The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-29
IS A BIG SUCCESS
MERCHANTS FAIR CONTINUES
TOMORROW.
Is Much More Than Mere Trade
Exhibit-Rises To the Dignity OF an
Education.

At a meeting of the Mercantile Fair
committee this morning it was deter
mined to extend the fair until ten
o'clock on Wednesday evening. Many
of the exhibitors state that they con-
slider the exhibit of sound advertising
value adding that the people who visit
during the morning and afternoon
hours, while not so numerous as at
night are much more discriminating
and examine and appraise the displays
making the granting of additional time
of value.
There will be certificates of award
given in connection with the fair, for
respectively: The exhibit producing the
most artistic effect; the most compre-
hensive exhibit in one line of trade and
the best special exhibit. 1t was de-
cided that Governor Dole should be ask
to act as judge of the awards with the
assistance of two other gentlemen to
be selected by him. The two assist
ants will be On-eXhibitors. The cert-
iicates are offered in lieu of money
prizes as in view of the elaborate ma
ture of the displays the committee feel
that it would be unable to offer mone-
tary prizes in any way commensurate
with the merit of the exhibits and the
I expense of making them,
The Merchants Fair has proved a
success beyond all expectations. Taken
as a whole or the individual exhibits
analysed, the Fair is more than
trade show, it is an education. One of
the impressions gained from even a
cursory visit to it is the immense
amount of applied science that has been
expended in producing the articles
which are exhibited so attractively.
Another impression that forces itself
on ones mind is the evidence every
where of the irressistable progress
which trade and commerce and civiliza-
tion is making. Take for instance the
exhibit of the Pacific Guano & Fertili-
zer Company. This exhibit alone is
enough to raise the general thought of
Ia fertilizer factory from a prosaic busi-
4 ness dealing with not over delicate ma
! terial to a highly scientific industry
embracing the whole world in it's field
of operations and employing the most
! intricate and careful results of science
in its methods Samples of all the raw
material are there; the guano itself a
chemical product which Nature gives
herself anywhere from $50 to 10000
years to make; beautiful chemical pro-
ducts from Germany and England, and
| nitrates from Chill.
In the Hawaiian Electric Company's
exhibit shows that electrical science
and the electrical business is not mere
ly trade for the purpose of furnishing
light but is an advancing industry
of applied science in which convenience
and beauty, luxury and even health is
striven for. The exhibit of the plumb
ers is an education in sanitary science
| and the embellishments of beauty and
luxury which can be added to sanitary
devices. w. w. Dimond & Company's s
exhibit shows that applied science has
been busy with utensils that are as old
in their beginnings as the human fami-
! ly almost and has made them not only
useful far beyond their original design
but cleanly and attractive in addition.
And so one after another every eXhi-
! bit has a distinct lesson and a distinct
/ value.
Starting at the entrance and follow
ing up the right hand SIDE the exhibits