The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
BUILDING FOR INDIAN SCHOOL EXHIBIT.

BUILDING EO6 INDIAN DC1OOL EAElpl
The famous schools of Hampton and Car
Isle are known to all readers, and high
| praise is given to their work. The civilized
tribes. nave their own schools, supported
| with extraordinary liberality, and at almost
| every agency through the west ONE kind
| of school is maintained for Indian children.
| AS it was at first purely a labor of love,
| Indian education was necessarily left to re-
| ligious denominations, and so it remains to
| a great extent. Nevertheless the exhibit
| will be we'll worthy of study.
OF the s~emicivilized from distant lands
| the Algerians will doubtless be as interest
ing as any. The Algerian and Tunisian
| concession is In Midway plaisance. Admis-
| sion will be free to everything except the
| two theaters. The central building will be
| the Cafe Concert Algerian. 1t will be
| fanked on both sides by semicircular rows
| OF booths, terminating at one end in the
Kabyle concert hall and at the other in the
| Tunisian concert hall. Along this front
| the visitor will walk as in the finest section
| of an Algerian city, with the indices all
| about him of a civilization which has
| changed but little in 5000 years.
Inclosed by these buildings is a court
| yard, to be decorated with kiosks, fountains
and tropical foliage. The buildings are to
be finished as far as possible in oriental
tiles, thus presenting q marked contrast to
the other structures. Not only Will the
sale of Algerian productions go on, but
| their manufacture also may be witnessed.
| One may hear also the famous Algerian
| orchestra and quite a variety of minstrels,
| Kabyle and others. Add theater, concert
hall, cafe, ETC., all in native style, and it is
| plain that q day in the quarter will bemuch
like a visit to Algiers.
From the very earliest times that the dis
| tinction between civilized and ~uncivilized
| men was noted the former have marveled
at the manual dexterity of the latter. To
| day the delicate handiwork of races which
| have not even progressed SO far as to live in
permanent houses shows the effect of ages
| Of patient practice and consequent talent
| slowly accumulating through heredity. 1t
| is said that no white man can make areally
| good boomerang; the wild Australians were
probably 40 generations in developing it.
| Hundreds Of specimens illustrating this
barbarian skill will be among the most in
teresting exhibits.
The Siamese are already on the ground,
and Phra Suriya, representative Of the king
of Siam, has impressed all who have met
him by his ability, courtesy and readiness
in the English language. He emphasizes
the fact that he did not learn to speak it in
England. His wife, who accompanies him,
is both handsome and intelligent and will
take charge of the products sent by Siamese
women. Phra is only the ENJOYS title,
and Suriya is only the last in his long string
of names, very much as if one should say
Hon. Julius Caesar Henry Clay Pierce Buch-
anan Smith, or the like. His brother, who
assists him, is likewise by title and last
name simply Luang Niphat. Mrs. Suriya
| thinks American ladies will be surprised
and delighted at the embroidery and nee.
dlework of her countrywomen.