry Toepfer, John Lund, and Victor
Herbert
The following account was written by Conrad Toepfer Jr., based on recollections of his grandfather, violinist Henry
Toepfer:

As I write this, I sit under a large framed photograph on the wall of my den. Taken in the early 1890's, it shows
members of the Saratoga, NY [Grand Union] Hotel summer orchestra sitting on the hotel's steps. Victor Herbert
and my grandfather, Henry Toepfer, are seated next to each other in the second row. Their friendship was the

basis for the following Pan American Exposition anecdote.

Victor Herbert, Henry Toepfer, John Lund, and other Buffalo musicians at the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga,

New York (early 1900's). Photo credit: unidentified. Source: Photograph kindly provided by Conrad Toepfer

Jr.Victor Herbert and Henry Toefer are second and third from the left (respectively) in the middle row of

performer.

�John Lund directed the orchestra there during the 1890s, beginning in 1892 or 1893. Victor Herbert began

conducting the Pittsburgh Orchestra at the hotel in July 1902. Photographer unidentified.

Victor Herbert
John Lund, Conductor. Photo credit: unidentified.
Source: Geschichte der Deutschen in Buffalo und
Erie County, N.Y. mit biographien und
illustrationen hervorragender DeutschAmerikaner, welche zur Entwickelung der Stadt
Buffalo beigetragen haben. Buffalo, N.Y. :
Reinecke &amp; Zesch, 1897 (1898 printing). p. 172.

Henry Toepfer. Photo credit:
unidentified. Source: Cropped from
the larger group photograph of Victor
Herbert, Henry Toepfer, John Lund,
and other Buffalo musicians at the
Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga, New
York. The photograph was kindly
provided by Conrad Toepfer, Jr.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Herbert's father died when Victor was 5 years old. His mother remarried to a German physician and

Victor was raised in Germany. Victor was a cellist and my grandfather played violin and viola. The close friendship they formed
while attending the Würzburg Musical Conservatory continued during their remaining years in Germany and after they came to

the United States.
Herbert soon became one of the world's foremost cellists, composing two cello concertos still in the classical music repertory.

After marrying Vienna Opera soprano Therese Forrester, Herbert and his wife decided to come to the United States. She was
engaged by the Metropolitan Opera and Herbert was hired as the opera orchestra's principal cellist and assistant conductor of

the New York Philharmonic.
My grandfather had secured an appointment to the Buffalo Symphony and Herbert asked him to make the trip to New York with

he and his wife. John Lund, then conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, was also conductor of the summer orchestra at the

Saratoga Hotel. He engaged my grandfather for those engagements and was seeking a cellist. My grandfather recommended

Herbert and the two old friends played together in the Saratoga Hotel orchestra for several summers (conductor Lund is seated
in the front of players in the photograph.)

In the mid-1890s, Herbert began writing popular music, eventually becoming best known for his operettas. My grandfather wrote

Herbert about the competition for a musical theme for the upcoming Pan American Exposition. Herbert composed a piece,
entitled Pan Americana, and sent it to my grandfather for his opinion. Although my grandfather urged that Herbert enter it in the
competition, Herbert was not certain it could win and asked for its return.

�Before returning it, my grandfather copiedPan Americana and entered it in the competition under Herbert's name. The work won

the competition and my grandfather was principal violist in the orchestra for the first performance of Pan Americana in the
Temple of Music on October 14, 1901.
—Conrad Toepfer Jr., 2001

�John Philip Sousa
The night-time illumination of the grounds and buildings was perhaps the most extraordinary feature of the

Exposition. The thousands of lights, controlled by special rheostats, were lit gradually every evening to reach their
full power. Although the following two accounts are contradictory in terms of the musical details, they both attest
to the power that the illumination held for people attending the Exposition. John Philip Sousa is the central figure
in both accounts.

From the Final Report of the Pan-American Exposition Company by

William Buchanan. Buffalo, N.Y.: N. P., 1902.
One of the incidents connected with the musical features of the Exposition and which became a feature later was
the playing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by all bands on the grounds at the moment the lights throughout the

Exposition were switched on in the evening. This feature had its origin with Sousa's band, which for three nights
played "Nearer My God to Thee" as the lights were being turned. In order that a distinct feature might be created
out of the lighting of the Exposition each evening, it was deemed by this office peculiarly appropriate and
desirable that our national air should take the place of that piece of music, and an instruction was given Mr. Sousa
to that effect; this instruction he at once carried out, and from and after that time all bands were similarly

instructed to do so. It thus came about that the music of "The Star Spangled Banner" begun by each and every band
on the grounds as the first glow of the hundreds of thousands of electric lights appeared and began to show in fire
the outlines of the buildings of the Exposition, became an emotional, uplifting, exquisite feature of the Exposition

and one that will undoubtedly linger as one of the most delightful memories of the Exposition with every one who

had the pleasure and good fortune to be present at such a time.

�From Marching Along: Recollections of Men, Women, and Music by
John Philip Sousa. Boston: Hale, Cushman &amp; Flint, 1928. p. 230­

231.
At the close of the Willow Grove season we left for Buffalo and opened
there on June 10, 1901 for a month at the Pan-American Exposition. I
noticed at our first evening concert that the lights were suddenly dimmed

until the grounds were shrouded in darkness; then a little light appeared,
the illumination grew steadily, till, brightening and brightening, the full

blaze was restored. It was new at that time and had an almost

supernatural effect on the watchers. When you burrow deep into the heart

of the real America you will discover an intense affection for the old hymn

tunes of the churches. Whatever a man's religious convictions, a hymn tune
reaches his heart quicker than any other burst of music. Remembering

this, I contrived the next evening, when the illumination began to wane, to

have the band softly begin, "Nearer My God to Thee', and as the lights grew
the band crescendoed and swelled out its power to the utmost. The effect

was thrilling! It was afterward the subject of much editorial comment. One
paper said, "It was left to the bandmaster to discover the meaning of the

John Philip Sousa

illumination. The music was inspiring and beautiful." I received hundreds of

letters of congratulation, and the crowds flocked to the bandstand.
After several days, someone in authority sent me an order to substitute "The Star Spangled Banner" for Nearer "My God to
Thee." Now patriotic songs are inspiring only on patriotic occasions; at other times their appeal is purely perfunctory. But,

having been trained to obey orders, I played "The Star Spangled Banner" the next night. Morning brought a number of written
protests. In three nights the order was revoked and I was requested to resume "Nearer My God to Thee." The official had
doubtless found out the real preference of the public.

�Ethnic Music at the Pan-American
Exposition
Performance of music from other cultures was a very popular feature of the Exposition. Musical performances from

Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, Africa, and the Middle East could be heard throughout the
Midway and cultural exhibits. To the biased ears of contemporary Western listeners these performances must have

ranged from new and exotic to bizarre. However, to serious musicians and anthropologists the performances
presented an unprecedented opportunity to hear music from these cultures performed by native musicians on
native instruments.

Band of Mexican musicians in

McGarvie's Streets of Mexico in the
Midway. Photographer: C. D. Arnold?

Source: Kerry S. Grant. The Rainbow City:
Celebrating Light, Color, and Architecture at

the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo 1901,
p. 87. Photograph from the Collection of the

Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.

Band of musicians in the Philippine Village.Photographer: Unidentified. Source: The Pan-American and
Its Midway. Philadelphia: J. Murray Jordan, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Mexican marimba players in McGarvie's Streets of Mexico in the Midway. The four players are

identified in the Sept. 27, 1901 Buffalo Courier as brothers Henrique, Julius, Carlos and Adolphus Olivar. They

are performing on three marimbas comprising high, middle, and low registers. Photographer: Unidentified.
Source: The Rand-McNally Hand-Book to the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Chicago
and New York: Rand, McNally &amp; Co., 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Hawaiian musicians with John Philip Sousa.Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Cosmopolitan, vol.31,

no. 5 (September 1901) p. 504.

�Musicians in the Streets of Cairo and Beautiful Orient on the
Midway
Drummer in the Beautiful Orient section of the Midway attracting customers for a
vendor. Photographer: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated, by C. D.
Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. p. 90. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Musicians and dancers in "Akoun's Beautiful Orient". Photographer: Unidentified. Source: The

Pan-American and Its Midway. Philadelphia: J. Murray Jordan, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Dance and musical troupe in the Beautiful Orient section of the Midway preparing for a

performance.Photographer: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated, by C.
D. Arnold. Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. p. 89. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

Musicians and dancers in the Streets of Cairo.Photographer:

Unidentified. Source: The Pan-American and Its Midway. Philadelphia: J.
Murray Jordan, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�The Entrance to Akoun's Beautiful Orient. Photographer: A.R. Dugmore. Source: Everybody's Magazine, v. 5, no.
26 (October 1901) p. 435

African musicians in procession through the streets of the Midway.Photographer: Carlos

E. Cummins. Source: Courtesy of Buffalo Museum of Science.

The African Village in the Exposition's Midway was temporary home to ninety-eight

natives of Africa. Fortunately, many of the instruments from African nations were

deposited at the Buffalo Museum of Science and are still part of their collections.
The collection includes drums, bells, rattles, thumb pianos, a marimba, harps, and

guitars from countries that include Dahomey, Gabon, South Africa, and the Congo.

�Guitar (Congo?).Photographer: Unknown. Source: Courtesy of The Buffalo Museum of Science.

Single Headed Drum - (Dahomey)Photographer: Unknown. Source: Courtesy of The Buffalo Museum of

Science.

Single-headed drum (Dahomey?).Photographer: Unknown. Source: Courtesy of The Buffalo Museum of
Science.

8-stringed Harp (Gabon). Photographer: Unknown. Source: Courtesy of The Buffalo Museum of Science.

Detail from single-headed drum (Dahomey?)Photographer: Unknown. Source: Courtesy of The Buffalo
Museum of Science

All of the African Village images are courtesy of the Buffalo Museum of Science.

�Musicians at the Venice in America site in the Midway. Photographer: unidentified Source: Pan-American

Exposition Scrapbook [n.p., 1901?]. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

�The Organ in the Temple of Music and the

Organists Who Performed at the Pan­

American Exposition
When it was initially proposed that daily organ recitals be held at the Temple of Music over the course of five
months at the Exposition, the reaction of the directors was not enthusiastic. However, principally through the
efforts of Simon Fleischmann, a member of the Committee on Music, a successful plan was developed to invite

more than seventy organists from the United States, Canada, England, Belgium, and Germany to perform. The
committee made a special effort to include noted American women organists as well, and six women were listed in
the preliminary guide, Music at the Pan-American Exposition: Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo 1901, [Buffalo, N. Y.:

The Pan-American Exposition Company], 1901.

Interior of the Temple of Music, Showing the Position of the Organ. Artist(s): Esenwein &amp; Johnson, Architects.
Source: Kerry S. Grant. The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color and Architecture at the Pan-American

Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press, 2001. From the Collection of the Buffalo and Erie
County Historical Society.

�The history of the organ installed in the Temple of Music is less than clear. It has been reported that the organ was

originally ordered from builder Emmons Howard by the St. Louis Church on Main Street, but how it came to be
used at the Exposition is not clear. The original cost of the organ was $18,000.

Temple of Music Organ. Photo Credit: Unknown. Source: The Tracker, v. 14, no. 2 (Winter
1970). Courtesy of Stephen Pinel.

Candid photograph of the Interior of the Temple of Music. Photographer:

Unknown Source: Music Images from the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901, Music
Library, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Collection Number: Mus.

Arc. 8: Item PA12. Courtesy of Brenda Battleson.

After the Exposition the organ was installed in the Elmwood Music Hall, where it was in use until 1938 when the
old hall was replaced by Kleinhans Music Hall. The organ was put into storage in the barns on Cassy Street where it
deteriorated beyond repair. An article in the May 19, 1942 issue of the Buffalo News reported that the remains of
the organ had been sold for $165.

Descriptions of the 4-manual organ exist in the Exposition's booklet, Music at the Pan­
American Exposition, Organists, Orchestras, Bands, Buffalo 1901, (p. 4-5) and in Emmons
Howard's own pamphlet, The Great Organ in the Temple of Music, Buffalo, N.Y. : built by

Emmons Howard &amp; Son, Westfield, Mass., and Buffalo, N.Y. The specifications state that the
organ contained a total of 3228 organ pipes, a moderately large organ for its time.

Howard utilized the latest in contemporary technology in

building the organ, including sforzando and crescendo pedals,
an enclosed Choir division, adjustable combination action,
and tubular pneumatic action. He was awarded a gold medal

at the Exposition for his design.

Emmons Howard
Emmons Howard was born in Brimfield, Mass. October 1, 1845
and died in Westfield, Mass. on March 18, 1931. After working for noted organ builders

William A. Johnson and John Steere, Howard opened his own organ building business in
1883. Although Howard had hoped to parlay the success of the Exposition organ into

William J. Gomph

�more business contracts, this did not occur and he continued operating a fairly small business until his retirement
in 1929.

One of the tangential questions regarding the organ in the Temple of Music regards which piece of music was being
played by official Exposition organist William J. Gomph at the time Leon Czolgosz shot President William McKinley.

Most sources state that Gomph was performing a Bach sonata at the time. However, according to an interview by
organist Dr. David Bond with Gomph's daughter Martha Gomph in June 2001, he was quietly playing Robert
Schumann's Träumereifrom Kinderscenen.

According to the Final Report to the Director-General in the Pan-American Exposition
Company Papers, seventy-one organists performed at the Exposition at a cost of only

$7000. The Report refers to the five months of concerts as "the most extensive and artistic
series of organ recitals ever given in the world." According to the daily programs, 197 organ

recitals were given at the Temple of Music by the end of the Exposition.

The roster of organists that performed at the Exposition was an

extraordinarily rich one. Brief biographies and portraits of the

organists, including those listed on this web page, can be found
Clarence Eddy

in Music at the Pan-American Exposition: Organists, Orchestras,

Bands, Buffalo, 1901. The list includes famous American organists,

such as Clarence Eddy and Henry Gordon Thunder. It also includes eight organists who
were either from or residing in Buffalo: Seth Colgrove Clark, William J. Gomph, who at

23 years of age was appointed official Exposition organist, Henry Stuart Hendy, William
Sheridan Jarrett, Emily Loucetta Maynard, Mary Florence McConnell, Gerrit Smith, and

Henry Gordon Thunder

Andrew T. Webster.

Buffalo Organists at the Pan-American Exposition

Seth Colegrove Clark

Henry Stuart Hendy

William Sheridan
Jarrett

Emily Loucetta
Maynard

Gerrit Smith

�Mary Florence
McConnell

Andrew T. Webster

�Musical Instruments
Visitors to the

As the largest musical instrument at the Exposition, the

Pan-American Exhibition Buffalo, N. Y.

Emmons Howard organ in the Temple of Music was the most

will see These Piano and also hear
the (marvellous invention) Piano Players

visible representation of the strength of the American musical

Claviola
Accenting

individual

notes

instrument manufacturing industry at the turn of the century.

The manufacture of pianos was in the midst of an increase that

and

executing the most difficult and classical
music in the Daily Concerts.

Advertisement for performances in the "Liberal Art Building".
Advertisement for the Ludwig Piano and Claviola Exhibits.
Source: n/a

would reach its peak in 1909 with more than 364,000 pianos
made in that year. The manufacture of reed organs,

predominantly made for home use, reached a peak in 1904 with
113,000 built. The manufacture of band instruments was also

increasing to meet the demand created by the proliferation of
bands throughout the country.

The major opportunity for musical instrument makers to display their

goods was at the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. Approximately
twenty instrument makers or suppliers exhibited their wares at this venue,

including John C. Haynes &amp; Co., C. G. Conn, Buescher Co., Ludwig &amp;

Co., Melville Clark Co., Krell Piano Co., and Kimball Co. The relatively

new player piano and organ mechanisms were also on display, with
Ludwig and Melville Clark exhibiting new player piano models, and

Kimball and Aeolian Co. demonstrating their new models of player
organs (with Aeolian displaying in the Mission Building). Another

example of a mechanical instrument was the $10,000 orchestrion used in
Frank C. Bostock's Midway attraction, the Golden Chariots.

The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. Artist:
Harry Fenn. Source: Reproduced in Pan-American
Exposition, Buffalo May 1 to November 1, 1901. Its
Purpose and Plan. [Buffalo, N. Y. : The Pan-American
Exposition Company], 1901. p.12

�Advertisement: Pan-American Exposition (1901) Styles of Ludwig Pianos. Source: American Songs: A Collection of

National Airs, [n.p., 1901]. Complements of Denton, Cottier &amp; Daniels, Buffalo, N.Y., 1901. This songbook
advertised all models of Ludwig Pianos exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition.

�The Aeolianline of player pipe organs, ranging in price from $3000 to $80000, was

designed as an instrument for home use. The organ could be played by using music rolls
or the keyboard. The descriptive booklet that Aeolian produced for the

Exposition, Music and Art, includes a list of forty-two musical selections available in the
catalog of over 10,000 titles.

The daily program for the Thursday October 3rd organ recital by Frank Taft in the
Mission Building shows musical selections that match those listed in Aeolian's list of

available music rolls. This suggests that the performance was most likely one
demonstrating the mechanical capability of the instrument rather than a "live" recital
performed at the keyboard.

Aeolian Pipe Organ Recital.

The Aeolian Pipe Organ Recital in the Mission

Frank Taft, New York.
1

Prologue "Pagliacci”-

3

Elevation-

3

Polka de la Relate-

4

Le Rouet d'Omphale-

5

Hungarian Dance-

6

Serenade-

7

Selection from Opera, "Kaoru"-

8

Prelude Act 1 "Carmen"

Leoncavilo
Chaminade

Building. Source: Official Daily Program of the Pan­

American Exposition - "Nebraska-Toronto Day"

Raff
Saint-Saens
Brahms

(October 3, 1901). Buffalo, N.Y.: The Exposition
Company, 1901. p.4.

Taft

Paderewski

Biret

Steinway &amp; Sons built a special grand piano as a presentation instrument for New York State and its State Building

at the Exposition. The New York State Building was the only building designed as a permanent structure at the
Exposition. It still stands today as the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society building. The piano is adorned
with the State Seal on its cover.

The black and white photographs below show the piano as it was placed in the New York State Building during the

Exposition. Notice the original attached lamp stands, which are now missing. The color photographs, taken with
kind permission of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, show the piano as it stands a century later.

Piano by the Grand Staircase of the NYS Building - 1901. Photo Credit: Unknown.

Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan­

American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902. Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon
Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Piano in the NYS Building - 1901. Photo Credit: Unknown. Source: Report of the Board of

General Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902. Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers,
1902.

Restored Pan-American Piano - 2001.Source: Photographed with kind permission of the
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, April 2001

Restored Pan-American Piano showing NYS Seal - 2001. Source: Photographed with kind

permission of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, April 2001

Restored Pan-American Piano - 2001 - (view 3) Source: Photographed with kind permission
of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, April 2001

Restored Pan-American Piano - 2001 - (view 2) Source: Photographed with kind
permission of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, April 2001

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                    <text>Health Care and Medical Technology
This portion of the exhibit, Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901, provides a fascinating

glimpse into the general state of health care and medical technology available at the turn of the century. What
could attendees at the Exposition expect in terms of hygiene and health care? Were restroom facilities provided,
and were they kept clean? Were doctors and medical equipment available on the grounds? Who drove
the ambulance that carried the wounded President McKinley?

These pages contain some interesting and less well-known facts about maladies that befell Pan-Am goers, what
attendees could expect in terms of health-care and hygiene, the medical equipment available at the time, the

caregivers who tended to visitors, and information about other health-related events that occurred on the

Exposition grounds.

•

Lavatory facilities at the Exposition
Public comfort and the sanitary conditions of lavatory facilities were a major concern of an exposition that expected to

draw close to ten million visitors.

•

Dr. Roswell Park
The enormous task of overseeing daily medical care and disease prevention at the Pan-Am fell to Dr. Roswell Park,
Medical Director of the Exposition.

•

Medical Exhibits
Medical exhibits were scattered throughout the grounds and displayed the technical advances of the time. Visitors

could find exhibitors showing medical devices ranging from prosthetic limbs for amputees to the pocket sized "Pan­
Am Microscope." Discussed in this portion of Illuminations will be:

•

o

The Infant incubators with real infants

o

X-ray machines

o

The Pan-Am Microscope

o

Food and Health

The Emergency Hospital
The staff at the Exposition's hospital treated everything from daily cases of diarrhea to President McKinley's gunshot
wound, and staff made sure the numerous food vendors adhered to hygienic practices and monitored the lavatory

facilities.

�•

The Exposition Ambulance
The Exposition's ambulance, driven by F. T. Ellis, was most famously used to ferry President William McKinley from
the Temple of Music to the Exposition hospital after he was shot by Leon Czolgosz September 6, 1901.

•

International Nursing Conventions
Buffalo nurses played a prominent role at nursing conventions being held at the Exposition featuring speakers such as

Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee and Lavinia Dock.

�The Necessities of "Public Comfort"
Supporting the comfort needs of up to 100,000 visitors in the course of a day called for extensive planning. The

Pan-American Exposition in 1901 came straight on the heels of the Sanitary Reform movement that started in

Europe in the 1840's and which was supported by the rise of bacteriology following the discoveries of Pasteur and
Koch in the 1880's. Water and sewer engineering were key factors in this movement.

The Exposition Grounds were equipped with over 12,000 linear feet of main sewer lines not including numerous

lateral connections. To feed the water supply needs of the grounds, over 75,000 linear feet of domestic water
lines were installed.1
Writing for the American Institute of Architects, Thomas R. Kimball notes:

"The subject of public comfort is far reaching. It touches on sanitation and the health of the exposition city. Nothing
that guards against ill health must be neglected … there must be the most absolutely perfect sanitation and scrupulous

care. There should be no such thing as The Public Comfort building. They should be everywhere and counted by the
hundreds."2

The Pan-American Exposition installed at least 53 toilet rooms throughout the exhibition grounds. Of these, 8 were

considered "outside of buildings" while 45 were placed within larger structures, as the list published in the Buffalo
Evening News on June 26, 1901 shows. Facilities were evenly divided to accommodate women and men with some

placed adjacent and some widely separated. There were "over 500 closets and urinals" operative by June 1, 1901.

Restroom Rants
Restrooms were often controversial and appeared to significantly color a visitor's experience of the event. There
were allegations of bunco and "petty extortion" by bathroom attendants who reportedly demanded a nickel for use

of the facility. There was also apparent confusion over public facilities and those maintained for staff and
exhibitor use. An anonymous letter was published in the July 8, 1901 edition of the Buffalo Evening News, p.9, under
the heading "Toilet Rooms at the Fair" mentioning that reports about the public lavatory problems were circulating

500 miles away:
For the information of strangers as well as for the convenience of citizens, will you kindly state through
"Everybody's Column" where the free toilet rooms are located, and why visitors to the Pan-American exposition are

subjected to indignities, as well as the annoyances experience, in regard to the toilet room accommodations in the
buildings where one would most naturally expect to find them provided. A short time ago I was told by an official,
that there was no public toilet for men in the Government Building -- those which were there were for the

attendants -- that visitors must go to the Ethnology Building. Yesterday, July 4th, my wife, who was taken sick,
left her pocketbook with her friends, and found she could not get into any toilet room in the Manufactures'

Building without paying five cents. She was informed by a policeman that there was a public toilet in the Ethnology

�Building, where she was obliged to get in line and wait her turn to enter. On the same day I was followed by a
porter in a free toilet room and importuned for a nickel, for service which I could not preent being rendered. In
behalf of the millions, who we hope will visit the Exposition this summer, "a citizen" prays that the present
Ethnology Building be improved. Already one 500 miles away has written, asking if the report circulating there, is

true, that visitors to the Exposition grounds are subject to petty extortions for service and accommodation, that
health and decency require to be furnished free, at a place of entertainment which is supposed to be properly
equipped to accommodate, and expects to receive 100,000 visitors a day within its gates.

"A Citizen." Buffalo, July 5, 1901

More Restroom Rants
It was reported by Dr. Roswell Park that there were more toilet facilities installed at the Exposition than were

eventually utilized by the public. Complaints by "architectural aesthetes" prompted the removal of free-standing
facilities incongruous with the overall Pan-American design scheme.

An editorial in the Buffalo Medical Journal criticized both the planning that had called for temporary comfort

stations as well as appeasement of a few hyperesthetic individuals:
It was a most excellent plan to establish "comfort stations" at available points, even of a temporary kind, and it was a
senseless act to remove them because a few hyperesthetic individuals objected to them on account of their

unsightliness. A large city like Buffalo, with the increased temporary population during the exposition period, would be
guilty of a breach of civility did it not provide such accommodations, and the question of architectural beauty might
well remain in abeyance util the emergency of the season had passed.

We do not attempt to defend the weak policy of spending several thousand dollars in establishing ugly temporary
stations, when comely permanent ones should have been provided long ago. Our design is rather to point out not only

the absurdity of listening to objectors to the temporary stations now established, but also the equally reprehensible

policy of spending money unnecessarily on structures that soon must give place to better ones. Action should have been
taken long ago and the city made respectable by the erection of properly constructed accessible stations.3

References
1.

Figures from Carlton Sprague, "Some Phases of Exposition Making," American Architect and Building News, v.74

(October 19, 1901) p.20, in Appendix II of Joann M. Thompson's dissertation, "The Art and Architecture of the
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901," (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1980.)

�2.

Thomas R. Kimball, F.A.I.A.,"The Management and Design of Exhibitions," The American Institute of Architects

Quarterly Bulletin, (July 1-October 1, 1901) pp.149-158.

3.

Buffalo Medical Journal, v.57, (August 1901), p.61-62.

�Biography of Dr. Roswell Park
[Source: Municipality of Buffalo, New York: a History 1720-1923, v. IV, editor-in-chief Henry Wayland Hill, biographical editor

Winfield Scott Downs. Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1923.]1

Roswell Park, M.D., M.A., LL.D.
Dr. Park's life was so full and rich, his accomplishments so large and many
that it will ever remain an example of usefulness, yet there can be no

doubt that numerous enterprises, planned for the future of Buffalo

University, hospital and city, were uncompleted because of his lack of

strength and time to carry them forward to completion. The citizens of
Buffalo owe to his memory the fulfillment of his plans. At a meeting held

by the Council of the University of Buffalo, February 16, 1914, the following
resolution was adopted:

"By the sudden death of Roswell Park, MD, MA, LL.D., the University of
Buffalo loses far more than can adequately be expressed in the words of a

brief, formal appreciation, such as this tribute of respect must be. It is not
for us so much to measure Dr. Park's high service in this community as a

public-spirited citizen, as a versatile yet profound toiler in scientific
research, or as a writer whose world-wide fame has conferred distinction

upon the home of his adoption, or to recognize and declare the great debt

the University of Buffalo owes him as its loyal and generous friend and as

Roswell Park, M.D., M.A., LL.D. Photo
credit: n/a. Source: The Illustrated
Buffalo Express. Buffalo, N.Y. : The J. N.
Mathews Company, 1901.

its constant and tireless champion. He shared our vicissitudes and
aspirations for thirty years, ad he lived to be able to say, as he did to this Council twelve hours before his death, that he

rejoiced in the signs of an early consummation of the long-cherished hopes of the University's steadfast friends."
Dr. Park was of the ninth generation in New England, of an ancient family, which came into England with "the

Conqueror." Sir Robert Parke was the first of the family in New England, who came to Massachusetts in 1630, but
soon after moved to Connecticut. Other of Dr. Park's ancestors were Elder Brewster, of the "Mayflowers;" Henry
Baldwin, and Colonel Loammi Baldwin, a personal friend of Count Rumford. Six generations of the Park family have

had a Roswell, and the son of Dr. Park is the seventh to bear this name. The church, the academy, and the army
have chiefly engaged the Parks through several generations, and all three of these callings entered into the life

work of Rev. Roswell Park, D.D., father of Dr. Park, of this review.
Rev. Roswell Park was a graduate of the military academy at West Point, 1831, and a graduate of Union College,
A.B. He was lieutenant in the engineer corps of the army, but in 1836 he resigned, and was professor of chemistry
and natural philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Later he studied theology, and resigned his professorship

�to take holy orders, becoming a priest of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was pastor at Woburn, Connecticut.

He also resided in Pomfret, Connecticut, and after a sojourn in Europe, resided in Racine, Wisconsin, where he
founded Racine College, and was its president from 1852 until 1859. From 1856 until 1863 he was rector of St.

Luke's Church in Racine, then removed to Chicago, Illinois, as head of Immanuel Hall, where he remained until his
death in 1869, at the age of sixty-two years. He married Mary Brewster Baldwin, who died in 1854, and they were
the parents of Dr. Roswell Park, one of America's most famous surgeons, and the principal character of this review.

Dr. Roswell Park was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, May 4, 1852, and died in the city of Buffalo, New York,
February 15, 1914. He was educated in private schools at Pomfret; in the grammar school connected with Racine

College, Racine, Wisconsin, and at Immanuel Hall, Chicago; also at Racine College, receiving his B.A. in 1872 and
MA in 1875. For one year after graduation from Racine College, he taught at Immanuel Hall, Chicago, then entered
the medical department of Northwestern University, whence he was graduated MD, class of 1876. He was interne

and house physician to Cook County Hospital, and devoted his remaining available time to visiting other hospitals
and work in morbid anatomy. In 1879 he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Women's Medical College

of Chicago, and in 1880 became adjunct professor of anatomy in the medical department of Northwestern
University. In 1883 he resigned to study in Europe, and upon his return from visiting the hospitals of Germany,
France and Austria, accepted appointment as lecturer on surgery in Rush Medical college, Chicago, and attending

surgeon at the Michael Reese Hospital. Other appointments followed, and in 1892 Lake Forest University bestowed
upon him an honorary MD On June 23, 1883, Dr. Park came to the University of Buffalo as professor of surgery, and
soon thereafter was appointed surgeon to Buffalo General Hospital. His fame had gone abroad, and he received
many flattering offers of high position in other cities, but he was loyal to the University of Buffalo, and declined

all of these honors. He accepted an invitation to lecture at the Army Medical School at Washington, having been
appointed honorary professor of surgery to that institution, and he served by appointment of President Roosevelt

as one of the board of visitors at West Point Military Academy. When the Medical reserve corps was formed, he was

one of the first surgeons to receive appointment in this branch of the army, and as yet the only man to serve as
surgeon-in-chief to Buffalo General Hospital. There was one great aim of his life which he never achieved; that

was to know the nature of cancer, and though he strove hard to attain it, he was fated not to realize his ambition.
His interest in this, however, led to the establishment, first in the University of Buffalo, of the Gratwick
Laboratory, which became, in 1911, the New York State Laboratory and Hospital for the Study of Malignant

Diseases.
In 1892 Dr. Park delivered the Mutter lectures on "Surgical Pathology," which were published as a volume, a

contribution of lasting importance to the professors. In 1895 he published a work of three hundred pages on the
"Surgery of the Head and Brain," ad in 1897 a text-book on the "History of Medicine," based on lectures delivered
during 1893 in the University of Buffalo. He was the editor and principal contributor to a two-volume textbook,

"Surgery by American Authors," 1896, which ran through three editions, and soon afterward a large textbook,
his magnum opus, on "General Surgery." He wrote a great deal for encyclopedias of surgery, pathology and

therapeutics, and contributed extensively to current medical literature. Some of the best of his shorter essays,
philosophic and historic in nature, are to be found in his book, "The Evil Eye and Other Essays" (1913, with a second

edition in 1914). In 1901 the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo was held, Dr. Park being made the medical
director of the Exposition, of its sanitation, its hospitals, and its medical staff. The International Congress on

School Hygiene convened in Buffalo in the summer of 1913, Dr. Park being chairman of the committee on

�arrangements. He was president of the Medical Society of the State of New York; president of the American

Surgical Association; member of the French Society of Surgery; the Germany Congress of Surgeons; the Italian
Surgical Society, and other foreign associations, and also was chairman of the American committee of the

International Society of Surgery. In 1895 he received from Harvard University the honorary degree of MA, and in

1902 Yale University conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He was brigade surgeon of the New York National
guard, holding the rank of major.

Dr. Park married, in 1880, Martha Prudence Durkee, of Chicago, Illinois, who died in 1899. Dr. and Mrs. Park were
the parents of two sons: Roswell (7), president of Park, Harrison &amp; Thomas of Buffalo; and Julian2, professor of

history in the University of Buffalo.

References
1.

The text of Dr. Park's entry in Municipality of Buffalo, New York: a History 1720-1923, is reproduced here in full.
Courtesy of the Robert L. Brown History of Medicine Collection, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo.

2.

The papers of Julian Park, who would become the University of Buffalo's Historian and Dean of the College of

Arts and Sciences, are held at the University Archives, University at Buffalo.

�Medical Exhibits
Medical exhibits were scattered throughout the grounds and displayed the

technical advances of the time. Visitors could find exhibitors showing medical

devices ranging from prosthetic limbs for amputees to the pocket sized "Pan­
Am Microscope."
•

The Infant incubators with real infants

•

X-ray machines

•

The Pan-Am Microscope

•

Food and Health

�Baby Incubator Exhibit at the Pan­

American Exposition in Buffalo
As with other attractions at a fair, a "barker" tried to entice people into the "premie" exhibit located in a "neat and

artistic" brick building. However, while this "exhibit" took its place among the other "shows" on the Exposition
midway, the scientific and educational potential was not overlooked. The following quote appeared in the August
1901 Buffalo Medical Journal under the column "Pan-American Notes:"

"The infant incubator at the junction of the Midway and the Mall has a constant stream of people going in and out.

There are now 18 babies prematurely born in the incubators and the scientific rearing of these little human beings
hanging between life and death by the slenderest thread, is most interesting not alone to scientists, but to the many

mothers who go to the exposition. The incubator is in charge of physicians and the babies are cared for by nurses
trained for this work alone. One can neglect seeing any other place on the grounds rather than this. It is not alone

interesting; it is popularly instructive."1

The "barker" at the Buffalo Pan-Am enticed customers by telling them this exhibit provided hints to mothers and
females for the successful rearing of weakly infants. An article from the 1901 edition of Pediatrics stated that the

Lion incubators used at this exhibition were made of metal and glass, which allowed for quick and easy cleaning
and sterilization.2

The Infant Incubator Building. Photo credit: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated (Buffalo,
N.Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901)

�Infant Incubator Ward. Photo credit: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American Exposition Illustrated (Buffalo, N.Y.: C.

D. Arnold, 1901), p. 101.

Each infant was swaddled; a card above each incubator recorded the occupant's initials, date of birth, date of
admission to the incubator and other details. The heat in the incubator varied plus or minus 2 degrees Fahrenheit.

Fresh outdoor air for the incubator was filtered and warmed before it reached the infant. The babies were fed and
cleaned every 2 hours, whether it was day or night. It was claimed in an article from Scientific American, August 3,
1901 that incubators saved 85 percent of the "premies" and weaklings.

