Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-12

all reasonable limit it must be held to have
| outlived its usefulness.
| The sentiment of national pride may be
fattered by the massing together in one i'm
posing aggregate of the products of the in
dustrial ingenuity Of people deslrous of
holding place in the commercial competi-
| tion of the world. But it is not by any ag-
gregate display, however imposing, that
they can best promote such an end. For all
| purposes of relative valuation the woolen
| fabrics, say of Great Britain, must be
| judged alongside of those of Germany,
France and the United States Such SUI
| periority as they may possess will certainly
not command recognition by their segrega-
tion. The primary grouping, in short,
| should be by materials and not BY nation
alities, as it will be in the main building at
jackson Park.
The fact that it has always been so is only
a slight palliation of serious detect. be-
cause the very scale on which the Worlds
Columbian Exposition has been planned
will render the absurdity OF the old system
OF arrangement more glaring than before.
The seInshness OF the Exhibitors.
second only in folly to the concessions
made in the main building to q misplaced
sentiment of national vanity are
those which will be made to individual ex-
States In some cases American manufac.-
urers have had the good sense to subordi-
nate their desire to make independent exhib-
Its to the demands of q congruous and in
structlve grouping The wooden manufact-
urers have done this, 50 have the pottery
men and the producers Of all materials that
enter into the upholstery business. The re-
suit will be much more impressive show
ing of the fruits Of American enterprise in
these lines than will be the case in groups
where every manufacturer insists on stand
ing by himself. Scientific arrangement does
not at all involve the sinking of the indi-
viduality of the exhibitor, but too Jealous
a regard for that individuality is quite in
compatible with scientific arrangement
or course there are departments in which
local or personal considerations must rule.
In agriculture, for example, it is highly
proper that to each State OF the Union and
to each country applying for it should be
assigned separate section of space in
which to show its soils, cereals, grasses and
the products of its farms generally. For
such purpose the State must be regarded
as an entity with well defined interest in
the result, and an equally we'll defined re-
sponsibility for the character of the ex-
hibit. A similar remark applies to the
mineralogy Of each State, to its trees and
to its fruits. OF all these there will be
State and national exhibits in the buildings
provided for them, and that with an en-
hancement OF interest and instruction
equally to the exact student, the inquiring
investor and the casual spectator.
Where No Objection Can Lie.
In the department Of the fne arts the
grouping by nations is no less defensible,
though for obviously different reasons. The
r,Io oOsp ,p tAa
contained in private collections has nothing
to recommend it except the fact that they
could hardly be obtained on any other con-
dition. In such departments as those of
transportation and electricity, coming as
they do within manageable limits, the
prominence accorded to the individuality of
the exhibitor cannot be reasonably objected
to. Such ashowing ss will be made by the
New York Central and the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad companies OF the evolution
Of locomotives and cars, from the earliest
days of steam roads to the present time,
will have . special significance in its rela-
tion to the company making it, and can be
best made as the collective exhibit OF
great corporation.
It sounds we'll to be assured "that the
central idea of the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position is the power to educate" 1t is
equally satisfactory to have the word of
the Exposition authorities for the state
ment that the nation which has borne the
palm of victories at successive worlds fairs
is that whose progress in education, taken
in its broadest and fullest sense, has been
most pronounced It is because of their
moters of the Columbian Exposition claim
to have given to education ''the position of
highest prominence in the center of inter-
est and in the grandest of all the great
structures Here, we are told, "Educa-
tion is to be surrounded by her landmarks
Music, Science, Literature, Charity, Re-
ligion-and these, grouped together, as by
their nature is most fitting, form the con-
stellation of the Liberal Arts"
There Is Lack OF Space.
But it is unfortunate to find that the de-
mands Of the prosaio manufacturing ex-
the gallery of the main building, unless,
perchance, funds should be forthcoming to
provide for them a building of their own.
Unless the Department of Manufactures
can have the main building all to itself it |
will have to cut down most vigorously the |
amount OF space already applied for. Short |
of a new building, both manufacturers and |
liberal arts will be seriously hampered by |
lack of space. Strictly speaking, it will be
the United States section of both that will
be curtailed, for the space allowed to
foreign nations has been irrevocably fixed.
80 far as the Department of Liberal Arts
is concerned it cannot make under the most
favorable circumstances q congruous and
exhaustive international exhibit. The
educational system of Great Britain, France
and Germany will be illustrated in the
courts assigned to those nations, Austria
being the only great European power that
has shown willingness to have its educa-
tional exhibit side by side with our own.
The State of Illinois will have its public
school system exhibited in its own building,
and the Department of Education at WASH
ington will have its exhibit, including the
library exhibit for the entire country, in
The Government building.
sight-seers Better Go Into Training.
The student of educational methods will,
require the capacity of robust
pedestrian to take in what he wants at
Jackson Park. For the general student
Who proposes to take in little of every
hing a course of athletic training between
his and The date of his visit cannot be too
trongly recommended.
The exposition managers expect the sales
# popcorn to yield them o revenue of $780,
700, so that the facilities for the sale of this
nutritious cereal will doubtless be ample.
But the general student, however we'll
developed as to legs, will require something
more sustaining than popcorn in his per-
CARNATIONS through the interminable mazes
+ our Worlds Fair.
1t will be the chance of lifetime, how
yer, and impossible as may be the schieve-
nent Of ever completing an appreciative
urvey of this, the latest and greatest birth
. bA ha OF will hn |