Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-12
GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS.
Government Participation in the Ter
 Centennial Not All Military.

Norfolk. Va, Jan 12.---A large pro- portion of our American citizenship Interested in various industries will find at the Jamestown exposition a treasure mine. The choicest exam ples of industrial achievement will be there displayed. The latest devel- opment of all kinds of machinery and the products of machinery will be exhibited. has not been the pur- pose of the management to secure simply multiplicity or exhibits, but all energies have been directed to- ward the congregation of the very best that American ingenuity can of fer.
 In connection with the military and naval display the government will maintain a war museum.
 In the government buildings will be an exhibit of the state department, showing fac-similies in some cases, and in others originals, of all the fa- nous documents which have become part of our nations history. The treasury department will maintain bureau of engraving and printing, which will illustrate the plate work used in the bureau for notes and bonds. It will also exhibit It's splendid collection of portraits in which appear all the presidents of the United States and all the secre- ta1ies of the treasury The life saving service will operate a station, completely equipped, and they will make rescues from time to time from boats in the harbor. A complete station will be maintained, being an exact duplicate of that which is regularly operated on the coast.
 In the war museums models of for tification and harbor defences and types of batteries on entertainments will be shown.
 The exhibit of the ordnance de- partment of this section will be a complete exhibition of firearms and powder. The largest cannon and the smallest side arms will be shown Various styles of machine guns will be exhibited; cartridge making ma chimes will be operated. Every vari- ety of automatic death dealing device will be exhibited and each invention for defence will be shown in juxtapo- sition.
 The signal service corps will illus trate the scientific evolution of its branch. The development of signals for transmitting messages from long distances is as old as history, but it is a far cry from the fire on the hill- top to the telordergraph and helio- graph of the present day. The most of the intervening methods will be shown so that the development of this science may be accurately shown.
 A model post office will be operated and collection of dead letters relics shown.
 The patent office, the pension of- flee, the land office and the Indian office will each make comprehensive exhibit.
 The geological survey will make a series of experiments with selective minerals, which will be as valuable as post graduate course to the stu ] dent of mineralogy.
 The Smithsonian institute will H. lustrate comprehensively all of its great divisions-ethmological, geo. | logical and biological. Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico will have special rep resentation.
 The department of agriculture will \make an invaluable exhibit, which will be intensely interesting to every farmer.
 The department of commerce and labor will maintain the best acquar- ium ever shown at an exposition. The library of congress will be represented by model of the new building. Old and rare maps of the world and maps close up to date will form part of this exhibit, which will also contain autograph letters of the great American statesman and man. uscripts of political and personal in- | terest.
 The division of music contains carefully prepared histories of music, the work of ancient and modern con- posers. essays and musical notations and complete collection of the war songs and patriotic airs of all coun- tries.
 The copyright office, the division f of prints and the catalogue division of the national library will present jointly an exhibit of intense fascina- .lon to the student of bibliography.