The Penn's Grove record., 1907-07-19
The PENIS Grove Record
D JULY 10, 1907.
New Jersey At jamestown
Exposition

NOrtOlk, Ha.-NeW JelSey DdS
taken a place in the Jamestown Expo
sition that is gratifying to the eXposi-
ton Management, and a source of much
satisfaction to the people of that state
who visit the great show on the shores
of Hampton Roads. Out of some ten
thousand persons who have registered
in the New Jersey state building, and of
course, all do not register, 1900 have
come from New Jersey. The building
is of colonial type, and its interior ar
rangements and furnishings shares a
place of particular distinction with that
of Connecticut. The Virginian build
ing is more palatial, but a majority of
visitors are impressed with the air of
household comfort felt on entering the
Connecticut and New Jersey Buildings.
New Jersey is blessed with a very
gracious hostess, in Miss Little, of
Plainield, New Jersey. Strange to say
and it is not to be breathed o%rrepeated, |
some of the states failed to appoint
hostesses, and their is a suspicion that
some of the local statesmen were afraid
that a woman could not be sufficiently |
diplomatic to carry the position safely
through the swim of an exposition. The
fact is the buildings which have hostess
eS are far more the most attractive of
all and are marked by an atmosphere
that mere man utterly fails to give.
New jerseys exposition home is a fine
sample of the properly 'woman-run"
home. The result is that every one is
happy.
New Jersey appropriated $4,000 for
its participation at the Jamestown Ex-
position, and of this $22, 600 were ex-
pended on its buildings. The furnish
ings are of antique design throughout
and of New Jersey manufacture.
The states exhibits are in groups. |
Thus it has exhibits of its educational
system and special instructions in the
Educational Buildingsf social economy |
features in the Social Economy Build |
ings, historical in the History and His
toric Arts Building, While in the States
Exhibit Palace are shown exhibits 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
complete and the entire school system
exhibit, in charge of c.. A. Underwood,
of Atlantic City, is distinctive in that
it is of the comparative, and includes
the exhibits of seven other expositions'
commencing with the Centennial of
1876. 1t thus shows the progress made
in a period of thirty years. In the Uni
versity Exhibit Building Princeton and
Rutgers have exhibits.
The educational exhibit is designed
to instruct and to present graphically
the progress of the public education.
This exhibit includes portions of the
special New Jersey exhibits at the ex-
positions in Philadelphia, in 1876, New
Orleans, Chicago, Charleston and
Buffalo. Each Of these exhibits pre-
scented the educational conditions of
their respective times. Combined and
having added a complete representation
of present-day school methods and re-
suits, there is provided a splendid out
line Of what New Jersey has done for
the cause of public education.
From the state museum is a fine col.
lie ction of the game birds of the state. |
game animals, fish, pictures of the
many famous water and mountain re.
sorts, picture illustrating good New
Jersey roads, and a mineral exhibit
showing lead, zinc, iron, mari, lime.
clay, cement, %turpentine and many in
terestlng geological formations.
Nothing, perhaps, is more interesting
than the chronological exhibit, which
] includes a collection of specimens of
the mosquitoes, the determination of
which had made New Jersey famous.
Jersey was once famous for the
m ~osquitoes" admits Custodian and
Commissioner Smith, ''but" he adds.
Jersey is famous 10Y for Kidding her
sell OF the pest, while many another state
Is coming to the fore as mosquito breed
er because it does not jump in and "slav
them.'
, There are some three or four ar
letles OF mosquitoes in Jersey, but it is
the g~erm-carrying mosquito which was
the particular object of the scientists
beneficlent wrath. This is the
Stecomyia Casciata Fabr. He really is
not a large bird until you see him
magnifed and printed for exposition
purposes. Thepictures show him about
a million times as large as the mounted
specimens nearby,
Other pictures show the ditching of
marsh land and thus wiping out breed
ing places, the using of oil, and the
catching of specimens for the purpose
OF analysis. Specimens are shown of
eggs of the mosquito and the insect
i'll its next stage of development.
exhibits are made of all fruits
or wood destroying insects, including
the Sam Jones and the 17-year locust.
The New Jersey jamestown Com
consists Of Alfred Cooper, Cape
May Court House; Harry w. Leeds.
City; d. Harry Chandler,
Vineland; James Harper Smith, Somer-
vile; Wallace M. Scudder, Newark;
Richare W. Herbert, Wickatunk:
James q. McMurraY. Plainfeld A 2