464 New York at the World's Columbian Exposition.- 



shown by the color of the symbol. Many minor details were also 

 brought out. The map was handsomely framed and attracted wide 

 attention by its beauty, scientitic key and graphic clearness with which 

 it presented New York's educational resources. The technical work 

 was done by tlie scholars of the Albany High School, under the direc- 

 tion of Drawing Master T. C. Hailes. 



Phonograph : The result of the experiment of presenting an actual 

 representation of the musical work of schools by means of the phono- 

 graph was even more successful than its promoters hoped, and the value 

 of that instrument for educational purposes received added proof. The 

 methods of conducting class instruction and exercises were fully 

 recorded, grade by grade, and the system illustrated by scores of songs 

 and choruses. Albany, New York, Rochester and Syracuse were the 

 representative cities selected to furnish tests. Wisconsin and Nebraska 

 also used the phonograph for musical work, but New York's cylinders 

 in number were double the others combined, and, in the opinion of the 

 expert furnished by the North American Phonograph Company to 

 inspect the machines, superior in quality. 



Historical exhibit : This exhibit while not perhaps strictly educa- 

 .tional was closely allied and formed an interesting and widely admired 

 portion of the display. The principal part of it was contributed by 

 the State Library and Columbia College. Prominent were fifteen oil 

 paintings of the early cliampions of popular education whose influence 

 and fame were by no means confined to State boundaries. Among 

 them were Greorge Clinton, DeWitt Clinton, Samuel Johnson, Gideon 

 Hawley, T. Romeyn Beck, William Marcy and F. A. P. Barnard. 

 Busts of Alexander Hamilton, William H. Seward, George Perkins 

 and John T. Hoffman, done by Powers, Ives and other eminent sculp- 

 tors were much admired. The links of the great chain stretched across 

 the Hudson river at West Point during the Revolution to keep the 

 British warships from ascending the river was easily the most popular 

 exhibit in New York's territory. Charter to the Duke of York by 

 Charles II, Major Andre's letters, emancipation proclamation, collec- 

 tion of twenty-five different photographs and engravings of Columbus, 

 autograph letter of Washington and other relics and curios completed 

 the display. 



Written worTc : The written work which must necessarily form so 

 large a part of the practical exhibit of a school was of special value in 

 New York's case for two reasons : First, the portion prepared by the 

 schools was certified regular work of the classes and was not " improved " 

 for the exposition. In many cases the class exercises were collected at 

 the close of the day, the teacher's statement of the nature of the work 

 prefixed and the matter then sent to the binders. The question of 

 showing a few selected best papers, as the ideal towards which the 

 school was aiming, did not commend itself to the advisory committee. 

 Such an exhibit may make a " good show," but it is not scientific. 

 Neither is it valuable, for a person who does not know the character 

 of the work receives a wrong impression of the standard of the school, 

 and a person who does, examines it as a mere show piece and attaches 

 no value to it. It was determined by the advisory committee to 



