Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-23
DEPARTMENT EXHIBITS,
Some That Will Be Extensive and of
cided Interest

Some That Will Be Extensive and of De-
cided Interest.
The Department of Agriculture is active in
its preparations for its exhibit at the Column
bian worlds fair. -Four car loads have been
shipped so far, and Mr.. Willis, the representa-
tive of this department on the government,
board, expresses the belief that not less than
one-half of the material for the entire exhibit
will be shipped to Chicago before the 18th OF
next month
Commissioner Of Education ". T. Harris
saws that the exhibit of the bureau of education
will be a particularly interesting one. Among
the exhibits will be samples of text books
printed during the earlier years of the country.
Models will be secured from the patent Office
showing the evolution of school furniture and
fittings. Laboratory teachers and students
Will daily exhibit quickly performed expert
ments in heat, light, sound. electricity. &c.
The exhibit of the United States fish COM
mission Is very far advanced The commission
will be represented in two buildings. viz. in
the United States government building and in
the aquarial building The more important
exhibit will be in the government building.
Its exhibit viii be fanked on one side by that
Of the Agricultural Department and on the
other by that OF the Interior Department
One-haf of the space allotted to the commits
sion will be devoted to illustrate the practical
workings of the fishing industry of the country.
Probably the most instructive portion Of the
exhibit will be that illustrating the methods
employed by the scientific branch of the fish
commission in investigating the habits of the
fish. and it will include specimens of deep sea
dredging, casts Of fishes and collections of va
rious kinds. A space of 60 by 80 feet will be
devoted to an illustration of the methods now
used in Matching trout, salmon, white
fish, cod, mackerel, DC. Apparatus en-
ployed in pond culture will be shown
and lay figures in boats will demonstrate the
methods in vogue for taking eggs from shad and
Goldfish The only exhibit OF live fish in the
government building will be of those which are
Matched by the devices used in the fish culture
exhibit, and they will be kept only long enough
TO demonstrate to the public how the work is
done and by the means Of which the commits
sion obtains the millions of small fish which are
annually distributed in the waters of the
country. Between fifteen and twenty carloads
OF exhibits will be transported to Chicago by
the commission
Independent Of the exhibit to be made in the
government building is the live fish exhibit in
the aquarium. The structure will be the largest
building used as an aquarium with n single ex-
ceptiOn, viz. that Mt Brighton, England
The exhibit will be so arranged as to give the
beholder the idea that he is standing in the
depths of the sea and is looking upward at the
frh living as it were in their natural homes.
The twenty or more fsh commission stations
throughout the country are being drawn on for
material for the fresh water exhibit and the
fish commission steamers along the coast are
using ali their spare time in gathering marine
specimens. In very short time the quarters
used by the commission here in preparing its
exhibit for shipment will be closed and a large
number of the force employed therein will go
TO Chicago to classify open, and arrange the
exhibit preparatory to the opening of the fair