Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-06
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ing at the Seattle fair the most pOpu-
lar one on the grounds.
Rubber Exhibit Also
The Hawaii Rubber Growers AS
ISOLATION, the report goes on to say,
will be able to use a space 15x15 feet
in the building. Here will be dis
played different forms of crepe and
block rubber as it is now prepared.
There will also be a display of the
trunks of the rubber tree, showing
crops including dried bananas.
| Hackfeld & Company would like to
enter an exhibit which will occupy
a space about 15x15 feet, for the
tobacco industry. Here the company
will exhibit the different varieties Of
the tobacco plant, bales of prepared
tobacco, and cigars, and will probably
seek permission to manufacture and
sell to the visitors cigars made from
he Kona toDacco. The coffee grow
ers will be able to occupy space 15x
20 feet, and in this space, the report
states that Hackfeld & Company wish
es to install a small coffee rooster,
! grinder and percolater in order to
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coffee, which will be made while they
wait. 1t is expected that Hawaiian
coffee in pound packages will be sold
at this booth. The different grades Of
Hawaiian coffee will also be exhibited
in this space in glass containers, and
live trees with the ripening berries
will form a part of the decorations.
And Still They Come
The Hawaiian Fiber Company have
requested the use OF space 15x15
feet for it's exhibit. The company in
tends to exhibit bales of sisal and also
the fiber in smaller samples. The
booth is to be matched with sisal
fiber and among the decorationse will
be several of the living plants.
The report goes on to state that
the space which Will be needed for
the exhibit of the sugar industry has
not been definitely decided upon. Ac.
cording to the present plans, however,
the space will be perhaps one of the
largest. The feature of the exhibit
will be in the form of small sugar
mill which will show the process Of
the sugar manufacture. An exhibit
like ~, this would probably. be given
twice a week. Other exhibits which
are now being planned are the various
Towering plants of the islands, fruits,
algaroba meal. cotton, rice and hun
dred or more varieties of the hibis-
Gus.
Planning School Exhibit Also.
The report of Willis T. Pope, chair
man of the subcommittee in charge of
the educational exhibit, gives a tenta-
tive outline of the proposed plans, of
the board of education. The matter of
this exhibit was presented to the COM
missioners of education a year ago,
and it was decided that each supervis-
ing principal be appointed as mem
Der of the educational committee rep
resenting their respective districts.
The supervising principals at their
meeting in May of last year consid-
cred the matter of an exhibit and de-
cided to appoint subcommittee in
their respective districts, these COM
mittees all working in conjunction to
get together such materials as will
represent the work of the schools and
be credit to Hawaii at the exposi-
ton
Among the leading features of the
proposed exhibit, as set forth in the
report, will be pictures and models
showing the development in school ar
chitecture in Hawaii - the grass
house. the frame building which was
introduced at a later period, the larg-
er buildings of the middle period, such
as the Hilo Union and the old Fort
street schools, the present modern
structures and finally the model of an
ideal group of open-air school rooms.
Then there will be pictures of classes
from the time of the common school,
composed of Hawaiians, up to the
classes of the present-day polyglot
character Another feature will be
that of a model school, showing plan
of the schoolroom, Fairgrounds, gar
den, shops, domestic science depart
ment, etc.
Among other things which are now
being considered for the exhibit are
samples of written work of all the
grades in the public elementary and
secondary grades, samples of written
work from the different private
schools and colleges, an industrial
and manual training exhibit, textbooks
used from the beginning of the school
system in the territory, an exhibit
showing the development in the diff
fcrent courses of study, and finally an