3

In another article from Cosmopolitan, Arthur Brisbane compared the baby incubators to the wonders of Niagara

Falls.4

Incubator Beginnings
The first attempt to construct an infant incubator on scientific principles was made in France in 1878. Although

incubators had been patented in Paris by the early 1890s, U.S. physician Edward J. Brown, M.D., having no
guidelines or descriptive plans, devised an incubator of his own to save a premature infant born in 1891.5

�Incubator Exhibit in the News
The incubator exhibit received serious attention

from Scientific American,6 which called it a model nursery.
The baby incubator exhibit was in the news for other
reasons as well. On July 20, 1901, the Buffalo

News reported that a baby had been prematurely born to

Apache Indian Princess Ikishupaw and Chief Many Tales.
Dr. Couney was called to the Indian Pavilion and had the
infant placed in an exhibit incubator. The News reported

that at 2 pounds, 2 ounces, it was the smallest baby ever

born. On November 7, 1901, The New York Times reported
a different type of incident regarding the Baby Incubator

Exhibit. According to the article, Couney and his partner

did not pay the proceeds agreed upon to exhibit infant

Model Nursery. Photo credit: n/a. Source: "Baby Incubators at
the Pan-American Exposition." Scientific American, (August 3,
1901) p. 68.

incubators at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. A
judge had ordered them to pay their share which came to $31,250 and to also pay $75,000 in damages for

repudiating a similar agreement for the division of the gross receipts of the incubator show at the coming St. Louis

Exposition.

After-Effects of the Baby Incubator Exhibit
The Children's Hospital of Buffalo purchased the Lion incubators after the
exposition ended. Afterwards, Couney went on to have a summer baby

incubator exhibit for the next forty years at Coney Island. Couney felt

parents did not appreciate the work he was doing for their premature and

weak infants. When it was time to send a healthy infant home, it was
difficult to convince the parents to take their infant. A pediatrician
named Dr. Zahorsky, who oversaw an infant incubator exhibit, did note
the effect of hospitalization on both the infant and the parents. We now

know that it is not in the baby's best interest to be separated from its
parents; neither is it in the parents' best interest.

Weighing an Infant. Photo credit: n/a.
Source: "Baby Incubators at the Pan­
American Exposition." Scientific American,
(August 3, 1901) p. 68.

�References
1.

"Exhibit of Infant Incubators at the Pan-American Exhibition." Pediatrics v. 12 (1901) pp.414-419. Reproduced on
the website Neonatology on the Web at http://www.neonatology.org/classics/panam.html. Last accessed June 28,

2002.
2.

"Baby Incubators at the Pan-American Exposition." Scientific American, (August 3, 1901) . Reproduced on the

website Neonatology on the Web at http://www.neonatology.org/classics/sciam.html. Last accessed June 28, 2002.

3.

Arthur Brisbane. "The Incubator Baby and Niagara Falls." Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September 1901), pp.

509-516.
4.

Edward J. Brown, M.D. "A New Baby Incubator." Medical Record v.41 (April 16, 1892) pp. 446-447. Reproduced
on the website Neonatology on the Web at http://www.neonatology.org/classics/brown.html. Last accessed June

28, 2002.

5.

"Baby Incubators at the Pan-American Exposition."

�X-rays at the Exposition
The first medical use of Wilhelm Roentgen's "x-ray light" occurred in 1896, one year after his discovery. Although x-

ray apparatus were on display at the Exposition, no one thought to use it on the wounded President McKinley to
locate that second elusive bullet.

In her 1997 book Naked to the Bone, Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles1 describes the following account McKinley's

treatment with regard to the X-ray machines available at the Exposition.
…Altogether separate from the hospital was a Science Hall which had an X-ray machine with it's own dry-cell battery

on display…. No one suggested using the X-ray machine in the Hall of Science.
…After surgery, McKinley was taken to a private home where, for a few days, he seemed to be improving. Thomas

Edison dispatched Clarence Dally, his number one X-ray assistant, to accompany his best new X-ray machine from
New Jersey to Buffalo. As the train sped north, an independent group in Buffalo set up a sort-of presidential look-alike
contest in preparation for Dally's arrival. Fat men lined up in the hope of being selected as the stand-in to test the X-ray

for the president. When the X-ray team arrived, Dr. Vertner Kenerson, who boasted the same fifty-six inch waistline as
the president, had been selected. Kenerson went to the house where McKinley was supposedly recuperating and, in a

room across the hall from the president, lay on his side with a light in front of him and a fluoroscope behind for the
twenty minutes it took to get a picture showing "the entire interior arrangement."

…McKinley himself had asked to have an X-ray taken as reassurance that the bullet hadn't settled in any vital spot. But

his doctors declined, not wanting to subject him to whatever movement he would have to make to get to the machine.
…Eight days after the attack, he was dead from gangrene."

Basic Components of the 1901 X-ray Machine
The chief parts of an X-ray outfit are a static
machine, or an induction coil; the vacuum tube

with its supporting apparatus; the fluorescent
screen or fluoroscope; and the photographic
plate.

Portable X-ray Machine. Cut of portable

apparatus for use on 110-volt circuit. The
smaller box contains the coil; the larger, the
interrupted electrolytic interrupter, two

vacuum tubes, and the tube-holder. The tube­
holder is shown fastened to the smaller box.

�The X-rays are produced in the vacuum tube, and this tube may be excited by
1.

Static Machine; the two types of which are

1.

Influence Machine.
Forms of: Holtz, Toepler-Holtz, Voss, Wimshurst.

2.

Plante Rheostatic.

Form of: Thomson Dynamo Static.

2.

Induction coil; the two types of which are

1.

Ordinary Page, or Ruhmkorff, coil.

2.

Tesla, or high frequency coil. Form of: Thomson coil.

Static Machine. Large static machine with four revolving plates 183 cm (6 feet) in diameter, and four fixed plates

(6 feet, 4 inches) in diameter. The front of the case has been removed.

1.

Static Machine. -The static machine may be driven by hand, or by any form of motor such as an electric or water
motor, or a gas engine; and may be self-exciting or be excited by a small Toepler-Holtz or Wimshurst machine.

2.

Induction Coil. - The electric current for the induction coil may be obtained from

a.

Primary battery (low voltage).

�b.

Storage battery (low voltage):

i.

Charged by gravity cells;

ii.

Charged from street main.

c.

A dynamo which generates a continuous or alternating current of either high or low voltage.

d.

The street main (high voltage); current continuous or alternating.

Ironically, in 1901, the year William McKinley was assassinated, Wilhelm Roentgen was awarded the Nobel Prize for
his discovery.

Reference
1. Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Naked to the Bone : Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century. New Brunswick, N.J. :

Rutgers University Press, 1997.

�The Pan-American Microscope 20th

Century Wonder
One of the so-called "wonders" exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition, promotors claimed that this pocket-sized

microscope was going to revolutionize the work of not only medicine, but all professions:
This microscope is so concise it can be carried in the pocket. Yet it is so strong in magnifying power that it takes the

place of a compound mocroscope. So simple in construction that a child can operate it as well as a medical doctor....
It is useful to the medical man, to the professional man, to the mechanic, to the farmer, and in fact to everyone aloke.
It is especially used for the following purposes: To examine blood, water, urine, and all fluids, as well as seeds,

minerals, flowers, plants, insects, diamonds, jewelry, plated-ware, coins, bank notes, hard signatures, splinters in the
flesh, particles in the eye, and in fact it magnifies anything....
"Agents" of the M.G. Thompson Company of Buffalo, N.Y.

and Toronto, Canada promoted the "23 Grand Prize Medals
&amp; Diplomas awarded this microscope by the Leading

Expositions of the World." It is not clear how the
microscope fared at the Pan-American Exposition although
with the variety of specimens provided for the inquisitive
visitor to inspect using the device, one can assume that it

was one of the more interesting exhibits.

Pan American Microscope
2Oth Century Wonder.
This Microscope is so concise it can be carried in the pocket.
Yet it is so strong in magnifying power that it takes the place
of a compound microscope. So simple in construction that a
child can operate it as well as a medical doctor. It is useful for thou
sands of things. There is an education in it for children that cannot
be gotten out of books. It is useful to the medical man, to the profes
sional man, to the mechanic, to the farmer, and in fact to everyone alike.
It is specially used for the following purposes: To examine blood,
water, urine, and all fluids, as well as seeds, minerals, flowers, plants,
insects, diamonds, jewelry, plated-ware, coins, bank notes, hard
signatures, splinters in the flesh, particles in the eye, and in fact it
magnifies anything. It is unlike a compound microscope as all
objects can be adjusted without mounting them on a slide.

Instructions.
No. 1.
No-2.
No. 3.
No. 4.

Is a case for holding and protecting Nos. 2, 3 and 4.
Magnifies by simply placing it on the object.
Magnifies all fluidsand small mites by placing them on the Lenz.
Is a needle for impaling and holding insects and poisonous matter.

23 Grand Prize Medals &amp; Diplomas Awarded
this Microscope by the Leading Expositions of the Would.

These are specially prepared specimens to demonstrate the power
of this Microscope, as they are not found in all Water, Vinegar, Figs,
Prunes, Cheese, &amp;c., &amp;c.
Beware of imitations, as all good things are imitated!
Agents Wanted everywhere. Enclose stamp for reply.
Price $1.00. No more, no less.

M. G. Thompson
Buffalo, N. Y., and Toronto, Canada.

The Pan-American Microscope. Source: Microscope and
accompanying pamphlet produced by the M.G. Thompson

[Company.] Courtesy of B. Battleson. Engraved on the
microscope: "Pan American Exposition -- 1901 Buffalo

N.Y. -- Price 1.00"

�The Pan=American Microscope was simply a drum-style microscope similar to those invented as early as the mid-

18th century. It differed from traditional microscopes in its compacted size of 2 inches and the lack of a mirror for
reflecting light. With no means of adjusting magnification, it was not a very sophisticated "invention" and certainly
not the type of instrument that would be used in medicine, despite what it's promoters may have claimed. This

"20th century wonder" was, however, typical of the microscopes sold as toys and to hobbyists well into the 1920's.
Even so, at the "Price $1.00. No more, no less," it was a rather expensive "toy," so it's "usefulness to the medical

man" may have been highlighted to justify the cost.1

An interesting aside with regard to the M. G. Thompson Company: The 1900 Buffalo Directory lists no such company
under manufacturers of microscopes although there is a listing for an M. G. Thompson under the heading of

"lumber." There are no listings for the name under either heading in the 1898 and 1902 directories.2 In the Official
Catalog and Guide Book to the Pan-American Exposition,3 M. G. Thompson was listed in the Exposition Concessions

section, with an address of 93 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont. Certainly the M. G. Thompson listed in the Buffalo

directory could have been the same company listed in Toronto. It would not be beyond speculation, since
temporary relocation of many business into the Buffalo area for the sole purpose of promoting and selling their

wares at the Exposition was certainly common. If, indeed, these companies were one and the same, the peddling

of both lumber and microscopes would certainly have been a curious combination.

References
1.

More information on the history of the microscope and microscopy can be found on the Molecular

Expressions web site. See Michael W. Davidson, Mortimer Abramowitz's Museum of Microscopy

Section at http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/museum/index.html. This site is maintained by the Optical
Microscopy Division of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory a joint venture of The Florida State

University, the University of Florida, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2.

The Buffalo Directory, Buffalo, N.Y. : The Courier Company of Buffalo, vols. 1898, 1900, 1902.

3.

Official Catalogue and Guide Book to the Pan-American Exposition. Buffalo, N.Y.: Charles Ahrhart, 1901, p. 95.

�The Exposition Hospital
The Exposition Hospital, also known as the Emergency
Hospital, was built upon the insistence of Dr. Roswell

Park following his observation of the need for such a
facility at other grand expositions. It was constructed in
the Spanish Renaissance style, intended to be both useful

and ornamental. Dr. Park served as the Director, Dr.

Vertner Kenerson as Deputy Director, and Dr. Alexander

Allen as Resident Physician.
Physically, the hospital building was two stories of two

wings each. On the first level, there were two wards for
men of 7 beds each and a large ward with 12 beds for

women. The first level also housed a physician's office,
nurse's office, patient dining room, kitchen, waiting

The Exposition Hospital. This rendering of the Exposition
Hospital appeared in the 1901 Iris, yearbook of the University
of Buffalo. Source: The Iris. Buffalo, N. Y. : , 1901. Courtesy of
the University Archives, University at Buffalo.

room, operating room, sterilizing room, linen press,
morgue and lavatory. The second level covered only a portion of the square footage outlined on the first level and

offered housing for the resident physician and necessary attendants.

Over the course of the Exposition, some 5400 persons were treated. The building was planned for short term and
emergency services with serious cases intended to be transferred on to Buffalo General Hospital where a more

comprehensive surgical facility was available. Ironically, physicians not directly affiliated with the hospital elected
to utilize the Emergency Hospital's surgical facilities to address President McKinley's mortal wounds.

Medical Staff of the Exposition Hospital. The Exposition
Hospital was administered by Dr. Roswell Park and many of those

staffing the facility were medical students at the University of
Buffalo. Image courtesy of the Robert L. Brown History of

Medicine Collection held at the University at Buffalo's Health
Sciences Library.

�The Exposition Hospital With
Crowds Gathered. Crowds gather

as the wounded President McKinley
is taken to the Exposition Hospital,

September 6, 1901. Photo credit: C.
D. Arnold. Source: The Illustrated
Buffalo Express. Buffalo, N. Y. : The

J. N. Matthews Company, 1901.

The Exposition Hospital Operating
Room. Image courtesy of the Robert L.

Brown History of Medicine Collection held
at the University at Buffalo's Health
Sciences Library.

See Summary of Treatment at the Exposition Hospital for a report on cases treated during the Exposition.

�Summary of Treatment at the Exposition
Hospital
The following tables are from the Report of the Medical Department of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901.1

•

Table I - Classified List of Cases nos. 1 to 5,573

•

Table II - Deaths in Pan-American Hospital and Ambulance

•

Table III - Births

•

Table IV - Totalsof Patients By Months

•

Table V - Numbers of Patients Sent to Each Hospital

•

Summary

Table 1.Classified List Of Cases NOS. 1 to 5,573
Continued and eruptive fevers

17

Malaria

7

Diseases of the nervous system

75

Diseases of the circulatory system

162

Diseases of the digestive system

1,971

Diseases of the lymphatic system

14

Diseases of the urinary system

20

Diseases of the generative system (male)

15

�Diseases of the generative system (female)

45

Diseases of skin

111

Diseases of and injury to the eye

247

Diseases of ear

28

Diseases of chest

12

Diseases of throat

205

Heat exhaustion

55

Exhaustion (other)

51

Syphilis

5

Burns and scalds

97

Minor injuries and wounds

1,482

Scalp wounds

80

Sprains

158

Dislocations

5

Gunshot wounds

6

Electric shock

3

�Intoxication

4

Toothache

161

Teeth extracted

43

Fractures

78

Fracture of radius

4

Fracture of clavicle

2

Fracture of fingers

7

Fracture of nose

7

Fracture of arm

11

Fracture of skull

4

Fracture of leg

7

Fracture of foot

2

Fracture of ribs

6

Fracture, Pott's

1

Fracture of toes

3

Fracture of femur

2

�Deaths at Pan-American hospital

4

Total

5,573

TABLE 2. Deaths In Pan-American Hospital And Ambulance
•

Case No. 2,226 Pneumonia

•

Case No. 4,175 Apoplexy

•

Case No. 5,557 Heart Disease

•

Death in ambulance of man shot during a fracas in the Free Midway.

•

Baby in Indian Village, died of entero-colitis, treatment being refused.

•

Premature birth (6 or 7 mos.) in African Village.

•

Indian baby died, in hospital, on inspiration pneumonia, following inspiration of some grains of partially cooked rice.

Deaths By Accident On The Grounds.
•

One man killed by cars before Medical Bureau was organized.

•

Case No. 613. Struck by Belt Line train; both legs severed from Body. Killed instantly.

•

Case No. 631. Fracture of skull. Killed instantly.

•

Case No. 3,490. Bullet through sternum. Killed instantly.

•

Case No. 3,568. Fracture of skull. Killed instantly.

•

Two men killed by electricity. Not taken to hospital.

TABLE 3. Births
•

Two births in Indian Village.

•

One birth in Filipino Village.

�Table 4. Totals Of Patients By Months
August

1900

17

September

1900

60

October

1900

86

November

1900

94

December

1900

73

January

1901

92

February

1901

59

March

1901

100

April

1901

167

May

1901

482

June

1901

660

July

1901

1,018

August

1901

1,145

September

1901

954

October

1901

554

�Total:

5,561

Total for construction period up to May 1, 1901

748

Total for Exposition period up to November 1, 1901

4,813

Daily average for construction period

2

Daily average for Exposition period

26

Table 5. Number Of Patients Sent To Each Hospital

•

Buffalo General -- 36

•

Homeopathic -- 8

•

German -- 2

•

Riverside -- 2

•

German Deaconess' -- 1

•

Sisters' -- 21

•

Total -- 70

Summary
Total number of diagnoses

5,572

Total number of persons killed

4

�5,576

Total number of patients treated

5,567

Total number of cases with more than one major injury

9

5,576

Reference
1.Roswell Park, M.D., Report of the Medical Department of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo
Medical Journal, (December 1901).

�The Pan-Am Ambulance
What happened to the man who

was likely the first motorized
ambulance driver?
The Pan-American Exposition Ambulance1
Dr. Nelson Wilson, Sanitary Officer of the Pan­
American Exposition, wrote in "Details of

President McKinley's Case", in the October 1901

issue of Buffalo Medical Journal that
"The dash (of the ambulance) to the hospital was
thrilling and sensational. Mr. F. T. Ellis, who was

driving the motor vehicle, handled the steering
bar with the utmost skill; no chauffeur however
skillful, however expert, ever drove an automobile
with more speed and with more wisdom through

dangerous places than did Ellis, who is a third-year medical student of the University at Buffalo. The crowd was
dense along the route to the hospital and yet, although the machine was driven at top speed, there were no

accidents. Inside lay the Chief Magistrate of the United States, carefully attended by Dr. G. McK. Hall and Mr. E. C.
Mann, the latter a senior medical student on the staff of the medical department of the Pan-American Hospital."
While Frederick T. Ellis, or "Fred T.", is listed in the 1901 medical school yearbook, no reference is made in

subsequent issues. The 1915 and subsequent alumni catalogs also do not list Mr. Ellis, suggesting that no degree

was conferred. Also, a check of national medical directories from the period did not find Mr. Frederick Ellis listed
as a practicing physician. Mr. Ellis was listed as a Niagara Falls resident active in the Athletic Association, football

team and Alpha Omega Delta fraternity.
Mr. E. C. Mann, senior medical student on the staff of the medical department of the Pan-American Hospital

attended President McKinley in the ambulance to the Emergency Hospital.

Reference
1. The original photograph of this ambulance is held in the archives of the Buffalo General Hospital and was

reproduced in Another Era : A Pictorial History of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University at New
York at Buffalo, 1846-1996, Ronald Elmer Batt, et. al., contributors, Virginia Beach, VA : The Donning Company,

1996.

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                    <text>Excerpt from the Flag Day address by U.S.

Secretary of State John Hay
Given June 14, 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition

"I am inclined to think that perhaps the waiters and waitresses and

some of the rest might be better employed in exchanging ideas
among themselves than in listening to the few words that I shall
be able to say.

Last night, as I looked from my window at this marvelous creation,
lined in fire upon the evening sky, and today as I have walked

through the courts and the palaces of this incomparable
exhibition, the words of the prophet have been constantly in my

mind - Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions. We who are old have through many hopeful years
dreamed this dream. It was noble, inspiring, leading to earnest
and uplifting labor. This ideal of the brotherhood of the nations of
the Western World is not a growth of yesterday. It was heralded

when the country was young by the clarion voice of Henry Clay. It

was cherished by Seward and Evarts, by Douglas and by Blaine.
Twelve years ago we had the first reunion of the two American

republics. Much was said and done, destined to be memorable in

John Hay, Secretary of State. Photo Credit:
Doubleday, Page &amp; Co. Source: The World's Work,
v.2, no.6 (October 1901) p. 1242.

our history, opening and blazing the way along the path of peace
and fraternal relations.

As a means to those ends, as a concrete realization of those generous dreams which have led us thus far, we have

this grand and beautiful spectacle, never to be forgotten, a delight to the eyes, a comfort to every patriot heart
that during the coming summer shall make the joyous pilgrimage to this enchanted scene, where lake and shore
and sky, the rich, bright city throbbing with vigorous life, and in the distance the flash and roar of the stupendous
cataract, unite their varied attractions in one charm of powerful magic such as the world has seldom seen.

All the triumphs of the spirit and of the skilled hands of labor, the garnered treasures of science, the witcheries of

art, the spoils of earth and air and sea are gathered here to warn, to delight, to encourage and reward the ever

striving, the indomitable mind of man. Here you have force, which enables men to conquer and tame the powers
of nature. Wealth, not meant as Tennyson sang, to rest in moulded heaps, but smit with the free light to melt and
fatten lower lands. Beauty, not for selfish gratification of the few, but for the joy of the many to fill their days
with gladness and their nights with music. And hovering over all the sublime, the well-nigh divine conception of a

brotherhood of mutually helpful nations, fit harbinger and forerunner of a brotherhood of man.

�Every great achievement in art, in science, in commerce communicates to the universal human spirit a salutary
shock which in ever-widening circles spreads to regions the most remote and obscure, to break at last in lingering
ripples on the ultimate shores of space and time. Out of a good source evil cannot flow, out of the light darkness

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                    <text>Electricity and Technology
This portion of the online exhibit focuses on the generation of hydroelectric power

at the turn of the century and the resulting development of electrochemical
industry along the Niagara River. One of the widest misconceptions in "exposition

circles" is the belief that the development of hydroelectric power at Niagara Falls

was catalyzed by the incredible display of incandescent illumination at the Pan­
American Exposition. While the "City of Light" undeniably turned the general public
and commercial entrepreneurs on to the idea that electricity could be effectively
utilized in the domestic arena, it was industry that spurred development of power

plants at the Falls. As Jack Foran points out in his essay introducing Niagara Falls
and electricity, the harnessing of the Falls required the identification of a market

for such vast amounts of electrical power. "[That] market was to be Buffalo
industry," and thus power plants were built and expanded. Indeed, because

alternating current generators, transformers and transmission lines were already in
place 25 miles away at the Falls, the planners of the 1901 Exposition in Buffalo

could build electric trolleys and elevators and illuminate the fairgrounds on a much

wider scale than any of their predecessors.

One can assume that Buffalo would have become that market for Falls-generated

power regardless of whether or not she had hosted the 1901 Pan-American
Exposition. The industrial development in the Buffalo-Niagara region during the
early 20th century provides plenty of evidence to support such a claim. However,

"The Birth of Power" Artist: Willy
Pogany. Source: Edward Dean
Adams. Niagara Power: History
of the Niagara Falls Power
Company 1886-1918. Niagara
Falls, N.Y.: Niagara Falls Power
Company, 1927.

the Exposition provided such a memorable and visually inspiring exhibit that it may very well have enlightened

visitors and participants to the potential for the use of electricity for more than simply powering furnaces and
catalyzing the separation of chemical compounds. Electricity could provide light and after all, everyone needed

light. But the panorama of glowing architecture that was the Exposition at night, proved that light could be
utilized in a most beautiful way.

•

Electricity and its Development
This section looks at the development of power generation--direct and alternating current--at Niagara Falls. It features

information on Nicola Tesla as well as the two major hydroelectric power generators of the period, the Niagara Falls
Power Company and the Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power and Manufacturing Company.

•

The Electrochemical Industry and Niagara Falls
Electrochemical industry grew in and around Niagara Falls because of the relatively cheap supply of abundant power
available. This section describes the major companies utilizing this power.

�•

New Technologies at the Turn of the Century
The Pan-American Exposition served in part as the 1901 equivalent of the modern trade show, where companies could

exhibit and advertise new inventions and technologies. This section highlights some of 1901's "modern marvels."

�Electricity and its Development at Niagara
Falls
"One of the boldest engineering and commercial feats of the past century, the successful development of the water­

power of Niagara Falls, was the signal for the utilization of water powers all over the world. This masterpiece of

nature remains to-day with its beauty and grandeur unmarred, its 8,000,000 horse-power inappreciably affected by the
petty thefts of man, and its usefulness enhanced a thousand-fold."

--William Andrews, "How Niagara Has Been Harnessed,"
The American Monthly Review of Reviews, June 1901.
By the time planning began for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, hydroelectric power generation had

already been in place at Niagara Falls for nearly a decade. As William Andrews explains in his article "How Niagara

Has been Harnessed," a charter had been obtained from the New York Legislature in 1886 to begin developing the

water power of the Falls. But those who realized the commercial value of developing the cataracts were also
"opposed to the desecration of the most impressive natural object of the world for utilitarian purposes." Add to
this philosophy the establishment of the State Reservation at Niagara in 1885 and the result was the design and

construction of hydroelectric power plants that were engineering marvels of their day.

•

Water Diversion, Turbines and Tunnels

•

The Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power and Manufacturing Company

•

The Niagara Falls Power Company

•

The Cataract Power and Conduit Company

•

The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company

•

The General Electric Company

�Water Diversion, Turbines and Tunnels
Rather than harness the water power of the Niagara
River below the Falls, hydraulic engineer, Thomas

Evershed, proposed that the water be diverted via a

canal above the Falls through penstocks to vertical shafts
housing the turbines. The Evershed Scheme would then
channel the water through tunnels running underneath
the city of Niagara Falls to be discharged into the lower

river.
This canal/tunnel method was the means by which the

two major power producers in 1901, the Niagara Falls
Hydroelectric Power and Manufacturing Company and the

Niagara Falls Power Company, both of which supplied
electricity to industry in the vicinity of the Falls and
throughout Western New York.

Power Company Water Inlets. . Photo credit: n/a. Source:
Orrin E. Dunlap. "Niagara Falls Power Development and the
Pan-American Exposition." Western Electrician, v. 28, no.20,
p. 330. This birdseye view shows (1) the inlet of the Niagara
Falls Power Company, (2) the inlet of the Niagara Falls
Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company, and (3) the
embankment being constructed on the river above the inlet
of the Niagara Falls Power Company to divert ice.

The diagram at left illustrates the vertical shafts through which water

was diverted from the canals to generator turbines. Penstocks

conducted water from the canal through 7 ½ foot steel tubes running
from the head gates to the turbine "deck" approx. 140 feet below. After

passing the water wheels the water flowed to the exit tunnel which

carried it under the city of Niagara Falls at a rate of about 20 mph to
the lower Niagara River. While this is an illustration of Niagara Falls

Power Company's Power House No. 2, completed in 1904, it is nearly

identical to Powerhouse No. 1, which was in operation in 1901,
supplying electricity to the Pan-American Exposition.

Transverse Section of Power House No. 2. Niagara Falls
Power CompanySource: The Niagara Falls Electrical
Handbook: Being a Guide for Visitors from Abroad Attending
the International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, Mo.,
September, 1904. Niagara Falls, N. Y. : Pub. under the
auspices of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers,
1904. p. 73.

�The Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power and Manufacturing
Company

General View of Power Development by the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company. Photo credit: n/a.
Source: The Niagara Falls Electrical Handbook: Being a Guide for Visitors from Abroad Attending the International Electrical
Congress, St. Louis, Mo., September, 1904. Niagara Falls, N. Y. : Pub. under the auspices of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, 1904. p. 36.

The Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power and Manufacturing Company (NFHP) was located on the lower river north of

Niagara Falls. Sometimes referred to as the "Schoellkopf Plant," after its founder, Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, this
power plant was situated on the bluff of the Niagara Gorge and produced primarily direct current electricity. This

plant is a perfect illustration of the influence of industry in the development of power generation at Niagara Falls.
NFHP supplied electricity to manufacturers within a 1 mile radius since that was the effective limitation of the

transmission of direct current. The generators installed were of various makes, depending upon the industries to
which they were supplying power. Surprisingly, the NFHP underestimated the importance of alternating current
(AC) production. As AC-driven machinery became more commonplace in industry, the demand increased.

Eventually, the NFHP would add generators to produce alternating current.

�The Niagara Falls Power Company

Power Houses and Transformer House - The Niagara Falls Power Company. Photo credit: n/a. Source: The Niagara Falls Electrical
Handbook: Being a Guide for Visitors from Abroad Attending the International Electrical Congress, St. Louis, Mo., September,
1904. Niagara Falls, N. Y. : Pub. under the auspices of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1904. p. 70.

The Niagara Falls Power Company (NFPC) was located upriver from Niagara Falls and produced the electricity used
not only to power industry in the immediate vicinity of the Falls but also to be transmitted to Buffalo, Tonawanda,

Lockport and beyond. This plant is often referred to as the "Adams Plant," named so after Edward Dean Adams,
president of the Cataract Construction Company, which erected the original power stations at Niagara Falls and

gave financial stability to the NFPC. (Adams would also direct the NFPC.)
Unlike the Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power and Manufacturing Company, which supplied its customers directly,
the NFPC was design to be a centralized producer of power only. Other companies would be responsible for

transmission and distribution of that power.
The NFPC generated alternating current (AC), which, unlike direct current, can be transformed from one potential
to another, to a higher or lower electromotive force, through the means of static transformers. The development

of AC and step-up/step-down transformers were key to the transmission of hydroelectric power over long
distances. The influence of engineers like Nikola Tesla cannot be understated. As Jack Foran points out in a

related essay, Tesla did not invent alternating current or the transformer. Rather, he developed the alternating
current motor, "making [AC] electricity a feasible industrial commodity." Increase the demand for any commodity
and surely the desire to supply that commodity will follow.

�The NFPC supplied alternating current through the use of ten

Westinghouse AC generators of 5,000 h.p. capacity with 430 cubic feet of
water turning the turbines at 250 rpm. This was the capacity of NFPC

Power House No. 1. To put this into perspective, the entire Pan-American

Exposition was powered by the electricity produced by only one of those
ten generators. While a second power station would eventually be
constructed across the canal, it was Power House No. 1 that produced

most of the AC in the Western New York region at the time of the

Exposition. Step-up transformers, allowed for the transmission of that

power to Buffalo and other areas via lines owned by the Cataract Power
and Conduit Company 22 miles to the city of Buffalo. (See a diagram of the
NFPC's "General Scheme of Power Distribution.") From there, the

electricity was distributed to consumers, the largest of which were the
International Railroad Company and the Buffalo General Electric
Company.

Interior of Power House No. 2 - The Niagara
Falls Power Company. Photo credit: n/a.
Source: The Niagara Falls Electrical
Handbook: Being a Guide for Visitors from
Abroad Attending the International
Electrical Congress, St. Louis, Mo.,
September, 1904. P 88.

The Cataract Power and Conduit Company
Incorporated in 1896 by William B. Rankine, George Urban, Jr. and Charles R. Huntley,
the Cataract Power and Conduit Company won the contract to lay transmission lines

from the Niagara Falls Power Company to the city of Buffalo. The objectives of this
company were as follow:

"... the use and distribution of electricity for light, heat or power within the city of
Buffalo, the construction of conduits, poles, pipes or other fixtures in, on, over and

under the streets, alleys, avenues, public parks, and places within the city of Buffalo for
the conduct of wires and pipes and for conducting and distributing electricity ... "

George Urban, Jr.

1

George Urban, Jr. headed the George Urban Milling Company and was involved in

banking, insurance and numerous business interests. He was an incorporator and vice­

president of the Cataract Power and Conduit Company and served as an organizer and president of the Thomson-

�Houston Electric light company before it was absorbed by the General Electric
Company. In 1901 he served on the Board of Managers of the Pan-American Exposition
Company and would be a prominent figure in developing the electrical power industry in

Western New York.
Charles R. Huntley was also an incorporator of the Cataract Power and Conduit

Company. However he most famous for his role as president of the Buffalo General
Electric Company which would absorb the Cataract Power and Conduit Company in
1915. Huntley appropriately served on the Executive Committee of the Board of

Managers of the Pan-American Exposition. See more on Huntley and the Buffalo General
Electric Company.

Charles R. Huntley

The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Although famous for his invention of the air brake, George Westinghouse (1846­
1914) envisioned alternating current as key to the harnessing of electricity and

embarked on electrical matters as early as 1885. It was at this time that he
acquired the patents for the Gaulard and Gibbs system of alternating current

transmission and began research and development using apparatus imported from
England. Eventually, Westinghouse recruited engineer Nikola Tesla, acquiring his

patents for the polyphase induction motor, and continued to develop the machinery
necessary for alternating current production. Edward Dean Adams made this

statement with regard to Westinghouse's AC research relative to development of

Niagara Power:

George Westinghouse
"The issuing of the Tesla polyphase patents in May, 1888,was followed a year later

by the organization of the Cataract Construction Company [and its affiliate the Niagara Falls Power Company]
which undertook the investigation of methods of developing Niagara Power. Niagara

plans and alternating-current machinery developed simultaneously and in less than a

decade they mutually contributed to the inauguration of modern hydro-electric
power service."

2

The 1893 Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition) was a forum for exhibiting

Westinghouse's successful technological innovations with regard to alternating current
and electrical apparatus. Referring to the spectacular display of lighting at the

Westinghouse exhibit, Col. Henry G. Prout wrote:
".the best result of the Columbian Exposition of 1893 was that it removed the last

serious doubt of the usefulness to mankind of the polyphase alternating current. The

Nikola Tesla

�conclusive demonstration at Niagara was yet to be made, but the World's Fair clinched the fact that it would be made,
and so it marked an epoch in industrial history."

3

(Westinghouse also had a substantial exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, although it was the General Electric
Company that displayed a working exhibit of the machinery that actually supplied power to the Exposition
grounds.)

In October 1893, Westinghouse was awarded the contract to build
the 5,000 horsepower generators for the Niagara Falls Power

Company's Power House No. 1 as well as all auxiliary electrical

apparatus, including exciters, measuring instruments and
switching devices. Transmission of alternating current electricity
from Niagara Falls to Buffalo began in 1896, and was well in place
by the time plans began for the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.
The General Electric Company may have distributed the electricity
to illuminate the grounds of the Exposition, but it was a

Armature of a 5000 Horse-power Westinghouse
Generator. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Edward Dean
Adams. Niagara Power: History of the Niagara Falls
Power Company 1886-1918. Niagara Falls, N.Y.:
Niagara Falls Power Company, 1918, p. 200.

Westinghouse generator that produced that power.
Numerous individuals had contributed to the success

Westinghouse's involvement in Niagara power development. The
more prominent of these were William Stanley, the pioneering

electrical inventor who had done early AC research for Westinghouse, electrical engineers Lewis B. Stillwell,

Benjamin G. Lamme, Paul M. Lincoln and mechanical engineer Albert Schmid, among others. More details on the
contributions of these and other Westinghouse engineers can be found in Edward Dean Adams, Niagara Power:
History of the Niagara Falls Power Company 1886-1918, (1918).

