The San Francisco call., 1904-11-25
MUSEUMS WILL
Be BENEFITED
Portion of the Philippine
Exhibit at the Worlds Fair
to Be Purchased by Them
MATERIAL is VALUABLE
Polished Woods Are to Be
Divided Equally Among
Eight of the Large Cities
BY PAUL EDWARDS.

CALL BUREAU, PRESS BUILD
ING, WORLDS FAIR, ST. LOUIS,
Nov 24.-Several museums Of the
country are to be enriched through the
Philippine exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Large commercial museums, among
others. will secure material that is val
liable to them All the institutions
that have applied for material will
send man to select, pack and ship
1t. San Francisco has made no direct
selection and has not arranged to send
any one to secure anything from the
Philippines as far as known here, out
her commercial museums will get some
Of the material, nevertheless.
The insular government is trying to
get out of It's Worlds Fair venture
with as small an expenditure as pos
sible, its vaults not bulging with coin.
and it will give nothing away Those
articles that it has no further use Tor
and the museums want, they must
purchase. Some Of the material the
Government will merely lend to mu-
seums and reserve the right to with
draw it whenever it wishes to make
another exhibit. In both cases the ex-
pense of packing and shipping must
be paid by the museums.
The polished woods, which have been
the marvel of all who have seen them,
are to be divided equally among eight
large cities. They will remain the
property Of the insular government
San Francisco will get a share of them
and valuable addition will be made
to her museum thereby. The Smith
sonian Institution and the Field Mu-
scum are among those which are to
receive valuable articles from the Phil
ippines.
SALARY ROLL is CUT.
Under the law the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition has the first selection of the
materials, but through some oversight
the Philadelphia Museum. whose head
was for some time chairmon of the
Philippine Board. was promised first
choice. 1t has been decided to give
them duplicates as far as possible, that
there may be no friction.
Some of the exhibits will go back to
the islands. All the chronological ma
terial will return there, though it will
probably make a stop at Portland. To
secure a first-class Philippine exhibit
fl 1m the material at hand at the Lou
isiana Purchase Exposition will cost
the Oregon city in the neighborhood of
$40, ,O00
Furniture men have been greatly IN
terested in the various odd articles Of
furniture made from bamboo that the
Filipinos exhibit The popularity Of
these articles with the public has
caused the American manufacturers to
look on them as quite salable and all
the bamboo in the buildings erected by
the Filipinos will be bought up and
usSi in making furniture after the pat
tern of that exhibited.
A L. Lawshe of Wabash. Ind, audi
tor of the Philippine Islands. who was
sent here to take charge at a time
when it looked as if the financial re-
sources of the islands would be taxed
to carry on the exhibit, so great was
the salary roll and other expenses.
thinks the insular government will get
out with a total expenditure of less
than three quarters of million dol
lars 1t was the original intention to
exDend $500,000 The expense up to
September 30 was 1920, ,4S5. The Louis
lana Purchase Exposition gave $780,
423 as aid and the receipts from va
rious sources to September 80 were
$312, 900, leaving a total expense of
$S19,042. Since September 80, great cuts
having been inaugurated, the expense
has been much less. The salvage from
the exhibit will amount to consider
al hIe