The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-10-17
EXPOSITION AND THE SCHOOLS.
Some of the Things Which Students May
Study With Interest and Profit.

Philadelphia, Oct 10-The National
Export exposition, in its scope and de-
tail, is more practical than theoretical
as an educational movement; but even
to the student in the schools 1t pre-
sents many rare opportunities and in
various ways is an illustration of the
results which they are seeking to at
tain. The main purpose of the expo
sition is to demonstrate by actual ex-
hibition the best results of American
manufacturing efforts and to show to
the buyer abroad the great advantages
Afforded to him by exporting to his
market the manufactured products of
the United States; to show to him
that he can obtain either better goods
at the same price from America than
elsewhere OF the same grade of goods
at less price. Incidentally, but form
ing very important part of the expo
sition scheme, is the exhibition to COM
petitive manufacturers of the United
States Of the best methods used and
the highest results produced by the
manufacturers from every part of the
country.
In bringing together exhibits for
these purposes the exposition has put
before the public eye in an orderly and
effective way industrial machinery and
products which teach directly those
things in the mechanical arts which
the students in the schools are being
taught in another way. Not only are
the results of mechanical appliances
shown. but all of the details of their
workings exposed. The theory of the
modern steam engine is illustrated by
the exhibition of numerous classes of
the best and most approved steam en-
gines and in the detailed display Of all
the peculiarities of each. The stu
dent who knows what results have
been accomplished by the recent dis
coveries In the claiming of the electro
cal current to the uses of Industrial
machinery and in the arts has an OPP
portunity In examining the various
electrical exhibits to observe these
latest achievements in such a way as to
give him practical idea of what he
has heretofore had only an elementary
knowledge The student who has
been taught to know how a great steel
bridge can be built sees here actually
how 1t Is built, in all of its marvellous
details of construction, with all of its
parts exposed and explained. In the
exhibit of European manufactures, the
accumulation of which cost more than
$4,000, the undergraduate of the
schools has an opportunity of examin-
ing those products of the manufacture
eTs OF other countries which come In
the markets of the world in competi-
ton with those of his own country,
and to study their character, their text
ure and their appearance, to note the
prices for which they can be sold in
the various competitive markets of the
world and to thus obtain a direct in
sight into trade which no amount of
book learning would give him. He
Will also see in this department most
of those things which come into the
details of the domestic life of foreign
peoples. the methods of travel in China
and Japan. for instance, the vehicles
which they use, the manner in which
they are conveyed from place to place,
the sorts of agricultural implements
they employ, the domestic utensils
which are a part of their daily life and
1tebhy vi I1C hCflCCS WuiCu SulDlOy
ed in their religious worship There
can also be found here all of the meth
DDS of artificial illumination of this
and other countries.
There are many curious and instruct
i've things which the student may
learn also in visit to the places of in
terest on the Esplanade. The Chinese
Village Is real picture of Chinese life.
inhabited by Chinese men, women and
children, who, but a few weeks ago
were inhabitants of the byways and
the educational institutions of the
country districts of Canton and Fow
Chow. They bring with them all Of
their habits. customs and manners of
domestic and religious life, their meth
DDS OF preparing food and of retail bar
ter. their shops, public places and
houses of worship are all here faithful
~ reproduced and worthy Of attention.
It perhaps might not do to assume too
certainly that the Turkish theater and
surroundings are absolutely typical of
either Constantinople or Cairo. but
they are interesting and instructive. as
they describe certain sort of life in
the Orient.
There are actual living pictures of
the old days in the south at the "Old
Plantation" which are amusing and