The General Electric Company
The General Electric Company was formed in 1891, with the consolidation of the

Thomson-Houston Electric Company and the Edison General Electric Company of

Schenectady. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), inventor of the incandescent lightbulb,
built the first electric utility system using direct current. While Elihu Thomson was one

of the first engineers to research alternating current technology in the United States,
Edison was not all that interested in AC. As with many of his contemporaries, Edison was
a proponent of direct current, going so far as to say that alternating current was

dangerous. Indeed, the first execution by electrocution utilized alternating current, thus
supporting his ideas, at least in the mind of the public. The General Electric company

Thomas Alva Edison

supplied direct current dynamos to the Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power and

�Manufacturing Company as well as numerous industries around the falls. Machinery was also provided for the
original installations of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, the Carborundum Company and the Union Carbide

Companyamong others. However, consolidation with Thomson-Houston as well as further development of AC
technology in Europe led the General Electric Company to begin addressing the problems of AC technology.

Competition with Westinghouse, which already had a 5 year jump on researching AC spurred the General Electric
Company forward in this area. When plans were being drawn by the Cataract Construction Company for a
centralized power station, the General Electric Company was a formidable technological competitor with

Westinghouse. The General Electric Company's bid to supply generators for NFPC's Power House No. 1 was
unsuccessful. However, they did provide approximately half of the generators for Power Houses 2 and 3 as well as
the Canadian plant of the NFPC.

The Buffalo General Electric Company
The following entry from A History of the City of Buffalo, Its Men and Institutions (1908), best describes the Buffalo

General Electric Company at the turn of the century:
The history of The Buffalo General Electric Company is largely the history of the electrical development of Buffalo
in the past twenty-five years. In 1882, James Adams, A. P. Wright, J. F. Moulton, and H. G. Knowlton formed an

organization for the purpose of distributing electric light in the city.
The earliest application was for lights generated through what was then known as a Brush arc dynamo. The first

demonstration was across Buffalo Creek, on what is known as the Island. The business spread rapidly and another
establishment was started near the freight house of the New York Central Railroad. Later a plant was built in
Wilkeson Street and another in Prenatt Street, near Buffalo Creek.

The franchise was granted by the Common Council to The Brush Electric Light Company and to The United States
Electric Company, but the progress of the electric companies was exceedingly slow, and they met with all sorts of

difficulties in establishing their business, ignorance and prejudice being always potential factors.

The early efforts of the company were confined to what was then known as the First Ward and the outlying
districts, for the reason that it was not an easy matter for the existing lighting organization to address themselves
to the illumination of streets in other quarters. Much criticism was made by individuals and a hostile press because

such streets as Abbott Road and Elk Street were lighted by electricity, alleging that it was farm land and not

recognizing that the lighting was essential to these great highways for those who came into the city with their
goods in the early hours of the morning. But the criticism was upon so flimsy a basis that it could not stand long in
the light of use and appreciation.

In 1886 an organization was formed known as The Thomson-Houston Electric Light Company, which, in the main,

purposed to do electric lighting on the west side. The results of the business of both companies was not entirely
satisfactory, and a combination of interests, by the purchase of stocks and bonds of the respective companies by a
common holder, was entered into in 1892 under the name of The Buffalo General Electric Company. The active

�elements of all the companies were associated in the new organization, with Mr. Daniel O'Day as president, Mr.
George Urban, Junior, vice-president, and Mr. Charles R. Huntley general manager.

From that time on there has been a steady increase in the use and appreciation of electricity. In 1897 the steam
plants of the various companies were gradually dismantled and the power was taken from Niagara Falls through

The Cataract Power and Conduit Company. Today Niagara Falls power is distributed through The Buffalo General
Electric Company and is probably the most potent factor in Buffalo's industrial life. At the present time there are

different distributing stations in different parts of the city—in Wilkeson Street, Court and Main streets, Ohio
Street, Babcock Street, and Ferry Street.
In Buffalo the use of electricity is becoming general, and the community is living up to its name—the Electric City.

Particularly is the application of this force to all domestic requirements becoming popular; such as for house
lights, heat for cooking and laundry purposes, for operating sewing machines, mechanical elevators, and so forth.
The Buffalo General Electric Company has been the leading educator in this respect.
The offices of this concern are located in the new Fidelity Building, and the present officers are: president and

general manager, Charles R. Huntley; vice-presidents, George Urban, Junior, and Andrew Langdon; assistant
manager, William R. Huntley; treasurer, D. T. Nash.

4

Charles R. Huntley (see above) was general manager and eventual president of the Buffalo General Electric
Company (BGEC). In making the plant a site for demonstrating the advantages and possibilities of alternating

current, Huntley set up the BGEC to become a model for the centralized distribution of electrical power.
Certainly, his role as a vice-president of the Cataract Power and Conduit Company, which installed and operated
the transmission lines leading from Niagara Falls to Buffalo, put the BGEC in a advantageous position as a power

distributor. By 1901 the BGEC was offering four levels of electrical service to the city of Buffalo:

Constant high-tension current

arc lighting

60-cycle alternating current

distant incandescent lighting

500-v direct current

motor circuits

220-v three wire direct current

incandescent lamps

�Since it was the major distributor of electricity to
Buffalo, it is not surprising that much of the electrical

current used at the Pan-American Exposition was

distributed via the BGEC. In fact, the General Electric
Company's display in the Electricity Building was the

place of the step-down transformation of the power

used for illuminating the Exposition grounds and
buildings.5 This working exhibit allowed Exposition

visitors to see the transformers up close, and to observe

engineers at work as the current entering the grounds

was reduced to the voltage needed to operate trolleys
and incandescent lamps. The BGEC's role cannot be understated since the illumination effects were not only one of
the most memorable features of the Pan-American Exposition, but proof to the general public that the water­

power from Niagara could successfully be harnessed and that electricity could be utilized for more than just
industry.

References
1.

Edward Dean Adams. Niagara Power: History of the Niagara Falls Power Company 1886-1918. Niagara Falls,

N.Y.: Niagara Falls Power Company, 1927, p. 343.]
2.

Ibid., p. 189.

3.

Henry G. Prout. A Life of George Westinghouse. Published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,

1921. In Niagara Power, p. 193.
4.

A History of the City of Buffalo. Its Men and Institutions. Buffalo, NY: The Buffalo Evening News, 1908. p.114.

5.

The electricity that came from Niagara Falls was used primarily for illuminating the incandescent lamps used to
decorate the Exposition buildings and grounds. A separate service building housed numerous natural gas-burning
boilers and steam engines, which provided much of the electrical power used to drive machinery. A third source of

power was the Machinery and Transportation Building, which exhibited steam and gas engines used to power the

many fountains and water pumps. See "The Power Court of the Machinery Building" and "The Power Plants of the
Pan-American Exposition" for more information.

Additional Resources:
•

Thomas Edison visited the Pan-American Exposition and in an interview with Western Electrician, talked briefly about

his impressions of illumination effects, the future use of his storage battery and the continued development of Niagara

Falls as a power and industrial center. See "Edison at the Pan-American Exposition."

�•

An excellent timeline of the development of hydroelectric power at Niagara Falls can be found at Daniel M. Dumych's

web site Waterpower at Niagara http://www.niagarafrontier.com/tunnelpix/DanielDumychWaterPower.pdf.

•

Additional information on George Westinghouse and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company is

available at The Westinghouse World: The Companies, the People and the Places on the American Memory site

at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westpres.html

•

Nikola Tesla's contributions to the development of Niagara Power are discussed on the PBS-produced Tesla: Master of

Lighting at http://www.pbs.org/tesla/

�The Electrochemical Industry and Niagara
Falls
The theme image of the Pan-American Exposition was light--specifically, electrical light--referring to Buffalo's
proximity to Niagara Falls, and consequent potential to exploit the almost limitless electrical energy of the Falls.

But the development of electricity at Niagara Falls was about electricity for industrial power, not light.
—Jack Foran, "Introduction: Niagara Falls and Electricity."

When one considers the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, one of the first images brought to mind is that of the
illuminated buildings and grounds. Because this striking display of electrical power was generated by the

hydroelectric power plants of Niagara Falls, it is easy to directly relate the development of the Niagara power
industry to the need for electrically generated light in cities like Buffalo. As Jack Foran emphasizes, this is a
common misconception. It was, in fact, industry that powered the development of Niagara.

In 1927, Edward Dean Adams wrote a comprehensive history of the Niagara Falls Power Company (NFPC), where he

described the way Niagara power development both influenced and was influenced by the growth of industry. This

was a surprising development to the planners of the central power station that would become the NFPC. They
designed the facility based on the premise that the municipal and domestic users of electricity (electric railways,
incandescent lighting, etc.) in the cities of Niagara Falls and Buffalo to be the parties with the greatest demand

for Niagara power.

On February 15, 1893 [two years before the power station began operation] … it was stated by the company that the
inquiries and requests for power justified the belief that "a quick and urgent demand for this power, both hydraulic and
electrical, will show itself at Niagara as well as at Buffalo, but undoubtedly it is from this great city now employing
more that 50,000 horse-power that the more urgent demand will come for immediate use." 1

—Edward Dean Adams, 1927

�By December 1896, fifteen months after the NFPC began

commercial operation, it became apparant that Buffalo
was not the "field of quick and urgent demand" that
planners had anticipated it to be. Instead, the largest
consumers of electrical power were "local" and from

"unexpected and novel sources."

2

"[A] glance at the diagram of circuits' showing the use of

Niagara power in 1897, less than two years after the
plant started, brings out a striking fact. Electric power

was used for lighting, it was used for street railways
locally and in Buffalo, it was used for motors in mills, the

three uses of power which had been emphasized, but the
center of the diagram shows five uses other than for
lighting and power, of a kind to which scarcely any

reference is found in the early prospectuses and plans of
the company. These uses are for the making of

carborundum, aluminum (Pittsburgh Reduction Company),

alkalis and calcium carbide. They are electrochemical
and allied processes and they were using, in the

aggregate, many times the total power taken for lighting
and motors."

Diagram of Circuits. Source: From a paper "The Installation of
the Niagara Falls Power Company," presented by Charles F.
Scott at the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, April 17, 1897. In
Edward Dean Adams. Niagara Power: History of the Niagara
Falls Power Company, 1927, v. 2, p.251.

3

As Foran mentions in his essay, one of the key technological innovations influencing the development of the

Niagara power industry, was Tesla's invention of the alternating current motor. This motor, used in both industrial
and domestic machinery, catalyzed the demand for alternating current, which justified the building of a power

generation infrastructure based on the outward transmission of electricity from centralized production facility. But
as Niagara Falls grew to be a center of hydroelectric power generation, the region saw the parallel development of
a fledgeling industry that utilized electrical current for more than simply lighting factories and powering motors.

The electrochemical industry required cheap electrical power. And it required a lot of it.

Niagara Fostered the Development of the Electrochemical

Industry
Two basic processes are utilized in the electrochemistry:

•

Electrothermic process: Two or more elements are combined using a high-temperature electric furnace.

•

Electrolytic process: An electric current is used to break down an element into two or more new materials. For
instance, caustic and chlorine results from the breakdown of salt.

�Both of these processes require a
constant, round-the-clock supply of

power. Since power comprised
relatively high percentage (nearly

20 to 40 percent) of the total cost

of chemical production,
electrochemical companies needed
a source of power that was both

constant and inexpensive. Niagara

power had both of these

characteristics, thus, the
electrochemical industry

prospered. In essence, the
electrochemical and power

industries in the Niagara Falls
region each benefited from the

other's prosperity. Development of

Niagara's hydroelectric power
provided an endless supply of

cheap electricity, making

electrochemical production cheap

and profitable. This, in turn,

creating a demand for more power.
Niagara is the greatest single

source of constant water-power in
the United States. Here is power

Niagara Falls. Photo credit: n/a. Source: Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo May 1 to
November 1, 1901. Its purpose and its plan. With Illustrations. Buffalo, N. Y. : The
Courier Company, 1901. p. [8].

stupendous in magnitude, easily
developed, at a construction cost

so relatively low that electric
energy cost to customers is the very lowest.

Niagara was a magnet to which was attracted the new born of the electrochemical family. 5

See Electrochemical Companies at Niagara for descriptions of some of the major chemical producers utilizing the

Niagara's abundant and inexpensive hydroelectric power in 1901.

�References
1.

Edward Dean Adams. Niagara Power: History of the Niagara Falls Power Company 1886-1918. Niagara Falls,

N.Y.: Niagara Falls Power Company, 1927, v.2, p. 257.
2.

Ibid., v.2, pp. 258-9.

3.

Ibid., v.2 pp. 258-9.

4.

The "Diagram of Circuits" from a paper "The Installation of the Niagara Falls Power Company," presented by

Charles F. Scott at the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, April 17, 1897. In Adams, v.2, p.251.

5.

Ibid., v.2, p. 308.

�New Technologies at the Turn of the
Century

The Harrisburg Engine. Photo credit: n/a. Source: Power, v. 21, no. 8 (August 1901) p. 3. The Harrisburg Engine was one of many
gas and steam engines in the Power Plant in the Court of the Machinery Building. These working engines were not only exhibited
to educate visitors, but also to provide supplemental power to run the fountain water pumps and other daily operations of the
Exposition.

One of the main functions of the world's fairs was to provide a forum for introducing and exhibiting new inventions
and technological developments. The Pan-American Exposition was in its very essence, a working exhibit of the

modern marvels of 1901. The use of steam and electrically powered machinery for exhibits and basic operations,
not to mention the awe-inspiring illumination effects for which the Exposition is famous, were clear indications
that industry and business, and even the government, were at the forefront in technological development. The

Exposition hosted companies like General Electric, Westinghouse and some of the prominent engine manufacturers
of the day-Lane &amp; Bodley, Skinner, Nash and Bessemer. In fact, many of the larger companies provided "working
exhibits"-displays of machinery that not only educated visitors, but actually functioned in the day-to-day

operation of the Exposition.

�In her article "How To See the Pan-American Exposition," Mary Bronson Hartt describes, from the visitor's point of
view, the "modern marvels" on exhibit in numerous buildings throughout the Exposition grounds:

In the main Government Building it is hard to say what you do not want to see. Perhaps the most popular section is

that in the southeast corner of the building, under the label "Patent Office." There you see in operation the

electrograph, the machine which transmits pictures by wire; the telautograph, which enables you to write your
signature ever so many miles away; the voting-machine, the entertaining mutoscopes, the mechanical mowing­
machine, where the mown grass grows again while you wait, and scores of other ingenious novelties. In a dark

room in this same part of the building the government schools make a novel exhibit of their work by means of the

biograph and phonograph, the performance taking place at intervals from half past ten in the morning till five at
night. Twice every day, at eleven and at two, there is a demonstration of wireless telegraphy in the War
Department, under the government dome.

The Electrograph. Photo credit: n/a. Source: Everybody's Magazine, v.5, no.26 (October 1901) p. 397. The Electrograph was an
machine for "telegraphing pictures" and the exhibit demonstrated how a portrait could be sent by wire. Below is the
telegraphing machine and an example of a picture sent from Chicago to New York.

�Nernst Lamps. Photo
credit: n/a. Source:
Everybody's Magazine,
v. 5, no. 26 (October
1901) p. 392. Nernst
Lamps were displayed
overhead in the
Westinghouse Section of
the Electricity Building.
The lighting filament
was made of lime-like
minerals that, when
heated by electric
current, gave off a "the
most dazzling white
light." The fifty-candle
Nernst lamp was three
times brighter than the
normal incandescent
lamp of the period, and
consumed half the
energy.

The "Dow"
Typesetting
Machine. Photo
credit: n/a. Source:
Donald Murray.
"The Automatic
Age," Everybody's
Magazine, v. 5, no.
26 (October 1901)
p. 401.

�Niagara dominates the Electricity Building. At the east end of the building is a table covered with telephonic

transmitters, and you have but to hold two of them to your ears to hear the thunderous roar of the Falls. The roar
was captured by a transmitter in the Cave of the Winds, and is used as a sort of "bally-hoo" by one of the great

telephone companies. Nearly half of the north wall of the building is occupied by the big transformer plant, where
the power from the Falls, arriving at the high and dangerous potential of 11,000 volts, is stepped down to that of

1,800 volts for use about the grounds.

This is an electric exposition; the electrical exhibits cannot be contained in
a single building; they are everywhere. Niagara power drives the trolley

which carries you to the grounds; turns the wheels of the countless

machines in Machinery Hall; whirls the electric fans which cool the theatres
in the Midway; illuminates the cycloramas and other electrical effects and

illusions; makes possible the powerful search-light on the Electric Tower
which sends signals to Toronto ; glows in the blended colors of the Electric

Fountain, and blossoms in a whole firmament of electric stars which make
up the glory of the Pan-American illumination. All this makes of supreme
interest a modest little working-model of the Niagara Power House, near
the western end of the Electricity Building. A portion of the outer wall is
removed to allow you to see the wheel-pit and penstocks, and the turbines

spinning in the rush of water, revolving the humming dynamos in the
power-house above.

Model of the Niagara Power
House.Photo credit: n/a. Source:
Everybody's Magazine, v. 5, no. 26
(October 1901) p. 388. The model's
cutaway shows the shafts of six of the
5,000 horsepower turbines. For
information on a second model of the
Niagara Falls Power Company, see
Models of Niagara Power Houses”

Much of the apparatus in the Electricity Building is beyond the ken of the layman; but the improved phonographs
which send their strong, full voices ringing through the building, appeal to the interest of the least technically

inclined. In a green burlaps-covered cabinet near the centre of the building is shown a novel apparatus called the
akouphone, an electrical appliance enabling the deaf to hear by increasing the force of sound-waves. The Delany

telegraph system, the model telephone station, and the X-rays demonstration attract attention by day, while at
night the beautiful display of hanging Nernst lamps in the draped roof make the building charming beyond its sister

structures.

Jacquard Loom. Photo credit: n/a. Source: Everybody's
Magazine, v. 5, no. 26 (October 1901). This automated loom
could weave sixteen silk souvenir picture ribbons at once.

�Envelope-Making Machine. Photo credit: n/a. Source: Everybody's
Magazine, v. 5, no. 26 (October 1901) p. 401. The image shows the
"modern" automated envelope-making machine (right) next to its
1860 counterpart.

The Monotype. Photo credit: n/a. Source: Everybody's Magazine,
v. 5, no. 26 (October 1901) p. 401. The Monotype was described
by Murray as "an automatic miracle of mechanism that sets up
and casts type according to instruction given by a perforated strip
of paper.”

Beyond the Propylæa, in the Railway Exhibit Building, are dozens of magnificent big locomotives, and new model
trolley cars and devices for automatic coupling and the like. A big steam shovel, in operation out of doors just

beyond the Railway Building, is a sight worth an effort to see.
The biggest engines in Machinery Hall are in the depressed Central Court. Among the more interesting exhibits on
the ground floor are the ice-machines, the paper-box making, the great drills and lathes, and the like. But, then,

to those who love machinery it is all fascinating.

Source: Mary Bronson Hartt. "How to See the Pan-American Exposition," Everybody's Magazine, v.5, no.26 (October

1901)
Note: The images used above were inserted by the web site editor and were not printed with Hartt's original

article. Click on the individual images to see the source citations.

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                    <text>The Legal Aftermath of the Assassination
of William McKinley
On September 5, 1901, Leon Czolgosz unsuccessfully sought an opportunity
to assassinate President McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in
Buffalo. His second attempt on September 6 was successful. At the Temple

of Music, while McKinley was in a greeting line, Leon Czolgosz fired two
shots into the President.
Czolgosz was wrestled to the ground by an Exposition attendee, AfricanAmerican waiter James Parker, who was credited with having prevented

Czolgosz from firing a third

round. [See a related essay on
James Parker by Daryl Rasuli.]
Soldiers of the U.S. Artillery

descended upon Czolgosz and

Portrait of William McKinley.
Photographer: Francis B. Johnston.
Source: The Life of William McKinley,
Including a Genealogical Record of the
McKinley Family and Copious Extracts
From the Late President's Public
Speeches, Messages to Congress,
Proclamations, and Other State Papers.
New York, P. F. Collier &amp; Sons, 1901.

began to beat him. From where

he lay wounded, President

McKinley was heard to have

said, "Go easy on him boys."
At police headquarters the

assassin was interrogated by
District Attorney Thomas

Penney. Czolgosz confessed that he killed the President because, "I
killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I didn't believe one

man should have so much service and another man should have none."

�"The Confession of Leon Czolgosz". Source: Photocopy kindly reproduced by the Karapela's Manuscript Museum.

Surgery was performed on President McKinley by Dr. Matthew Mann. The operation began at 5:20 P. M., one hour
and 20 minutes after the President was shot. The highly regarded surgeon, Roswell Park, was unavailable, so Mann,

an obstetrician and gynecologist, performed the operation. In addition to Mann, the attending physicians were
P.M. Rixey, Eugene Wasdin, (later) Roswell Park, and Herman Mynter.

Matthew D. Mann, M.D. Physician and
Surgeon; Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, University of Buffalo.
Photographer: Undetermined. Source: Men
of Buffalo: A Collection of Portraits of Men
Who Deserve to Rank as Typical
Representatives of the Best Citizenship,
Foremost Activities and Highest Aspirations
of the City of Buffalo. Chicago: A.N.
Marquis &amp; Co., 1902, p. 377.

Dr. Roswell Park

Herman Mynter, M.D. Professor of
Operative Surgery, University of Buffalo;
Surgeon to German and German Deaconess
Hospitals. Photographer: Undetermined.
Source: Men of Buffalo: A Collection of
Portraits of Men Who Deserve to Rank as
Typical Representatives of the Best
Citizenship, Foremost Activities and Highest
Aspirations of the City of Buffalo.
Chicago:A.N. Marquis &amp; Co., 1902, p. 390.

�On September 14, 1901 President McKinley died of gangrene at the home of John G. Milburn, president of the Pan­
American Exposition. After the final funeral service in Washington, D.C. on September 17th, McKinley's body was

returned to his home of Canton, Ohio and entombed at the Westlawn Cemetery.

By the time the body had been laid to rest, the Erie County Bar Association had assigned two honorable defense

attorneys to what they termed the "distasteful task" of providing counsel to the assassin. Members of the local bar

who were involved with the trial were presiding Judge Truman C. White, District Attorney Thomas Penney, as well

Department Of Police, Buffalo, N. Y.

Bureau Of Identification.

Alias Fred Nieman

Name
Leon Frank Czolgosz
No: 757Sex: Male- Color: White

Crime: Murder 1st degree
Place Arrested: Buffalo, N. Y.

Date if Arrest: Sept. 6, 1901
Precinct: HD

Arrested by: Solomon, Geary, Foster

Age: 28
Height: 5, 7-5/8- Complexion: Med
Eyes: DK. Blue- Weight: Med
Hair: Red. BR- Build: Med
Place of Birth: Detroit Mich.
Nationality: American
Occupation: Wireworker
Citizen: Yes
Scars and Marks
1. cut SC 2x (1/2) at 2, pt of elb.

2. out SC 2e on cent. back of eo
hand.
3. IRR cut SC 3c, 2d. phal
mid FGR, rear.
4. cut SC 7c ver LT cheek
3 from ear.
While Wm. McKinley the President of the United, States was holding a public
reception in the Temple or Music at the Pan-Amer. Exposition, he was shot

in the abdomen with a .38 CAL, Revolver.

Police Photograph and Report of Leon Czolgosz. Photographer: Unidentified. Source: Facsimile of the Police Report filed
September 6, 1901. Department of Police, Buffalo N.Y., Bureau of Identification. Facsimile courtesy of the Buffalo and Erie
County Historical Society.

�as defense attorneys Hon. Loran Lewis and the Hon. Robert Titus. The jurors reached a verdict in little more than

30 minutes. On September 26, 1901 at 2:00 p.m. Judge White sentenced Leon Czolgosz to death by electric chair

at Auburn State Prison. He was executed October 29, 1901.

The assassination of President McKinley by an avowed anarchist, only compounded Americans' fears, already

stirred by such recent events as the assassinations of King Humberto of Italy and Empress Elizabeth of Austria and
the Haymarket and Homestead riots in the United States. The focus of this fear was the anarchist movement, and
the relationship of this ideology to immigrants. State and federal legislation began to target anarchists, with bills
being introduced almost immediately to expel avowed anarchists from the country and to prohibit their entry into

the United States from other countries. One such statute, the Alien Immigration Act of 1903, is discussed
in Anarchy at the Turn of the Century.

See the following pages:

•

Anarchy at the Turn of the Century

•

Images of William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition

•

Leon Czolgosz and the Trial

�Anarchy at the Turn of the Century
Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, professed to being an anarchist. Inspired by Emma

Goldman, he stated in his confession, "I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I didn't believe one man
should have so much service, and another man should have none." With the role of anarchists and the violence of
the Haymarket Square Riot on the minds of many Americans, the death of McKinley at the hands of the anarchist
son of immigrants was significant. While the idea that it enhanced the link between immigrant laborers and

anarchists in the minds of civic leaders may be speculation, Czolgosz's deed and the attitude towards anarchism

was most certainly an integral part of the passing of the Alien Immigration Act in 1903.

•

Emma Goldman

•

The Haymarket Square Riot

•

Anti-Anarchist/Anti-Immigrant Political Commentary

•

Legislation and the Courts Target Anarchists

•

Buffalo - a Labor Town Where Anarchists Failed

Emma Goldman
Born on June 27, 1869, in Kovno (now Kaunas),

Lithuania, Emma Goldman grew up there, in Königsberg,

East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and in St.

Petersburg. Her formal education was limited, but she
read widely and in St. Petersburg, associated with a
radical student circle. In 1885 she emigrated to the
United States and settled in Rochester, New York.
There, and later in New Haven, Connecticut, she

worked in clothing factories and came into contact with

socialist and anarchist groups among her fellow workers.

Leon Czolgosz claimed to have been "an Anarchist--a
disciple of Emma Goldman."1 He had been inspired by

her, having seen her speak in Cleveland before the
Franklin Liberal Club on May 6, 1901. Here she "laid

down the principles by which she expected universal

Anarchy to prevail... "2 While she no longer condoned
violence, preferring education as the vehicle of social
change, she did speak highly of the violent measures

Emma Goldman Photographer: T. Kajiwara. Source: Emma
Goldman. Anarchism and Other Essays. New York, Mother
Earth Publ. Association, 1910. Frontispiece.

�enacted by anarchists, calling their motives high and noble and praising them because they "could not stand aside
while workers suffered."3

There is no evidence to show that Goldman was ever directly involved in Czolgosz's scheme. In fact he was scorned
as too revolutionary by the anarchists with which Goldman associated, including Emil Schilling of Cleveland's
Liberty Club and Abraham Isaak, editor of Free Society. Despite this, Goldman sympathized with the President's

assassin. In "The Tragedy at Buffalo, " she wrote:

I did not know the man [Czolgosz]; no one as far as I am aware seems to have known him, but from his attitude and

behavior so far (I hope that no reader of "Free Society" has believed the newspaper lies), I feel that he was a soul in

pain, a soul that could find no abode in this cruel world of ours, ...
... As I write this, my thoughts wander to the death-cell at Auburn, to the young man with the girlish face, about to be
put to death by the coarse, brutal hands of the law, walking up and down the narrow cell, with cold, cruel eyes

following him,

"Who watch him when he tries to weep

And when he tries to pray;
Who watch him lest himself should rob

The prison of its prey."

And my heart goes out to him in deep sympathy, and to all the victims of a system of inequality, and the many who will

die the forerunners of a better, nobler, grander life.4

Haymarket Square
Early in 1886 labor unions in Chicago were beginning the fight
for an eight-hour day. Serious trouble was anticipated and on
May 1st many workers struck for shorter hours. An active group

of radicals and anarchists became involved in the campaign.
Two days later, one death occurred during a riot at the

McCormick Harvester plant when police tangled with the

strikers.

The Haymarket Square Riot, depicted by a contemporary
illustrator.Illustrator: unidentified. Source: George N. McLean. The Rise
and Fall of Anarchy in America. Chicago: R.G. Badoux &amp; Co., 1890, p.
[89].

�On May 4, events reached a tragic climax at Haymarket Square, where a protest meeting had been called to
denounce the events of the preceding day. At this meeting, while police were attempting to disperse the crowd, a

bomb exploded. Policeman Mathias J. Degan was killed almost instantly and seven other officers died later. While
the bomber was never identified, eight men were finally brought to trial. Judge Joseph E. Gary imposed the death

sentence on seven of them and sentenced the eighth to fifteen years in prison. Four were hanged, one committed
suicide and the sentences of the remaining two were commuted from death to imprisonment for life. On June 26,

1893, Governor John P. Altgeld granted pardons to those three in the penitentiary.4

The Haymarket Riots did have direct bearing on reaction to McKinley's Assassination some fifteen years later.
The Buffalo Express pointed out to its readers that the person who threw the bomb in 1886 was never caught. The

four men hanged were in fact charged as accomplices, giving the state precedence to charge any accomplices that
Czolgosz may have had. Emma Goldman and eleven of her anarchist friends were accused of complicity in what

was then the attempt on the President's life (McKinley had not yet died.) None of the Anarchists, including
Goldman, was ever charged.

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�Anti-Anarchist/Anti-Immigrant Political Commentary
Political cartoonists and social commentators, directly related anarchy and immigration in their columns and
cartoons.

Political Cartoons reflect the "Evils of Anarchy". Source: Public Opinion, v. 13, no. 12 (September 19, 1901)

Political Cartoons reflect "Anarchy and Immigrants". Source: Public Opinion, v. 13, no. 12 (September 19, 1901)

In response to the September 6, 1901 shooting of the president and his subsequent death eight days later,
publications printed much commentary denouncing the actions of anarchists. One such publication, the

weekly Public Opinion, reprinted the opinions and statements made in many of the nation's newspapers and
journals. Below are excerpts from Public Opinion's September 12th and September 19th issues.

�… Czolgosz says that his deed was prompted by the teachings of anarchy; he asserts that he has only done
his duty as he understands it. He is a Pole, but was born in this country, speaks English well, and is,
presumably, familiar with the system of government under which he lived. If so, he knew that his deed

was not only brutal and criminal, but senseless as well.... p.323
Excerpts from Public Opinion, September 12th, 1901

"Whether President McKinley lives or dies, the American people should learn certain lessons at his
bedside," says the Boston Transcript: "That anarchy is hating as it is hateful; that it will strike as readily at
the freely chosen executive of a republic as at a king ruling by 'divine right'; that anarchism must be

suppressed here ...

... "This is a land of freedom, but it is not an asylum for assassins. Those who are banded together for the
commission of murder are outlaws, and the most sacred human right-that of self-protection-demands that

they be suppressed. Their presence in this country is a cancerous growth upon our republican form of
government, and the most drastic measures used to remove them will not be too severe," says the
Baltimore Herald.... p.324

Excerpts from Public Opinion, September 19th, 1901
... Naturally the avoidance of a repetition of crimes of the kind which have deprived the nation of
three of its presidents is the subject of most earnest consideration, but no practicable suggestions have
yet been made. It is to be presumed that the assailant expects to accomplish the death of his victim;

what then is to be gained by making an attempt upon the president's life punishable by death without

regard to the actual outcome of the attempt? Probably nothing can be done to preclude the possibility of
such attacks upon the heads of nations, but the preaching if not the mad practise of anarchy can be
stopped, and it doubtless will be until we again grow careless of the safety of our highest state officials.

... p.355
[From the Chicago Journal] ... Who is it that makes the Goldmans and the Mosts, the Spieses and the Parsonses

whose writings and speeches thus incite men to assassination? From whom do these teachers get their best

encouragement in this country? Whose teaching is it that anarchists think they only carry to its logical conclusion

when they advise and commit murder? Deliberately and without hesitation we say the "yellow journals" and the
men behind them.... p. 361.

[From the New York World] ... The response of the governors of many states to the inquiry of the World shows that
the one point of emphatic agreement is that a change alike in our law and practise regarding avowed anarchists is

necessary.... Now that public opinion has been sharply called to the deterrent inadequacy of the punishment

provided for a man who unsuccessfully tries to kill the nation's chief magistrate, some such federal law will no
doubt be enacted.... p.359

�Legislation and the Courts Target Anarchists
Legislators and the Courts were not at all tolerant of anarchists and their teachings, in part because of the

Haymarket Square riots and the seemingly endless growth in influence and power of the labor unions. The
assassination of President McKinley by a professed anarchist who was also the son of immigrants contributed to the

anti-anarchist fervor in Congress and the courts. The supposed ties between anarchists and immigrants was

addressed most effectively with the passing of the Alien Immigration Act in 1903 ( 32 Stat 1213, ch.1012).

... SEC. 2.That the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from admission into the United States: All idiots,
insane persons, epileptics, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had

two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge;
professional beggars; persons afflicted with a loathsome or with a dangerous contagious disease- persons who have
been convicted of a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists,anarchists, or

persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States or

of all government or of all forms of law, or the assassination of public officials; prostitutes, and persons who

procure or attempt to bring in prostitutes or women for the purpose of prostitution; … .
In addition to excluding anarchist immigrants from entry, the Act also allowed for the deportation of those

immigrants already in the United States who were found to be anarchists. John Turner, a British national, was the

first to be deported under the Alien Immigration Act. He appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in 1904. The
Fuller court upheld the earlier decision.

United States ex rel, John Turner v. Williams.
Appeal From The Circuit Court Of The United States For

The Southern District OF New York.
No. 561.

Argued April 0, 7, 1904.—Decided May 16, 1904.

Congress has power to exclude aliens from, and to prescribe the conditions
on which they may enter, the United Stales; to establish regulations for
deporting aliens who have illegally entered, and to commit the enforce
ments of such conditions and regulations to executive officers. Deport
ing, pursuant to law, an alien who has illegally entered the United States,
does not deprive him of his liberty without due process of law.
The Alien Immigration Act of March, 1903, 32 Stat. 1213, docs not violate
the Federal Constitution, nor are its provisions as to the exclusion of aliens
who are anarchists, unconstitutional.

�The People v. Most
Shortly after the shooting of President McKinley, John Most was charged with a misdemeanor for "Publication of an
anarchical article" ... "an act endangering the peace and outraging public decency, within Penal Code, § 675." Most
was the publisher of the German language newspaper die Freiheit, and had reprinted an article which advocated
the use of murder as a proper remedy to be applied against rulers or "enemies of the people." The article, "Murder

vs. Murder," was originally written by Carl Heinzen fifty years prior, but reprinted by Most in the September 7,
1901issue of Die Freiheit.
The charges against Most were summed up as follows:
The publication and distribution, through the mail and to a local news company, of a German newspaper,
circulated in the city and county of New York, reproducing an article, headed in display type "Murder vs. Murder",

originally written by another person fifty years ago against crowned heads, teaching the doctrine of anarchy and
declaring that all rulers are enemies of mankind who should be hunted and destroyed through blood and iron,

poison and dynamite, make the publisher of the newspaper guilty of a misdemeanor within Penal Code, § 675,

providing that "A person who willfully and wrongfully commits anyact * * * which seriously endangers the public

peace * * * or which openly outrages public decency, for which no other punishment is expressly prescribed by this
code, is guilty of a misdemeanor" -- and this although it be not shown that the publication of the article was
followed by any overt act of physical injury to anyone.

