The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-18
FEATURES OF
NEW JERSEYS
DISPLAY
Exhibits Scattered Through
the Various Buildings at
the EXPOSITION
Especial to the evening start

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NORFOLK, Va, Oct. 1S--New Jer-
sey has taken a place in the Jamestown
exposition that Is ratifyin to the
exposition management. and u source
of much satisfaction to the people of
that State who visit the great SHOW on
the shores of Hampton Roads The
building is of the colonial type, and in
its interior arrangements and furnish
ings shares a place of particular dis
tinction with that of Connecticut. The
Virginia building is more pa1atia1, but a
majority of visitors are impressed with
the air of household felt on
entering the New Jersey building.
New Jersey is blessed with a very
gracious hostess in Miss Edith Little,
or Plainfeld, N. j.. The fact is that the
buildings which have hostesses are by
far the most attractive of all and are
marked by an atmosphere that mere
man utterly fails to give. New J ersey's
exposition home is a fine example of
the properly "woman-run" home. The
result is that every one is happy
New Jersey appropriated $751; 600 for
its participation in the jamestown ex-
position, and of this $22 was ex-
pended on it's buildings. The furnish
ings are of antique design Throughout
and of New Jersey manufactures
The States exhibits are in groups.
Thus it has exhibits of it's educa-
tional system and special institutions
in the educational buildings, social
economy features in the Social
Economy building, HISTORICAL in the
History and Historic Arts building,
while in the States exhibit palace are
shown exhibits from the State NJ useum,
geological. insects, training,
good roads and health These
exhibits are under the charge of S. r.
Morse.
The manual training exhibit is very
complete, and the entire school sys-
tenn exhibit, in charge of Miss c, A.
Underwood, of Atlantic City, is dis
%tinctive in that it is compare
tive and includes he exhibits OF seven
other eXpositions, commencing witt the
centennial of 1876. It thus shows the
progress made in a period of thirty
years. In the University Exhibft build
ing Princeton and Rutgers have ex-
hibits.
The educational exhibit is designed
10 instruct and to present. era Phically
the progress of New Jersey in public
education. This exhibit includes por-
lions OF the special Jersey exhibits at
the exposition in PhiladeiPhia in 1876,
New Orleans, Chicago, Charleston and
Buffalo. Each Of these ex pre-
scented the educational conditions of
their respective times. COnbincd and
having added a complete PreSentation
of present-day school methods and re-
suits, there is provided a splendid out
line of what New Jersey has done Tor
tho cause of public education
From the State are a fine
collection of the game birds of the
State, game animals. fish, pictures IL
Illustrating good Jersey roads. and a
mineral exhibit showing lead, zinc,
iron, mari, lime. clay, cement, serpen-
tine. and many ~interestinE geological
formations.
Nothing perhaps is more Interesting
than the chronological exhibit which
includes a collection of specimens of the
mosquitoes, the exterrninatiOn of which
had made Jersey famous
Jersey was once famous FOR her
mosquitoes" admits Custodian and
Commissioner Smith, but he adds,
Jersey is famous now for Kidding her
self of the pest, while many another
State is coming to n fore as n mos
quito breeder because it does not jump
in and STAY them"
There are some three or four varieties
of mosquitoes in Jersey, but 1T is the
germ-carrying mosquito which was the
nsrt,crlar object ofthe scIenti=tS' benef-
icent wraht. This is the Stecomyla
Fasciata Fabr." He really Is not a
large bird until you sec him magnified
and printed for exposition purposes,
The pictures show him bout a million
times as large as the mounted speci-
mems nearby.
Other pictures show the ditching of
marsh land and thus wiPinE out breed
ing places, the using of oil and the
catching of specimens for urPo OF
audlySlS. specimens art
eggs of the mosquito and the insect IN
its stages of Development similar eX-
hibits are made of all fruit or wood
destroying insects, including the san
Jose scale and the seVenteen-year
locust.
The New Jersey JAMESTOWN Commits
sion consists of Alfred Cooper, Cape
May Court House; Harry w Leeds
Atlantic City; D. Harry Chandler, Vine
land; James Harper Smith. ervile;
Wallace M. ~Scudder. Newark Richard
w. Herbert, Wickatunk; James +. Mac
Murray, Plainfeld; A. B. Leach. South
Orange; DR.. f. L. stevenson, New
Brunswick: Dr. Thomas x Reed. At
Iantic City; Clarence f. Breckenridge,
chief commissioned haywood Lewis 7.
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