The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-02
LENDID IRISH EXHIBITION,
Fair at Cork Was Remarkable in Many
Respects.
,DSTRY AND ART REPRESENTED.
Expected that the Exhibition win Give an I'm.
snense Stimulus to Irish Agrieulture-Ihe
Side Shows Were Well Attended
Especial to The Post.)

fs,rk November 1.-The Cork international eHhi-
Had was closed tonight amid great enthusiasm and
th many regrets. The fair has been miniature IN
|strial Ireland 1t was a working model OF "hat
vanced Irish economists wish the nation to become
ora than 100000 men, women and children nave
,ssed through this school of industrial education
"a Received instruction from the best scientific ex
srts
| Those who got up the exhibition aimed at reviving
"a Old Celtic industries and art, at pointing the
~ N wiser methods of education and at improving
Xzficulture The idea originated by R Hon
dward Fitzgerald, lord mayor OF Cork, and much OF
sssccess must be credited to Mr. R. A. Atkins the
onorary secretary. These gentlemen were Loyalty
nd powerfuly supported by Hon. Horace Punkett,
Ia president of the new Irish agricultural depart.
ent and by the able men who are associated with
sm n that important branch of Irish admnistra-
on
I'D first the attendance at the fair was small, but
Ii. Plunkett organized special railway excursions
ON all over the country-school teachers, merchants
arnaers artisans laborers and school children. Ex-
ets explained to these visitors the features of the
xhibition The department spent 100000 on its own
eetion 1t brought professional enamelers wood car
ers, mosaic workers fancy basket makers, stained
lass designers and other experts from the various
arts of Europe and established them at the head of
choos in their several lines.
Fifteen thousand farmers were requested to send
COrk specimens OF the sand and clay on tneu
9nds. These specimens made into teapots
lips and saucers jugs and glassware When the
armers visited the exhibition they were shown these
manufactures, to their great astonishment Diagrams
hOwed them where the most horses, cattle, sheep
dgs and poultry raised in Ireland and it is
hought that in this way the exhibition has given rsl
grieulture the greatest stimulus it has expeYi
need.
Celtic designs were everywhere throughout the ex
ibton. The walls and ceilings typically Irish
Dverywhere apparent the fact that the promoters
reamed of ireland free from every form o
RATIONAL humiliation. SpindleS and wheels were OF
very hand. There teachers, students and lee
|hrers in half hundred cubices and down the cente
Xtretched great workshop with its benches. plane
nd saws. Stacked about Irish wool, Irish peat
4rish grapites states and marbles, Irish tobacco AM
X9ven Iris gold There tapestry weaving and rit
on weaving, clock, doll wooden toy, boot and shoe
ap and carpet making and there other crafts
most to infnity
Marrying and fruit growing and the cultivation 0
III manner of flowers occupied area covering
arge section Of the magnificent grounds the bank
III the River Lee. Close beside these We're barns an
aheds wherein were Illustrated the best methods
1rotecting and feeding live stock with a view to til
farmers profit
z Up TO late hour tonight the side shows were /
suII swing and the enthusiastic Irish patronized
thousands the shoot the chutes" which, with il
sinai plunge into the water seemed to have taken tn
ancy of the not overhappy denizens of Erin NOR
shan any other form of amusement in the fair.