The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-10
ANOTHER LETTER
ON THE FAIR
SOME OF THE MOST INTEREST
ING THINGS OBSERVED
BY ELIZABETH |. HORNEy
Graphic Description of the Places
Visited and the Events That
Occurred.


contained 800 volumes when it
should have been 700 and these manu-
script volumes contain more than
100000 pages.
To Indiana was assigned l,IO0
square feet of space for her educa-
tional exhibit. Two booths were
erected the larger for the work OF
the elementary and secondary schools
the smaller for the work Of the higher
institutions. In this latter booth IS
housed the entire display of the In
diana colleges except that OF Purdue
which has technical eexhlblt III this
section assigned to the "Amerlcan
Colleges and it also has display
in the Agricultural Building. The
higher institutions have not kept the
pace set bv the common schools and
few are not represented at all. In
deed the State University has only an
album and a history of the institu-
ton. The latter, however, is a very
ValuaDle DOOh u us hlIei anu II mas
one sketch that particularly inter
ests the citizens of Richmond-that
of our honored fellow citizen, the
Hon. Isaac Jenkinson, who for more
than thirty years has been member
of the board Of trustees and for years
president of the board. All these
years his interest in this institution
has never tagged and to him prob
ably more than to any other man out
side the faculty does it owe its pres
ent greatness, and he often points
with pride to the fact that 1t was
the first State college west of the AL
leghanies to admit women on equal
terms with men.
Earlham makes fuller display,
still not as full as her friends could
have wished. But it all takes money.
understand President Bryan said
they did not have the money to carry
out their plans, so they would not
attempt to make any show.
The parochial and private schools
of the State are almost entirely with
out representation except those OF the
Lutherans, who have booth of their
own for the "Synod of Missouri and
other States.'
1t is in the booth devoted to the
public schools of the State where
the greatest interest lies. The
sides of this booth are partitioned
off into stalls containing cabinets,
so in all. For instance, one stall Is
assigned to Richmond, TT. Wayne
and Marion. While the space allotted
to the Quaker City is not equal to
that of the two others, yet it has its
full share of visitors on account OF
the ,excellency of her work. The en-
tire west wall Of the booth is filled
with the manual training display of
Richmond, Terre Haute, Ft. Wayne
and other cities. Those who had
charge of the arrangement OF the
Hoosier States educational exhibit
discarded all those frills and furbe-
lows which tend to catch the eye of
the passerby, but distract the atten-
ton from the quality of the work,
but somehow students of educational
problems seem to find out that it is
to Indiana they must look for that
unique exhibit which alone shows ac-
tual conditions and actual results.
To this booth come foreign educa
tors as we'll as those from other
States. to study and inquire. some
spending as much as two or three
hours. One Of the most interesting
of these visitors was a young China
man, who said he was attending
school in Boston. Another interest
ing foreigner was Madame Lopez,
delegate of the National Board of
Education. Of Argentine Republic,
She said she was going to Indiana
polls to visit schools and when offered
to ask Superintendent Mott to send
her samples of work and information
concerning the Richmond schools. she
said she would be grateful for what
ever he should send.
Indiana's great work in the eonsol-
idating of her rural schools and her
manner of transportating the pupils
brought forth many inquiries. One
tructie from Virginia was SO inter
ested and said he had for some time
been talking the matter up and he
would go home to renew his efforts
AS he suggested, good roads must be