1908 - Cuba Museum Car

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Roanoke Times - March 29, 1908

CUBA MUSEUM CAR

Will Be Exhibited in This City (En Route From Jamestown)

   The Exposition car, "Cuba on Wheels," which represents the 
Merchants, Manufactures, and department of Agriculture of Cuba, and 
which has been in the grounds of the Jamestown Exposition will be on 
exhibit in Roanoke for ten days (April 1st to 10th) on Norfolk & 
Western tracks. It will be open daily from 10 o'clock in the morning 
until 10 o'clock at night.
   The car itself, is an especially built Pullman palace car, painted 
red, white and blue, (the colors of Cuba), and inside is found a 
"trip to Cuba" by means of innumerable exhibits from the island. 
These exhibits include agricultural products, showing the soil of 
Cuba, and the various fruits and other products grown; the minerals, 
manufactured articles, such as banana flour and banana coffee, 
cigars, shoes, furniture, dress goods of pineapple fibre, candies, 
fans of real lace, gold and mother of pearl valued at $11; woods as 
ebony, mahogany and fifty other kinds; scenery of Cuba - (photos 
taken by government photographer) valuable oil paintings; fish and 
game, and under miscellany exhibits come "Under the Bamboo Tree," 
cocoanut in bloom, tortoise, alligators, (alive), Cuban monkeys, 
(alive), bull fight scenes JaiAlai Basket (used in playing the Cuban 
ball game), money used before the war, fancy work by Cuban women, 
drawn work, fish scale, jewelry, Cuban cook stove and kitchen 
utensils, Cuban bread, etc. Under fish and and game is shown the 
tarpon, weighing 130 pounds, the porcupine, fish, sea turkeys, 
iguana, which is eaten by Cubans, etc.
   Last, but not least, are relics from the wrecked battleship 
"Maine," certificates being placed in the cases to show that they are genuine.
   Remember this is a foreign exhibit from across the water that will 
never come to our city again, and you cannot afford to miss it, for 
it is the best possible substitute for a trip to the Island of Cuba. 
It is of commercial interest to business men, educational to school 
children, and entertaining for ladies. There are ladies on board the 
car. The manager is Mr. W. H. Ramseur, a North Carolinian who has 
charge of the North Carolina Rolling Exposition server years ago. 
Miss Mima Richardson, of Chicago, is the newspaper representative for Cuba.
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See attached ad from this same paper. The fine print shows admission 
is "10 Cents. School Classes, in Charge of Teachers, 5 Cents".

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link




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