It is unclear whether or not the timing of this article was intentional. Most's counsel maintained that "as soon as he

learned of the assault upon our late President, made all possible efforts to withdraw the newspaper containing the

article in question from circulation. That, with the exception of those which had been sent through the mail and
delivered to the International News Company, no more copies had been sold, so far as known to the defendant."
The assault on McKinley was, however, referred to in the opinion by Judge Hultquist:

... It is the power of words that is the potent force to commit crimes and offenses in certain cases. No more
striking illustration of the criminal power of words could be given, if we are to believe the murderer of our late

President, than that event presents. The assassin declares that he was instigated and stimulated to consummate
his foul deed by the teachings of Emma Goldman. He is now awaiting execution for the crime, while she is still at

large in fancied security....

It is impossible to read the whole article without deducing from it the doctrine that all rulers are enemies of

mankind, and are to be hunted and destroyed through "blood and iron, poison and dynamite." It is no answer to the

evil and criminal nature of this article to claim that it was written for the purpose of destroying crowned heads. It
inculcates and enforces the idea that murder is the proper remedy to be applied against rulers. The fact that it

was published fifty years ago and again republished about fifteen years ago only emphasizes and gives added point
to the criminality of republishing it at any time. It shows a deliberate intent to inculcate and promulgate the

doctrine of the article. This we hold to be a criminal act. It is not necessary to trace any connection in this article
with the assassination of the late President. The offense here, in the eye of the law, is precisely the same as if

�that event had never occurred. The murder of the President only serves to illustrate and illuminate the enormity

of the crime of the defendant in teaching his diabolical doctrines...
John Most was found guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned for 1 year in the penitentiary. He lost his appeal

before the Supreme Court of New York in 1902.

Buffalo : A Labor Town where Anarchists Failed
During the late nineteenth century strikes by labor unions and social unrest among exploited immigrant workers

were common. As a growing center of industry with a large immigrant population, Buffalo was not immune to labor

strikes. In fact, there numerous work stoppages by those union workers involved in constructing the Exposition.
One of the more famous strikes in Buffalo history, the Grain Scoopers' Strike of 1899 occurred less than two years

prior, when city leaders were planning to showcase Buffalo to the world at the Pan-American.
The 1899 strike was significant in that it illustrated, in part, why labor unions

made up of primarily immigrant workers, the targets of socialist and anarchist

ideologists, were not influenced by this group as in other U. S. cities. A key
figure in the resolution of the Scooper's strike was Bishop of the Buffalo

Diocese, Fr. James Quigley, who refused to allow socialism or the anarchist

movement to displace the influence of the Catholic Church. Quigley sided with
the mostly Irish scoopers in their dispute with saloon bosses but wanted the

teachings of the church to form the basis of the workers' ideology. Consider the

influence of the Catholic church in the lives of Buffalo's labor force. Most were
Poles and some Germans from the East Side, Italians from the West Side and

Black Rock and the Irish of the First Ward (and later, the West Side.) In
general, the Catholic Church was the center of social, spiritual and cultural life
in these ethnic communities. If Buffalo's bishop condemned socialism and

anarchy, certainly the laborers would be listening. Quigley's opposition was vehement and amplified by the
assassination of McKinley. He worked intensely to keep socialist and anarchist ideologies out of the church and out

of the unions. Fr. Quigley's work was obviously noticed and in 1903 he was appointed the Archbisop of Chicago.

References
1.

Leon Czolgosz; quoted in A. Wesley Johns, The Man Who Shot McKinley. South Brunswick and New York : A. S.

Barnes and Co., 1970, p. 123.
2.

Ibid., p. 35.

3.

Ibid.

�4.

Emma Goldman, "The Tragedy at Buffalo" Free Society, October, 1901. From the microform collection of
the Emma Goldman Papersheld by the University of California. See also Emma Goldman Papers. University of

California. Online. URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/

5.

Johns, p. 146. "Emma Goldman." Anarchy Archives: An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of

Anarchism. Online. URL: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/Goldmanarchive.html

�Images of President William McKinley at
the Pan-American Exposition
Good-bye-good bye, all. It's God's way. His will, not ours, be done. Nearer my God

to Thee, nearer to Thee.

—[McKinley's reported last words]
President William McKinley attended the Pan-American Exposition on September 5,

1901, the day set aside in his honor as President's Day. The schedule of his events
published in the daily program for the day shows that he was scheduled to be at
the Exposition from 10:00 A. M. until after 8:00 P. M.

The following photographs illustrate a few of the events on President McKinley's
schedule for September 5th &amp; 6th, as well as the public mourning upon his death

September 14th, 1901.

President McKinley riding on the Great Gorge Railway at Niagara Falls, Sept. 5, 1901. Photographer: G.D. Brinckerhoff. Source:
Western Electrician, v.29, no.2 (September 21, 1901) p.182.

�The following are images of President McKinley's President's Day Speech on the grounds of the Pan-American

Exposition, Sept. 5, 1901. President's Day had originally been scheduled for June 13, 1901, during McKinley's
extensive tour of the country in response to his re-election. However, Mrs. McKinley fell gravely ill during the tour
and President's Day was rescheduled.1

President McKinley's Speech at
the Pan-American Exposition.
September 5, 1901.
Photographer: Frances Johnston.
Source: Photograph from the
Johnston Collection in the Prints
and Photographs. Division of the
Library of Congress. Also in Pete
Daniel and Raymond Smock. A
Talent For Detail : The
Photographs of Miss Frances
Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910.
New York : Harmony Books,
[1974], p. 73.

President McKinley's
Speech at the Pan­
American Exposition.
September 5, 1901.
Photographer: Frances
Johnston. Source:
American Monthly
Review of Reviews,
vol.24, no.4 (October
1901) p. 389

�The Pan American Exposition Grounds were jammed with a throng of
116,600 on September 5th, 1901. when President McKinley spoke on the Esplanade.

In this photo the late Fred M. McLennan, who became managing editor of The
Courier-Express, is seated just below McKinley, facing out. Continued on page 12

President McKinley's Speech at the Pan-American Exposition. September 5, 1901. Photographer: C.D. Arnold. Source: Held in the
Presidential Files of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The image below appeared Buffalo Express,
September 8, 1901. Courtesy of Stephanie Long.

"[McKinley] was always so sweet and kind and gentle," Frances

[Johnston] remembered, "and so anxious to pose just the way you
wanted him to, but always a little self-conscious before the camera,
and so never at his best. But I finally caught him at the climax of a

great speech, when he had wholly forgotten himself, and it proved
his best portrait, and sadly enough, his last." This picture, which

became known as the "Buffalo pose," was the model used to
construct the statue of the President at the McKinley Monument in

Canton, Ohio.2

�Shaking Hands with the President, September 5, 1901. Photograph taken in the
corridor of the Government Building. Photographer: Louis B. Hart. Source: The
Buffalo Express, September 15, 1901. Reproduced in The Illustrated Buffalo
Express. Buffalo, N.Y. : J. N. Matthews Company, 1901.

Early films of McKinley's final days were produced by the Edison company. They include "President McKinley's
speech at the Pan-American Exposition" / "President McKinley reviewing the troops at the Pan-American

Exposition" / "The mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition" / "President McKinley's funeral

cortege at Buffalo, N.Y.," etc.
These films and more information about McKinley's final days are are available on the American Memory web

site The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901

McKinley Reviewing
Troops in the Exposition
Stadium. September 5,
1901. Photographer:
Undetermined. Source:
American Monthly Review
of Reviews, vol.24, no.4
(October 1901) p. 415.

�The "Last Posed Photograph" of President McKinley.In the Government Building on September 5, 1901. Photographer: Frances
Johnston. Source: From the Johnston Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress [LOT 11735].

The "last posed photograph" of President McKinley, in the Government Building on 5 September 1901. Left to right:
Mrs. John Miller Horton, Chairwoman of the Entertainment Committee of the Woman's Board of Managers; John G.

Milburn; Senor Asperoz, the Mexican Ambassador; the President; George B. Courtelyou, the President's secretary;

Col. John H. Bingham of the Government Board.

William McKinley did not care for the use of bodyguards and secret service agents, but relented to the wishes of
the Chief of the Secret Service, John E. Wilkie, and the influential Republican "Boss," Senator Mark Hanna.

Although the Secret Service had no official empowerment to protect the President, Wilkie exceeded his authority
and assigned operative George E. Foster as McKinley's personal bodyguard.3

�The President and Mrs. McKinley.
Photographer: B. Dinst. Source: Photograph
from the collection of the Prints and
Photographs Division of the Library of
Congress. In Margaret Leech, In the Days of
McKinley, New York : Harper &amp; Row, 1959.

President and Mrs. McKinley touring the Exposition in carriage, probably
after 7 p.m. on way to see the illumination of the Electric Tower and
evening fireworks. September 5, 1901. Photographer: Frances Johnston.
Source: The Johnston Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division of
the Library of Congress. Appeared in the September 8, 1901 Buffalo
Express.

Those close to McKinley had reason to be concerned for his safety. A. Wesley
Johns asserts that while fears for the president's life began at the time of the

Spanish-American conflict, other factors contributed to this hightened
concern:4

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Anarchism. The growth of Anarchism and the recognition that this school of
thought could be dangerous. While the Haymarket Square Riots were fresh on

minds of many political leaders, the recent assassinations and threats on the lives

of European leaders were especially disturbing. Empress Elizabeth of Austria was

assassinated in 1898; Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was fired upon in April
1900 and King Humbert of Italy was assassinated in July of 1900.

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Social class divisions. While the country was experiencing relative prosperity,
there was a widening gap between the rich and the poor. The conspicuous
consumption of wealthy industrialists constrasted greatly with the struggles of

sweatshop workers and tenement dwellers. This provided fertile ground for labor disputes and the spreading of
Anarchist ideologies.

�•

Yellow journalism. As Johns points out, McKinley was "flayed relentlessly" by William Randolph Hearst, whose

publications described him as a "puppet" of wealthy industrialists. An editorial printed in the April 10,
1901 Journal asserted that "If bad institutions and bad men can be got rid of only by killing, then the killing must be
done." Of course, journalists of the period would refute this. The editor of The Nation (published by the New York

Evening Post Company) wrote in the September 19, 1901 issue that "[t]he theory, which has been seriously advanced,

that Czolgosz was led to assassinate President McKinley by reading a certain daily newspaper, is without a particle of
evidence, and is an affront to common sense."

The president's secretary, George B. Courtelyou, (seen here to the right of MicKinley) was uneasy about the

president's prolonged appearance at the Pan-American Exposition. Of specific concern was the reception to be
held in the Temple of Music, September 6, 1901, the day after McKinley's speech. Courtelyou thought this

unnecessary and twice attempted to cancel the engagement, only to have it reinstated by the President.

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General William Bull was the Superintendent of Police in Buffalo. During his visit to the Pan-American Exposition,
four detectives were assigned to the President, with Foster and two other secret service men, Al Gallagher and
Sam Ireland. In addition, seventy-five policemen were added to the Buffalo force, augmented by Pan-American

Guards, Coast Artillerymen, Pinkerton men and Railroad detectives.6

While McKinley's men feared for his safety, there did not appear to be any public concern. In the September 6,
1901 morning edition of the Buffalo Courier, there appeared an anonymous, "slightly burlesqued" account of the

President's appearance and speech the day before.7 [See an image of the actual article.]
Despite the light-hearted burlesque above, a strangely "prophetic" observation appeared on the same page:

The surrounding of President McKinley by a body-guard of detectives when he appears in public, is probably as
distasteful to himself as it is to abstract American sentiment, but as long as the earth is infested by malevolent cranks
and unreasoning Anarchists, the precaution is entirely proper.

One can only wonder what the author(s) of these passages may have thought as the events of September 6, 1901
unfolded…

�McKinley and his entourage visit Goat Island, at Niagara Falls. September 6, 1901. Photographer: Orrin Dunlap. Source: From
the Presidential Files collection of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress ©1901 Orin Dunlap. (H9017
U.S. Copyright Office.) Also appeared in the Buffalo Courier, September 15, 1901. Also appeared in The American Monthly
Review of Reviews, vol.24, no.4 (October 1901) p. 417.

President McKinley in Carriage on Way to the Reception at the Temple of Music. September 6, 1901.
Photographer: Frances Johnston. Source: From the Johnston Collection in the Prints and Photographs
Division of the Library of Congress. Also appears in Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock. A Talent For
Detail : The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910. New York : Harmony Books,
[1974], p. 72.

�President McKinley
Greeting Well­
Wishers at a
Reception in the
Temple of Music.
September 6, 1901
(minutes before he
was shot).
Photographer:
Undetermined.
Source: The Prints
and Photographs
Division of the
Library of Congress

The Shooting of President McKinley on the Stage of
the Temple of Music. September 6, 1901. Illustration
by: T. Dart Walker. Source: The cover of the
September 21, 1901 issue of Leslie's Weekly.

�The wounded president was taken by the electric
ambulance to the Exposition's Emergency Hospital,

located on the west side of the grounds near the

Elmwood Avenue gate. Hospital staff included
University of Buffalo medical school sophomores

Burton T. Simpson and Burt J. Bixby and third year
student T. Frederick Ellis. In addition to a more

seasoned group of doctors, the resident physician
was senior medical student Edward D. Mann, son of

The Exposition's Emergency Hospital, where President McKinley was
Taken for Treatment. Photographer: C. D. Arnold. Source: Originally
appeared in the Buffalo Express, September 8, 1901. Reproduced in
The Illustrated Buffalo Express. Buffalo, N.Y. : J. N. Matthews
Company, 1901.

Dr. Matthew D. Mann, the surgeon who would

operate on the president, since Dr. Roswell Park,
the Exposition Medical Director, was in Niagara

Falls.8

Crowds gather outside the Exposition's Emergency Hospital, where President McKinley was taken for treatment.

President McKinley's surgery began at 5:20 p.m., one hour and 20 minutes after the President was shot. Dr.

Matthew D. Mann, however, was an obstetrician and gynecologist, with no experience treating gunshot wounds.
Yet he was recommended by Board President John G. Milburn and performed the surgery that would remove one of
the two bullets lodged in McKinley's body. The other attending physicians were P.M. Rixey, Eugene Wasdin, and
Herman Mynter. Roswell Park would arrive later.

Following his surgery, the President was taken by ambulance (driven by medical students Ellis and Simpson) from
the Exposition Hospital to the home of John Milburn in Buffalo for further treatment and recuperation. An anxious

public and press awaited the daily medical bulletins issued by McKinley's physicians. During the eight days
following the shooting, the President first seemed to rally but then finally weakened.

Thomas Leary and Elizabeth Sholes echo the prevailing observation with regard to McKinley's treatment: 9
Roswell Park was a leader in Buffalo medicine, especially antiseptic practice. Dr. Mann and the others were

neither trained trauma surgeons nor did they bother with disinfection, not even wearing gloves. The first bullet
had done little harm; the second entered McKinley's abdomen. The physicians used improperly sanitized probes
and when Mann could not find the bullet, he closed the incision without draining the wound. It was a fateful

decision.

However, Jack C. Fisher, M.D., in his recent book Stolen Glory : The McKinley Assassination (Alamar Books, 2001)

argues that it was severe fluid buildup and not gangrene that was the cause of death. Given the medical knowlege

of the time, the President would likely have died, even if Roswell Park had performed the surgery.10

�The Milburn Residence on Delaware Avenue. Photographer:
Undetermined. Source: American Monthly Review of Reviews,
vol.24, no.4 (October 1901) p. 419.

The Press on "Newspaper Row" Receive an Update from
Secretary Courtelyou. Photographer: Undetermined. Source:
Buffalo Courier, September 22, 1901. Also appeared in American
Monthly Review of Reviews, vol.24, no.4 (October 1901) p. 423.

Anxious Citizens await word of the
President. Photographer: Undetermined.
Source: From the collection of the Buffalo
and Erie County Historical Society. In A.
Wesley Johns, The Man Who Shot McKinley.
South Brunswick, N.J. : A. S. Barnes and Co.,
Inc., 1970.

Whether it was gangrene or a lethal build-up of body fluid, President William McKinley died at the Milburn home

on September 14, 1901. A small funeral service was held there on Sunday morning, September 15th. McKinley's
casket was taken by horse-drawn carriage through the streets of Buffalo to the City Hall, where the body lay in

state from 1:30 to 11:00 p.m. Early on the morning of Monday September 16th, the President's remains began a
journey first to Washington D.C. and then on to Canton, Ohio, where he would lay in state and then be buried in
the city's Westlawn Cemetary.

�Images of Mourning in Buffalo September 15-16, 1901

McKinley's Funeral Cortege through Buffalo

Streets. September 15, 1901. Photographer:
Undetermined. Source: A Buffalo newspaper clipping
dated September 19, 1901. Courtesy of Stephanie Long.

McKinley's Casket Arrives at Buffalo City
Hall. September 15, 1901. Photographer: Undetermined.

Source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, vol.24, no.4
(October 1901) p. 426.

McKinley's Casket Being Carried into Buffalo City
Hall. September 15, 1901. Photographer: Oscar A. Simon

&amp; Bro., Photographers. Source: Appeared in the Buffalo
Courier, September 22, 1901 and Harper's Weekly, vol.45,

no.2335 (September 21, 1901) p. 966.

�Citizens at City Hall Await Viewing.September 15, 1901.
Photographer: Undetermined [Possibly N. Lazarnick?]. Source:

Harper's Weekly, vol.45, no.2335 (September 21, 1901) p.966.

McKinley Lying in State in Buffalo City
Hall. September 15, 1901. Photographer:

Undetermined. Source: Appeared in the Buffalo Times,

September 22, 1901. Photograph from the collection of
the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. Also
reproduced in Thomas E. Leary and Elizabeth C.

Sholes, Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition,
Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Press, 1998, p. 121.

Troops at the Train Station as
McKinley's Funeral Train Prepares to

Leave Buffalo. September 16, 1901.
Photographer: Undetermined [Possibly N.
Lazarnick?]. Source: Harper's Weekly,

vol.45, no.2335 (September 21, 1901), p.
967.

�The President's Funeral Train Leaves Buffalo for Washinton, D.C. September 16, 1901. Photographer:

Undetermined [name at lower right is illegible]. Source: Undetermined.

Washington D.C. -- September 16-17, 1901

McKinley's Casket
enters the Capitol

Grounds in

Washington,
D.C. September 17,

1901.Photographer:
Undetermined.

Source: [The
Illustrated Buffalo
Express. Buffalo,

N.Y. : J. N. Matthews

Company, 1901?]

�View from the Capitol Building,
Washington, D.C. September 17, 1901.
Photographer: Undetermined. [Possibly

N. Lazarnick?]. Source: Harper's
Weekly, vol.45, no.2335, (October 21,
1901) p. 968.

Canton, Ohio -- September 18-19, 1901

The President's Funeral Train Arrives in Canton, Ohio.
September 18, 1901. Photographer: Undetermined. Source:

Harper's Weekly, vol.45, no.2335 (September 21, 1901) p. 988.

The McKinley Home - Under Military Guard.
September 18 or 19, 1901. Photographer:

Undetermined. Source: Harper's Weekly, vol.45, no.2335
(September 21, 1901) p. 973.

�Solemn Procession from the Train Station to the Stark

County Court House. September 18, 1901. Photographer:
Undetermined. Source: Harper's Weekly, vol.45, no.2335
(September 21, 1901) p. 973.

Funeral Services at the First Methodist Episcopal Church

in Canton. September 19, 1901. Photographer: Undetermined.

Source: Harper's Weekly, vol.45, no.2335 (September 21, 1901) p.
973.

"At the Threshold". Illustrator: W. A. Rogers. Source:

Harper's Weekly, vol.45, no.2334 (September 14, 1901)

p. 909.

�References:
1.

A. Wesley Johns. The Man Who Shot McKinley. South Brunswick, N.J. : A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1970, pp. 27­

28.
2.

This photograph of McKinley was taken by photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1964-1952) and is held in
the Johnston Collection of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress (lot 2967). It also

appears in Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock. A Talent For Detail : The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin
Johnston, 1889-1910. New York : Harmony Books, [1974], p. 68.

3.

A. Wesley Johns, The Man Who Shot McKinley., p. 18.

4.

Ibid., pp. 18-19.

5.

Ibid., p.20.

6.

Ibid., pp. 28-29.

7.

Buffalo Courier (morning edition), September 6, 1901, p. 4.

8.

A. Wesley Johns, The Man Who Shot McKinley, pp. 70-71.

9.

Thomas E. Leary and Elizabeth C. Sholes. Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition. Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Press,

1998. p. 118.
10. Jack C. Fisher, M.D. Stolen Glory : The McKinley Assassination. La Jolla, CA : Alamar Books, 2001.

�Leon Czolgosz and the Trial
On September 5, 1901 Leon Czolgosz unsuccessfully sought an opportunity to assassinate President McKinley at the

Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. A second assassination attempt, by this self-proclaimed Anarchist, was
successful. On September 6, at an afternoon reception at the Temple of Music, Leon Czolgosz, as if reaching to

shake his hand, fired two shots into the President.
Czolgosz was immediately wrestled to the ground by another person in the greeting line, James Parker, an AfricanAmerican waiter who had just been laid off and was looking forward to shaking the hand of the president. [See a

related essay on James Parker.] Body guards, police and soldiers of the U.S. Artillery, sent to the Temple of Music
to supplement the President's protection, descended upon Czolgosz and began to beat him. From where he lay

wounded, President McKinley was heard to have said, "Go easy on him boys."

•

Who was Czolgosz?

•

Was the McKinley Shooting Czolgosz's "Great Act?"

•

The Act

•

Arrest and Confession

•

The Charge Becomes Murder in the First Degree

•

Czolgosz's Arraignment

•

The Trial of Leon Czolgosz

Who was Czolgosz?
Leon Czolgosz, (alias Fred C. Nieman,) was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1873. His

father was a Polish immigrant and his mother German. He had five brothers,
Waldeck, Frank, Jacob, Joseph and Michael, and two sisters, Ceceli and
Victoria. His mother died of complications from childbirth at the age of 40 but
his father soon remarried. Leon's family moved frequently, although they tended
to remain in areas dominated by Polish culture.

Although he had attended school for only 5 years Leon was an avid reader and

considered to be the "family intellectual." He worked in various factories and

mills, and by age 19, as the labor movement became more and more active, he
began to distance himself from his Catholic roots. Compelled by what he felt

were unfair human labor conditions (compounded by instability at home)

Portrait of Leon
Czolgosz.Photographer/Engraver:
Undetermined. Source: Harper's
Weekly. September 21, 1901.

�Czolgosz became a socialist and began to seek out those who shared and promoted socialist ideals. He was drawn
to the big names in the Anarchist movement--Emil Schilling, of the Cleveland Anarchist group Liberty Club,

Abraham Isaak, editor of Free Society, and of course, his inspiration, Emma Goldman. Upon hearing her speak,

Czolgosz considered himself an Anarchist.

Yet local and national anarchist groups grew suspicious of Czolgosz and shunned him--many considered his

references to revolution, secret plots and "conspiracies" to be dangerous. A mental breakdown in 1898 had
affected his emotional and mental stability and he became more withdrawn, moving frequently between Chicago,

Detroit, his family's farm near Cleveland and Buffalo, although he spent most of his time in the latter two cities.
Dr. Walter Channing, an alienist and Professor of Mental diseases at Tufts Medical School, made a detailed study of

Czolgosz's case in 1902. "While in this physical and mental state of sickliness," wrote Dr. Channing, "it is probable
that he conceived the idea of performing some great act for the benefit of the common and working people."1

Was the McKinley Shooting Czolgosz's "Great Act?"
Considering his stated confession, "I have done my
duty. I did not feel that one man should have so
much service, and another man should have none, "
the shooting of the President of the United States

may have well have been the "great act" Channing
refers to. There are contradictory theories as to

whether Czolgosz's plan preceded his late summer

arrival in Buffalo. He had spent some time in a

West Seneca, NY (a Buffalo suburb) boarding house
for most of the summer of 1901, but had left for
Cleveland only to return to Buffalo a few days later
to take a room in John Nowak's saloon on the city's predominantly Polish East Side. Czolgosz states in a later

account, that he did not plan the assassination until after returning to Buffalo on that day, August 31, 1901.
Czolgosz had told interrogators that he was in Buffalo looking for work. Perhaps he traveled to Buffalo because of

its large Polish population or, because he wished to take advantage of the low excursion rates offered at the time
of the Exposition.2 Certainly, the president's visit to the Pan-American Exposition was not publicized until early

August and Czolgosz had arrived in the city long before.

Yet Margaret Leech points out that he had been in the city for most of the summer--through mid August.
"McKinley's coming visit, heralded by great publicity, was known to everyone who followed the news."3 (And Leon
Czolgosz was always carrying a newspaper.) Thus, while he may not have originally set out for Buffalo to shoot the

president, there is ample evidence to suggest that he had planned it long before August 31st, as he claimed.

�The Act
Leon Czolgosz shot William McKinley as the President received greeters at the Temple of Music on September 6,
1901. Czolgosz stood in line with hundreds of others who were hoping to shake the President's hand. That he had

his hand wrapped in a handkerchief was apparently of little concern as it was a sweltering day and handkerchiefs

were visible everywhere.

Accounts of exactly what happened vary from newspaper to newspaper. The Buffalo Express (Sept. 7, 1901)

reported that a young girl was in line in front of Czolgosz while the Commercial (Sept. 7, 1901) printed secret

service agent Ireland's account, stating that there appeared to have been a man in line in front of Czolgosz who
"lingered too long." James Parker, the Negro waiter who wrestled Czolgosz to the ground, was said to have been

behind the assassin in some accounts and in front of him in others. (As Daryl Rasuli points out in his essay, many of
the newspapers did not even report Parker's involvement until sometime later.)

What is known, however, is that Czolgosz fired two shots into President McKinley and was immediately

apprehended. The public was enraged.

From the Buffalo Express, Sept. 7, 1901:
... "Lynch Him" cried a hundred voices and a start was made for one of the entrances to the Temple of Music. The

soldiers and police sprang outside and beat back the crowd.... In the midst of the confusion, Nieman [Czolgosz] still
bleeding from his blows and pale and silent with his shirt torn was led out quickly by Capt. James F. Vallely, chief of
the exposition detectives, Assistant-Commandant Robertson and detectives. They thrust him into a closed carriage. The
detectives leaped in with him and Capt. Vallely jumped in the driver's seat as they lashed the horses into a gallop. A

roar of rage burst from the crowd.
"Murder! Assassin! Lynch him! Hang him!" yelled the thousands, and men, women and children tore at the guards,
sprang at the horses and clutched the whirling wheels of the carriage. Nieman huddled back in the corner concealed by

the bodies of two detectives.

Arrest and Confession
Czolgosz used the alias Fred Nieman and his police record listed him as twenty-eight years old, 5ft. 7-5/8 in.,

weighing 138 pounds. He was further described as being of medium build and complexion, with dark blue eyes and
red-brown hair. The nature of the crime, stated on his record is as follows:4

"While Wm. McKinley the President of the United States was holding a public reception in the Temple of Music at the

Pan-Amer. Exposition, he was shot in the abdomen twice with a .32 cal. revolver."

�Photograph of Czolgosz and Facsimilie of Czolgosz's Police Report. Photographer: Undetermined. Source: Facsimilie of Czolgosz's
police report-- provided by the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.

After being processed at Buffalo Police Headquarters, Czolgosz was interrogated by District Attorney Thomas

Penney. He confessed to the crime, stating that "I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I didn't
believe one man should have so much service, and another man should have none." Interestingly, the date of the

signed confession, September 6, 1901, was fourteen days prior to the actual death of McKinley, suggesting the
Czolgosz was unaware at the time that the President was still alive. A Buffalo Express reported Czolgosz as saying
that 3 or 4 days prior to the shooting, he conceived the idea of shooting the president but hadn't determined how.

He claimed that he had purchased the revolver at a store on Main Street for $4.50 the morning of the shooting and
that although he had later followed the President to Niagara Falls, an opportunity did not present itself until the

McKinley's Temple of Music reception.5

�A Facsimile of Czolgosz's Confession. Source: Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Buffalo, N.Y.

Apparently, Leon Czolgosz was a model prisoner, saying and doing very little to defend himself or to provide any
additional information as to why he had committed this crime. Police were convinced that he was part of a larger

anarchist conspiracy. If such a conspiracy could be proven, Czolgosz could be tried in federal court. As mentioned
in the Anarchy section of this site, Emma Goldman and some of anarchists with whom Czolgosz identified were

arrested. Likewise, anyone with whom Colgosz had contact in the Buffalo area was also questioned. John Nowak,

owner of the East Side saloon (1078 Broadway) where Czolgosz stayed, was taken into custody with three other
men for questioning.6 Upon the president's death, Buffalo physician Dr. I. Saylin was also arrested in connection
with the assassination. Although he did not know Czolgosz, he had met with Emma Goldman during her visit to
Buffalo.7 Like Nowak, Saylin was eventually released. No evidence of a conspiracy or the involvement of anyone

other than Czolgosz was ever discovered. In fact, up to the point of his execution, Czolgosz maintained that he had

acted alone.

He has the "Phrenological Characteristics Common to Criminals"
Czolgosz was becoming more and more withdrawn while in police custody, so much so that by Sept. 10, the

Buffalo Courier reported that he was being guarded to prevent suicide. The Sept. 11 Commercial described the

prisoner's physical appearance and demeanor in more detail:
He Can't Sleep.

Czolgosz Has Become Very Rest­
less, Refuses to Talk and

Eats Little.

�Czolgosz passed a very restless night.
He evidently found it impossible to sleep. He rolled restlessly on his hard bed for a long time and then got up
and paced up and down in his narrow cell.
He hardly tasted of his supper last night. Either his splendid appetite had vanished or he deliberately determined

not to eat. It was the same this morning when his breakfast was taken to him. He ate a morsel of it and left the

rest.

At 8 o'clock he began to walk up and down in his cell. He has refused to talk to his guards. He never says a word
to anybody and answers no questions.
The police do not know just what to make of this change. It may herald a complete break-down.

Has A Beard Now.
————
Czolgosz is not Permitted to Shave
Himself-Still Wears the Blood-

Marked Shirt.

————
Czolgosz appears at least ten years older today than he did at the time of his arrest. The principal reason for this
change probably is the fact that he has grown a beard, which now covers the whole lower portion of his face.

Czolgosz is not permitted to shave himself, nor is it the intention of the police to call anybody in to shave him.
In fact, they are no more particular about his personal appearance than Czolgosz is himself. So long as Czolgosz

remains in his dungeon at police headquarters, which is likely to be some days at least, his beard will grow

unmolested.

Czolgosz's beard is rather full and heavy. It begins high up on his cheeks and runs low on his neck. It is a brown
beard and rather dark, and just at present is fully one-quarter of an inch long. It evidently troubles him some, too,

for he frequently runs, his fingers through it, as if annoyed by its length and thickness.
The combination of the thick, stubby, beard and the general untidy appearance of the prisoner makes him look a

great deal more like the typical anarchist than on the day of his arrest.
Since last Friday, Czolgosz has neither washed himself nor combed his hair. He is wearing the same clothes,

including his underwear, which be had on when he shot the President. He was not provided with a change of linen
and the police did not think it was their duty to secure any for him. He wears neither coat nor vest. His faded shirt
is soiled and is spotted with blood, the blood which was from his nose and face by the blows which were rained

upon him immediately after he shot the President. The button holes in the collar of his shirt are ripped apart.
Parker, the big negro, did that when he seized Czolgosz and prevented him from firing a third shot. His hair is
long, heavy and tangled. It falls over his face and ears and is beginning to turn up at the back of the neck.

Czolgosz has made one request for a comb. It was denied him, and since then he has displayed not the slightest
interest in his personal appearance.

As he appears now, there are not very many men who would be particularly delighted to meet Czolgosz in a

lonely by way at night.

There is a good deal of the animal in his make-up. The police say he has the

phrenological characteristics common to criminals of a low and degraded class.

�The Charge Becomes Murder in the First Degree
Upon the death of President William McKinley

on September 14, 1901, his assassin Leon
Czolgosz was soon removed from the Buffalo

Police Headquarters and taken to the Erie
County penitentiary. Superintendent Bull told
Czolgosz that "he was in danger and it would
mean his immediate death if he made any

attempt to escape.... The prisoner was then
told that Mr. [Patrick] Cusack, [Assistant

Superintendent of Police,] was to take him to
the Penitentiary.... His clean shirt, which

had been bought for him several days before,
had been put on and Czolgosz looked fairly

respectable, except for a shaggy beard, which
partly covered his face, the result of a week's

confinement.... There were probably a

Buffalo Police Headquarters. Photographer: Undetermined. Source:
Buffalo Courier, September 8, 1901.

dozen curious people standing near Police
Headquarters. They were satisfied to look at
the building which they supposed contained

Czolgosz. None of those curious people imagined that the man who walked out ahead of Mr. Cusack was Czolgosz."8

Czolgosz's Arraignment

Murder in the First Degree is the
Finding of the County Court
Grand Jury

The following
Buffalo Commercial article briefly
describes Czolgosz's arraignment.9

Prisoner Was Stubborn.
He Refused to Answer Questions, Refused to
Say Whether or Not He Wanted a Lawyer,
and Judge Emery Appointed Former Jus
tices Loran L. Lewis and Robert C. Titus
as His Counsel-----Czolgosz Had Been
Confined in the Penitentiary.

�Erie County Court Judge Edward K.
Emery. Photographer: Undetermined. Source: Source: Men of

Buffalo: A Collection of Portraits of Men Who Deserve to
Rank as Typical Representatives of the Best Citizenship,

Foremost Activities and Highest Aspirations of the City of

Buffalo. Chicago: A.N. Marquis &amp; Co., 1902, p. 319.

References
1.

A. Wesley Johns, The Man Who Shot McKinley, South Brunswick, N.J. : A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1970, p. 39.

Most biographical information about Leon Czolgosz is from the Johns book and from Margaret Leech's In the
Days of McKinley, New York : Harper &amp; Row, 1959. Additional information on the ethnicity of Czolgosz's parents

was provided by Wanda Slawinska.
2.

Robert J. Donovan, in A. Wesley Johns, The Man Who Shot McKinley, p.43.

3.

Margaret Leech,. In the Days of McKinley, New York : Harper &amp; Row, 1959, p. 593.

4.

Police report on Leon Frank Czolgosz, arrested September 5, 1901. Department of Police, Buffalo, N.Y., Bureau

of Identification.

5.

Buffalo Express, September 8, 1901. While enroute to Auburn State Prison after his sentencing, Czolgosz would
state that this was an error. In an interview published in the Buffalo Express, September 27, 1901, he claimed to
have not planned to shoot McKinley at Niagara Falls.

6.

Buffalo Enquirer, September 7, 1901.

7.

Buffalo Commercial, September 15, 1901.

8.

Buffalo Express, September 17, 1901. 9. Buffalo Commercial, September 16, 1901.

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Maps to the Essentials

Food, Drink, and Toilets: Find your way around the Pan with a map showing the location of the major restaurants and
another, showing stands for various soft drink vendors, as well as toilets for men and women.

•

The Restaurants
The Exposition was home to restaurants of every price and there were ample opportunities to try food from far away
lands and to have a beer or two. One could enjoy a sandwich at a stand or a multi-course meal in swank surroundings.

Local hotels and boarding houses also offered one or more meals. How expensive was it to eat at the Pan? A menu
from the Pabst restaurant, along with background economic information, and some advice to visitors is given.

