The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16
new JERSEY PRIZES
STATE DOES WELL AT
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
Commission Notified Officially that
Twenty-seven Medals Have Been
Awarded-More to Come.

TRENTON, Nov. 16.-The New Jer-
sey Commission of the Jamestown Ter
centennial Exposition has received
official notice that t-wenty-seven medals
as awards of merit have already been
given to his state. They were awarded
TO State institutions, to several cities
for school exhibits, TO S. b. Morse, of
Atlantic City, curator of the State
museum. and to Francis b. Lee, of this
city. It is understood that there are adj
ditional awards of which the commits
sion has not received official notice.
That the New Jersey exhibits stood
high in their class is shown by the
number of medals received. There was
q difference in the method used in the
Jamestown exposition and the st.
LOUIS lair. At Jamestown no grand
prizes were awarded. In their place
gold medals were awarded and silver
medals We're substituted for gold
medals and represented equal merit,
Official notice has been received Of
THE award of gold medals for the fol-
lowing exhibits:
The New Jersey comparative educa-
tional exhibit, installed in the State ex-
hibits building. This is the first OF the
kind ever shown by any State. 1t com
prises school work from the Centennial
Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876,
New Orleans in 1888. Chicago 1898, But
falo 1901, Charleston 1901 and 1902 and
st. Louis, together with new work pre-
pared for the jamestown Exposition.
Geological survey of New Jersey, a
collective mineral exhibit from the
State Museum in this city.
Fish and game exhibit taken from the
State Museum. and consisting of stuffed
birds, birds eggs and nests, forest in
sects, wild animals and a collection of
woods.
Mosquito exhibit. This was also
taken from the State Museum and
shows the method of mosquito exter-
mination.
Social economy exhibit installed in
the Social Economy building. This eX-
hibit was furnished by fifteen different
State departments and institutions and
will constitute a part Of the permanent
exhibit in the museum at the state
Capitol in this city when brought from
Jamestown.
Good roads department. This ex-
hibit consists of materials in road maxi
ing, geographically arranged to show
the proper use OF the materials, to-
gether with statistics, maps and photo
graphs, illustrating. in a striking man
ner, the system under which New Jer-
sey has built more than LOO miles Of
good roads. placing it at the head OF
all States in the Union in the matter
of improved highways.
Health resorts. This award is a gold
medal to the New Jersey Exposition
Commission for photographs, paintings,
etc, showing the health resorts Of the
State, including Long Branch, Asbury
Park and Atlantic City. The Commis-
/ sion announcing that it is reliably in
formed that two or three other gold
medals have also been awarded to New
Jersey of which official notice has not
been received.
Each of the following departments
and city school received a silver medal:
Department of public instruction of
the State, comparative exhibit from the
State House for the purpose of show
ing proeress; State Normal and Model
Schools, general work; State Museum,
forestry; State Museum, collection OF
wood sections; Montclair Board of Ed
.ucation, general work; Paterson public
schools, carving, turning, drawing ana
sewing; Trenton public schools, draw
ing, music and general work; Plain
field public schools, general work; East
Orange Board of Education, general
work; Atlantic City public schools, de-
signs of books and other work; New
ark public schools, drawing and gem
eral work; Asbury Park Board of Edu-
cation. general work; Camden public
schools, music and manual training;
Garfield public schools, manual train
ing.
Silver medals were also given to each
of the following Jersey exhibits in the
social economy department: State
School for Boys at Jamesburg, photo
graphs and specimens of pupils work;
State School for Girls Reform at
Trenton, photographs and specimens of
pupils work.; State Institute for
Feeble-Minded Women at Vineland,
photographs and specimens of pupils
work: school Of Industrial Arts at
Trenton. pupils work in art.
S. r. Morse, curator of the State
museum. had charge of all the pre-
ceding exhibits.
A diploma of a bronze medal was
awarded the collective historical X
hibit prepared by Francis B. Lee, of
Trenton.
OCEAN GROVE LESSEES