The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-01
COMMITTEE SENDS OUT LETTER
OF INSTRUCTIONS.
HOW # SHOULD Be DONE
Rules for Governing Preparation and
Classification Of Work, It's
Shipment, Etc.

A circular letter has been issued
by the subcommittee of the educa-
tional auxiliary committee Of the Mon
tana Worlds Fair commission for the
guidance of those who are making
preparation for contributions to the
states educational exhibit at ST. Louis.
The subcommittee is composed OF
Professor c. S. Brother of this city,
R. G. Young and R. j. Cunningham,
and the letter has been sent to the
state superintendent Of public educa-
tion, who is chairman of the auxiliary.
BY him copies are being mailed all
over the state. Request is made by
the committee that the newspapers
give publication to the matter, so that
all interested may become familiar
with the contents, as the time still at
hand for preparing the exhibit is
Short
How 1t Should Be Done.
Rules have been adopted to facili-
tate the arrangements of the exhibits
and to insure their proper disposition.
Among these is one requiring that
all work shall be completed. having
the name, age, grade, etc, of pupil
neatly placed at the top of each page,
while care must be taken to leave pro-
per margins so that the work may be
bound.
The material should be carefully
assorted and arranged, restricting
each kind of work to itself, say the
second grade arithmetic in one pack
age; that of the third grade in another,
and SO ON for all grades. Each sheet
should be placed right side up. Ac-
companying each package and form
ing part OF it should be a Ilst of the
questions used, also the teachers
statement" properly signed by the
teacher, stating that the work was
prepared according to the rules and
instructions sent out by the commit
tee. All the arithmetic packages
should be placed in one large package,
carefully wrapped and marked "arith-
metic."
In a like manner the work of the
remaining subjects should be treated.
If not bound, the packages should be
placed between pieces OF stiff card
board, top and bottom, to protect the
edges of the paper. Whenever pos
siDle it is preferred that the work
be bound in volumes, the pages vary
ing in number from 100 to 200.
Photographs, maps, drawings, ETC., il
not mounted, should be sent fiat and
protected back and front by stiff card
board. Administrative blanks should
be sent in the same way, if not bound
or mounted. Industrial and kinder
garten work should be carefully
packed in excelsior or cotton to pre-
vent crushing and breaking.
1t is especially requested that all
work be put up in substantial manner,
as it is to be on exhibition for six
months and will be handled by count
less numbers Of people. Unless it
is securely arranged it is likely to be
torn and soiled
About Addressing It.
After all work has been completed
and arranged it should be packed
closely and in strong boxes, wood, the
covers preferably screwed on. Each
box should be addressed as follows:
Worlds Fair Commission. h. G. I
Young, Butte, Mont. Educational Ex-
hibit."
II so addressed and sent by freight
the railroad companies VIII carry the
boxes to Butte free of charge.
Two inventories of material ship
ped should be made, one of which
must be enclosed in the box. The
other should be sent by mail to r. G.
Young, Butte. II the shipment con-
sists of more than one box they should
be numbered, and the inventory should
show what each box contains.
It is absolutely necessary that all
material be shipped no later than
March 10. Upon its receint at Butte
it will be placed in the hands Of the
auxiliary committee and the installing
agents for examination, assortment,
replacing and shipment