National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-19
TIE Mon1p,s rxros1r1oN.
How the Various Government DopHrt-
ments VIII DO Represented.


Exposition in New Orleans, met at tho state
department Saturday and organized, with
Col. G. S. Lyford, U. s. A., chairman, aud w.
A. DeCaindry secretary. The following is
IN outline Of exhibits TO DO made by tho
several executive departments:
The department of state, Mai. Charles s.
Hin, representative, will exhibit samples of
cotton, wool, and casmas fibers, and of the
fabrics made from them in all parts of tho
world with statistics of markets, styles rul-
ing prices, and demand. This exhibit will
DO arranged in continental groups, to repre-
sent the five great geographical divisions of
tho worlds commerce and tho share of the
United States therein, with statistics
of the surplus natural and manufactured
products of each group, and of their
present ratio Of distribution among
other countries; also full details of their i'm
ports of cvcry description. The salient
feature of this departments exhibit will DO
its illustration Of the peaceful and economi:
cal work Of the diplomatic aud consular
service Efforts will BIO made to secure from
the leading commercial nations model ex-
hibits of their merchant marine in compot-
tion with the best efforts of the shipbuilders
of the United States. Approaching the i'm
portance of such an exhibition, the manage
ment Of tho Worlds exposition has deter
mined to offer n handsome award to the
successful competitor.
Tho treasury department, Mr.. NJ. 7. Melon
nan, representative, will exhibit tho work of
its several bureaus on an extensive scale.
Among these are the bureau of engraving and
printing, of tho coast survey, Of the light
house board, Of the life saving service, of
customs, and of internal revenue All these
will DO fully and practically illustrated.
Tho war department, Col. s. &. Lyford,
U. $. A., representative, will OK
hibit models illustrating the various
work of the engineer bureau, such
as torpodoes for. protecting channels and har-
bors from invasion, models of methods of sub.
marine mining, and all outfits and appurte-
nanccs of military engineer field service. The
ordnance bureau exhibit will include every
variety Of artillery and small arms, of fuses
and projectilcs from those in use before the
revolution to tho latest improvement of tho
present day. The manufacture of guns and
metallic cartridges will be illustrated by
machinery in operation. The quartermaster
bureau will illustrate the dispatch with
which military uniforms can DO made, and
will present an interesting veterinary ex-
hibit The signal service work in war and
peace will DO illustrated by all tho apparatus
of fold service and by exhibits of tho
methods of the weather bureau. The medi-
cal bureau exhibit will comprise all rcqui-
sites of tho surgeons office for garrison and
field hospitals, and for the transportation and
The navy department, Lieut.. w. II. Buck.
ingham, U. S. NJ, representative, will exhibit
every variety of ordnance and small arms
used in service and those that have been
superseded. Its display of artillery and
machine guns will illustrate tho successive
stages of progress made during the century.
All torpodoeS used in naval warfare, with
every kind projcctile will BIO shown, also
Farmers dynamo-ccctric machin for firing.
Models of war vessels, ancient and modern,
samples of ropes and cordagc, of clothing,
provisions, aud all things belonging to the
supply department will DO exhibited
Tho postoilice department, Assistant Post
master General A. ID. HGzen, representa-
tive, will place n handsomely equipped office
in practical operation at the exposition, and
will exhibil postal railway chr and all ap-
plances of the mail service. 1t will also
have machinery in motion making envelopes
and stamps. o..
Tho department of the Interior Hon.
Benjamin Butterworth, representative, will
collected by agents of tho In
dian bureau, illustrative of aboriginal
life and customs, and of tho gradual progress
| of the red mon from barbarism toward
civilization. Tho patent Office display will
consist of groups of models taken
from its gases, showing chronologically
to advances in steam engineering, in cation
spinning, and in otherindustries due to the
ingenuity of American inventors. The ex-
hibit Of the geological survey will comprise
mineral ores and rocks from every state and
| territory, gigantic and interesting fossils
of extinct animals and plants discovered
in many sections of tho United States
mountain systems of North America,
with models Of the principal extinct
volcanoes; models of the grand canon
of tho Colorado, of the Yosemite valleyrof
tho Yellowstone national park plans of tho
! Comstock and other noted American mines
and mining districts, aud models of tho great
| lakes of tho country. Tho bureau of eth
noloey will exhibit models of ancient Pueblos
and cliff dwellings still existing in the south
west, with large collection of relics illus
! trating tho life and conditions Of the Indians
and prehistoric inhabitants of that section.
The bureau of education, l.. A. Smith,
representative, will exhibit complete sets Of
its publications. with maps based on the
statistical atlas of tho tenth census, showing
| tho distribution Of wealth and illiteracy,
articles illustrating school architecture, such
as models of primitive log and southwestern
adobe school houses, with all grades up
to tho best high school building,
school furniture, apparatus and text books,
exhibits of elementary instruction from the
| kindergarten upward, manuscripts and hands
work from pupils of Indian manual labor
schools, illustrations Of secondary instruction
by scholars work, higher education shown
by histories of colleges and professional
schools, with photographs of buildings and
grounds, methods of conveying information
to tho blind, to deaf mutes, and to the feeble
minded,
The department of justice, Col. Cecil Clay,
representative, will exhibit statistics of the
operations of this department. and sectional
| charts showing changes in crime, marking
the progress Of civilization.
The department of agriculture, Mr.. VIM
Saunders, representative, has instructed
Prof. Riley, its entamologist. to make an eS-
haustiye exhibit of all insects destructive to
vegetation, with o collection of all devices
for preventing their ravages. The botanist
will collect all old and new grasses OF the
United States, taking them from the fields
and exhibiting them in sheaves of full length
He will show tho economical plants of this
and other lands yielding dyes, gums, starch
sugar, hbeTs, and drugs, also those used in
making condiments and beverages. The
chemists exhibit will comprise sorghum and
tho sugar beet, with their products, examples
of all phases Of the sugar industry modes OF
extracting juices and costs of processes. The
microscopic and all other bureaus of this de-
partmcnt win BIO completely illustrated.
Tho Smithsonian institution, Prot. G..
Brown Goode, representative, will have ex-
hibits from tho several divisions of the
national museum. The first will represent
every species of American food fish by life
size casts and by specimens preserved in
alcohol. Tho processes employed by the
United States fish commission for securing
and Matching eUgA and tTnnanortinp yOunp