The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1901-02-13
THE LIBERAL ARTS.
MoTasLE EXHIBIT TO BE MADE AT
THE PAN-AMERlcAN.
vast Field Covered by the Exhibit
and the Methods to Be Followed In
1ts anustration at the Exposition at
BuHalo Next Summer.

and the Methods to Be Followed In
1ss 1uustratioR at the Exposition at
Buffalo Next Summer.
The building which is to house the
exhibit in manufactures and liberal
arts at the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo will be one Of the most i'm
posing in the splendid group surround
ing the Court Of Fountains. This build
ing is 500 by $50 feet. with central
court and having a dome 20 feet in di-
ameter over the entrance on the south.
Manufactured products and those IL
Illustrating the liberal arts are SO closely
allied that they naturally are classified
in the same general group. and at the
great expositions OF recent years they
have been housed under the same roof.
Under the general classification Of lib
eral arts are included such subjects as
those of education and social economy,
books, periodicals, scientific apparatus,
hygiene and sanitation, musical instru-
ments, public works, civil engineering,
constructive architecture, photographs
and Photographic supplies, medical,
dental and surgical apparatus and 9th
er branches of intellectual activity. In
deed it is the most progressive and no
BILE OF the tendencies and achievements
OF this age Of enlightenment and ciyili-
zstion which are represented in the ex-
hibits Of this division Of great expo
sition.
The work OF collecting and classify
Ing the Liberal Arts exhibit for the
Pan-American Exposition is now well
under way and is in charge OF DR.. Sc
lin H. Peabody, whose successful ham
ding of the same division at the great
Columbian Exposition Of 1898 marks
him as the best qualified man on the
American continent for the discharge
of such task.
The exhibits of the Liberal Arts diyi-
sion as we'll as those Of other depart
ments will be concentrated and repre-
sentative rather than vast in extent
and exhaustive in scope. Most crafty
ing progress has been made since the
Worlds Fair at Chicago in methods Of
education in the public schools, univer-
sites and colleges Of the United States
ard other Pan-American countries. The
educational exhibit will give special
attention to exemplifying this great
progress and showing the present state
OF our educational institutions. It is
the intention to have models prepared
representing the equipments Of schools,
colleges and universities. The exhibit
made by the United States in the Paris
exposition viii be removed to Buffalo
for the Pan-American and will be sup
plemented with additional exhibits
Closely related to the educational ex-
hibft viii be those in social economy
and in hygiene and sanitation. Under
the head Of social economy will be in
cluded such subjects as charities and
correction, cooperative associations
and trades unions. apprenticeship and
child labor. protection Of workingmen
in factories and mines, workingmen's
dwellings. etc.
The division Of sanitation and hygi-
enc is one Of great practical impor-
tance, and great progress has been
made within a decade along this line.
Indeed it may perhaps be said that the
subject has become almost 4 science in
itself. and certainly in its relations to
the daily life of the people its impor-
tance cannot be too much emphasized.
The exhibit at the Pan-Anerican EX-
position. which is under the immediate
supervision Of DR.. Jacob S. Otto. an au-
thority in this branch Of science. will
comprise such subjects as physical cul-
fure. and the apparatus used in various
institutions for this purpose-hospitals
and dispensaries. boards Of health-and
their functions. foods. their chemistry.
preservation and adulteration: mechan-
ical methods of sanitation and sanitary
architecture The improved methods
introduced into municipal departments
in recent years viii be shown as graph
ically as possible. In many cases mod
els will be used for this purpose Maps
end models showing the disposition OF
garbage in cities and the cremation OF
the dead will be features Of the exhibit
in this division. Sewer drainage will
also form an important part OF the
exhibit. Especially timely, in view
Of the tenement house investigation
recently conducted by a state COM
sion appointed for that purpose, Will
be the exhibit to be made by the Char
ity Organization Society Of New York
City showing the past and present as
well as the ideal sanitary conditions OF
homes in tenement districts Of great
cities. OF interest in the same connec-
fton will be the exhibit showing what
b being done in the way Of public
baths by the progressive city Of Bcoes-
line, Mass.
The exhibit OF public works VIII be