•

Personal Accounts and Stories
Box lunches and free samples replaced or complemented the fare at the Exposition and some reporters delved into the
depths of human nature and foibles by exploring people's reactions and interactions at these minor eating events.

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Food Company Exhibits
Many prominent contemporary companies were major businesses in 1901 and they exhibited their wares and stories

and distributed food samples and brochures at the Exposition. Some companies had their own buildings, brightly

colored and inviting visitors for a snack; others exhibited in Exposition buildings. The exhibits were generally
elaborate and one of the most interesting was that of the Natural Food Company of Niagara Falls, makers of shredded
wheat. Many companies received medals for specific products, as did a large number of Latin American companies.

•

New York State Agricultural Exhibits
Here will be found photographs of the general agriculture exhibit and the vegetable, pomological, peach and grape,

wine, diary, and apiarian exhibits.

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The Exposition's Effect on Life in Buffalo
Hundreds came to Buffalo to work at the Pan. There was some labor unrest among waiters, waitresses, and cooks.
Soda water and ice cream climbed in price, as did other commodities, and inexpensive restaurants and lunch wagon
sprang up surrounding the grounds, offering -- in the eyes of some commentators -- a taste of urban blight.

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Cookbooks
Companies produced brochures and pamphlets and trade cards for distribution at fairs and expositions. Some produced
entire cookbooks showing how their products would contribute to hygienic, healthy, and tasty meals. The Enterprising

Housekeeper, a company sponsored text, is reproduced in its entirety. The efficient use of leftovers, made possible by

iceboxes and better packaging, was a large topic.

�•

Food as a Cultural Experience

The smells of many cuisines floated across the grounds. Actually effort was taken to direct the smells away from
concentrations of people. While one could enjoy Mexican and German foods, as well as some Italian cooking,

"American" food ruled the day. Foods such as macaroni and rice were "advertised" as American foods, not as Italian
and Asian. Nationalism crept into food ads with assertions that the product was the best because it was American-

made. Popcorn and peanuts were everywhere.

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Food and Health
Here are included appropriate excerpts from reports of the Exposition's medical director and newspaper reporter
comments on individuals advocating various nutritional panaceas and food supplements. Yes, meat was seen as

potentially dangerous even in 1901! But that doesn't mean it wasn't extremely popular -- and plentiful. In fact,
meatpacking was the nation's most profitable industry.

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Food Firsts and Technological Marvels

Peanut vending machines may have been first introduced at the Exposition, a variety of new kitchen appliances were
demonstrated, and instant coffee made its debut. Some things, such as the drinking fountain, although already in
existence, served Exposition-goers well and, in so doing, received great advertising. By way of endorsement, national
ads for some products actually mentioned their showing at the Exposition.

�Maps to the Essentials
Major Restaurants on the Exposition Grounds
Created using a map of the Pan-American Exposition grounds printed by Rand, McNally &amp; Co., Chicago [1901?].

Major Restaurants on the Exposition Grounds

�Softdrink Vendors, Restaurants and Toilets Located on the Exposition

Grounds

�The Restaurants
Besides the seven large restaurants supplied by the Main kitchen of the Bailey
Catering Company there were numerous smaller and specialized eateries

preparing and serving food for expositon visitors and workers. The more
expensive establishments were located in such areas as the Pergolas and the

Electric tower. Ethnic foods could be found throughout the Midway, and even
the Indian Congress Restaurant boasted a "First class meal and all kinds of

refreshments." Exposition visitors were not limited to dining on the grounds

proper as many Buffalo establishments promoted and advertized their
restaurants as viable alternatives to the often overpriced meals found on the
Pan-American grounds. This section exhibits some of the restaurants and food

choices available to Exposition-goers. In addition, the Menus and Advertisements section allows viewers to compare

food prices at the exposition to the annual income/expenditures of families of the period.

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Pabst on the Midway

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Some Advice on How to Get the Most of an Exposition Meal

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Main Kitchen of the Bailey Catering Company

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Waiters and Waitresses Wanted!

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Restaurant Menus and Advertisements

•

Restaurant Experiences of "Uncle Hank"

Pabst on the Midway
This crude poem appeared in the Journal of American Industries 3, no. 9 (February 1901) and was followed by a
description of the Pabst concession. Graced with colored lights and 150 x 10, the restaurant cost over $30,000 to

build and employed upwards of 100 people. Mueller and his family were veterans of other fairs and he was assisted
at Buffalo by his three sons.

"Gesundheit!"Pabst on the Midway -- Frtiz Mueller the Host Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

When the sad tourist is tired out with sights,
When he is thirsty and needs rest, by rights
There's Pabst on the Midway, with Fritz in command;

�Step over and see him and get the glad hand!

Eat, drink, and be merry. Forget every care.
Have a good time as long as you're there!
The big exposition will tire out the best
And all will need a place they can sit down and rest
And sip a good beverage such as Pabst makes
And Mueller dispenses. Such a place takes!

Yes, Pabst on the Midway is just the right thing.

Here say me "Gesundheit." Pabst's praises we'll sing.

Bill Of Fare.
Steaks And Chops.
Porterhouse, single- $0.75
“
double- $1.50
Sirloin, plain- $0.50
“
with Onions- $0.60
" Mushrooms- $0.75
Tenderloin Steak$0.60
Chicken, broiled, half- $0.60
"
"
whole$1.00
Mutton Chop.40
$0
Pork
“ 40
$0.
Veal Cutlets- $0.40

Relishes.
Lettuce$0.20
Sliced Tomatoes- $0.25
Olives$0.25
Dill Pickles$0.15
French Peas$0.25

Eggs and Omelets.
Ham$0.85
" and Eggs$0.45
Baron and Eggs$0.40
Eggs, three, boiled, fried or scrambled- $0.35
Omelet, plain$0.40
"
rum- $0.50

Cheese.
Swiss, per order$0.25
Limburger, per order$0.25
Brie, "- $0.25
Neulchatel,
“$0 .25

Cold Meats.
Roast Beef$0.25
Ham$0.25
Beef Tongue$0.25
Holland Herring$0.30
Sardines
$0.25
Wiener Wurst and Potato Salad- $0.25
“
“ Sour Krout- $0.25

Potatoes .
French Fried$0.10
Lyonnaise$0.10
Hashed Browned$0.10
German Fried- $0
.10

Reproduction of the Menu of the Pabst
Restaurant. Source: Menu of the Pabst
Restaurant, located on the Midway of the Pan­
American Exposition. Courtesy of Sue Eck.

Sandwishes.
Ham$0.10
Imported Swiss Cheese- $0.15
Limburger$0 .15
Roast Beef$0.15
Sardine$0.15
Caviar$0.25
Coffee, per cup$0.05
Tea.
“ $0.10
Milk, per glass- $0.05
Pie, per cut$0.05

Wine List.
G. H. Mumm &amp; Co. Extra Dry, Pts. $2.50; Qts. $5.00
Champagne.

Domestic Champagne-

Pts ($1.25), Qts ($2.50)

Clarets and Sauternes.
J. Calvet &amp; Co.
Floriac- Pts ($0.75), Qts ($1.50)
St. Julien- Pts ($0.75), Qts ($1.50)
Chat. Pontet Canet, ’87Pts ($), Qts
1.00
(2.00)
Chat. Smith-Haut-Lafite, '90Pts ($1.15), Qts ($2.50)
Chat. La Rose, '77- Pts ($1.50), Qts
3.00)
($
Sauternes- Pts ($0.75), Qts
1.50)
($
Haut Sauterne- Pts ($1.00), Qts ($2.00)

Rhines and Moselles.
P. J. Valckenberg.
Niersteiner- Pts ($0.75), Qts ($1.25)

HochheimerPts), Qts($0.
75
($1.50)
Rauenthaler- Pts ($1.00), Qts ($2.00)
Liebfraumilch, ‘93- Pts ($1.25), Qts ($2.50)
Zelting- Pts ($.0.75), Qts ($1.50)
Berncastler Doctor- Pts ($1.15), Qts ($2.50)
Brandy, Etc.
Old Crow- Club Bottle ($0.20)
Meadville Distilling Co.- Club Bottle ($0.20)
John Dewar &amp; Sons’ Scotch- Club Bottle ($0.25)

Liquors and Mixed Drinks.
Whiskey, straight- Glass ($0.15)
Creme de Menthe- Glass ($0.20)
Benedictine- Glass ($0.25)
Curasoa- Glass ($0.25)
Chartreuse- Glass ($0.25)
Kemmel- Glass ($0.20)
Whiskey Cocktail- Glass ($0.20)
Manhattan Cocktail- Glass ($0.20)
Martini
“ Glass ($0.20)
Vermouth
“- Glass ($0.20)
Brandy
“- Glass ($0.20)

Liquors and Mixed Drinks.
High Ball. Glass ($0.20)
Whiskey Sour- Glass ($0.20)
Gin Fizz Glass- ($0.20)
Gin Rickey- Glass ($0.20)
Egg Nog- Glass ($0.20)
Milk Punch- Glass ($0.20)
Sherry and Egg- Glass ($0.20)
Sherry CobblerGlas ($02. 5)
Gin Sour- Glass ($0.20)
Golden Fizz- Glass ($0.20)
Silver Fizz- Glass ($0.20)
Claret Lemonade- Glass ($0.20)
Plain "- Glass ($0.15)
Seltzer "- Glass ($0.20)
" and Lemon- Glass ($0.10)
Rhine Wine- Glass ($0.15)
Port
"- Glass ($0.15)
Claret “Glass ($0.15)
Catawba Wine- Glass ($0.15)
Sherry
“- Glass ($0.15)
Tokay
“- Glass ($0.15)

Mineral Waters, Etc.
Bass Ale, Dog's Head- Pts ($0.30)
“ “ WhiteLabel- Pts ($0.30)
Guiness' Stout- Pts ($0.30)
Apollinaris- Glass ($0.15), Prts ($0.25), Qts
($0.40)
White Rock LithiaQts) ($0
.40

Pabst Bottled Beer.
Export- Bottle ($ 0.15)
Doppelbrau- Bottle ($0.15)
Red, White and Blue- Bottle ($0.15)
Blue Ribbon- Bottle ($0.20)
Pabst Malt Extract- Bottle ($0.25)
Pallet Bohemian Beer on draught, per glass, 5c.
Cigars in sealed envelopes.

See also, Uncle Hank's experience at the Pabst

Restaurant.

�Some Advice on How to Get the Most From An Exposition Meal
In the Everybody's Magazine special Pan-American issue, Mary Bronson

Hartt offered the following advice to the thrifty:

"The problem of dinner at the Pan-American is one of grave
importance. If you are careless of expense it is easy to be happy; you

dine at Alt Nürnberg, or up in the Tower, or at the American Inn. But if

you want your money for something more lasting than viands the case is
The Nebraska Sod House. Photo credit: C. D.
Arnold Source: C. D. Arnold. The Pan­
American Exposition, Illustrated. Buffalo,
N.Y.: C. D. Arnold, 1901, p. 69.

complicated.

There are two fifty-cent dinners offered on the grounds: one at the
restaurant beside the Philippine Village, the other in the Dairy Building.

There is even a thirty-five-cent dinner to be had beside the East Amherst gate. For this I cannot vouch. In general
the low-priced places furnish as good service and as desirable a menu as would be expected with Pan-American

prices prevailing at the markets.

The Nebraska Sod House used to be an exception. It furnished, and
still furnishes for that matter, a meal of fricasseed chicken, coffee,

and bread and butter for thirty cents. And it was good. But

unfortunately everybody knows about the Sod House now, and unless

you go at eleven o'clock in the morning it is always full and closed. The
Rice Kitchen is another reasonable place, but too popular for comfort.

There is a moderate-priced restaurant with entrance from the street in
Fair Japan. " Streets of Mexico" serves both native tamales and chili con
carne and American food well cooked, at prices below that of the

dearest places. Sandwiches and such unstaying trifles can be had at
lunch counters everywhere, but they are not cheaper than more

Dairy Building. Photo credit: n/a. Source: The
Latest and Best Views of the Pan-American
Exposition. Buffalo, N.Y.: Robert Allan Reid,
1901. Courtesy of the University Archives-­
University at Buffalo.

substantial dishes -- that is, if you buy enough to sustain life.

Habitues of the Exposition get their most substantial meal at

noon at one of the cheaper places, and sup lightly at Alt
Nürnberg to the music of the fine band or up on the colonnade

of the Electric Tower with the whole sunlit spectacle spread out
before them."
Mary Bronson Hartt, "How to See the Pan-American

Exposition," Everybody's Magazine, v. 5, no. 26 (October 1901):
488-491.

The Restaurant at Alt Nürnberg. Photo credit: C. D.
Arnold. Source: C. D. Arnold. The Pan-American
Exposition, Illustrated. Buffalo, N.Y.: C. D. Arnold,
1901, p. 104.

Note: Images did not appear in the original Hartt article and

have been compiled from various sources.

�Main Kitchen of Bailey Catering Company, Enormous In Every Way
The Exposition's main kitchen was located in the northwest corner of the Pan-American grounds, near the Midway.
In the "Maps to the Essentials" section, see Major Restaurants on the Exposition Grounds to find the location of the

Main Kitchen (section A-3) in relation to the larger dining facilities. A more detailed map of the Softdrink Vendors,
Restaurants and Toilets Located on the Exposition Grounds shows many of the smaller restaurants and refreshment
stands.

The main kitchen's design is described in this Buffalo Courier article of 7 March 1900:
"Construction work was begun this morning at the Pan-American grounds on the immense kitchen upon which will

devolve the task of preparing food for the millions of people who will visit the Exposition next summer.

The plan is to have the Kitchen apart from the restaurants which it will purvey for, in order that the odors of the
flower beds may have a chance against the redolent tornadoes of cooking smells that are bound to escape form the

pie-foundry that is to be built with a capacity of 50,000 pies of these pastries every day, and which will enthrone
Buffalo for one season at least, as Queen of the Pie Belt. It is deemed wise, too, to have the roaring furnaces that

will furnish power in the manufacture of eatables apart from the Exposition buildings.
For these reasons the Kitchen, the size of which entitles it to be pronounced with a capital
initial, is being built in the north side of the grounds near the power house. . . When the

north wind blows the aroma of the baking Boston beans will be wafted through the Beautiful
Orient and Dreamland. At other times they will regale firemen in the firehouse.

The Kitchen will be 200 hundred feet long, 150 deep and two stories high. It will be devoted

exclusively to cooking with the exception of rooms in the second story, which will be set apart
for the chef and scullions.
Although the Kitchen is not designed as an exhibit, it will be open on all three sides for
inspection. To this end the lower story will consist largely of windows, through which visitors

may watch the odorous transformation of strange substances into mince pie.
It has not been decided yet how to get over the difficulty of serving hot meals in the

restaurants that top the kitchen when the institution will be nearly a half mile away. The problem is one that

involves rapid transit. A system of overhead trolley lines similar in principle to that used for transactions of cash in
department stores has been considered seriously. The plan provides for large baskets mounted upon trolley
wheels. One strong objection is the birds of the air, who might levy toll upon the baskets en route. The gravity of
the danger will be realized when it is stated that the feathered population of the grounds will be reinforced next

summer with 500 more pigeons direct from Venice."

Portions of an Enquirer article of 28 March 1900 add some details:
" … The kitchen is a long, two-story affair lying behind large square buildings which will screen it from ordinary

sight. Visitors will be welcome, however, large giant windows and convenient platforms being provided of a view

of operations within. It's size is 250 x 75 feet.

�On the west end is a large bakery, with two immense ovens, capable of baking 1,000 loaves of bread every hour.
These ovens rotate and have swinging shelves like the cars on the Ferris wheel. Cake, crackers, or cookies may be

baked instead of bread. North of the bakery is a laundry for table linen, and east of that an ice cream room. Next
is a store room and then a wine room, which is supplemented across the walk by a deep recess, fitted with a

complete refrigerating plant for beer and wine. On the south side are a butcher shop, a room for vegetables and

fish, one for butter and eggs, one for grocer's supplies, a cold storage box and an immense receiving space, 50 x 75
for stores and supplies.
Grand View from Gates
In addition, there are eight lunch rooms in various convenient places. The most

popular will probably be those in the Pergolas, each seating 600 persons. These

will be open with a view to the Esplanade to the north and to the south over
the triumphal bridge to the State buildings. Another delightful dinning room

will be in the Temple of Music. … There will be sandwiches, ice cream, and

cake and similar light refreshments.
The company is counting on an average of 50,000 meals a day from the start.

They can take care of 100,000 in a pinch. There are to be 6,000 chairs. The big

rush, however, will not come until after the Fourth of July.
Sleeping Room for Employees

Upstairs are the offices for officials, a large dining room for employees, of
which there will be about 1,000 … the paymaster's room and twenty-eight

sleeping rooms for officials and cooks.

The Electric Tower. Artist: Harry
Fenn. Source: Reproduced in Pan­
American Exposition, Buffalo May 1
to November 1, 1901. Its purpose
and its plan. With Illustrations.
Buffalo, N.Y. : The Courier Company,
1901.

The kitchen will supply the seven large restaurants. There are four in the main buildings, two on the stadium side
and two on the opposite side, each capable of seating 750 persons. One in the northwest corner will accommodate

700 and one in the Dairy building 250. The most exclusive, both in price and quality, as well as in location, will be
the electric tower, overlooking the great fountain and the main feature of the Expo. The prices here will be about

those charged at first class cafes. "
Note: Images did not appear in the original Courier or Enquirer articles.

Waiters and Waitresses Wanted!
The restaurants on the grounds of the Exposition, and in Buffalo, presented good employment opportunities for

waiters and waitresses. From as far away as Chicago they came. Some came so early they arrived before

employment was available.

�The Enquirer of 1 March 1901 described this problem:

"It is estimated that something like 300 bartenders and waiters are in Buffalo unable to find work. They have come
here in an anticipation of the Pan-American Exposition.

Throughout the country many are making their way toward the city -- they will arrive in time to discover what a
cold place a beautiful city with a glorious exposition can be just in the heyday of its marvelous summer until the
visitor has the wherewithal to satisfy the lunch counters or an acquaintance with the Director-General.

Local proprietors in seeking help are giving preference to home men. They will continue to do so, and though there
will be a demand for extra labor after May 1st, the material to satisfy it will be way in excess of demand.
Buffalo unions have issued warnings to the waiters and bartenders stating that they will make a big mistake by

getting here before May or June, and that if they continue to arrive in the next three months, as they have of late,
hundreds of them will be walking the streets hungry and homeless."
And there was some effort to organize cooks and waiters, as reported in the Enquirer of 12 March 1901:
"The organization, it is said, contemplates demanding $100 a month as a minimum for all good cooks or persons
employed as head cooks. The minimum salary for waiters is said to be fixed at $2 a day."

Few Restaurant Menus and Advertisements
The first menu is that of the American Inn, one of the hotels located in the immediate vicinity of the Exposition

grounds. The second is a menu of the luncheon held for President William McKinley during his visit to the Pan­
American. This luncheon was held in the New York State Building on September 5, 1901, the day before the

president was shot in the Temple of Music.

Reproduction of the Menu of the
American Inn. Source: From a collection
of Pan-American Exposition menus.
Digitized from a photocopy.. Courtesy of
the Buffalo History Museum.

"American Inn”

Reproduction of the Menu of a Luncheon
Held for President McKinley on
September 5, 1901 - [page 1]. Source:
From a collection of Pan-American
Exposition menus. Digitized from a
photocopy. Courtesy of the Buffalo and
Erie County Historical Society.

�Below is a menu from the Pabst Restaurant located on the Midway. At right are advertisements from the September
6, 1901 Buffalo Courier. [Click on these images to see larger versions.]

To gain a better perspective of the "cost" of the Exposition food relative to annual income/expenditures of the

"typical" working and middle class visitor, see 1902-1903 Family Profiles.

�Advertisement for the
Wellington Cafe. Source: The
Buffalo Courier, September 6,
1901, p. 4, col. 7. Courtesy of B.
Battleson.

Advertisements for Buffalo
Hotels. Source: The Buffalo
Courier, September 6, 1901, p. 4,
cols. 5-6. Courtesy of B.
Battleson.

�When at the Pan-American
Don’t Forget

that you can get a First-Class Meal and

All Kinds of Refreshments
Fruit And Ice Cream,
At The

Indian Congress Restaurant
At Moderate

Prices.

J. W. Rosendale, Proprietor.
Try our Ginger Beer; it is delicious.
Also, our celebrated Coney Island Frankfurters.
This advertisement appeared in the Historical Biography and Libretto of the Indian Congress, compiled by Frederick T. Cummins,
[N. P., 1901.]

�Personal Accounts and Stories
The Exposition's restaurants and dining establishments were often crowded and for many visitors, proved expensive

if not unpredicible in terms of the quality of food served. As a result, box lunches--often contained in simple shoe

boxes wrapped in twine--were a common accessory among many fair-goers. Also, the free samples provided at the
hundreds of food company exhibits complemented, even replaced, the fare at the Exposition. Some reporters

delved into the depths of human nature and foibles by exploring people's reactions and interactions at these minor
eating events.

•

Pack Your Lunch in A Box and Save Some Money

•

The Boxes Lunches were Carried to the Exposition in Did Not Always Find Trash Cans (From the Buffalo Evening

News.)

•

Boxed Lunches are Opened and . . . (Observations of Lillian Betts)

•

Free Food, Human Nature, and the Business of Samples: Eyewitness Accounts (Observations of Lavinia Hart.)

•

The Free Lunch Counter (From the Buffalo Express)

•

With So Much Free Food Available, Restaurateurs Were Not Happy
(From the Buffalo Express)

Pack Your Lunch in A Box and Save Some Money
To save money, many Exposition visitors either prepared box lunches to bring with them or chose to purchase their
meals off grounds. Under the trees on Delaware Avenue was a favorite spot with those bringing box lunches. One

guide book advised, under a special comment on Exposition lunches: "Visitors will have little trouble in this part of
the city getting good lunches put up in shape to carry on the grounds for 25 cents or less. Some of the large stores

on Main Street are advertising a wonderful 15 cent lunch combination." As reported in the Express of 8 June 1901,

one could purchase a box lunch for 25 cents at the Automatic Café on 284 Main Street. "The novelty today is the

machine that will deliver a drink, a sandwich, a piece of pie or a box of food, after you have dropped a check into
the slot. . . called the Automatic café, because all of its food is served through such machines. There are no

waiters, and, consequently, no tips to give. The food is kept in tightly closed receptacles, so that it is clean and

fresh."

�The Boxes Lunches were Carried in to the Exposition Did Not Always
Find Trash Cans
[Excerpted from the Buffalo Evening News, 21 May 1901.]

"…an ocean of litter, left by the crowds of the dedication day which had flooded the streets of the Midway and the
Esplanade had to be removed and the sweepers who had done such effective service on Sunday and Sunday night
were out again in regiments. Such an accumulation of waste paper and card board lunch boxes as was gathered up
would keep a paper mill going for a week. Old shoe boxes are evidently the favorite receptacle for the Exposition.

Two or three thousand of them were rolling before the brooms."

Boxed Lunches are Opened and…
[The observations of Lillian Betts. Excerpted from "The People at the Pan-American," The Outlook 69 (14 September 1901).]

….Whatever may be said of previous Expositions, this is the Exposition of the people. Here and

there are evidences of wealth; but the mass of the visitors to the Pan-American are the people
who work with hands and head to earn their daily bread. The shoulders rounded over the desk;

the laboratory, the book, the plow, are all there, telling their stories of service, giving the history

of their owner's contribution to this epitome of American civilization. As noon approached the

feet move more slowly, lines appear in faces which in the morning were wreathed in smiles, the
searching, the questioning expression of the morning is giving way to bewilderment. So much
has been seen; and the consciousness of how much more remains to be seen has sapped mental
and physical strength, and every bench, every nook where a seat is possible, is taken. The first
day there is a struggle to overcome the diffidence of eating in so public a place. This disappears

rapidly, for mother-love yields before the importunity of a hungry child. Boxes are opened, and
the family group, or the group of friends, are soon chatting, comparing notes, making comments,

arranging for the afternoon. Here is a group of three women -- tall, angular, severe. . . There is a remoteness from the crowd

about them that is not the remoteness of mere strangeness, but that which comes from lives lived apart from life. They look as if
one more stop were impossible. Each carries a box neatly wrapped and tied. They sit down in the shade of the beautiful electric
building. Even to sit down in the shade is so grateful that they look at one another in enthusiastic silence. The crowds pass and

repass. Soon every seat near them is taken. All about people are eating, children are being fed, the popcorn boy is shooting his
wares. The three saints from the unknown land of Quiet look at each other, at the untied boxes in their laps, at the unconcerned

lunchers all about them. There is no use, they never can eat so publicly. The tallest, the thinnest, the most rigid of the three

speaks. One flash of unspoken admiration from either side into her face, the three rise, turn the bench around, and, facing the
building, with their backs to the stream of life, they eat their lunches, happily forgetting the public......

�Free Food, Human Nature, and the Business of Samples: Eyewitness

Accounts
[Excerpted from Lavinia Hart, "The Exhibit of Human Nature," Cosmopolitan XXXI, no. 5 (September 1901), p. 3-4.]

. . .In the center of the Manufactures building was a gathering that defied imagination. All types of women were
huddled together, rich and poor, esthetic and commonplace. It was lunch-time and they were in the work of

managing a free lunch. Women whose diamonds were gems and whose gowns were creations elbowed women who
might have been their cooks, to get free biscuits made from the "finest baking powder on earth"; free pancakes

made from the only pancake flour that wouldn't result in sinkers; free soup from the only can containing real
tomatoes; free samples from all the varieties of mustard, jam and pickles; free sandwiches of minced meat; free

cheese, preserves, chow-chow, plum-pudding, clam broth, baked beans and pickled lobster.

"Ladies," said the girl behind the prepared-flour counter, "you all know considerable more about sponge-cake, but unless you
have used our flour, you don't know it all. Now, the sponge-cake I am cutting --"
No reflection was intended and no offense taken. The ladies devoured the sponge-cake, and finished their meal with free samples

of seven kinds of lithia water, four highly recommended mineral waters and three brands of unfermented grape-juice.
"Well," said a fat lady from Seneca County, "That meal's the first thing I got for nothing since I landed in Buffalo
I knew she was from Seneca County because she had an altercation with the grape-juice agent.
"You folks don't know how to raise grapes," she said sententiously; "you ought to come down to Seneca County to learn about

vineyards."
"Madame," said the grape-juice agent with a superior smile, "we have hundreds of acres devoted to --"

"Don't care how many acres you've got," said the fat lady smacking her lips; we've got the grapes. And our grapes jell, that's what
our grapes do. I tried yours once--had a crate sent down from my sister Susie's. Tried 'em six days. Jell? They never showed the
first symptoms. On the seventh day I rested, and gave the whole mess to the hogs. No sir, your grapes can't jell in the same kettle

with Seneca County grapes," and the fat lady took a third glass of grape-juice and passed on.

All of the fifty thousand people who visit the Fair daily don't patronize the advertisers' free-lunch counters, however, or the

manufacturers would have to go out of business. Some bring luncheons in boxes and baskets and spread them on the benches or
beneath the trees near the Delaware Park entrance; and the wise ones who find it hard enough travelling even without luggage, go
to the beautiful buildings on the fair grounds and take chances on hardboiled eggs at five cents or make sure of them at ten. And

these wise ones have a relish with their luncheon which is all the sweeter for being unsuspected. The young women behind the
counters are of s type they've long been waiting for--angular, sharp-featured, spectacled, aggressive, the schoolmarm type that
instilled into their childhood all the bitterness it ever knew.

A gentleman of sixty swung on a high stool before the counter where presided the perfection of this type. Perhaps a strong

resemblance made vivid the memories of half a century back and goaded him on. For forty minutes he wiped out old scores and

�made the schoolmarm miserable. Why wasn't the chowder hot? How many times had the beans been warmed? Did the lady forget

to put tea in the pot? Was that slipshod fashion the way to make a sandwich? Didn't the lady know her business, anyway?
It wasn't the lady's business, she would have him understand she taught school in the Berkshires.

The gentleman hadn't doubted that she taught school. But why was she here then?
She was working her way through the fair, and intended lecturing on it next winter...

With So Much Free Food Available, Restaurateurs Were Not Happy
The 27 July 1901 Express reported: "The serving of food in Appetite Avenue and Hungry Alley, as the two food roads
have been christened in the Manufactures building, has been discontinued at the noon luncheon hours and the
dinner hour just prior to 6 o'clock.

The restaurants objected to the serving at the meal hours, as, they said, many folk went to the avenue and the

alley and got a free meal going from exhibit to exhibit eating biscuits, rolls, pickles, puddings, pies, cakes and
drinking coffee. Some visitors made two or three rounds of the two aisles to make a really full meal."

"The Free Lunch Counter"
[The following text was excerpted from the (Buffalo) Express, 31 May 1901. Note: the photo below was not

featured in the Express article and instead appeared in The Cosmopolitan (September 1901) p.506. No photo credit

was given.]
No matter how rainy or unpleasant the day, the exposition free-lunch counter is well patronized. To be sure, the familiar flyspecked sausage, soggy potato salad, discolored onions and small slices of hard rye bread are missing from the menu, and no

Wandering Willies, with tin cans suspended from their rope belts, stack up against the counter. But it is a success, nevertheless.

Women are its chief patrons, and the list of food runs from pickles to gingerbread. This free-lunch counter is in the northern part

of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building and borders on parts of four aisles. In the vocabulary of the exposition authorities
there is no such phrase as free lunch, and so their records describe this counter as the food section.
It is amusing to watch some of the more timid women as they reach the vicinity of the lunch counter. They dislike to join the

throng of food grabbers, but the temptation of seeing their neighbors sampling the good things is usually too much to overcome.
They may be in a hesitating frame of mind when they start in at the shredded wheat booth, but by the time they have
countermarched on the other side of the aisle and encountered the sweet pickles and pineapple preserves they are out for

everything that's on the counter. The gingerbread, crackers, candies, cough drops, porridge and other prepared-grain dishes that
quickly follow come easy.

�They leave the building with a . . . of tastes mingling in their mouths, while their brains are awhirl with the sentences that are

served with the food, which run something like this:
"This is only one of the score of ways in which our rolled oats is prepared. It's the simplest way. So just think what the other must

be."

"The pineapple preserve is only one of the preserved fruits which are put up in the same way. This is just to give you an idea of
what our preserves are."
"This gingerbread is made from our famous flour. Yes, of course, we put ginger in it, but it is the flour that makes the bread so

nice and flaky. You can cook it in a few minutes in any sort of an oven."
"That apple butter is made from apples from our own farm. So you know just what you are eating."

"No, we aren't giving away jars of fruit today. We are afraid our samples won't hold out if we do that."

"Yes, these pickles are grown for us especially. That's why they are all of such an even size. No, really, I don't believe I could
give you our pickling recipe. It's something like a patent, you know."

"It's the way in which our oats are rolled that gives them such a nice flavor. I thought
you would like it. Just pour a little hot water on the oats, stir them up and breakfast is
ready."
"This tea is specially imported by us in limited quantities once a year. Yes, I thought

you were a person who would appreciate the flavoring. No, I can't sell you a five
pound package today, but I can take your order for one."
A man now and then will slid up to a booth and sheepishly take a hand-out from one

of the neatly dressed women and then try to crack some inane joke, just to show how
unconcerned he is. The woman understands the situation and charitably laughs at the
alleged witticism.

"You want to know the worst trouble I have with the crowds?" repeated on bright
young woman, who daintily places butter on a cracker the size of a quarter. "Why, the only trouble I have is to make the people

hold their hands right. 'Hold your hand out straight' is what I have to yell at them most of the time. People will try to take the tiny
crackers by the edge, just as they would do with the big ones, and they usually get smeared with the preserve. When they hold out

their hands straight I drop the crackers in their palms and then they can't get mixed up with the preserves."
One of the young women in charge of a food exhibit was interrupted by a well-dressed middle-aged woman yesterday who said:

"Are you Mrs. B --," mentioning the name of the wife of the proprietor of the food product exhibited, which is a household word.
"No, I am not," replied the young woman.
"Well, has she been here today?"

"No"

�"Do you expect her later this afternoon?"

"No, I don't. To tell the truth, I don't even know that there is a Mrs. B --. For all I know Mr. B-- may be a bachelor or a widower.
I never saw him, though I have been employed by his firm for several years."
"Well I should think he would have a wife to take care of such an exhibit as this," said the middle aged woman and then she went

across the aisle to get a sample of gingerbread. …

�Food Company Exhibits
The Pan-American Exposition was an opportunity for food and manufacturers
and distributors to promote and advertise their goods. Exhibitors distributed

literature in the form of tradecards, and provided free samples of their
products. In addition, products were judged and medals awarded. Those
companies fortunate enough to be awarded medals at the Pan-American

Exposition took full advantage of the honor as can be seen in the Mellins
advertisement at right. Click the image to see contemporary advertisments of

some of the more prominant food exhibitors at the Exposition.

Most food company exhibits were

housed in the Manufactures and
Liberal Arts Building although
the Agriculture and Dairy Buildings

held numerous exhibits of food and agricultural products. The
buildings commissioned by individual states and countries also

provided for space to exhibit the foods and agricultural products

specific to their respective regions. For instance, the Chile Building
displayed foods native to Chile while the Mexico Building exhibited

not only the foodstuffs of that country but also the agricultural

technologies used to produce and harvest those products.
Many companies commissioned their own buildings for exhibits. One

of the more impressive of these was the Lowney's Chocolate Exhibit
Building. The Pan-American Official Catalogue and Guide describes this
Lowney's Chocolate Building. Photo credit: C. D.
Arnold. Source: C. D. Arnold. The Pan-American
Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo,
N.Y., 1901. p. 26. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

building:

"Situated on the north side of the Canal Bridge which approaches the
Horticulture building from the east and Midway side. The building is

three stories in height, the first floor being devoted exclusively to the
sale of Lowney's cocoa, chocolate and chocolate bon-bons. On the second floor is located the exhibit of Lowney

products, ladies waiting room and office. The upper floor is a beautiful roof garden, which is well worth a visit for
the fine view obtainable."

Another medal winner at the Pan-American Exposition was The Natural Food Company of Niagara Falls, N.Y.,

makers of Shredded Wheat. The 1901 Buffalo Times article below, describes the company's elaborate exhibit.1

�The Natural Food Company of Niagara Falls: Home of Shredded

Wheat
"A theatrical exhibit of animals living in natural settings leads to the main

exhibit of Niagara Falls' Natural Food Company exhibit. This initial display is
known as the 'theatorium.'
In the theatorium a squirrel appears, its teeth showing, its fur all soft and
glossy, a beautiful creature. In the theatorium is a man who almost makes

animals talk. It is explained that the squirrel proves precisely what the
exhibitors claim and demonstrates the efficacy of the principle underlying

their process for the manufacture of food products.
The squirrel is not alone in the theatorium. There are woodchucks,

porcupines, raccoons, weasels, minx, prairie dogs, wolverines, wild cats,

English hare, jaguar, Rocky Mountain lion, wild bear, tiger and many more.
Herman Grieb, the taxidermist, also prepared the grizzly bear, deer and

horses. The display is not limited to beasts. . . Each beast and bird is shown
in all the grace and charm and beauty of its natural life, free to roam and

wander, relying solely on Nature for food to maintain life and supply the
material out of which the symmetry and perfect form are molded and

Exhibit of The Natural Food Company of
Niagara Falls. Photo credit: n/a. Source:
The Cosmopolitan , v.31, no.5
(September 1901) p.468. Courtesy of
Kerry S. Grant.

developed. . .

