Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-29
PHILIPPINES
AT THE FAIR
Entire Exhibit From Far Away
Islands Now Open To The
Public
VIVID AND
PICTURESQUE
Education In Ethnology. Exhibit
Covers Al Acres Has so Build
ings with 1900 Natives

While foreign travel IA q luxury
reserved for the few who have the
requisite money and leisure. the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition brings
many Of its advantages within the
rcaoi, IL the multitude. But the truth
lies deeper stiill for u certain cireum-
stances i visit 10 the exposition may
prove even more profitable than d
voyage 10 distant lands.
To take q specific example, Ii Is safe
To NAY that travellers who have spent
long months In the East can yisii. 81
Louis with. the assurance that there
thee VIII giat 4 more full and comprc,
| beiAyai. itA .okthe Philippine Islands
. stnsI was possible even from Manila
kJtscif Az q center of sightseeing and
Investigation, For the archipelago
is 7Ast.at once In terms Of geography.
ethnology, natural resources, potential
Industries and commercial opportuni.
INtt,s. and II has taken two full years
,fcr i small army Of explorers--axplor-
<ss in-tAe fullmeanins Of the word, as
dangers had to be faced and ~nriyatIans
endured to get together = display
that should be really adequate for the
occasion. And now that the arduous
labors of these men have bocn closed
Ind crowned with success with the
/. opening Of the entire exhibit on June
18th. even they find in this great Phil.
ippinc exposItio nsxnsnsbsfiesn things
which In the sAxhds themselves never
am under their individual OBSERVE
tion' or within the range Of their per.
i sonsl experience.
ratn other words. i display q this kind
rftntess "a handy encyclopaedia d
Nbirh fstas no sasgavA1
- library OF many thousand yonlsnn
u which only fragmsntary and deseeJ
tory reading was possible. And all
The world may COME % turn tho pages
JOY. this unique book OF life. o lying
Open 10 the view.
But although everything has been
reduced to moderate compass, II il no
small affair. this Philippine exhibition.
We have here n Tcritable city within
the Worlds Fair City, d complete ex.
position within the great exposition
proper. Tho reservation covers Al
acres OF ground there are all the or.
thodox main buildings. such ms Admin
~istraiion. Agriculture. Forestry, Fish.
cries, commerce. women's work. eth.
nology, meterology. art and education,
with nearly a hundred others repre-,
esnting the actual home life Of the dif.
ferent races assembled: the resident
population; civilized. semLciyilixed.
and frankly barbarian, numbers 1900
Flipinos; the separate exhibits mount
mp toward The hundred thousand: the
HnN| I
cost OF all has been a full million OF
doliars. expended under strict govern.
ment supervision
These condensed facts and figures
viii help TO convey an idea Of the
OF The display. the thorough
with which the Philippine admin
stration han performed its task. the
'hrc award that awaits all who come
. enlarge their general expcr
encc Or 10 quest Of special informa
ION
There Is no lack ofsfun and gaiety
D the reservation. lint even the scenes
hat amnsc have their educational
alue. For everything is real life,
nd knowledge Of real life Is the sum
I all education No chance of oven
uggestinx a lesson has been missed,
he central sdhare with lts handsome
Ianking buildings, represents the Typ.
al plaza OF a Spanish town. such as
ID Spain planted throughout the irop
al world from orient TO %occident The
administration building Is a replica OF
10 government Offices In Manila,
lille the art and education building
sproduces In miniature the cathedral
ithin the walled city. \ / the mel !,
WED tints Of age being faithfully I,
,ndered. A section OF the ancient but
III seryiceable town wall has been !,
constructed. 10 erv the double pur- ,
,se OF gateway 10 the show and a
useum OF arms and war relics The /,
her main edifices = types Of FIJI, ,
no homes, being built Of undressed
nber, bamboo and rattan. with
roof and broad v%erandas. SO, i
lille all these buildings contain ex
bits. they are themselves exhibits !
Then there are the tribal villages. c