REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 67 
facade 750 feet in length, and a southern facade 450 feet in 
length. The two equal sides are 525 feet each. The building 
covers about seven acres of ground. The style of architec¬ 
ture is modern classic, and a magnificent colonnade surrounds 
the building, giving it dignity and beauty. The height of 
these columns is fifty feet. Some of the finest pieces of 
statuary designed for the Exposition are to be placed upon 
the Education Building, notably a magnificent quadriga by 
Robert P. Bringhurst. The building is on the main avenue, 
near the grand canal and cascade gardens, and is surrounded 
by a lagoon system. The approach is over onramental 
bridges. The building was designed by Eames & Young, and 
will cost $350,000. It is the first building for educational 
exhibits ever erected at an international exposition. 
The following account of the New Jersey Educational Ex¬ 
hibit at St. Louis is to be published in the report of the United 
States Commissioner of Education. 
W. H. Harris, 
Commissioner. 
THE NEW JERSEY SCHOOL EXHIBIT AT THE 
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 
As the work of the New Jersey public schools had been so 
well and successively exhibited at the Exposition held at 
Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Paris, Buffalo, and 
Charleston, the State authorities were at first inclined to let 
the laurels already Won suffice, and at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition make a special effort to secure a proper represen¬ 
tation of our varied and important industrial interests. This 
plan of exhibit was, however, ultimately modified, but as a 
result of its consideration the decision to make an educational 
exhibit at the world’s greatest exposition was delayed until 
late in October, 1903. As the Exposition was to be opened 
on May 1st, 1904, this gave a rather scant allowance of time 
for the formulation of plans, and the preparation, collection, 
selection, arrangement, shipment, and installation of work. 
Notwithstanding this unfortunate delay, of the thirty-five 