Natural food does it, states the voice for the beasts and birds.
There is no separating or taking from or adding to in their diet as

they find it in the fields and forests, laid before them by the hand

of Nature. Obviously, therefore, the voice points out, man should
profit by this lesson to be found in he beasts of the fields and the
fowl of the air. The animals that live under the ground, the
animals that live on the ground and the birds that live above the
ground all prove that naturally organized foods make possible

The Natural Food Company Factory. Source:
Deutsch-Amerikanische Historische und
Biographische Gesellschaft, Buffalo un sein
Deutschum [Buffalo? : Die Gesellschaft], 1911-1912.

natural conditions. It certainly is a unique and engrossing

entertainment. Crowds gather before the theatorium and enjoy
the novelties and beauties of the display. It all is very realistic

and effective in the theatorium and the audience gathers early in
the day, while the performance is continuous until the close of the exposition in the evening.

From the theatorium it is only a step to the exhibit of the products made by the Natural Food Company, the

shredded wheat biscuit, the wondrous utilization of the pure, whole grain of wheat for food purposes, with nothing
added and nothing subtracted. They are neatly, attractively arranged, and also placed so that visitors do not have
to stumble over obstacles to reach them or inspect them. Their freedom from adulteration or alteration of

composition during the process of manufacture is explained clearly and precisely.

�Then come the demonstrators with their electric cooking service, as well as their old-fashioned stove ways of
cooking. They take the food products and make them into almost every conceivable article of food from soup to

ice cream. They show them in salads, vegetables, dressings, jellies, puddings, every form of food known. They

explain as they go, and that explains the fact of the continued attendance of women, mothers and housewives in
the audiences and crowds of sightseers and visitors around the exhibit."

Contemporary "proof" of the "healthful benefits" of Shredded Wheat:
With the Help of Shredded Wheat, Law Student M. J. Cronin Walks to Buffalo's Exposition from Nebraska2

..."After I had accustomed myself to my diet, I scarcely ever suffered from hunger. Four Shredded Wheat biscuits,
four eggs and a pint of milk at each of my daily meals, completely routed my craving of appetite. Toward the
latter end of my walk I have been on the road for eight hours without eating, and then gone to the hotel and the

same meal has satisfied my hunger. As I was out longer I also found that my thirst did not bother me nearly so
much as at first, and frequently I have walked ten miles without taking a drink of any liquid."
"I had some funny experiences along the route getting served when I went in for my meals. In some places they did

not have Shredded Wheat and in others they didn't have eggs. When either was lacking I merely took the other. But

as I came East I found no trouble in getting service. I met a peculiar vegetarian over in Ohio and I laughed good
and hard when he told me of an experiment which he was undertaking. He is endeavoring to hybridize milkweed
and egg plants to produce a plant that will grow custard. I spent several days of my time visiting in some of the

cities through which I passed, as Omaha, Chicago and Sandusky. At this latter place I had to stop from the
exactions of circumstances. I was walking along a trestle across the bay and saw a train coming toward me. I

immediately stepped over onto the other track and then from behind me I heard the rumble of another train. It
was rather sudden, but there was nothing for me to do but jump, so I dropped into the bay and swam ashore. Then
I had to proceed to a secluded spot and dry out my clothes -- a task that required seven hours, as the day was
rather damp."
"I had three dogs while I was on my trip and none of them was able to follow me more than 100 miles, which struck

me as rather peculiar. I understand, however, that a man can always outwalk animals and these dogs could not
stand the cinders on the railroad tracks very long before their feet became sore. The trip has been worth all the

effort that it has taken and although I have not been out to the Exposition yet, I am sure that I will have a great
time there during the next two or three days. I am going from here to Niagara Falls to view the wonders there and

also, incidentally, the new plant of the Natural Food Company, which manufactures Shredded Wheat. I've become
interested in that commodity now and I wish to see how it is made."
"I expect to leave the latter part of this week for Lincoln to resume my studies at the University of Nebraska. I'm

going back by train though, because I have walked all I care to for a while, although I am going to continue the

same diet right along as a steady thing."
Mr. Cronin will walk from Buffalo to Niagara Falls some afternoon, after he has visited the Exposition and will take
the train home from there.

�Tradecards &amp; Samples
Companies with exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition took the opportunity to distribute literature and free
samples of their goods. Most of this literature took the form of tradecards, which were relatively small and easy

for visitors to carry or simply place in a bag. While most of these advertisements were about the size of a
postcard, some were larger and more elaborately designed, often taking the form of a pamphlet or small booklet.

Below are a few of the tradecards distributed at the Buffalo Exposition. Many of the names are still recognized
today. [Click on the /pan-am/img/ below to view larger versions.]

Cottolene "Tradebook".

The image shows the front and back covers of a multipage booklet. Published by the N. K.

Fairbank Company, Chicago, Ill., [1900?] Printed by the American Lithograph Company, New York. Image Source:
Kerry S. Grant. The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901.
Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press, 2001. From the Collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.

The N. K. Fairbank Company was also a large distributor of meat products an produced numerous pamphlets and
broadsheets for distribution at fairs and expositions. See their tradecard for beef and hogg products.

�Highest Awards Wherever Exhibited!
Two Gold Medals Paris, 1900.

Our Commissaries
Distribute .

57 Varieties
Pure

Pickles and
Food Products

ALL OVER THE WORLD,
We grow the seed on our vegetable farm,
The products of 18,000 acres used each year,
Over 2,500 people constantly employed.
Our nine branch factories are located in the
States where soil and climate produce the beat
flavored fruits and vegetables.
Our products are distributed to your family
grocer through our 16 branch warehouses,
located in the leading commercial centers of
the United States and Europe.
Thousands annually visit the Home of the 57
at Pittsburgh, to inspect the Cleanest, largest
and best equipped establishment of its kind in

the world.
See Our Exhibits:
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo.
International Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland.
Permanent Exhibit, Heinz Pier, Atlantic City, N. J.

Heinz Tradecard (girl). The image shows the recto and verso of a tradecard 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" in. Published by the H.
J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. [1901?] Printed by the American Lithograph Company, New York, 1900. Image courtesy
of B. Battleson

�Libby's Tradecard.

The image shows the front and back covers of a trade card measuring 3"x 5" when folded.Inside

the card is printed information about the Libby, McNeill &amp; Libby company. [See below for the full text.] Published

by Libby, McNeill &amp; Libby, Chicago, Ill., [1901?]. Image courtesy of B. Battleson.
Text:

Facts And Figures about Libby, McNeill &amp; Libby's Plant.
Space occupied by plant, 6 acres; floor space, 25 1/2 acres. Capacity of cutting floor, 250 cattle per hour. Slaughtered

weekly, 15,000 cattle.

Our stables contain 75 teams of a uniform bay color, many of them prize winners.

Eighteen boilers are in use in our powerhouse and our refrigerating plant has a capacity of 750 tons per day.

We prepare numerous varieties of ready-to-eat foods in this: also supply choice meats of all kinds to hotels and

restaurants in all parts of the United States. We also produce large quantities of Smoked Beef, Hams, Bacon,

Barrelled Meats and Sausages of every variety.

�Our Products Are Noted For Their "Natural Flavor."

Number of people employed in Chicago Plant, 2,500. Annual payroll (about) $1,000,000.
We operate our own refrigerator car line.

Branch houses in all the large cities of the United States and Canada, and in each of the principal import centers of
the world.

Monthly output, 5,000,000 cans.

Number boxes of tinplate used annually, 150,000.

Whenever exhibited, Libby's Canned Foods have secured highest awards for purity and excellence, receiving gold

medals at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition at
Omaha, 1898 and Paris Exposition of 1900.

Pan-American Exhibit-Manufacturers' and Liberal Arts Building, Section 11.

Libby, McNeill &amp; Libby, Chicago, U. S. A.

Heinz Tradecard (pickle). Published by the H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh,
Pa. [1901?]. Image Source: Kerry S. Grant. The Rainbow City: Celebrating
Light, Color and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,

1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press, 2001. From the Collection
of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. The Story Behind
Heinz's "57 Varieties."

�Orangeade Tradecard. Published by J. Hungerford Smith Co., Rochester, N. Y. Image Source: Kerry S. Grant. The

Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color and Architecture at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo, N. Y.:
Canisius College Press, 2001. From the Collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society.

�Nelson Morris &amp; Co.-

Fairbank Canning Co.
Souvenir Tradecard. The
image shows all pages of a

single 3 3/8" x 5 1/8" folded

trade card. Printed by the
U.S.P. Company of
Brooklyn. [1901?] Image
courtesy of B. Battleson

The "letter" inside states:

Chicago May 20 - 1901

Dear Cousin

Owing to an engagement to

contribute to the product
of Nelson Morris &amp; Co. and
Fairbank Canning Co. (the
great packers) I shall be

stuck in Chicago and be

unable to meet you in
Buffalo. To show how fat

and healthy I am I send you
my photograph on the
opposite page.

Yours truly
Berkshire Hog

The N. K. Fairbank Company also distributed Cottolene shortening products and published the Cottolene tradebook

for distribution at the Exposition.

�Swift &amp; Co. Souvenir Pinback.
Swift &amp; Company, Chicago, Ill.,
[1901?]Image Source: Kerry S.

Grant. The Rainbow City: Celebrating

Light, Color and Architecture at the
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo,

1901. Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius

College Press, 2001. From the
Collection of the Buffalo and Erie
County Historical Society.

References
1. The text is reproduced from the (Buffalo) Times, 20 October 1901. The

images did not appear in the original article and are from other sources.

2. Excerpted from "Remarkable Test of Endurance.", featured on
a Buffalo History Works web site.

�New York State Agricultural Exhibits
The following sections of the Report of the Board of General Managers have been
reproduced on this site.

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Allocation Report

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Report of the Agriculture Exhibit

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Report of the Dairy Exhibit

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Report of the Horticulture Exhibit

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Report of the Apiarian Exhibit

Report
of the
Board of General Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition Held on the

Niagara Frontier Within the State of New York in the Year Nineteen Hundred and One.
Albany, N. Y., January 28, 1902.
To The Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, Jr.,Governor of the State of New York.

SIR-Pursuant to chapter 36 of the Laws of 1899, the Board of General Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New

York at the Pan-American Exposition have the honor to submit to you the following report.
Byron R. Newton, Secretary.

D. N. Lockwood, President
Jacob Amos
Geo. E. Yost

Leopold Stern
N. V. V. Franchot

Andrew L. Hamersley
Gaius C. Bolin
John T. Mott

Fred Greiner, General Managers.
Sidney W. Petrie, Chief Executive Officer.

�Hon. Benjamin B. Odell, JR., Governor of the State of New York. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General

Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 /

Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Byron R. Newton, Secretary, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the
Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B.
Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�D. N. Lockwood, President, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the
Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B.
Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Jacob Amos Member, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the Exhibit
of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon
Company, State Printers, 1902.

�George E. Yost, Member, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the
Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B.
Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Leopold Stern, Member, Board of General Managers, Member, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the
Board of General Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature

March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�N. V. V. Franchot, Member, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the
Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B.
Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Andrew L. Hamersley, Member, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of

the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J.
B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Gaius Bolin, Member, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the Exhibit
of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon
Company, State Printers, 1902.

�John T. Mott, Member, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the
Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B.
Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Fred Greiner, Chairman Executive Committee, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General

Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 /

Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�Sidney W. Petrie, Chief Executive Officer, Board of General Managers. Photo Credit: n/a. Source: Report of the Board of General
Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition - transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 /

Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

Source: Report of the Board of General Managers of the Exhibit of the State of New York at the Pan-American Exposition -

transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1902 / Albany, N. Y.: J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers, 1902.

�The Exposition's Effect on Life in Buffalo

By-Products Of An Exposition
The All Day and Night Cafe on Wheels.

By-products of an Exposition. "The All Day and Night Cafe on Wheels". Source: undetermined.

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The Effects of the Exposition As Seen on Buffalo Streets

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The Exposition's Effect on Prices

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The Byproducts of Questionable Character

�The Effects of the Exposition As Seen on Buffalo Streets
A number of newspaper articles reveal the effects of the Exposition on the city and it's residents. Established
businesses in Buffalo began to prepare for fair crowds months before the Pan-American Exposition actually opened
while new businesses appeared literally overnight. The Buffalo Express article below describes the establishment of
new restaurants in the city proper.

Restaurants Spring Up "Like Frogs in a Pond After a June Rain"

Another feature of the preparations is the restaurants. They are popping up like frogs in a pond after a June rain
or like prairie dogs when the sun is setting. Vacant stores along Main, Washington, Pearl, Niagara, and cross streets

have been rented, furnished with long counters and small . . . tables with white cloth and neat napkins, a cake

griddle in the window, a coffee urn by the door, a waitress, a cash register, oilcloth menu on the wall and a sign

"Step Inside." There are scores of them. They extend up Main Street to High Street. Prices are rock bottom. Pie is
five cents. It is to be hoped exposition crowds are hearty eaters. Otherwise, these bowers of gourmands will be
turned to castles of disaster. For 15 cents a visitor will be able to get a meal. For a quarter, he will be able to

enjoy a feast. The established restaurants with the best locations will have matters arranged so that no customers
need pay less than he desires. In front of some of the restaurants barkers have appeared. They chirp like the
robins who arrived before the last flurry of snow. They gain courage with the arrival of the crowds. One of them

said yesterday that he could shout "pie" at a crowd when he could not say "beans" to a single passer-by. In most of
the new restaurants, and in practically all the old restaurants, the menu on the wall states the price of every

article of food, a hungry customer who can add half as well as he can eat will not be overcharged.
Source: The Buffalo Express, 15 January 1901.

While Buffalo and the surrounding region certainly benefited economically from the thousands of visitors who

attended to the Pan-American, course, there were "negative" byproducts of the Exposition that were a source of
contention among many city residents. Eyesores and establishments of questionable character sprang up in the

immediate vicinity of the Exposition and throughout the city.
Some Buffalo Vistas are Cluttered by Eyesores

When the Exposition opened in May you got a very lovely view of the domes and towers across the fields from
Forest Avenue. Buffalo congratulated herself on the setting she had given her fair. She spoke too quickly. A little
city of quick-lunch kiosks sprang up on that very corner; soft drink wagons and fruit stands; and unspeakably

shabby booths for the sale of beer and sandwiches and the irrepressible souvenir, filled the whole countryside
obliterating the view of the Exposition. Temporary hotels and perhaps even outside restaurants were a necessary

evil. But Bohemian beer gardens were not. The city groaned in spirit as two mighty pavilions of the latter class
were run up within a thousand feet of the main gate of the fair. Despite the attraction of beer served among the
mummied palms, one of these places failed to draw, and it has been whitewashed and relabeled with a more

attractive name. The other, orchid-like, lives on.

�Downtown and up, certain harmless little booths offer "Pan-American orangeade," or orange cider, or other
pernicious dyed drinks, grateful to the throat of the wayfarer, but scarcely grateful to his aesthetic sense. Fakirs,
masters of their art, draw throngs of curious people at every street corner, and hideous night lunch wagons prowl
both night and day.
Source: The Buffalo Courier, 20 October 1901.

Orangeade Tradecard. Published by J.
Hungerford Smith Co., Rochester, N. Y.
Image Source: Kerry S. Grant. The
Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color
and Architecture at the Pan-American
Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Buffalo, N. Y.:
Canisius College Press, 2001. From the
Collection of the Buffalo and Erie County
Historical Society.

The Exposition's Effect on Prices
Buffalo-area retailers hoped to take advantage of the crowds of Exposition visitors to maximize their profits.

The Buffalo Express article below describes an increase in the price of soda water, while the fictional Uncle Hank

finds that the "bargain price" charged for a room is not such a bargain after all.

Soda Water Will Go Up

Sad News for the matinee Girl

And the summer Man
Exposition Is To Blame

�Price Of The Refreshing Beverage
To Be Doubled--The Popular Buffalo Will Be

11 Cents
The matinee girls are disconsolate. The summer man is unhappy. The druggists are jubilant and the exposition

managers are unconcerned. All because the price of soda water during the summer will be ten cents a glass.
The dreadful rumor has been current for some time, but a brave young woman who questioned the clerk as he

deftly filled her glass in a downtown store yesterday had her worst fears confirmed.
"And that isn't all," he said, as he reached under the counter and hung a placard on one of the faucets, which read:

Try the new drink,
"A Buffalo."

Made with 11 ingredients

And costs 11 cents.

"We expect a big run this summer on the new beverage," said the clerk, as he rinsed and wiped the glasses. "I don't
know who originated the Buffalo, but I heard it was a soda clerk in a Chicago store. He certainly had a great head.

The name itself is going to make it popular, but it is a pleasant beverage that cannot fail to make a hit with lovers

of temperance drinks."

"It is made this way: Chipped ice, a dash of vanilla, nectar strup [shrub], lemon juice, sherbet, dash of claret,
sprig of mint, slice of pineapple, slice of orange, a little cordial, and French cherries. There's a drink that would
make a man leave his happy home, wouldn't it? Any druggist caught selling it under eleven cents will be boycotted

by all the Buffaloes in town."
"The soda season," continued the clerk, "is a little backward this spring on account of the extreme cold weather, in

former years the business was in full blast all over town by April 15th, but this year some of the fountains will not
be started until May 1st."

"One of the new drinks is a carnation flip, with or without a hatchet. It is made with chipped ice, pine apple,
strawberry, and raspberry strups [shrubs] , ice cream, plain cream, and an egg. A little nutmeg is sprinkled on the
top. If the customer wants a hatchet in his flip, he winks the left eye, and we just add a dash of brandy to flavor

it."
In Buffalo nearly all the drug stores have soda fountains. Some of the stores in the crowded downtown districts do

an immense business from May 1st to September 1st and even to October 1st, if the weather continues warm.
From two to five clerks are kept busy at a great many of the downtown stores.
"Of late years the sale of medicines is merely a side issue of the drug business at some of the big pharmacies," said
a well-known druggist. A drug store at a prominent corner will take in from the soda fountain $100 day from May

1st to September 1st. Some of them, I am told, take in on an average $125 a day from the fountain. That amount
is far in excess of money taken in for drugs and toilet articles. I venture to say that the drug stores in Buffalo that

�have soda fountains will average $10 a day during the heated season from the sale of beverages. Of course, there

are a great many in the outskirts of the city that don't take in over $2 a day, but the average will reach $10.

I don't think there will ever again be a drink so popular as the milk shake that came out a dozen or more years ago.
It spread over the country like wildfire, and it is no exaggeration to say that millions of dollars were spent the first

season for a beverage which all America was drinking.
Source: Express, 28 April 1901.

A High Room.

Uncle Hank realized that he would have to make several
journeys to the Exposition, and, wishing to be nearer to the

grounds, he had one morning secured a room in one of the many
private residences thrown open to Pan-American visitors by the
frugal residents of Buffalo.

A placard on the door announced:
Rooms to Let,
$1.00 Up.

He concluded this about suited his pocketbook, and after an

interview with the sharp-featured landlady, paid her a dollar, on
"A High Room"—(Around the Pan, p. 148). Source:
Fleming, Thomas. Around the Pan with Uncle Hank:
His Trip Through the Pan-American Exposition. New
York: The Nut Shell Publ. Co., 1901, p. 148. Courtesy
of Stephanie Huthmacher.

the assurance that she would have a nice room ready for him on

his return from the Exposition.
After ringing the door bell of his new quarters several times, the
door was finally opened by a frowsy-headed maid-of-all-work,

who recognized him immediately, and ushered him in.
"You're the gent as hired a room this mornin'?" she inquired.

"I'm that same individool thet paid yer mistress a dollar fer a room; is she to hum?"
"She's gone ter market, but I kin show ye up. This way, please." And she led the way up several flights of wheezy,

creaking stairs to the top of the house.
Uncle Hank was out of breath when he reached a small attic room close to the roof.
"This be'ant what I bargained fer. I want one ov them rooms down stairs; I paid what yer sign called fer, a dollar

fer a room."

�"I guess you didn't read the sign right; it reads $1.00 up, and this is up as high as ye can git," and the girl grinned

from ear to ear, and then suggested that he could get one of the rooms down stairs by paying more money.
He soon realized that he was in for it, so resolved to make the best of his bad bargain, and as he was very tired he

was soon lost in slumber, disturbed only by the onslaught of an army of Pan-American bedbugs that would surely
have taken first prize had they been placed on exhibition in the big show. …
[Source: Thomas Fleming. Around the Pan with Uncle Hank: His Trip Through the Pan-American Exposition. New York:

The Nut Shell Publ. Co., 1901, pp. 148-150.]

The By-products of Questionable Character
In addition to the "eyesores" described in the Buffalo Courier article reproduced above, the Exposition brought
numerous drinking establishments, gambling houses and other institutions "questionable character" to Buffalo.

Many of the "gin mills" sprang up on the "Free Midway" immediately outside the Exposition gates. More were

established at various locations throughout the city, namely Main Street. Below, we see that Uncle Hank ventures
into one of the Free Midway's "beverage dispensaries" as he travels "Around the Pan."

…The next day Uncle Hank concluded to take a look at
the "Free Midway" just outside the grounds of the

Exposition.
Just opposite the entrance, a wild Western mining
town celebrity, styling himself Cheyenne Joe, had a

cabin fashioned after the style in vogue in mining
communities, in which he dispensed various beverages

of more or less poisonous qualities; to attract votaries

he had emblazoned the walls of the aforesaid cabin
with strangely worded devices which carried double

meanings, very amusing to the initiated: one in

particular attracted Uncle Hank's attention. It
occupied a prominent place on the wall and read as

follows:
If Drinking Interferes with Your Business, Give Up Your

Business.

If Drinking Interferes with Your Business, ...Give Up Your
Business - (Around the Pan - p. 191). Source: Fleming, Thomas.
Around the Pan with Uncle Hank: His Trip Through the Pan­
American Exposition. New York: The Nut Shell Publ. Co., 1901, p.
191. Cou

This was too much for Uncle Hank, who remarked to

the attendant behind the bar: "Young man, ye'd better

take daown thet sign. It's well understood among men

�ov your craft thet a wise man never drinks behind ther bar so ye'd better giv up yer bizness er take daown yer

sign."
[Source: Fleming, Thomas. Around the Pan with Uncle Hank: His Trip Through the Pan-American Exposition. New York:

The Nut Shell Publ. Co., 1901, p. 189-191.]

By Products Of An Exposition
A Scene of Main Street.
By-product of an Exposition. A Scene of Main Street. Source: undetermined

Reference:
The image of the "barker" located to the left of the Orangeade Tradecard is an illustration by Thomas Fleming,
found in Fleming's Around the Pan with Uncle Hank: His Trip Through the Pan-American Exposition. New York: The Nut

Shell Publ. Co., 1901, p. 55.

�Cookbooks
The same three words that described the trends in kitchens of the new century -- sanitary, convenient, and

economical -- were also applied to the practical aspects of the "science of housewifery." Young brides and
housewives previously unacquainted with carrying out the multitude of laborious tasks in the kitchen could turn to
household manuals, magazines and recipe books for guidance. They were instructed that cooking, the emphasis on
careful thought and variety in meal planning would help prepare wholesome, body-building foods that fight off

everything from disease to nervousness. The conscientious housekeeper had one or more trusted cookbooks toward

this end.1 -- Ellen Plante

One such cookbook was the 200 recipe The Enterprising Housekeeper, 3rd edition (Philadelphia, PA: The Enterprise

Manufacturing Company of Pa., 1900) by Helen Louise Johnson. It was designed to encourage the use of the
company's meat grinders, general-purpose shredders, and coffee mills. It offered housewives helpful advice and

argued that consistently good cooking was a systematic, not a hit-and-miss adventure. The ice-box encouraged the
saving of left-overs and this cookbook was dedicated to using them. The third edition was specifically "packaged'

for the Pan-American Exposition

Among its insights:

"There may be -- in fact, evidence proves that there are -- good cooks who seemingly never
measure anything, but by 'about so much of this,'and 'a pinch of that,' bring about results so
delicious that the would-be follower at once determines to throw rules to the winds and try
the same way. Good cooks always measure -- one by the cup and spoon, because she must;

another by the judgement and experience long years of doing the same thing over and over
again have given her; and the chances are that, unless you have the rare gift of cooking

straight from the gods, you had better cling to the exact measures and weights if you want
the best results every time, instead of once in a while."2

The Pan-American Cook Book, 1901
In 1899, the Ladies' Aid Society of Buffalo's Riverside Methodist Church published a cookbook to commemorate the

Pan-American Exposition. Recipes were often compiled by philanthropic women's organizations and published in
cookbooks that would contain preparation instructions for all of the meals necessary in the well-managed home.

The publication and sale of these cookbooks enabled organizations to not only raise money, but also to fulfill a
"duty" to promote the "desireable qualities" of a good housewife. Below is the "introduction":

�Introduction. [p.3]
It is universally admitted that the way to a man's
heart is through his stomach, or, as the poet has it—

We may live without poetry, music, and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without

heart;
We may live without friends.; we may live without

books;

But the civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may
live without books-What is knowledge but grieving?

He may live without hope-What is hope but

deceiving?
He may live without love-What is passion but pining?

But where is the man that can live without dining?"
Hence the desirability of properly cooked and

invitingly prepared food for the family. In order to
accomplish this result, several things are necessary:
1st—The selection of the best and most nutritious
food. —2nd—Choice, true and tried recipes for
cooking it. and—3rd—and equally important—The
best utensils for preparing and cooking the food in

an appetising form.
No good housekeeper needs any suggestions regarding the necessity of selecting only good, fresh food, as well as

food suited to the taste of her household, and length of her purse.
So with Recipes for baking, boiling stewing and toasting, frying, broiling, smoking and roasting we present the PanAmerican Recipe Book.

The Pan-American Cookbook3 included printed recipes for meals and instructions for the preparation of various

medicinal tonics. Most cookbooks of the day included "home remedies"--salves, tonics, cleaning solvents, etc.

Included in each book were an ample number of blank pages for recording personal recipes and notes. In one
instance, a recipe was recorded, only to be crossed out and marked "no good."

�Pan-American Recipe Book, [p.80]. Source: Pan-American Recipe Book, (Pan-American Cook Book) compiled by the Ladies Aid
Society of the Riverside Methodist Episcopal Church. Buffalo, N.Y. : Charles A. Folger, 1899. Courtesy of Ken Kerber.

�Pan-American Recipe Book, [p.84]. Source: Pan-American Recipe Book, (Pan-American Cook Book) compiled by the Ladies Aid
Society of the Riverside Methodist Episcopal Church. Buffalo, N.Y. : Charles A. Folger, 1899. Courtesy of Ken Kerber.

�References:
1. Ellen M. Plante. The American Kitchen, 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise (New York: Facts on File, 1995),

p. 175.
2. Helen LouiseJohnson. The Enterprising Housekeeper: Suggestions for Breakfast, Luncheon and Supper. 3rd edition.

Philadelphia, Pa.: Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania, 1900. p. 39.

3. Pan-American Recipe Book, (Pan-American Cook Book) compiled by the Ladies Aid Society of the Riverside
Methodist Episcopal Church. Buffalo, N.Y. : Charles A. Folger, 1899. Courtesy of Ken Kerber. Special thanks to Mr.

Kerber for allowing us to reproduce the Pan-American Cookbook for use in this online exhibit.

�Food as a Cultural Awakening
Exposition attendees were introduced to a variety of foods from
distant lands at various concessions and exhibits. These included
chilies and tamales from Mexico, tea flavored ice cream at Fair

Japan, red peppers and tropical products from across Latin
America, and a host of beverages.

One can easily imagine the rich blend of smells that emanated

from various kitchens and cooking fires. Exposition-goers were
exposed to these new and sometimes unusual foods at numerous
venues, although most were concentrated in the area of the
Midway. "Fair Japan," "Darkest Africa," "the Beautiful Orient"—

these exhibits all introduced the foods of their respective cultures
to the fair's visitors. The types of foods served, some prepared

with seasonings unfamiliar to most North Americans probably

shocked many a conservative palette.

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The "Streets of Mexico"

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"Fair Japan"

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"Darkest Africa"

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German Food at "Alt Nürnberg"

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The "Indian Congress" and Village

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The "Esquimaux Village"

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Exposure to Cultural Foods Not Limited to the Midway

A Scene From "Fair Japan". Photo credit: Unknown.
Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September
1901), p. 477.

The "Streets of Mexico"
Uncle Hank, the protagonist in Thomas Fleming's Around the Pan with Uncle Hank, sampled most of the ethnic foods

available on the Midway. This passage describes his first encounter with Mexican food:

Uncle Hank's reaction to Mexican Food

"A pretty little Mexican maiden brought him a 'bill of fare,'but as the dishes were of Mexican manufacture, Uncle Hank

was for a moment non-plused; … In glancing over the list of edibles, he discovered the word beans; that was enough

for him, …he concluded to "go it," but the first mouthful caused him to open wide his capacious mouth and emit a yell
that caused a salvo of laughter from the other diners in the restaurant. The dish he had ordered was concocted by

�stewing a large Mexican bean with a profusion of red pepper and other hot
and spicy ingredients, and unless one is accustomed to such food is very
apt to prove surprising at the first trial, and this proved to be the case with
Uncle Hank."

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Uncle Hank describes additional experiences with Pan-American Exposition's

ethnic restaurants, (see Restaurant Experiences of "Uncle Hank") and in the

process, betrays many of the ethnic and racial stereotypes and prejudices
so commonplace in 1901 America.

The Midway looking North from Alt Nürnberg. Photo credit: n/a.
Source: Charles Cutter. Pan-American Souvenir. Niagara Falls,
N.Y.: Charles Cutter, 1901

Map of the Midway. Created using a map of the Pan­
American Exposition grounds printed by Rand, McNally &amp;
Co., Chicago [1901?].

�Clarence J. Selby wrote about his visit to the Exposition in Echoes of the Rainbow City, and describes his rather

unexpected introduction to a Mexican "delicacy":
… In the "Streets of Mexico" is a man who sells candy and, to add to the attractions of his place, he has

purchased two fine Mexican cactus plants. There are four Mexican brothers who play the marimbon. One
is named Carlos Oivera. He found a long-missed dainty. He had been casually examining one of the

newly-arrived cacti when he discovered in one of the fat leaves a small, dark spot. It was a sign of the
"gusano," a delicacy greatly relished by the Mexicans, who rushed from all quarters upon hearing Carlos

cry "gusano." He wished then that he had kept silent, but he whipped his knife out of his pocket and
before any one could interrupt him had dug out a fat white worm as long as a man's finger. "Bueno!
Bueno!" he exclaimed, as he thrust the squirming worm into his mouth. "Bah!" said an American who

stood near, making a wry face, "No, senor," said Carlos, in his broken English, "Bueno, very good; nice,

clean; taste like butter." Whether it tasted like butter or not Carlos ate it with a relish and was watched
with envy by every other Mexican who saw him eat it.

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"Fair Japan"
Selby also talks of his impressions of "Fair Japan":
… The young "Jap" that showed us over
the place … showed us some beautiful

articles of furniture inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, and a Japanese suit

of armor. I cannot describe half of the
lovely things contained in that pretty
little house.

But one thing seemed to me very

strange; no chairs and tables like we
use, The kitchen contained a cook

stove which was a strange affair, so

low down that a person would have to
Performers on the "Streets of Mexico".Photo credit: C. D. Arnold? Source: From
the collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. In Kerry S. Grant,
The Rainbow City: Celebrating Light, Color, and Architecture at the Pan-American
Exposition, Buffalo 1901, Buffalo, N. Y.: Canisius College Press, 2001. P. 87.

sit down to cook on it. They tell me
the Japanese place cushions upon the

floor and sit upon them with their feet

underneath them when they dine.
There were many cooking utensils in the kitchen. All were very sweet and clean. …

I have one very dear friend who is a Japanese professor in the Imperial school at Tokio, Japan. He both speaks and
writes several languages. He has told me much about Japan.

�The following is a description of a Japanese society dinner:
Upon entering the hall the small servants go down on "all fours" by

way of salutation, remove the shoes of the guests and escort them to
the dining-room with no chairs or tables in it but covered with clean

white mats. A circle of flat cushions mark the places for the guests to

occupy. Each one sitting upon his heels. Then in comes the little
musumese, or servants, with the dinner.

First of all they serve tea in tiny, beautiful cups
without any handles on them, and confectionery

shaped like pretty leaves or pink blossoms which
look very artistic. Then before each guest is

placed a small lacquered table about a foot high

holding several small dishes containing the

following articles of diet: A small piece of
lobster, half a small bird, two sugar-coated Irish
potatoes, a small dark bowl of sauce, some slices

of raw fish, some preserved cherries and

A Water Garden Scene from "Fair Japan".
Photo credit: N/A. Source: Pan-American
Scrapbook [n.p., 1901?]. Courtesy of Kerry S.
Grant

chestnuts and a bowl of brown soup with pieces of fish floating in it. This the natives eat with
chopsticks. Then boiled eel on soy. The rice wine is served in slender, long-necked vases. At a signal the musumese

retire to the end of the apartment.
One side of the room the wall slides back and reveals a picturesque group of exquisitely dressed girls. They are the

"maikos" or dancing girls and their accompanists, the "geishas." The girls, with their most beautiful fans gently
waving as they pose in graceful attitudes, are a very pretty sight. They dance to the music of the instrument called
the samisen. After they have danced the screens are drawn and the guests continue their dinner. Other dances

follow at intervals until rice is brought in, which is the last course and the dinner is over.

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The Entrance to "Fair Japan". Photo credit: N/A. Source: The Grandeurs of the Exposition, including State Buildings, Midway
Scenes, Foreign Buildings, with Typical Buffalo and Niagara Falls Views. Text by Richard H. Barry. Buffalo, N.Y.: Robert Allan
Reid, 1901. Courtesy of the University Archives, University at Buffalo

�"Darkest Africa"

The "Darkest Africa" exhibit was one of the most fascinating

and unusual to Exposition visitors. At the same time, it was
also the attraction most maligned in the contemporary

attitude and popular print. Clarence Selby writes: "...
entering 'Darkest Africa,' where the most unlovely were the

greatest attractions. I did not feel at all inclined to handle
the black dwarfs and pygmies who inhabit this village of

'Darkest Africa.'... They may be all very nice in their own

way, but I would not care to associate with them. However,
it was very nice that the concessionaires brought them here

so that people might have the opportunity to see them and
learn of their habits and customs."4

Building a Hut in "Darkest Africa".Photo/Artist credit:
N/A. Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September
1901), p. 508.

