Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-17
STATE EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT.
A Sacramento Offer of Prize for
Worlds Fair Feature.

A Sacramento Offer of q Prize for q
Worlds Fair Feature.
1t will be remembered that the Depart
ment of Public Instruction of the State of
California was awarded gold medal at the
Paris Exposition for its exhibit of our
State textbooks, our school laws, educa-
cational reports, record books and a COM
plete set of the books used in conducting
our public schools. This fact has induced
the First National Bank of D. O. Mills &
Co., OF this city, to authorize State School
Superintendent Hoitt to offer 500 as
premium to be awarded by him for the
best plan for California educational e1-
hibit at the great exposition of 1898, in
Chicago. The plans must be submitted in
writing and placed in the hands of the Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction, at Sac
ramento, on or before December l, 1890,
| under seal, aud Endorsed, "Plans for Cali
fornia's Educational Exhibit" The names
and addresses of the parties competing
must accompany, under another cover,
each plan submitted The award will be
made by a committee appointed by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction. The
names of those submitting plans will not
be known to the committee until after the
award is made.
in furtherance Of this excellent idea, Su-
perintendant Hoitt has addressed circular
letter to the Superintendents and teachers
of the public schools of the State, in which
he says:
now desire to call your attention to the op-
portunlty offered to the educational department
of California to show at the Worlds Fair, to be
held at Chicago in 1898, the best work done in
the schools themselves.
While all the other dena rtmants of industry
In the State are organizing for grand display
at Chicago, let us make on that occasion an ed
ucatlonal exhibit for California which shall
surp5ss anything OF the Kind yet seen in Amer
lea or elsewhere. Let us compete with the
world for the grand prize.
With our free klncergartens, cur primary and
grammar schools, our high and normal schools
and our Cogswell Polytechnic S hool (all sec
ond to none), and our efficient corps of County
and City Superintendent and $500 teach RS,
unsurpassed, in ability, by any equal number
In any State in the Union, am confident that
with proper organization and united effort
we shall stand more than an even chance in
the competition.
In accordance with law, l shall call a bien-
NAL convention of the School Superintendent
of California, to meet next December At that
meeting this subject should be fully discussed
and some plan adopted for the exhibit. That
this plan may be wise and intelligent l most
earnestly urge the Superintendent and teach
ers TO give, in the meantime, careful thought
to the matter.
SlSdl Na1icly anu Dtduiy VI our CdlllOrIld
woods, from which to prepare handiwork; the
almost endless variety of our minerals, from
which to collect cabinets; our abundant beau
tlful and rich flora, from which to arrange an
herbarium, offer facilities and afford an oppor-
tunity to the schools of California possessed by
no other State in the nation The very efforts
made by the teachers and pupils in the prepa-
ration for such an exhibit viii give lessons that
will be of Unreasonable value to the educa-
tional development OF the State. Let the Su
perintendents, teachers and pupils OF California
do ttntr lrt,- 49,
have occasion to be proud of her sons and
daughters