Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-12-06
Maryland Geological Ex.
hibit.

Maryland's geological industrial exhi-
been brought back to Baltimore and is
now on exhii ition there. AS announced
some time ago. the exhibit was distin
guished at Charleston by % awards.
twelve of which were gold medals of
the first class. 1t was prepared for the
Maryland Commissioners by the Mary
rection of Professor William Bullock
Clark, the State Geologist. He decided
to reinstal it in Baltimore for two rea-
sons. 1t had been suggested to him in
view of the instructive and stimulating
nature of the display that it would be
well to make it where more of the resi-
dents of the State might see it than the
comparative few who were able to be at
Charleston. With the approach of the
great Louisiana Purchase Exposition. to
be held i'll st. Louis, where the competi-
ton between the states for general re-
cognitiou will he much sharper than it
was at Buffalo or Charleston, it is con-
sidered that Maryland might be very
much more effectively represented there
if the nut leus of her future exhibit
were set up in order that additions and
improvements might be Systematically
made to it.
To serve these two purposes the
Johns Hopkins University made some
sacrifice to let the Director of the Geo
logical Survey have the corridor and
two large rooms i'll its Howard street
Building. There the exhibit was opened
to the public on last Monday. 1t can
not. of course, be seen to such advantage
as i'll its more spacious quarters down
South. n N'verthelcss, its main features
are fully reproduced and it affords an
excellent and instructive idea of the
resources of the state, the way in which
these have been developed. and paths to
future development of the same sort. 1t
may be said in brief that the exhibit
embraces a comprehensive series of the
leading raw and manufactured products
that come from the mines, qHarrles and
pits of the State. including the Goals.
building and decorative stones. slate,
brick, tile. and pottery clays; flints;
building and moulding sands, mineral
paints. silica, kaolin. iron ores, cement
rocks, limestones, marls and other
natural substances as well as the various
types of pottery. tile. brick. build
ing and enameled brick, terra Gotta and
other articles manufactured from them.
The special value of seeing these in this
way is the greater appreciation of their
relations to each other which may thus
be formed 4
A systematic geological collection in
the corridor represents all the forma.
tions of the state and shows the plant
and animal fossils characteristic of
each throughout the great range for
which MARYLAND is remarkable. Many
manufacturing processes and land scenes
are illustrated by pictures, maps and
transparencies
Governor Smith and Comptroller
Herring saw the exhibit last Friday. af
ter the meeting of the State Geological
commission and both expressed their
satisfaction with it IN its new place
The rooms where il stands will be open
each day from nine O'Clock until five
ton Saturday until three) throughout
the winter and spring. DIR. CLARK.
through this paper invites all residents
of Worcester County to visit the exhi
bit whenever they happen to be in Balti-
more. The Survey building is at 532
North Howard Street, just above the
Academy of Music.