The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-26
THE NEGRO EXHIBIT AT
THE MARIoN-sUMTER FAIE

It is a revelation A people who
have made so much progress as the
Negro has ought to be spurred to
continue its progress along all econ
omic lines until their worth would
not be questioned. To look at the
general display in this building is /
to receive the most favorable impress
sion It is well filled ard If the
things were displayed as one nearly
always sees IN county fairs building
twice the size might be easily filed. T
Fessenden Academy, as usual, has /
comprehensive exhibit from five I
departments and the impression it /
makes for the work Fessenden is
carrying on is most excellent
The school has a display from the /
domestic science department that |
might we'll be coveted by any hotel /
in the world The baking has been
done perfectly and the artistic dis
play of the cooking is all that could
be desired Baked ham, baked chick
en-, chicken croquets. salad, presery-
les, fruit cakes, ribbon cakes, ginger
cakes. breads etc. make up the exhdb-
lit that is indeed a pride and will
/ doubtless mean many prizes when
| the judges come around Another
case of cooking made by the child
ren's department at Fessenden Acad-
envy is almost the equal of that made
by the adult department at the
school.
The fancy work is very beautiful.
Lace work of many kinds. plain and
machine sewing, garments of many
kinds, dressed dolls, dressed toy beds
drawings, water. colors, paper cutting,
paper folding, and large number OF
well written examination papers
make up the first half of the display.
The institution also has an elabo-
rate display of carpentry. Mantels.
fat top desks. hotel desks. dressers.
gates, window frames, wheelbarows,
. carts and joints by the hundreds. car
wing, carpentry, and manual train
ing in all its educational forms are
illustrated and displayed to advan-
tage IA model house, with its lit
tie doors, windows, sleeping porch,
wire screened, and perfectly shingled
top and coloring attracts the child
rem as we'll as grown ups. One OF
the most instructive displays at the
fair is the iron models from Fessen-
den Wrenches, single tree hooks
wall hooks, chiscls, punches, and
irons, nuts, bolts. hammers, hatcEets
fire pokers, trowels and etc, show
the practical as we'll as educationa
IIvalue of that department. We see
in embryo for this section from these
exhibits, furniture factories. Wagon
factories and garment factories Z
II give employment to the hands %
Florida citizens so that Florida dol
IL lars may be spent in FLORIDA mor'
| than once Principal Wiley explain
i ed that the educational values o
/ the institution were being blende.
II with the economic needs of the sec
ton and the effort was to train peo
pie to live well SO that they Nigh
make lives that would be successful
We must not omit to call attentioi
= to large family bed made by tn
boys Tt and dump cart, large i
/ propc ten, are the siege guns
the exhibit in size
s The next largest exhibit is tina
of Howar1 Academy. the local plt
lie school for colored children. TIL
= display made by the, school is Yer
creditable The sewing display b
j grades, he cooking exhibits an
y woodwork show what is being don
there along those lines.
"A number of coIored school
throughout the county made attra'
n. tive exhibits of cooking. sewing an
en- primary wood carving.
or The citizens exhibit is large an
consists OF sewing, cooking, drawins
painting, canned fruits, quilts an
the any artistic things good peopl
strive to make.
n The Star believes in education fe
everybody. It keeps them busy an
busy people have no time for erin
inalfty We therefore commend tn
exhibit as one to be copied by th
colored citizens of all the countit
- of Florida for they will act as a stin
ulus to the mass Of colored peopl
It1 Every colored person in the count
and in Ocala should go and look i
at this exhibit. 1t is needless to sa
.lu that thousands of white people wi
visit the building to see what th
colored man is doing to advance h
interests. The attendants in tn
49, building are polite and take pleasu1