76 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
WHAT THE PRESS HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE NEW 
JERSEY EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT. 
NEW JERSEY AT WORLD’S FAIR. 
EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT ONE OF THE BEST ON THE GROUNDS. 
EMPIRE STATE OUTDONE. 
From a Paterson Paper. 
New Jersey’s portion of the Educational Exhibit at St. Louis includes the 
main exhibit of her public schools, also exhibits of the industrial settlement 
at Woodbine, the industrial school at Hoboken, the school for the deaf at 
Trenton, and the schools for the feeble-minded at Orange and Vineland, 
All these exhibits except the last were installed by Hon. Silas R. Morse, 
who has served the State in a similar capacity at every world’s fair for 
twenty years, and who among the educators of all States has earned a repu¬ 
tation for skill in arrangement. He is relieved for the summer months by 
George H. Cresse, formerly a teacher of the State, at present a junior in 
Princeton, who catalogued the exhibits and installed the exhibit of the Vine- 
land school for feeble-minded girls and boys. 
Among the thirty-five States contributing, New Jersey has an enviable 
location along the north wall of the Palace of Education, with Connecticut 
on her left, Wisconsin on her right, Pennsylvania in front, directly across 
the aisle, and New York adjoining beyond. She occupies floor space forty 
by thirty feet, and fills 2,000 square feet of wall area with public school 
drawings and articles of manual training; also sixty of the famous Jersey 
leaf cabinets with representative written and graphic work of her students. 
The visitor in registering is confronted by the printed statement that the 
State of New Jersey received at Chicago the highest award for her educa¬ 
tional exhibit; at the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, the only gold 
medal given to a State Exhibit. At Charleston “one gold medal for the 
educational work of the schools of the State; one gold medal for equipment 
and results; one gold medal for educational work of the State Normal and 
model school; one gold medal for the educational work of the school for the 
deaf.” And on opening the cabinets he is convinced that the State’s record 
is still maintained. 
The general run of unprofessional sightseers pass through the Jersey 
booths exclaiming at the tasty arrangement of the articles of manual train¬ 
ing. “See the advanced stage of work represented up there!” On the other 
hand, the teachers from every quarter of the Union open the cabinet drawers 
filled with the volumes that illustrate New Jersey’s methods, and they take 
notes upon minute details by the hour. The scores of, such books from the 
comprehensive exhibits of Newark, Atlantic City and Trenton are in such 
demand that teachers often need to wait their turn for a certain volume. 
The pictorial illustration by the Plainfield children of their own language 
work, is excelled nowhere in the building. Paterson has proven herself to 
be Jersey’s banner city in the art of wood carving and wood turning. Cam¬ 
den has illustrated best the utilization of advanced wood work in the making 
of mould for casting iron; and her steel products stagger the teachers of the 
Empire State. Trenton has water-color paintings that early arrest the 
attention of the superficial observer, and are also pronounced bv experts to 
be unsurpassed in the building. Her correlation of music and drawing 
makes the most unique exhibit from the State. The State relies upon Mont- 