This Buffalo Commercial article of 10 July 1901 describes
dinner at the African Village Pavilion. Indeed, "Darkest

Africa" brought sights and smells never before experienced in Buffalo":
"The savory odor of African stew drove the visitors out of the African village pavilion, yesterday, to where the

cooks were busy at the open fire preparing their dinners. The people crowded around the huts and seemed very
much amused at the sight of a big Ogowe
warrior, sitting on the ground in front of his fire,
skimming the stew with as much care as a
cooking school graduate. The stew is made by
boiling round steak and fresh fish together. A

cupful of tomatoes and one onion chopped fine

are added to the boiling meat, with a
tablespoon of curry and a generous dash of red

pepper. The whole is thickened with flour. It

makes a very appetizing dish. The ration for one
native for one day consists of two pounds of

meat or fish, yams or white potatoes, a loaf of

bread, coffee, six bananas and two oranges.
Each native had a knife, fork, and spoon, and

"Darkest Africa". Photo credit: C. D. Arnold. Source: The Pan-American
Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D. Arnold,
1901.Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

each has to wash his own dishes. The cool

weather has been very hard on the Africans and every precaution has been taken to keep them from catching cold,

extra blankets and fires being the order of the day."

�German Food at Alt Nürnberg
Alt Nürnberg had the largest restaurant on the Midway and served traditional German cuisine. Numerous articles

describe this restaurant although all convey the fact that this was one of the more expensive and upscale dining
establishments at the Exposition. Mary Bronson Hart wrote, "The problem of dinner at the Pan-American is one of

grave importance. If you are careless of expense it is easy to be happy; you dine at Alt Nürnberg, or up in the
Tower, or at the American Inn."5

See Uncle Hank Stops for a Bite at Alt Nürnberg for a somewhat less flattering description of the German eatery.

Alt Nürnberg. Photo credit: n/a. Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5
(September 1901)

The Restaurant at Alt Nürnberg. Photo credit: C. D. Arnold. Source: C. D.
Arnold. The Pan-American Exposition, Illustrated. Buffalo, N.Y.: C. D.
Arnold, 1901, p. 104.

�The "Indian Congress" and Village
The Indian Congress attraction introduced visitors to 42 different tribes of North American Indians. As with most of
the culture-based Midway "exhibits," the Indian Congress was wrought with ethnic and racial stereotypes, the most

blatant being the reference to the participants as "savages" and the daily sham "battle" between the savage natives
and the United States Army. Despite this, the Indian Village did afford visitors a chance to see some of the customs

of individual tribes close-up. In his introduction to the Historical Biography and Libretto of the Indian Congress,

Frederick T. Cummins writes of the Native participants,

… While at the Indian Congress and on exhibition in the

Indian Village, they will live in their primitive way in
tepees, wickiups, and adobe houses, and afford the

public a rare opportunity for the study of their traits and

characteristics; their habits, sports and pastimes; their
rites, ceremonies and dances.
… Their domestic and industrial life is represented by the
curing of meat, the preparation of meal, the splitting of

wood, the setting up of tepees. The squaws do all this,

besides the ornamental work, such as beading, making

moccasins, lottery and clothing; weaving blankets and

Three Chiefs of the "Indian Congress".Shown are (l-r) Chief
Lone Elk, Sioux; Chief Red Cloud, Sioux; and Chief Hard Heart.
Photo credit: C. D. Arnold Source: The Pan-American
Exposition Illustrated by C. D. Arnold. Buffalo, N. Y.: C. D.
Arnold, 1901. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant.

making baskets, and adding to the personal adornment of

their lords while they sit around, talk, smoke, and paint
their faces and bodies for the dance or battle. … 6Most
visitors to these Midway attractions were aware that the
Native Americans living in these "primitive ways" were

indeed, performing. Although the promotion of such stereotypes and generalizations would be considered offensive
today, the concessionaires were giving the paying public of 1901 what they wanted. Indeed, many paying
customers were probably disappointed to find that in reality, the "savages" they encountered were really not all
that different than themselves.
…I was watching some women over at the Indian village. They were holding their skirts daintily away and were

peering into greasy old kettles that some squaws were stirring.
"Isn't it awful to be obliged to eat that sculch?" said the fair pale-faces.

Five minutes later the women were angry because the Indians were eating dinners sent in from a restaurant. The visitors
declared that it spoiled the realism to find that the Indians were not eating the food they cooked themselves…

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�Children of the "Indian Congress". Photo credit: n/a. Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September 1901), p. 504.

The "Esquimaux Village"
Arctic Natives of the

Esquimaux village
dining "behind the
scenes" (left) … a
somewhat different
perspective of what
the public saw, or

expected of the seal
hunting, kayaking,
whalebone-carving
people of the frozen

north (right).

Dining in the "Esquimaux Village". Photo credit: n/a.
Source: Pan-American Exposition Scrapbook [n.p.,
1901?]. Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant

Scene from the "Esquimaux Village".Photo
credit: n/a. Source: Pan-American Exposition
Scrapbook [n.p., 1901?]. Courtesy of Kerry S.
Grant

�Exposure to Cultural Foods Not Limited to the Midway
While much of the more exotic cultural cuisine was available in the restaurants of the Midway, agricultural and
processed food products specific to the countries of Canada and Latin America were exhibited elsewhere on the

Exposition grounds. Sizable exhibits of individual countries were mounted in sections of the larger exhibition
buildings. For instance, Mexico and Canada both had exhibit space for food products in the Agriculture and

Horticulture Buildings. Most of the smaller countries, however, exhibited foodstuffs in the buildings commissioned

by their respective governments.

Mexico
The Official Catalogue of the Mexican Exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo proudly introduces readers to the
agricultural products exhibited by Mexico in the Agriculture Building:

… If we are to examine now the various products that make up the important
division of foods, we will see figuring prominently an extensive collection of

coffee; there are samples on exhibition coming from each one of the states
producers of that rich grain, and it is a fact well known that since the

Brazilian crisis stimulated the production, Mexico has notably enhanced her

coffee plantations, and this is now one of the most important articles of

export. In competition with all the other coffee producing countries, Mexico

has obtained the highest awards for her coffee in all the expositions that
have been held up to the present time.

Cocoa is a product which also promises a great future in Mexico, and is
exhibited by a varied collection together with chocolate manufactured by

two of the most important factories in Mexico.

Notwithstanding the great competition that sugar cane has been subjected to on account of the increase in the

production of sugar beets, it still holds its place vigorously, and is the foundation of inexhaustable richness
throughout the vast territories of the States of Morelos, Veracruz, Puebla, Jalisco, and many others. As a

complementary to the sugar industry we might mention the production of alcohol, although only when employed in
certain industries, it pertains to this division.
The exquisite and varied collection of liquors is also worthy of special attention, because the fruits from which

they are prepared in factories of the best established reputation, are equally abundant. National beverages on
exhibition, such as "pulque," which is the favorite drink of the people, should not be passed unnoticed. 'This

"pulque" is exhibited through a special process of preservation. Beer, whose consumption is increasing daily,

receives such impulse in Mexico that it can be stated that there is not a state in the Republic without a brewery,
some of them with more than $1,000,000 invested.

�The above information is at least a brief outline of the agricultural resources of Mexico, and reveals, as we have
already said, the great evolution that has taken place throughout the country within the last few years by the

impulse of the vigorous administration of one of the greatest statisticians of the present time.

A careful inspection of the products exhibited by Mexico in the Department of Agriculture, will fully demonstrate
the vast field of action she has for enterprising men.

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From a cultural perspective, the impression given by these exhibits is certainly different than that found in "The

Streets of Mexico" attraction on the Midway. Of course, the purpose of such exhibits was not to entertain, but to
promote the country and its products in an attempt to increase trade and investment. Below, the Comisión
Nacional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos para la Exposición Pan-Americana describes the pomological and
viticulture exhibits in the Mexico section of the Horticulture Building. Here, visitors learned that the United State's
southern neighbor produced more than just tequila. Few visitors were likely to have predicted that a century

later, the United States would be the largest importer of fruits and vegetables produced in Mexico.
… Apples, peaches, figs, pears, and apricots are

produced in abundance for the local markets, but no
efforts have been made for drying and preserving these
fruits on a large scale. In some sections the fruits are
rich and of very fine flavor on account of the good soil

and limited rain. The States of Coahuila and Chihuahua
possess large tracks of lands where pomology could be

engaged in extensively to good profit, if proper plants

were erected for the drying and evaporating of the
surplus fruit. Grapes are also produced in abundance and

excellent wine is manufactured in the State of Coahuila,
Mexico Exhibit in the Agriculture Building.
Photographer/engraver: unknown. Source: Mexico. Comisión
Nacional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos para la Exposición
Pan-Americana de Buffalo, N.Y. Official catalogue of the
Mexican exhibits at the Pan-Americana de Buffalo, N.Y.
Official catalogue of the Mexican exhibits at the Pan­
American Exposition at Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A. May first to
November first 1901. Buffalo : The White-Evans-Penfold,
1901.

but not yet sufficient to meet the demand, as large
quantities are imported.

To the east and west of the table lands, on the slopes of
the Gulf and the Pacific, is the region for the production

of tropical fruits-bananas, pineapples, mangoes,
mameyes, oranges, limes, and citrus family in general;
chirimoyas and anona species grown luxuriantly. With the

exception of oranges at certain seasons of the year no other fruits are cultivated for export.
In vegetables, recently, the truck farmer has established in the State of Tamaulipas experimental farms for the

cultivation of tomatoes-farms that have become practical and profitable, as already carloads are sent early to
market for export. Later, probably, the truck farmer of Mexico will export also cucumbers, green corn, and melons
in winter, as it is at this season that these vegetables are cultivated to greater advantage. It will be some time,

however, before other fruits and vegetables will be exported; the excessive express rates are almost prohibitive

for their profitable cultivation. Another great drawback to the industry is the costly packing of fruits and
vegetables. …

�…Vine culture in Mexico is obtaining a gradual and steady development, and the local consumption of wines and

liquors is also attaining a great importance.
The country already produces red and white wines of extra fine quality, but still imports from foreign countries

more than $2,200,000 worth of these same wines each year.
The production of "pulque," the popular and national drink (made of liquids extracted from the agave tree),

reached the enormous figure of 3,000,000 hectoliters yearly.
In this Republic is also produced wines of agreeable odor and delicious flavor made from quince, orange, and

pineapple fruits.

Many modern establishments in Mexico are entirely given up to the manufacture of all kinds of liquors and
alcohols. "Tequila," already well known in the United States, is one of the principal alcoholic drinks manufactured
and consumed in Mexico.

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Descriptions of the food product exhibits of other countries represented at the Pan-American Exposition will be

added to this site as they become available.

References:
1.

Thomas Fleming. Around the Pan with Uncle Hank: His Trip Through the Pan-American Exposition. New York:

The Nut Shell Publishing Co., 1901.
2.

Clarence J Selby. Echoes From the Rainbow City. Chicago : Travelers Bureau, 1902. p. 48. Selby was a blind,

deaf, mute who visited the Exposition accompanied by aids. Many of his observations are based in part on the
descriptions provided to him by those assistants and the people he encountered at the Exposition. Thus, his
writings are as much a reflection of the society around him as they are his own attitudes. The line drawing

illustration of the Mexican man is from Thomas Fleming's Around the "Pan." With the exception of the Midway
map, all line illustrations on this web page are attributed to Fleming.

3.

Selby, pp. 56-58.

4.

Ibid., pp. 64, 71.

5.

Mary Bronson Hartt. "How to See the Pan-American Exposition," Everybody's Magazine, v. 5, no. 26 (October

1901): 488-491.

6.

Frederick T Cummins. Historical Biography and Libretto of the Indian Congress. [n.p., 1901]

7.

Holman F. Day. "Three Pilgrims at the 'Pan.'" Everybody's Magazine, vol. 5, no. 26 (October 1901) p. 427.

8.

8. Mexico. Comisión Nacional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos para la Exposición Pan-Americana de Buffalo,
N.Y. Official catalogue of the Mexican exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A. May first

to November first 1901. Buffalo : The White-Evans-Penfold, 1901. pp. 5-6.

�Food and Health
With regard to food and health at the Pan-American Exposition, scientists and

"cranks" worked side-by-side. Two major reports described food-related health and

medical concerns of the Exposition. In the first report, Dr. Roswell Park, Medical

Director of the Pan-American Exposition, describes the results of inspections of
the numerous restaurants and eating establishments on the Exposition grounds.

Excerpts from the second, "Some Medical Aspects of the Pan-American Exposition"

describe two exhibits related to food safety and health practices, specifically,

food preservation and meat examination. Indeed, as the production of processed
foods and the use of food additives became more commonplace in the late 19th
and early 20th Centuries, there began a movement among those in the scientific

community to study and regulate food safety. At the same time, health food "conartists" took advantage of a naive public's belief in the benefits of healthful foods

and "cure all diets" and used venues like the Pan-American Exposition to peddle

their wares.

•

Exposition Restaurant Inspection

•

Food Preservation

•

Meat Examination

•

"Special" Foods and Cure All Diets

Exposition Restaurant Inspection
From Roswell Park, "Report of the Medical Department of the Pan­

American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901," Buffalo Medical
Journal (December 1901).

By the end of July there were 36 restaurants and eating places, 14

kitchens on concessions and villages, and 57 soft drink stands, and
the resident population had increased to 1652. . . Alter a while,
the regular hours of inspection were abandoned and the

The Nebraska Sod House. Photo credit: C. D.
Arnold. Source: C. D. Arnold. The Pan-American
Exposition, Illustrated. Buffalo, N.Y.: C. D. Arnold,
1901, p. 69.

inspections were made at irregular and intentionally unexpected

intervals in order that no preparation for them could be made.
The results of this change were an evident improvement in all

sanitary conditions. In no case during August was it necessary to condemn milk or cream, and only one eating place

�gave any serious trouble. This was the Nebraska Sod house, which was all almost constant source of bother and
which later had to be closed. Night inspections revealed the fact that many people were in the habit of sleeping

beneath the counters in booths in various streets. The practice was stopped, for instance, of making of candy in a
booth in which a family of four lived, cooked, ate and slept.

Food Preservation
The exhibit described below reveals some of the dangers of poisoning resulting from the adulteration of food with

certain chemical preservatives and colors. The timeliness of this exhibit was significant in that in less than one

year, Congress would appropriate $5,000 to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, an advocate of food safety regulations and chief
chemist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry, to study the effects of food additives on

health.1 His studies drew widespread attention to the dangers associated with food adulteration and contributed
significantly to the original Food and Drugs Act in 1906.

[From "Some Medical Aspects of the Pan-American Exposition," Buffalo Medical Journal (18 and 25 July 1901).]

…An interesting exhibit in connection with the artificial preservation of food is seen in a collection

of tubes displaying quantities of salicylic acid and other substances recovered from small quantities
of food staffs preserved by their agency. Half a test tubeful of salicylic acid is shown as having

been recovered from a single tin of canned soup—and one is moved to marvel that cases of
poisoning from preserved food staffs are not more common than they are. "Preservative,"—

combination of boric acid and salt, colored with cochineal,— made famous in the army beef
controversy2, is here given a prominent place. One of the exhibits among the jams and preserves is

labelled: "Strawberry Jam." Sweetened with glucose, stiffened with starch, colored with an aniline

dye, preserved with benzoic acid and artificially flavored. The strawberry part of this delectable
compound apparently exists in the imagination alone. It is highly unfortunate that the exhibit does
not specify the particular brands and give the manufacturers' names of the articles whose analysis

are displayed, so that the observer might not only appreciate the extent to which food adulteration

is practised, but might know what brands to avoide in making future purchases. Those whose greed
is such as to render them willing to injure the public health to more quickly fill their purses should be publicly pilloried and made
to suffer the financial loss which would follow exposure of their nefarious practises.

�Meat Examination
In 1901, meatpacking was one of the nation's most profitable industries, in part because consumers concluded that

"dressed beef" was as good as or better than that of the local butcher/slaughterhouse, was wholesome, and was
safe.3 The exhibit described below was certainly of interest to Exposition visitors, who could see the application of

medical techniques and practices to ensure food safety with regard to meat. Consider that the concept of
enforcing of such practices may not have been part of such public exhibits. Despite the popularity of dressed
meat, the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the passage of the Meat Inspection Act would not occur for
5 more years.

[From "Some Medical Aspects of the Pan-American Exposition," Buffalo Medical Journal (18 and 25 July 1901).]

"…In the Bureau of Animal Industry, a feature which attracts the attention of crowds, is the microscopic
examination of pork for trichinae and other parasites, as carried out by the Department of Agriculture at the large
packing houses. A small laboratory is here fitted up, in which three young women make these microscopic

examinations in the presence of the visitors, and exhibit samples of infected meat. Nearby an interesting series of

pathological specimens, both wet and artificial, showing various types and lesions of disease in the animals used as
food, will prove interesting to all medical men, and is well worthy of careful study by health officers and those

who have to do with food inspection. This exhibit is supplemented by a large series of lantern slides, showing
bacteria, pathogenic lesions, etc."

"Special" Foods and Cure All Diets Were Hot Topics at the Turn of the
Century
The turn of the century was rich with food "reformers" and those who thought that dietary change could save the
world. It is not at all surprising that a gathering the size and magnitude of the Pan-American Exposition was

considered by many of these food reformers to be the perfect venue through which to educate and expose the

public to their "beneficial" products and services. Unfortunately, scientist and crank were hard to distinguish, as
this excerpt from a story in the Enquirer of 2 April 1901 suggests.
The crank who depends on cereal for his advancement has a good thing. His is a plausible theory. Not being naturally
enthusiastic over a cereal diet, mankind is prone to think it very wholesome because not particularly agreeable. Hence

its popularity as a "food for babies." Nothing that a child likes is suppose by the truly orthodox to be good for him.
The cereal crank trespasses on the coffee fiend nowadays.

"There is an idea abroad in the land," says G. Edward Fuller, Pan-American Expert in Foods, "that it is much more
wholesome to drink a hot liquid made of barley and wheat and molasses than to imbibe an extract of the pure coffee. It

is less injurious for awhile, but my observation leads me to believe that, if cereal coffee is drunk for any length of time,

�it breaks down the tissues of the stomach and induces a flatulent condition. If a man
wants to abandon the coffee habit, he can break himself gradually by the use of cereal
coffee. But hot water would do as well."

"It is a curious fact that coffee has no injurious effect on the man who smokes tobacco.
The effect of either one, bad in itself, seems to be counteracted by the effects of the
other. Better than cereal coffee is a mixture of coffee with chicory root. Statistics show
that coffee drunk by the greatest coffee fiends in the world, the Germans and the

French, contains from sixty to seventy-five per cent of chicory, in comparison to three
or four per cent used in the Americas. If I had s sluggish liver, I'd pour chicory in any

coffee then drink any of those cereal combinations. Or if my nerves were too much
stimulated by coffee, I'd mix it with cocoa. . ."

Later in the piece:
"One of these staff of life cranks wants the Exposition management to hire him to
lecture to the populace this summer. He says that if his ideas about bread are put into
practice not only will the citizens be better nourished, both physically and mentally, but

the taxation of the city may be greatly lessened through the reduction of pauperism and

crime. He goes to the length of saying that if Christ were living today and eating the

food of our times, he would be a very different man from the humble Nazarene."

Advertisement for Armour's Extract of Beef "School
children must be well fed. …" Source: This ad
appeared in numerous popular magazines in 1901.
Digitized from a printed microfilm image.

�Advertisement for Baker's Breakfast
Cocoa. "Preserves Health, Prolongs
Life". Source: This ad appeared in
numerous popular magazines in 1901.
Digitized from a printed microfilm
image.

"The Best Food for …". Advertisement for
Imperial Granum. Source: This ad appeared
in numerous popular magazines in 1901.
Digitized from a printed microfilm image.

Advertisement for Quaker Oats "Leads
to Health". Source: This ad appeared in
numerous popular magazines in 1901.
Digitized from a printed microfilm
image.

As this Commercial article of 14 January 1901 shows, some people thought they had all the answers. The writer of
the letter says his reform begins with the stomach, "the crucible of life.'"

Director of Concessions Taylor has received a communication from a person who wishes to instruct humanity in the

matter of baking cake of a wholesome character. He maintains that the physical stamina of men and the moral stature
and beauty of women depend upon the adoption of food reforms more than upon other ameliorative agencies put
together, not excluding religious influences. The writer says in his letter:
"Every man and woman on the face of the planet . . . would be delighted to learn what I alone am able to reveal, viz., a

system of living that not only prevents the possibility of sickness, premature death, but even indigestion . . . imperfect
circulation and defective absorption of the system."

"If the exposition promoters would provide a large travelling oven placed in a suitable place, I will take the trouble of
management off their hands and produce a large profit, as it would prove the most attractive, not only to women and

children, but to most enlightened men, who require all the brain nourishment they can get, and they would like to get it
now, and that's no joke."
More of the above is found in this Commercial article of 3 January 1901.
"Director Taylor and other Pan-American officials are now face to face with a proposition received yesterday in the

mail which seems to involve the failure or success of the exposition. It provides an opportunity to the Pan-American to
regenerate entire mankind, whether mankind wishes to undergo the process or not.

�According to the modest confession of the corespondent of Director Taylor, whose name is withheld out of abundant

charity, the secret of the future physical and mental stamina of the men and the moral status and beauty of the women
of Buffalo is inscrutably locked in his own bread and can only be withdrawn by financial pressure."
Here is the letter, in substance, with the proposition:
"Your name had been given me with reference to my application for a concession to sell a sample of
food. As the expense that would be entailed by giving samples of a most palatable, nutritious, digestible
and delicious article would be enormous, each person would require from a quarter to half a dollars worth

for immediate consumption. As I am engaged in educating the people to a more wholesome and nutritious
dietary, with a view to the regeneration of the race in spite of their prejudices, I think it would be well

worth the while of the promoters of the Exposition to offer me the most liberal terms."

References
1.

"Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law History." FDA Backgrounder, May 3, 1999. Online.

2.

In the late 1870's meatpackers had introduced canned meats in tin containers with the military being the largest

consumer. The U. S. Navy had begun carrying canned meats on its ships as early as the Civil War. However,
alleged problems with canned meats and dressed beef during the Spanish-American War prompted further
investigations. "Major General Nelson Miles claimed in 1898 that 'embalmed beef' had caused outbreaks of illness
among his troops. Subsequent investigations blamed improper distribution and handling of dressed beef and

canned products by commissary officers and cleared the meatpacking industry of wrongdoing. Nevertheless, the
canned meat and foreign dressed beef trade suffered from the scandal for several years." Encyclopedia of the
United States in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul Finkelman (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001),

vol. 2, p. 276-277.

3.

Ibid.

�Food Firsts and Technological Marvels
The Pan-American Exposition gave manufacturers the opportunity to exhibit their
products and introduce the latest technological innovations to an eager and ready-to-

buy public. In addition to the food company exhibits like those of the Libby's and the

Quaker Oats Companies, the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building housed vendors
showing off new tools and gadgets, some designed for industry and others for an up

and coming market--- the home.

•

"Wholesome and Healthful"

•

Canned and Packaged Foods

•

Foods at the Fair

•

More Food 'Firsts"

•

Technological Marvels

Pure Food for
Pan - American
Guests
The food he receives is is a great factor in a Travellers' Impression of a place. Visitors to Buffalo this Summer wil be deep in their praises of the city- if there are good things to eat Good
cooking has a great deal to do with good eatin
g The case in selection and quality of the food comes first. Buffalo's greatest Free Food Mart is Faxon's/ The largest and {il egible} assortment of food products in Western New York
is at Faxon's Careful and experienced buying in large quantities makes goods cheaper than elsewhere at Faxon's. Your visiting friends can dine more [il egible}- have greater
variety- at no more expense to you if you perchase supplies at Faxon's Housekeepers who fear a rise in prices wil be pleased to hear that the same low prices on all goods wil remain as heretofore at
Faxon's

Faxon. Williams &amp; Faxon
399-401-Nala Street- 587- 589
"Pure Food for Pan-American Guests".
Faxon, Williams and Faxon ad.
Photocopy. Source: Buffalo
Commercial(May 1, 1901) p.13 col. 4-5.

"Wholesome and Healthful"
Many of the foods we recognize and still use today were developed during the period between 1850 and 1900.
Many of these were exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition, where many vendors promoted the "healthful"

effects of their products. Indeed the mid-to-late 19th century was a period which saw the beginnings of what we
now know as "nutritional science." Scientists began to see a relationship between health and food and the
advances in analytical chemistry and provided the scientific data to prove it.

Of course, advertisers jumped on this early incarnation of the adage, "you are what you eat." By 1901, food
advertisements emphasized the "wholesomeness" and "healthfulness" of their products. The American Cereal
Company's Quaker Oats ads echoed claims that its cereal "leads to good health" telling people to eat less meat and
"more Quaker Oats" while Dold's Packing Company, insisted that their "Corn-fed porkers make sweet healthful

food." At fairs and venues like the Pan-American Exposition, vendors distributed literature on tradecards and hired
"barkers" to "sell" to the public the idea that their products would make a person feel better and live longer.

�A Plate

of

Clear Soup

Made from Armours
Extract of Beef
Has its place at the beginning of every Dinner
fora Reason-not a fad. It is aValuable Appetizer.

Armour &amp; Company,

Chicago.

Send metal cap from Extract of Beef jar for the February design, in color,, of our $1,000 prize calendar, same
as appeals to current issue of "Truth" (size 10X14).

Advertisement for Armour's Extract of Beef. "A plate of clear soup made from Armour's Extract of Beef …". Source: This ad
appeared in numerous popular magazines in 1901. Digitized from a printed microfilm image.

A prominent Doctor writes that this little girl had a hard start in life, through a condition of mal
nutrition. Only after putting the little patient on Eskay’s Food was any hope of her life felt. He
writes further that she began at once to thrive on Eskay’s Food, and has continued a most hearty and
healthy child ever since.
Also that an old lady So years of age, upon whom he performed a most serious operation, relied
mainly after this operation on Eskay’s Food, and after 12 days was able to leave the hospital, and is gain­
ing in health and strength and color daily. Generous sample, sufficient for 10 meals, free on request.
Smith, Kline &amp; French Co., Philadelphia, Pa.

It Nourishes From Infancy To Old Age.
Please mention Everybody’s Magazine when you write to advertisers.

Eskay's Food Ad "It Nourishes From Infancy to Old Age". Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September 1901).
Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant

�For health’s sake, eat

Ralston
Purina Foods:
Our Pure Family, of which

Ralston
Breakfast Food
is at the head, represents the highest stand
ard of excellence ever attained in cereal
food products.

Trial Offer
Send $1.00 with your grocer's name, and we will
tend you, express charges prepaid, this complete checker
board assortment, consisting of five 2 pound, packages and
the 12 pound, sack of Purina Health Hour, with Mrs.
Rorer's recipes for making "Brain Bread."
A Gift for Ralston Children
To children who write us they eat Ralston Breakfast Food,
will send free our handsome little seven day novelty.

Purina Mills
Where Purify is Paramount

888 Gratiot Street,

St. Louis, Mo.

"For Health's Sake, Eat Ralston".Ralston / Purina Mills Ad. Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5 (September 1901)

�"Pabst Malt Extract - The Best Tonic".Pabst
Breweing Company Ad. Digitized from a printed
microfilm image. Source: Harper's Bazar
(September 1901) p. 31.

Dold's Hams and Niagara Bacon Ad. "Faultless Food Makes
Perfect Health".Digitized from a printed microfilm image.
Source: Ladies Home Journal (October 1899) p. 48.

Health and Beauty
are everywhere the sources of the
highest attainable happiness, and the
greatest beauty of all is that of the
healthy, hearty, robust person,
A wineglass of

Every piece of Niagara Ham and Bacon Is Inspected by an
officer of the United States Government

Faultless Food

Pabst Malt Extract
The Best Tonic
three times a day, at meals, with per
haps one at bed-time, will give you
that bounding, joyous health and sweet
sleep that nature intended you to enjoy.
Sold by Druggists everywhere.

Pabst Brewing Co.,(Tonic Dep’t)
Milwaukee, Wis.

Makes Perfect
Health
Corn-Fed Porkers
make sweet, health
ful The
food. Jacob

Dold Packing Co.
use exclusively
Corn - Fed Porkers.

Dold’s
Famous

Niagara Hams and
Niagara Bacon
lire Specially Cured and Carefully Prepared.

That's why they are Faultless
A Slice of Niagara Ham or rasher of crisp
Niagara Bacon is the most appetizing dish extant.
They are tender, sweet, and a most nutritious food.
We know how to make them good,
And we make them as good as we know how.
Ask your dealer to get them for you. If he objects—you
insist. We would like to send you a handsome little book
let giving information about how Dold's meats arc han
dled to secure the uniformly high quality found in Niagara
Hams and Bacon. A postal will bring it to you free.

The Jacob Bold Packing Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

�Canned and Packaged Foods
Ironically, as the emphasis on eating healthier food grew, so did the public's desire for quick and easy to serve
processed food products. The late 19th Century saw the development of the canned meat and fruit industries--

Libby's, Armour's, Van Camp, Borden and Heinz were the giants of the day. During this period saccharin, synthetic
vanilla, and flaked cereal also entered the market, as well as the myriad of soda pop brands, most of which are
still in use today. The decade of the 1890's was an especially lucrative one for "quick food" producers with products

like minute tapioca, "instant" cereal, condensed soup, and pre-ground coffee guaranteed to ease the labor of meal

preparation.
The first metal cans/containers were patented by Englishman Thomas Kensett 1825. While canned meats, fruits
and vegetables were produced in America on a limited basis prior to the 1850's, the Civil War "created a significant

need for portable foods to feed the troops and as a result, the canning industry rapidly expanded."1 Opening
canned foods was somewhat problematic until the invention of the can opener in the 1860's. Development of an

opener was possible once cans were made of steel rather than iron.

The initial response to canned foods was one of skepticism and the age-old practice of "putting-up" preserves, fruits and
vegetables at home continued in many middle-class kitchens. By the time the new century had arrived, hundreds of food products

were being commercially prepared and sales began to indicate the American housekeeper was embracing the convenient new
products. Not only did packaged goods bring economy to the kitchen in terms of time and convenience but the increased

availability of fruits and vegetables all year round meant the family no longer had to dine according to what was in season.2

When
Hunger
Comesas it is wont
to do with per­
sistence and regularity
in every
clime — what Is
so welcome. So
wholesome and
satisfying as a
delicious dish of

Van Camp's
[illegible] PORK And BEANS
Prepaired with Tomato Sauce.
Ready in a moment- [illegible] hot or cold. Send [illegible]
in stamps for sample can.
Booklet [illegible].
Can Camp Packing Co.
302 Kentucky Ave.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Van Camp's Concentrated Tomato Soup- best [illegible].
[illegible] of rich soup.

"When Hunger Comes — " Van Camp's
Boston Baked Pork and Beans
Ad.Digitized from a printed microfilm
image. Source: Ladies Home Journal
(May 1898) p. 23.

"White Label"

Van Camp's

Always
Ready
Soups

MA
acaroni
nd
Cheese
Prepared With

Tomato sauce

Always just what you want when you
want delicately flavored, deliciously
seasoned “stocky” soups.
Tomato,
Beef, Vegtable,
Chicken,
Mock Turtle,
Ox Tail,
Consumer,
Chicken Gumbo-Okrs

Put up in convenient ten-cent can
enough for six portions—ready to serve
by adding boiling water.
New Booklet - yours for postal

Be sure you get “While Labe; Concentrated Soups."
Packed only by

Armour Packing

Co.

Always Ready
For Instant
Use

In preparing this delicious dish, we
the best imported macaroni, to
use
which is added imported cheese
dissolved in [illegible]. The
macaroni is then sealed and back
ed
in the can: this process gives it the
flavor of the sauce and cheese, and b
akes, it
evenly, without a hard crust. It is ready
for your table in fifteen minutes, a great
saving in time, and always sure to be a feature
of your table.
Send [il egible], [il egible] stamps for sample can
Booked Free
Van Camp Packing Co.

502 Kentucky Ave.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
Van Camp's Tomato [illegible] is a delicious
relish. Sold everywhere.

Department "J"
Kansas City, Mo., U. S. A.

"White Label" Always ready Soups.
Armour Packing Company Ad Digitized
from a printed microfilm image. Source:
unknown.

Van Camp's Macaroni and Cheese
Ad.Digitized from a printed microfilm
image. Source: Ladies Home Journal
(April 1898) p. 48.

�A Breakfast

"A Breakfast for 2 cts. in 5 minutes". Ralston / Purina Mills Ad. Digitized from a
printed microfilm image. Source: Ladies Home Journal (July 1899) p. 32.

for 2 cts.

in 5 min
utes.

Ralston, the 5
minute food, cooks
perfectly in five
minutes. No [illegible]
ceral cooks in less
than twenty. It is
better to cook food
in five minutes and
eat it in twenty,
than to cook in twenty what you must s
wallow in five.
Ralston is made from [illegible] wheat, found
only in one section of the country. Light and
palatable. It does not heat the blood; at the same
time has all essentials of strength-producing food
for child or hard working labor's. A tonic for
Spring —a delight tor Summer.
Package

large

enough

to

"Cook's Flaked Rice for Breakfast — ".Source: Cosmopolitan, vol. 31, no. 5
(September 1901). Courtesy of Kerry S. Grant

GOOD MORNING! YBring
our on

[illegible].

Purina Mills, 818 [illegible] St., St. Louis, [illegible]

Hires Rootbeer
Carbonated
Delicious
Sparkling
Appetizing

is sold everywhere
by the bottle and
case. Served at
hotels, clubs andrestaurants.

Cook's Flaked Rice, Absolutely No Cooking

With Hires Rootbeer Extract you can
make your own
Rootbeer at home
One package
makes five
gallons.
We would
like to send
you, free, a
beautiful picture
book and
prime list upon
receipt af
your name
and address.

"Hires Rootbeer &amp; Carbonated ". The Charles E. Hires Company. Digitized from a
printed microfilm image. Source: Ladies Home Journal (July 1899) p. 29.

�Foods at the Fair
Popcorn
The Pan-American Exposition was not the first fair at which popcorn was a major concession. In his book "Popped

Culture,"3 Andrew F. Smith discusses the history of popcorn and discusses its appearance at the Columbian

Exposition in 1893. Besides the traditional popped corn sold by numerous vendors, visitors could try Frederick
Rueckheim's special mixture of popcorn, molasses and peanuts. This concoction would eventually become "Cracker
Jack."

