The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-04
THE EXHIBIT
FINDS FAVOR
Schools of Hawaii at
the Exposition.
POTTER TALKS OF PARIS
Secretary of the Island Commission
Speaks of CreditabIe
Display.

"
Hawaiian Commission to the Paris Ex-
position, who returned to this City on the
Rio last week, brings most favorable re-
ports as to the way the exhibition from
the Islands was received, especially the
department of the display,
which attracted wide interest and car
ried away a gold medal and a grand
prize diploma.
Potter said yesterday: you know We
were delayed by the bubonic plague at
the beginning, we could not get away
from here with the exhibit until that
matter was settled, and whereas we
should have been in Paris by the middle
the latter part of June, by which time
a great many of the prizes had been
awarded. Quite by accident / found out
that the reports of the jurors had not
been sent in on either sugar or educa-
ticnal exhibits, and l FASTENED to get
the Hawaiian displays arranged.
1.-The result was that Hawaiian sugar
ca rried away a gold medal and the pr1-
mary educational department was award
ed one of the grand prize diplomas, or
which only twelve were given out in
the United States, and with mark OF
twenty-five credits; twenty-five credits
being perfect. The exhibit of the ka-
mehameha Manual and Training School
carried away a gold medal.
This speaks very highly for the prog
ress of the Islands, and 1 am sure that
our display would have won recognition
in many other departments had we not
been delayed in getting them there until
too late a date for competition.
LAS it was the entire exhibit attracted
a great deal of attention and the educa-
tioral department was a subject OF spe-
cial attention by visiting professors ana
educational people from all parts of the
world. The educational display consist
ed of sample work of the schools neatly
bound, and many excellent photographs
OF the children at work, OF the School
buildings and other things of education
al interest. Our Islands did not, like the
Polynesian group, attempt to portray
pictures of native life, but rather en-
deavored to show the progress and de-
velopment in educational matters. We
had excellent photographs showing the
various classes of children We have to
deal with, Hawaiians, japanese, Chinese,
etc, and these photographs Illustrated
some of the difficulties we have to con-
tend with in teaching the English IAN
guage to children VINO are untam1ilar
with it.
Miss Smith, the American juror of the
board was very much pleased and in
,terested. and the juror from France was
so delighted with the results of our
methods that she requested copies of the
work to be sent to her for the French
Minister of Public instruction. The
work was of especial interest to both
the United States and France on ac-
count of the colonial problem. France
has Madagascar to educate and the
United States will soon be confronted
with the educational problem in Porto
Rico and Cuba, and in the Philippines
THE German University of Leipsic
were very anxious 10 get portions of the
texhibit, as was also the University OF
Bonn, Switzerland, and other colleges
but the matter that was given away wa:
donated to the Field Columbian Museum
lof Chicago and the Philadelphia Com
imercial Museum.
"a feature of the educational exhibit
that aroused special interest and com
lment was a bound book of drawing.
done by school children of the Islands
lentitled Jack and the Bean Stalk TIL,
story of Jack and the Bean Stalk ha(
been told to the children and they haC
been put at the task of depicting thei
ideas of Jacks mothers COW, the hous
that Jack built, Jack planting the bean
the growth of the bean stalk the castl
at the top, etc. The result was mos
unique, and the little book was in mucl
demand. w. w. Foote, the Californi;
Commissioner, wanted it badly for a per
sonal souvenir, and we had to guar
the little book very carefully from al
kinds of designs. We managed to brin,
it back, however, and it will remain il
Hawaii
THE school song books written ant
arranged by Mrs. Frear and Mrs Tuck
Ter with their pretty stories of the cater
pillar, the little birds of the Islands, etc
were also in much demand and copie
Were ordered for all parts of the world
THE photos of the Kaiulani schoo
building and the work being done Their
attracted special interest The exhibi
: sent by st. Anthony's College OF Wal
: lrku was very creditable, especially it
: plaster maps and art displays.
Altogether Hawaii's part in the BIZ
exposition. though very small by com
parison, by reason of it's quality at
tracted remarkable share of the at
tention. The display of our Islands wa
incomparably superior to that of othe
isolated groups, and but for the delay i
the arrangements, I think Hawaii woul
have made even a better record in tn
awards. The little book entitled 9Th
Hawaiian Islands, which was prepare
Especially by the Department of Foreig
Affairs for the Exposition. was in grea
demand, and the progress and develor
ment of the Paradise of the Pacific wa
certainly made most creditably man