The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-10-13
THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
Exhibits Of tho Islands at tho o.
lumbian Exposition.
Siamcse COINS and Curios, Native Goods
from Java, and Contributions from
Uorneo, Sunntrn and tho
straits Settlements.

Recent letters and cable dispatches
received from Leigh s. Lynch, who is
cruising in the southern Pacific in
search Of features for the worlds fair,
convey the information that he has very
nearly completed his task. He has
made all the necessary arrangements
for exhibits from the PHILIPPINE islands,
Siam, BNrnco, Sumatra, the Straits set
Elements and Java, and is now on his
way to Sydney, Australia, where he en-
poets to meet an agent who has been
doing similar work in New Zealand,
the Fiji islands, the Friendly, the So
ciety and other groups. 1t is not un-
likely that Mr.. Lynch will be able to
sail for home within thirty, or at the
most, sixty days, When he left Chicago
he expected to be abroad until Novcm.
Der or December, but he has been more
successful than he anticipated, and has
made much more rapid progress than at
first seemed possible. lie says, how
ever, that there will be very complete
| exhibit Of the most important products
| and industries of these countries, and
| that they will be In charge of natives.
! For example, the sultan of Johorc will
! provide the exhibits from Bornco, Sill
l ahihSAp Civ SlS clldllS SClGlSlucuJS, ana
will probably visit the exposition in
person with his suite.
| The exhibit which Mr.. Lynch has
contracted for in Siam is intended to
supplement the exhibit OF the Siamese
| government, and is subject to the ap-
propal Of the Slamcsc commissioners.
These have not been appointcd--o or had
not been when Mr.. Lynch wrotc-Dut
the men who were prominently men
toned for the place were consulted, and
they oil seem favorable to Mr.. Lynch's
project, so it is likely that fine col
lection of Siamcsc gems and curios will
be displayed in the space Of the Oceanic
Trading Company on the Midway plais-
anco.
| Java will send not only fine assort-
ment of native goods, but will contrib
ute native musicians, dancers, iugglr..
and athletes. The nautch girls of
Java are rs celebrated as those of In
dia, and formed one of the great attrac-
tons ut the Paris exposition Mr..
Lynchs trip has been Il most interest,"
ing one, although undertaken at the
hottest season of the year. and subject
to certain drawbacks. For instance,
on his way to Bangkok he went to his
berth one night and found it occupied
by two large tarantulas. Rather than
disturb them he slept all night, and
several nights thereafter, on the deck.
An extract from one of his letters writ
| ten at hioto, Japan, is worth quoting.
He says.
! Every native IN Japan is talking about the
| falr In Chicago and they all want 20 30 or send
something AT the shop Of Nisshmura, the
! cmhroidcrcr, saw hS'Iirv;S for thc fair One
| IL handsome landscape twenty-five feet long
! anu ten feet high, all Of the most delicate cnI.
| oro!dery on silk. He has had ten men at worI;
| on IL Tor nearly n year ana u half, and il will
; ! take nearly year to finish it. These men 81,
, l on the floor and the frame les between them
1 ana there they spend their lives, woriiin- lL.il
I eyes!ght and health into stitches CT lhc,. won
| dcrful CmhroidCrics. There are Il few wom, II
at work, but all the best and finest work j.; don,
4 by men.
NisShlmura also showed me some ntnrvrlrlis
| goid lacquer work and wood carving h:rh You
can a! sec at the exposition. Then Mirlia,y;tya
J the c!"lSonne ware man, has some wonderful
! pieces. rms man never puts his name on his
| work lie says each piece speaks for itself a,,!
/ tells that no other man cOnld make ii but him.
I Scif. or course you all know how cloisonnc is
I mauc; now the silver wire iS,faShiOn,t,.olu and
\ soidcred Ola tho copper base OF the article to be
| constructed and that then into each i,,,,r@tir,.
l enamel Is placed forming figure, ana il T., then
| baked and ground down ana polished The
task seems endless, but they are very pa ,icn1