Gloucester County Democrat., 1907-07-25
NEN JERSEY At
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.


place in the jamestown Exposition that is
| gratifying to the exposition management.
and source Of much satisfaction to the
! people OF that state who visit the great show
on the shores Of Hampton Roads. Out Of
some six thousand persons who have regis
tered in the New Jersey state building and,
of course, all do not register, ], 200 have
come from New jersey. The building is
of colonial type, and in its interior arrange
ments and furnishings shares place Of par
ticular distinction with that of Connecti-
cut The Virginia building is more pala-
tia, but a majority Of visitors are impressed
with the air of household comfort felt On
entering the Connecticut and New Jersey
j buildings.
New Jersey is blessed with very gra-
cious hostess, in Miss Little, OF Plainfeld,
New Jersey. Strange to say. and it is not
to be breathed or repeated, some Of the
states failed to appoint hostesses, and there
is a suspicion that some Of the local states
men were afraid that woman could not be
sufficiently diplomatic to carry the position
safely through the swim Of an exposition.
The fact is that the buildings which have
hostesses are by far the most attractive Of
all, aud are marked by an atmosphere that
mere men utterly fails to give. New Jer-
sey's exposition home is a ine sample of
the properly swoman-runo home. The
result is that every one is happy.
New Jersey appropriated s75, 1000 for its
participation at the jamestown Exposition,
and Of this s22, 900 we're expended on its
buildings. Tbs Furnishings are Of antique
design throughout and Of New Jersey
man afactule.
The states exhibits are in groups. Thus
/ il has exhibits OF it's educational 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 ex-
nibits from the state museum, geological,
insects, manual training, good roads, and
health resorts These exhibits are under
the charge Of S. R. Morse
The manual training exhibit is very com
plete and the entire school system exhibit,
in charge Of Miss c. A. Underwood. of At
lantic City, is distinctive in that it is Of the
comparative, and includes the exhibits OF
seven other expositions, commencing with
the Centennial of 1876. II thus shows the
progress made in period of thirty years.
| In the University Exhibit Building Prince
ton and Rutgers have exhibits.
The educational exhibit is designed to
instrucs and to present graphically the pro-
gress of the public education. This exhibit
includes portions Of the special New Jersey
exhibits at the expositions in Philadelphia,
in 1876, New Orleans, Chicago, Charleston
and Buffalo. Each OF these exhibits pre-
sented the educational conditions Of their
respective times Combined and having
added complete representation Of present.
day school methods and results, there is
provided a splendid outline of what New
Jersey has done for the cause OF public
education.
From the state museum is a fine collec-
tion Of the game birds Of the state, game,
animals, fish, pictures of the many famous
water and mountain resorts, picture illus
tratiDg good New Jersey roads. and a
mineral exhibit showing lead, zinc, iron,:
mari, lime, clay, cement, terpentine and
many interesting geological formations.
Nothing, perhaps, is more interesting
shan the chronological exhibit, which in
cludes collection Of specimens of the mos
quitoes, the extermination Of which had
made New Jersey famous.
Jersey was once famous for the mos
quitoes' admits Custodian Commissioners
Smith, "but'n be adds, jersey is lannon's
now for ridding herself of the pest, while
many another states are coming to the fore as
mosquito breeder, because it does not jump
in and slay them. -
There are some three or four varities Of
mosquitoes in Jersey, but it is the germ.
carrying mosquito which was the particular
/ object Of the scientists benefcient wrath.
This is the stecomia Fasciata Fabr. He
really is not large bird until you see him
magniied and printed for exposition pur-
poses. The pictures show him about a
million times as large as the mounted
specimens nearby.
Other pictures show the ditching Of march
land and thus wipiug out breeding places,
the using OF oil, and the catching Of speci-
mems for the purpose Of analysis. Specimens
are shown Of the eggs Of tbe musquito and
the insect in its next stage Of Development
Similar exhibits are made Of all fruit or
wood destroying insects, including the Sam
l.