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colored transparencies that surround the entire hall in a bamboo trellis 

 above the cases and some distance from the walls. The method here 

 used of closely incorporating transparencies with the material part of an 

 exhibit is an innovation in museum installation and a most effective one, 

 not only for the accurate telling of facts but in general artistic result as 

 well. In perhaps no other way could the Filipino people and their 

 activities have been made so vivid ; but the pictures do more than bring 

 the people definitely before the eye, they give to a certain extent the 

 atmosphere of the islands; they show the beauty of Philippine forests 

 and rivers, the picturesqueness of the rice terraces that cover the moun- 

 tain slopes, the difficulties of the mountain trails, and the sweep of 

 typhoons over palms and sea. 



There are many other decorative effects which also tend to give 

 unity and meaning to the exhibition. Fish nets and hemp fibre connect 

 the pillars to shut off a middle aisle, an open space except for seats con- 

 structed of Philippine woods and bamboo and of the stocks formerly 

 in use in the market places of Manila. At the center of the hall a ro- 

 tunda is made of large Philippine palm trunks around which are stacked 

 Filipino guns, surrendered during that six months after President 

 McKinley's reelection in 1900 when more men gave up their guns in 

 the islands than during any similar period in the history of war. 

 Swung conspicuously in the center of this rotunda is one of the most 

 charming features of the exliibit, a strange outrigger boat so typical of 

 the small craft in the far east, containing a Moro youth, paddle in hand. 



The third and fourth sections of the exhibit illustrate the Philippines 

 under American influence, the former covering agricultural and com- 

 mercial life, the latter, educational and political. Here it is that such 

 significant facts as the following are concretely set forth : 



Philippine coal promises to be sufficient in the future for the 



needs of the islands. 



Philippine forests contain 665 kinds of trees and cover 48,112,920 



acres. This fact is emphasized by a wainscoting of Philippine woods 



surrounding the entire exhibition hall, representing the largest and 



most authoritative collection in the world. 



There were 428 miles of standard gauge railroad in operation at 



the close of 1908, and four years more will give the islands a total 



of 1000 miles, whereas only about 120 miles of narrow gauge track 



existed at the close of Spanish rule. 