While no one is exactly sure when the history of popcorn began, it was not until the late 19th century that it took

on popularity as not only a snack food, but a healthful one at that. Ella Kellogg, wife of heath-food guru John
Harvey Kellogg, (sister-in-law of future cereal magnate William K. Kellogg) promoted popcorn as more than a snack

food. She urged people to eat it "in connection with other food at mealtime, and not as a delicacy between

meals."4

Of course, popcorn found lasting popularity as a snack food and as such, become a lucrative concession at fairs and

expositions. Popcorn concessions proved profitable not only to the concessionaires, but also to the exposition
managers, who were paid sizable percentages of the proceeds. For instance, George A. Dirpberger, of Buffalo, was
the popcorn vendor listed in the ledgers of Frederick William Taylor, the Head of Concessions at the Pan-American

Exposition. While Mr. Dirpberger paid "regular rate" for the space he rented on the North Midway, he also paid 50%

of sales to the Exposition operators.5

Popcorn Thieves Clean Up Until Caught

The Buffalo Express of 4 May 1901 reported popcorn vendors chanting such rhymes as: "Lovely eyes come shine and
glitter; Buy your girl a popcorn fritter." Popcorn was a lucrative business at the Pan-American Exposition and on 23

August 1901 four males, ranging in age from 13 to 22, were arrested for stealing popcorn sales.
A few weeks earlier it became apparent to officials of the Exposition that their returns from the popcorn

concession were not up to the mark. This concession was owned by George Dirpberger. The popcorn sold on the
grounds was put up in consecutively numbered paper bags. In this way, Exposition officials were able to keep track

of the percentage of profits accruing to the Exposition from this concession. When one of these bags was lost or

stolen, the loss fell on Mr. Dirpberger. Culp and Smith, two of the accused males, were employed by Dirpberger in
his headquarters on the north Midway. Clelland and Sullivan, the other two accused males, were employed on the

small wagons that distributed the popcorn throughout the grounds.
The police reported that Clelland conceived the idea that if he could get possession of a sufficient number of these
bags there was a small fortune to be made. Clelland unfolded a scheme to Sullivan and persuaded Culp and Smith

to steal a quantity of the numbered bags from Dirpberger's headquarters each day. Culp and Smith were paid a

cent a piece for each bag by the other two. The bags were then filled by Clelland and Sullivan and were easily

disposed of, netting them a profit of 4 cents per bag.

�Their plans were working like a charm, and it is estimated that the loss to Dirpberger through their operations had

amounted to about $500, when they were discovered.
Source: Commercial, 24 August 1901.

Orangeade
Orangeade was sold at concession stands and booths

scattered throughout the grounds of the Pan-American

Exposition. This drink, developed during the Civil War,
was a mixture of orange juice, an infusion of the orange

peel, and thin sugar syrup. Orange or lemon syrups

were also used to make ades. A pound and a half of
sugar was added to pint of juice, a bit of the peel, and

then boiled for ten minutes. The liquid was then
strained and either bottled or served over ice.6

To find the locations of Orangeade vendors, see the

map of the Softdrink Vendors, Restaurants and Toilets

Located on the Exposition Grounds.

Ice Cream and Soda Water

The years leading up to the Pan-American Exposition proved
to be periods of intense growth in the ice cream and soda

water industries. Five million gallons of ice cream were being
produced in the United States in 1899, largely due to the

invention of mechanical refrigeration and new types of

freezers.7 Soda water, which had its origins in medicine, first
appeared in a flavored variety in the 1830's. It was a hit at the

1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia but it wasn't until
the ice cream soda was invented that the growth of both

industries literally exploded. While there are numerous
disputes as to who actually "discovered" this mixture of soda

water and ice cream, there is no arguing its enormous
popularity. By 1895, there were 50,000 to 60,000 soda
fountains in the United States, operating in drug stores,
restaurants, confectionaries and roadside push carts.8 It is no

wonder that an event the size of the Pan-American Exposition

Soda Water vendors on the Midway

�needed at roughly 20 ice cream and soda water vendors. (See the map of Softdrink Vendors, Restaurants, etc. )

The ice cream soda continued to gain popularity well into the 20th century. However, during the last decade of
the 1800s, the soda water industry was also growing in a direction that did not include ice cream. While root beer

was being produced in mass quantities as early as 1876 and the first cola flavored beverages were introduced in
the mid-1880's, the development of the modern soft drink industry was made possible by the invention of the

Crown bottlecap in 1892. "Tiny in design, the crown completely revolutionized the soft drink industry by
preventing the escape of carbon dioxide from bottled beverages. In fact, it was the dominant soft drink closure for

more than 70 years."9

More Food Firsts
In 1901, Quaker Oats cereals and the Natural Food Company's Triscuit were relatively new products, having been
developed in 1891 and 1895 respectively. Others fledgling products included Cream of Wheat, Jell-O, Canada Dry

Ginger Ale, Michelob beer and the Hershey bar. By the advent of the Pan-American Exposition, the country had
experienced a number of "food firsts," many of which debuted at other world's fairs and expositions. Here are a

few examples:

•

1874--Ice cream soda
Robert M. Green, a concessionaire at a fair in Philadelphia, claims to have invented the ice cream soda when he
substituted it from the cream he added to soft drinks. While the origin of the soda cannot be verified, Green's story

seems to be the most well-known.

•

1876--Hires Root Beer

Hires Root Beer debuted at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

•

1886 -- Coca Cola
First sold by pharmacist John Pemberton as a tonic, this drink contained cocaine.

•

1890's -- Peanut Butter

Dr. John Harvey Kelloggs' patent for the "Process of Preparing Nut Meal" in 1895 described "a pasty adhesive
substance that is for convenience of distinction termed nut butter." He developed this as a protein source for his
vegetarian patients. Over the next 20 years, this nut meal would be refined into the peanut butter we know today.

•

1896 -- Cracker Jack
Molasses coated popcorn and peanuts are said to have been introduced at the World's Columbian Exposition by F.W.

Rueckheim in 1893. By 1896, Louis Rueckheim discovered the process for keeping the molasses-covered popcorn
from sticking together. The Cracker Jack was born. See FritoLay's Cracker Jack site at http://www.crackerjack.com.

�•

1896 -- Tootsie Roll

Leo Hirshfield named this soft chewy candie after his daughter. http://www.tootsie.com/comp_history.php

•

1897 -- Condensed soup

The Campbell's company developed condensed soup in 1897. In 1900 Campbell's soups won the Gold Medallion for
excellence at the Paris Exposition. This medallion has been featured on its labels ever since.

•

1897 -- Jello

Pearl B. Wait, from LeRoy, New York, developed a fruit-flavored version of Cooper's gelatin. It was given the name
Jell-O by his wife and was available in strawberry, raspberry, orange and lemon flavors at the

time.http://brands.kraftfoods.com/jello/explore/history/

•

1900 -- Coney Island Hot Dog
Charles Feltman opened the first Coney Island hot dog stand in 1900. The frankfurter had been introduced in the
1850's, but it was not until Antonoine Feuchtwanger of St. Louis improvised the hot dog bun in 1883 that this

sandwich began to resemble the modern-day ball park standard. Frankfurter sandwiches or "red hots" were extremely

popular at the World's Columbian Exposition because they were inexpensive and easy to eat.10 Visitors to the Pan­

American Exposition could buy "Coney Island Hot Dogs" at the Indian Congress Restaurant.

•

1900 -- Cottolene

Made from cottonseed oil and beef tallow, this product was promoted as a healthy alternative to lard. In "Cottolene:

The Mysterious Disappearance of Lard,"11 Alice Ross credits Cottolene with the demise of lard in the American diet.
Cottolene was exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition by the N. K. Fairbank Company.

Other food firsts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries are listed below, courtesy of "The Food Timeline"

at http://www.foodtimeline.org/

•

1872 -- Blackjack chewing gum

•

1890 -- Knox gelatine

•

1876 -- Premium soda crackers (later Saltines)

•

1890 -- Libby introduces keys to canned meat

•

1881 -- Pillsbury flour

•

1890 -- Lipton tea

•

1886 -- Coca-Cola

•

1891 -- Del Monte

•

1887 -- Ball-Mason jars

•

1891 -- Fig Newton

•

1888 -- Log Cabin syrup

•

1891 -- Quaker Oats Company

•

1889 -- Aunt Jemima pancake mix

•

1893 -- Cream of Wheat

•

1889 -- Calumet Baking Powder

•

1893 -- Good &amp; Plenty

•

1889 -- McCormick Spices

•

1893 -- Juicy Fruit gum

•

1889 -- Pabst Brewing Company

•

1894 -- chili powder

�•

1895 -- shredded coconut

•

1897 -- Jell-O

•

1895 -- Triscuits

•

1898 -- Nabisco graham crackers

•

1896 -- Cracker Jack

•

1898 -- shredded wheat cereal

•

1896 -- Michelob beer

•

1899 -- Wesson oil

•

1896 -- S&amp;W canned foods

•

1900 -- Chiclets gum

•

1896 -- Tootsie Roll

•

1900 -- cotton candy

•

1897 -- Campbell's condensed soup

•

1900 -- Hershey's chocolate bar

•

1897 -- Campbell's tomato soup

•

1901 -- instant coffee

•

1897 -- Grape Nuts

References:
1.

Ellen M. Plante, The American Kitchen, 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise (New York: Facts on File,
1995), p. 144.

2.

Ibid., p.145.

3.

Andrew F. Smith. Popped Culture : a Social History of Popcorn in America. Columbia, S.C. : University of South

Carolina Press, 1999.
4.

Ibid., p.36.

5.

Frederick William Taylor Papers, 1897-1944. Collection No. 153. Held in the Department of Special Collections,

UCLA. Special thanks to Carol A. Turley for her assistance with the ledger entries.

6.

"Invention Facts and Myths" The Great Idea Finder. Online.
URL: http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventions.htm. Last accessed 12 May 2002.

7.

Linda Stradley. History of Ice Cream Cones. c2004.

Online. http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/IceCream/IceCreamCone.htm. Last accessed 10 June 2010.
8.

Anne Cooper Funderburg. Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla: A History of American Ice Cream. Bowling Green,

OH : Bowling Green State University Press, 1995. p.97

9.

National Soft Drink Association. The History of America and Soft Drinks Go Hand in Hand. c1999. Online.

http://www.nsda.org/softdrinks/History/history.html. Last accessed 12 May 2002. (Link no longer active).

10. Linda Stradley. Hot Dogs - History and Legends of Hot Dogs. c2004.

Online. http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/HotDog/HDIndex.htm. Last accessed 10 June 2010.
11. Alice Ross. "Cottolene: The Mysterious Disappearance of Lard." Hearth to Hearth (February 2002.) Online. Last
accessed May 5, 2002.

�Food-Related Marvels at the Turn of the

Century
The Pan-American Exposition allowed vendors and
manufactures of housewares to demonstrate their products

to a relatively new group of consumers-- housewifes. 1901

advertisements targeted those women longing for gadgets
and appliances that would ease the most laborious of their

chores--meal preparation. Furthermore they claimed that the

husband who truly cared about his wife and her role in the
household "owed" it to her to provide a kitchen full of every

modern convenience. Indeed, the period between 1870 and

1900 was a time of prolific development of home appliances
and time saving machinery. Surely, the Exposition's

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building was full of men and

women crowded around company booths to gaze at the latest
cookstoves and refridgerators, not to mention the myriad of

small gadgets that the "modern" housewife "could not

possibly live without."

•

The Ice Box Takes Up Residence

•

Cookstoves: Oil, Gas or Coal

•

Gadgets

•

Aluminum for the Home

•

No Electrical Appliances in 1901?

Meat Choppers.
No. 15112. Triumph Meat Cut
ter. Cuts meats and vegetables
equally well. Simple in construction,
nicely tinned to prevent rust.
Cutters are self sharpening.
Price, each$1.35

The Enterprise
Meat
Cutters cut the
meant on the
same principle
as a pair of
shears. By
means of the
staffing attach
ment which we
furnish at a
small additional
cost,
they make excel nt
sausage
staffers.
No. 15416.
Family size,
with clamp
(No. 10), same as Illustration, chops one pound per
minute. Price, each$2.35

Household Gadgets 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog—
portion of p.102Source: 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog.
Fred L. Israel, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,
1968.

The Ice Box Takes Up Residence
Although the technology of mechanical refrigeration had been under development since the mid 19th century, by

1890, the use of refridgerators was confined to the restaurant and food production industries, especially brewing,
dairy and meat-packing. The typical homeowner could not afford such a refridgerator and, given the technology of
the period, would probably not have wanted one in the kitchen, since early mechanical refrigerators used toxic

gases as refrigerants. (Freon would not come into use until 1928.) Interestingly, advertisements of the turn-of-the

century period used the term "refigerator" rather loosely. In looking at diagram leading off the "refigerator section"

of the 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog2 (see below), one can see that the superior quality "refrigerator" was actually
what we today refer to as an "ice box."

�"As packaged foods and other household items began to fill the pantry of the late
nineteenth-century kitchen, perishables such as meat, milk and butter took up

residence in the icebox. First introduced in the 1860s the icebox had become a
necessity by the 1890s as urban populations increased, and one could be found in the

great majority of middle-class homes. . ." 1

Sears "Refrigerator" Diagram 1897 Sears
Roebuck Catalog—portion of p.104.
Source: 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog.
Fred L. Israel, ed. New York: Chelsea
House Publishers, 1968.

Since the first mechanical refrigerator designed for the home would not be manufactured until 1913, the ice box

remained the dominant means of storing perishibles until well into the 20th century.
Our Acme Single Door
Refrigerator at from
$6.60 to $8.80.
For general description and construction
of refrigerator see heading. Understand
every refrigerator is guaranteed to
bo exactly as represented, to contain, all
modern improvements of every first-class
refrigerator made, with the defects of
none, and if not found so may be returned
at our expense and your money will be
cheerfully refunded
The illustrations, engraved from a
photograph, will give you some idea of
the appearance of this beautiful single
door refrigerator. As previously described
it is manufactured of kilus dried ash lumber,
beautifully finished antique brass
lock, fancy surface bingee, anti-friction
[illegible].
All these refrigerators above S5.00 are
fixed with two shelves and provision
chambers.

Jewett's Refrigerators

Established 35 Years
Largest Refrigerator
Works in the
World.
50 sizes and styles
sold by first-class
dealers everywhere.
The internal construction
of our Refrigerators
is our own, and the
subject of patents; consequently,
not available
to other manufacturers.
A 16-page book of testimonials
free to all on
application.

John C. Jewett &amp; Sons,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Refrigerators.
Jewett's Refrigerators Advertisement. Digitized microfilm
photocopy. Source: Ladie's Home Journal (March 1885) p.5.

Sears "Refrigerator" 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog—portion of
p.104.Source: 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog. Fred L. Israel, ed.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1968. One of many ice
boxes listed in the 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog. Below: This
ad for a Buffalo, NY manufacturer of "refrigerators" appeared
in the Ladies Home Journal

�Cookstoves
By the 1850's, wood and coal-burning cookstoves were in widespread use throughout the United States. As Ellen

Plante points out, "... the introduction of the stove brought technology into the kitchen and as the century
progressed, a continuous stream of updated and unproved appliances became available, leading to the eventual
development of the coal/oil and gas stoves of the late 1800's."3
By 1901, consumers could purchase stoves heated by coal/wood, gasoline, or oil. There were also combination

coal/oil, and coal/gas stoves. While oil and gas stoves tended to be smaller and cheaper to operate, safety

features for this new technology were not well developed. A perusal of newspapers of the 1890 to 1910 period will
show many fires, injuries and deaths attributed to exploding oil or gas cookstoves. This certainly contributed to
the fact that coal/wood stoves were still the dominant cooking appliance at the turn of the century.

The New Pet of the Household
Automatic Blue Flame Cooker Central Oil and Gas
Stove Company. Digitized microfilm photocopy.
Source: Ladie's Home Journal (April 1898) p.37.

No. 2 Junior Automatic. Height. 16 Inches
Top, 14x34 Inches

The Most Perfect Oil Stove Made
Having two powerful, Wickless, Blue Flame Burners,
each operated by a simple device. Flame regulated by
raising and lowering the burner. Valveless- no clogging
—no overflow—no soot—no odor—no danger. Enamel
finish with nickel, brass and bronze trimmings. Abso­
lutely the safest, most economical and simplest oil stove
ever made. Three styles—eleven sizes.

Automatic Blue Flame Cooker
Bold by dealers or shipped direct by
Central Oil And Gas Stove Company
210 School St., Gardner, Mass., U. S. A.
Manufacturers of over two hundred styles of Oil
Cooking Stoves. Catalogue free.
Special Offer. The price of our two-burner Cooker is
$7.50. We know that one stove sold will sell others, therefore we
offer to send the Automatic Blue Flame, like cut, to the first two
purchasers in a town or city, mentioning this advertisement,
where we have no agent, for $5.25, freight paid to any point
east of the Mississippi. In consideration of this special factory
price, we merely request that you show the stove to three of your
neighbors, or send five names and addresses, when ordering, of
friend who do not possess one of there famous Cookers. This offer
not good after April 15th.
Sec that you are one or the two to get thin special price.

�“Cooking By Gas”
An up-to-date pamphlet for
up-to-date housekeepers.
Contains a chapter of choice
Cooking Recipes and full infor
mation regarding the advantages
to be derived from the use of the
Gas Range, particularly the

"Detroit Jewel" Gas Stove Detroit
Stove Works. Digitized microfilm
photocopy. Source: Ladie's Home
Journal (April 1897) p.36.

Detroit Jewel
A stove that banishes dirt, litter,
ashes, smoke, goo, and overheat
from the kitchen; a move that saves
work and worry, and can actually be
operated at less cost for fuel than a

Cool or wood stove; a stove that is made in many styles and sizes to fit all
paces and [illegible] all [illegible]; a stove that is manufactured in "The Largest
Stove-Plant in the World." Write for a free copy
Majestic Combination Coal and Gas
of "cooking by Gas" mentionin the Ladies
Range, Majestic Manufacturing
Home Journal.
Company. Digitized microfilm
Detroit Stove Works. Detroit, Mich., Chicago Il .
photocopy. Source: Ladie's Home
Journal (September 1898) p. 34.

You can cook and heat
water for the entire
house with either coal or
gas, or both at the same
time, with the MAJESTIC
Combination Coal and
Gas Range. The highest
economy of fuel, using of
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Our book, "Cost Saving," tells what
you save over buying a coal and gas range

separately: what you save over using
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St. Louis, Mo.
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�Gadgets
The late 19th century was a lucrative period of development for the household gadget. In their respective books,

Earl Lifshey4 and Ellen M. Plante both talk of the development of timesaving inventions like the apple slicer, apple
peeler, poppyseed grinder and beer shaver. Also mentioned are lemon squeezers, nutcrackers, raisin seeders,
graters of many sizes, sausage stuffers, bean slicers, spice mills, and bread dough mixers.

Household appliance and gadget makers advertised their

wares in women's magazines like Ladie's Home
Journal and Harpers Bazar. These periodical publications had
numerous columns categorized as "domestic journalisms,"

providing "helpful hints for housekeepers." However, most

had traditionally emphasized cooking and sewing. As the
introduction of new household tools exploded in the late
1800's editors expanded these columns to include

A Good Thing.

We have received one of the Burler Flour Sifters,
manufactured by Sidney Shepard and Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.; and after a few days, trial, we
pronounce it the best thing of the kind we have
ever seen, and shall adopt it as a permanent fixture
in our kitchen, and at the same time recommend
it to our practical housekeepers, as a most con
venient utensil, and less expensive than others.
It is a new Mat, and entirely different in con
struction from any other sifter made.
The illustration clearly indicates its special
features.

introduction and evaluation of these new gadgets. The
review at right was part of one such column "The Practical

Housekeeper," and appeared in the July 1885 Ladie's Home

Journal.

In the July 1899 issue of the Ladies's Home Journal, the

editor noted a new column, "Miss Maria Parloa's New
Department: Household Helps and New Ideas." The editor's

note stated, "Miss Parloa begins, in this issue, a new
department devoted entirely to the household (other than

cooking)... " By that, he must have been referring to the

"techniques" of cooking for there was no lack of kitchenrelated discussion in this column. Instead of printing recipes

"A Good Thing", Review of the Barler Flour Sifter.
Digitized microfilm photocopy. Source: "The Practical
Housekeeper." Ladie's Home Journal (July 1885) p.5

or instructing readers in "how to cook," however, "Miss

Parloa" wrote of those gadgets designed to make the labors of cooking easier. In this first column alone, she

enlightened housekeepers to the benefits of the fruit pricker, strawberry huller, knife sharpener, cherry stoner
and a charcoal broiler among other domestic tools. One can assume that manufacturers of the day would have
appreciated Miss Parloa's "seal of approval." Of course one must also consider the extent to which "Miss Parloa" and

other "domestic journalists" may have been influenced by those manufacturers who were also advertisers in the

parent publications.

�Can Openers.
No. 15102. [illegible]
Opener, considered
one of the beat [illegible]
openers made. Steel

blade, malleable iron guide, nickel plated, antique [illegible]
handle with brass ferrule. A handsome and reliable
article. Length, 6.5 inches; weight, 3oz.

Household Gadgets, 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog—portion of
p.98.Source: 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog. Fred L. Israel, ed. New
York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1968.

Price, each, 10 cents; per [illegible]- $1.05

No. 15103, Star Can Opener, same as above, with [il egible]
handle. all nickel plated. Length. 6.5 inches; weight
3oz. Price.
each, 5 cents per OZ- [illegible]

No. 15404. Car Opener,
steel blade, cast [illegible]
Price. each- 4 cents

Perdox- [illegible]
No. 15405. Sprague [illegible]
Opener is without question
the best can opener
in the market at the price.

Price, each, 3 cents; per OZ- 34 Cents

Listing for Mason Fruit Jars, 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog—
portion of p. 23.Source: 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog. Fred
L. Israel, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1968.

Ice Shredder.
The operation of oar
shredder require no explan tion,
being simply to
draw the blade upon a place
and ice- the pressure applied
producing fine or coarse
pieces, as desired. To removed
the finely eat ice from
the cap, grass the shredder
[illegible] the right hand and
strike, inverted, upon the
left, at the same time being
careful to keep the lid
closed. Then scrape the ice
ito some convenient
receptacle. It is not necessary to take the ice out of the
refrigerator, as you may reach in and fill the cap from
the side, send or top of a cake of ice without disturbing
anything or waiting your hands. Its use will be appreciated
for fruits, drinks, oysters and clams on the
half shell, olives, celery, radishes, iced tea, sliced tomatoes,
etc., and for many purposes in the sick room. It
is also shaped for
[illegible] in making "snow balls," which
ate [illegible] flavored and sold to children on the streets
and at their schools, also to the general public at fairs.
Men engaged in making "snow balls” are making from
$5 to$9 per day.
So. [il egible]
Price, each, tinned- 50 cents

Listing for Ice Shredder, 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog—portion of p.
103.Source: 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog. Fred L. Israel, ed. New York:
Chelsea House Publishers, 1968.

Preserve Health and Youth
Prevent Disease, Postpone Old Age

"Sanitary Still" Advertisement, Cuprigraph Company. Digitized
microfilm photocopy. Source: Ladie's Home Journal (April
1897) p. 34.

by drinking water distilled by the
Sanitary Still. Distilled water aer­
ated with sterilized air is the only
absolutely pure water. Endorsed by
all physicians and 9.000.000 Ralston­
ites. Every part easily cleaned, nothing
to get out of order, simple as a,
tea-kettle. Fits on any gas, oil,
wood or coal range. Four styles,
$10.00, $11.50, $13.50 and $15.00,
Satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded. Catalogue free.
Cuprigraph Company
134 Monroe Street.
Chicago

�Coffee Making Revolutionized

Dunlap’s
Percolator

"Dunlap's Percolator" Advertisement, The Bellaire
Stamping Company.Digitized microfilm photocopy.
Source: Ladie's Home Journal (December 1897) p. 30.

Cherry
Stoner.
No. 15397. The accompanying
[illegible]
our Chorry
[illegible], which is intended
to stone cherries
with rapidity.
Is is adjusted by
thumb screws to
adapt it to the different
formal size cherry
stones, it is nicely
tinned to prevent
rust.

Will make

better coffee
with less material
and in
less time than
any other pot in

Price each- 60 cent

use. No steam

and escaping aroma. No rank or bitter taste.
Constant circulation of the fluid assuring a
thorough extinction of the essential elements
of the berry. Pots handsomely enamel d
and delivered to any part of the U. S.

on receipt of price. Satifaction guaranteed
or money refunded. Agent Wanted .

The Bellaire Stamping Co., Dept. I. Harvey. Ill.

M'C'rs of the Celebrated Triple-Coated
Columbus Enameled steel kitchen ware
Warranted absolutely pare.

Ask your dealer for it

The Crown Raisin
Seeder.
Patented October 28, 1806.
No. [illegible]. Sends one pound of [illegible]
five minutes with less waste than
any machine made. Will any get [illegible]
of order. Easily cleaned. Cannot become
clogged. So pulp adheres to the
seeds. Heavily tinned.
Price each- 50 Cents
No. [illegible]. This is
the best known and
most popular apple
purer ewer invented.
Every machine works
perfectly, all parts
being accented fitted
and put together in
the
beat
possible
manner. Machine
should be fastened to
corner of [illegible], as
shown in out Pairing
fal clear of machine
and table. Gearing
cannot clog with garbage. has cured
knife and all [illegible] improvements
. Price, cash, 75 cents. Price per OZ- $8.00

Household Gadgets, 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog—portion of
p.102.Source: 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog. Fred L. Israel, ed. New York:
Chelsea House Publishers, 1968.

No. [illegible]. This is a strictly first-class machine at a
low price, and is not intended to replace the inferior
devicesin the market. With one hand you

can pare, core and
dice
an apple,
and withdraw the fork from the core.

Directions—Place the apple on the fork. By
one turn of the crank the small knife pares the base of
the apple-other machine require the base to be pared
by hand. A few additional [illegible] resembles the machine
to completely pare, alike and core the apple. Leaving it
perfectly smooth, unbroken and ina perfect coil. The
shaft is than drawn back to reduces the apple, when the
Automatic push-off removes the core from the fork,
thereby requiring but one hand to operate the machine.
By loosening the machine screw you can drop the coring
and slicing knife down to the side, and pare only. The
knife on that machine [illegible] of tempered stood, will retain
their edge daring constant use for a longtime, and will
not bend. Price, each, 10c. per [illegible]- $4.30

�In addition to exposing their products through traditional advertizing in

newspapers and women's magazines companies exhibited their gadgets and
appliances at large gatherings like the Pan-American Exposition. 1901 was
certainly a time when business in such products would be a lucrative one, and an
exhibit at the world's fair at Buffalo would expose products to hundreds of
thousands of potential consumers. Advertisments in national publications included

phrases such as "come see our exhibit at the Pan-Am." If visitors did not have time
to visit the booths to see the demonstrations, they were often exposed to these

new household products through the literature, trade cards and pamphlets
distributed by the thousands in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.

One example of this is The Enterprising Housekeeper.5 The Enterprise Manufacturing
Company's Pan-American Exposition exhibit displayed gadgets designed to make work in the kitchen easier for the

woman of the house. In a recipe booklet distributed at the fair, the company professed the importance of "saving a
woman's time... the well-fitted kitchen represents the engine-room of the home, where energy, health, and
happiness are manufactured."

While promoted as a free cookbook full of recipes, it is clear that the Enterprising Housekeeper's primary function

was to "sell" the company's many products. See Cookbooks for more on the contents of the Enterprising Housekeeper.

A few of the other gadgets and kitchen "helpers" that were developed during the late 19th century.

•

Can opener

This was a ecessity since canned food was becoming more and more
prevalent. Ironically, the can opener was invented in the 1860's 40

years after the invention of the metal can. Development of an opener
was possible once cans were made of steel rather than iron.

•

Lemon squeezer

Patented by African-American inventor, John Thomas White in

1896 http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllemonsqueezer.htm

•

"Dunlap Can Opener" Advertisement, Edward
Gale, Manufacturer. Digitized microfilm
photocopy. Source: Ladie's Home Journal
(December 1885) p. 8.

Egg beater
Patented by African-American inventor Willie Johnson in

1884 http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blkitchen.htm

•

Ball-Mason Jar

Patented by John Mason in 1858. Revolutionized the canning and preserving of food.

�•

Bottle cap

Soft drinks were invented in 1850's. The invention of the crown bottlecap was key to the marketing of soda since the it

allowed soda to retain its carbonation.

Aluminum for the Home
The domestic use of aluminum had it's beginnings in the cookware

industry. Prior to mid-19th century, cookware was made of tin or cast

iron. While the first porcelain enameled cooking utensils were made in
America by Jacob J. Vollrath in 1874,6 there was a certain danger

associated with them since inferior quality products were often treated
with enamel containing poisonous metals. Instances of poisoning must

have been prominent enough that manufacturers like Lalance &amp; Grosjean

felt the need to profess the safety of their products in advertisements.
[see the ad at right.] In the 1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog, one of the more
prominent selling points was that their cookware was produced with

enamel that was "entirely free from lead, arsenic and antimony, metals so
often used in enamels of this appearance."7

The first stamped and cast aluminum cookware was manufactured by the

(burned in theenamel)Are Safe;
others may claim Safety or Purity, we
alone Substantiate it with Chemists'
Certificates.
Note the blue label used by us (and fully sus
tained by recent U. S. Circuit Court decision)to
distinguish our absolutely pure Agate NickelSteel Ware from other goods containing
either Arsenic, Lead or Antimony.

[illegible]
Lalance and Groshean MFG. GO.

Pittsburgh Reduction Company (ALCOA) in 1892. Prior to Charles Martin

Hall's discovering the secret of producing aluminum inexpensively, utensils
made of this metal were reserved only for the wealthy. Indeed, Lifshey
tells of Napoleon serving his guests on aluminum plates since they were

New York

Boston

Chicago

"Agate Nickle-Steel Ware" Advertisement,
Lalance &amp; Grosjean Manufacturing Co.
Digitized microfilm photocopy. Source:
Harpers Bazar (September 1901) p. 33.

more expensive than gold.8 However, Hall's process and the considerably
cheaper production costs of its Niagara Falls plant made the Pittsburgh Reduction Company the likely leader in

aluminum cookware production. By 1900, this lightweight, low-maintenance cookware was regularly available to

consumers. [For more information on the Pittsburgh Reduction Company and Niagara Falls, see Electrochemical
Comapnies at Niagara.]

There was, however, considerable resistance to cookware and utensils made from this "new" metal. First,
aluminum ware was still significantly higher priced than tinware. A coffee pot in the Sears Roebuck Catalog listed

for 21 cents while a comparable one made of aluminum sold for $1.60.9 Most surprising however, is Lifshey's

observation with regard to aluminum cookware: "...unaccustomed to utensils of such unusually light weight,

women were inclined to regard them with suspicion."10 Consider this observation in the context of the
technological wonders exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition and there is a certain degree of irony. It is hard

for one to imagine that in 1901, a visitor to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building might look with disdain

�upon the aluminum cookware exhibited among the other technological marvels at the fair. Why? Because the
product was too good?

Indeed, it would take another 50 years of refinement and intense marketing for aluminum cookware to gain its

present popularity.

Why No Electrical Appliances in 1901?
It is interesting, even ironic, to consider that at the time of the Pan-American Exposition, whose most prominent
feature was illumination powered by electricity, there was very little domestic use of electrical machinery or

appliances. Electric irons and mixers had been patented in the 1880's and in 1901, General Electric and

Westinghouse had both developed the first electric toasters. Yet few homes had them and all were susceptible to
electrical shorts and fires. In fact, most electrical appliances would prove relatively dangerous until the

development of safety devices in 1915. Such danger certainly impacted consumer demand. However, it is
surprising to note that despite their emphasis on the development of electricity and electric motors for use in

industry, it was the power industry itself that was the source of most resistance in the development of such
innovations for home use.

Robert Kuhn states that during the early years of electricity, most companies were involved in the manufacture of
electrical lights. "The only thing that mattered was the promotion of their electric lights in competition with gas

lights."11 Lifshey adds that the "Battle of the Currents" [between direct current (DC) and alternating current(AC)]

further handicapped the development of home appliances, at least indirectly. "Not until about 1900 did [AC] win
and even then it had much difficulty in overcoming tradition.

12

Certainly Lifshey's statement is supported when one considers the intense rivalry between the Edison/General
Electric and Tesla/Westinghouse camps when it came to generating electricity. Margaret Cheney writes of the

intense rivalry between Edison and Tesla and notes Edison's aggressiveness in trying to discredit alternating current
(AC). She relates instances of Edison publicly electrocuting animals to illustrate the power of alternating current,

and then asking audiences if they really wanted such a dangerous force entering their homes.13 Of course this

rivalry was not the only force that may have turned consumers away from the idea of using electric mixers and
toasters. While electric trolleys and arc lighting were common in larger cities at the turn of the century, so were

accidents involving electrocution. Newspapers often described in graphic detail, the effects of electrocution on
the human body. Such graphic images would certainly make many a homeowner leery of allowing such a powerful

source of danger into the home.
While danger and consumer ignorance were factors in the delay in electric appliance development, the "Battle of
the Currents" probably was the key factor. The fight over AC/DC was long-lasting and as a result, delayed the

production and development of electrical devices for use outside of industry. Since manufacturers could not
develop and produce appliances without knowing what type of current would be available to power them, it would
be well into the 1910s and 20s before electrical products for home use would become widely available to

�consumers. It is not at all surprising that the General Electric Company and Westinghouse would become the
leaders in the electrical appliance industry.

References
1.

Ellen M. Plante, The American Kitchen, 1700 to the Present: From Hearth to Highrise (New York: Facts on File,
1995), p. 145.

2.

1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog. Fred L. Israel, ed. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1968. p. 104.

3.

Plante, p.70.

4.

Earl Lifshey. The Housewares Story; A History of the American Housewares Industry. Chicago, National
Housewares Manufacturers Association [1973.]

5.

Johnson, Helen Louise. The Enterprising Housekeeper: Suggestions for Breakfast, Luncheon and Supper. 3rd
edition. Philadelphia, Pa.: Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania, 1900.

6.

Lifshey, p.154.

7.

1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog, p.130.

8.

Lifshey, p.164.

9.

1897 Sears Roebuck Catalog, pp.132, 136.

10. Lifshey, p.165.
11. Robert A. Kuhn, president of the American Electrical Heater Company, (Detroit) 1971. In Lifshey, p.224.
12. Lifshey, p.224.
13. Margaret Cheney. Tesla, Man Out of Time. New York, N.Y. : Barnes &amp; Noble, 1993.

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The Exposition included educational exhibits as well as a Midway. The educational exhibits showcased the latest advancements in technology, most notably electricity. A major feature was electric lighting which utilized hydroelectric power generated in nearby Niagara Falls. Many of the Exposition buildings, including the prominent Electric Tower, were covered in light-bulbs creating a beautiful and unprecedented sight. The Pan-American Exposition also hosted some of the top engine manufacturers of the time. These companies provided “working exhibits” that actually functioned in the day-to-day operation of the Exposition. The Midway at the Pan-American Exposition provided visitors with entertainment and consisted of more than 42 exhibits. Some of the main attractions of the Midway included the “House Upside Down,” “Cleopatra’s Temple”, and the “Foreign Villages.”&#13;
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The Pan-American Exposition is most widely known as the location of President McKinley’s assassination. On September 6, 1901, while in a receiving line at the Exposition’s Temple of Music, President McKinley was shot twice by anarchist, Leon Czolgosz. McKinley was taken to the Exposition’s hospital where he was operated on by a number of prominent Buffalo surgeons including Roswell Park. The President was then taken to the home of John Milburn, head of the Exposition’s Board of Directors, to recover.  After his condition appeared to improve, McKinley eventually died on September 14, 1901 in the Milburn home due to infection and gangrene from the gun shot wounds.&#13;
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