Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-10-19
EXPOSITION And TAE SCHOOLS
Things That Students May
Study With Much Profit.
THEY ARE PRACTICAL EDUCATORS
Studies In Industrial Machin-
cry and Products.
Result Shown and Details OF Operations Ex-
posed-stxth Week of the Exposition
Marks Continued Success-Delegates TO
the International Commerciai Congress.

the international Commerciai Congress.
Philadelphia, Oct. l2 Tho 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 it 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 or the same grade of goods
ut a less price. Incidentally, but form
Ing very important part of the expo
+ sition scheme, is the exhibition to com
petitiye 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 electri-
cal current to the uses of industrial
machinery and in the arts has an op-
portunity in examining the various
electrical exhibits to observe these
latest achievements in such way as to
give him a practical idea of what he
has heretofore had only an elementary
knowledge. The student who has
been taught to know how great steel
bridge can be built sees here actually
how it 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
$4,000, the undergraduate of the
schools has an opportunity of examin-
ing those products of the manufacture
ers of other countries which come in
the markets of the world in competi-
tion with those of his own country,
and to study their character, their text
ure and their appearance, to note the
prices for which they can be sold in
the various competitive markets of the
world and to thus obtain direct in
sight into trade which no amount of
hook learning would give him. He
will also see in this department most
of those things which come into the
details of the domestic life of foreign
peoples. the methods of travel in China
and Japan, for instance, the vehicles
which they use, the manner in which
they are conveyed from place to place
the sorts$of agricultural implements
they employ the domestic utensils
which are part of their daily life and
many of the devices which are employ
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 ma,
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 ant
children, who, but a few weeks ago
were inhabitants of the byways ant
the educational institutions of TIL,
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Chow. They bring with them all o
their habits, customs and manners O
domestic and religious life, their meth
DDS of preparing food and Of retail bar
ter, their shops, public places an,
houses of worship are all here faithful
~ reproduced and worthy of attention
s 1t perhaps might not do to assume to,
certainly that the Turkish theater an,
surroundings are absolutely typical o
either Constantinople or Cairo, bu
they are interesting and instructive. a
they describe certain sort of life il
the Orient.
There are actual living pictures O
the old days in the south at the "0l
Plantation" which are amusing an,
carry with them some not invaluabl
lessons. The wild Beast Show,
which should rather have the name O
the Tanned Beast Show" has valuabl
instructions in natural history. TIL
performances of these animals ar
truly remarkable, and the perfect com
mand held over them by their trainer
is not only very entertaining, but ha
an educational Importance of no littl
value.
There is at the exposition a yer
comprehensive exhibition of the flag
of other nations. These are not onl
displayed as an ornament to the eS
position buildings themselves, but as
part of the instruction afforded by tn
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