REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 77 
clair for its exhibit of elementary science and nature study. The State 
Model School, Hoboken and Passaic, prove our state up to date by their 
photographs illustrative of physical training. Morristown and East Orange 
show to the other States what is a good all-round school attaining excellence 
in every line. Elizabeth has sent water-color portraits that would be no 
discredit to an academy of fine arts. The State Normal School has an ex¬ 
hibit which space forbids to be exhaustive, but which shows superb mastery 
in every department of intellection from the folding of paper to the inquiry 
into the motives for Teutonic migrations. 
New Brunswick, Bayonne, West Hoboken, Phillipsburg, Bloomfield, 
Union, Bridgeton, Vineland and the smaller towns of Freehold, Ocean Grove, 
Asbury Park, Long Branch, Bordentown, Lakewood, Haddonfield, and the 
county of Bergen, have furnished a great mass of classified practical school 
work, which shows that the whole state system rests on a solid basis. There 
is no educational exhibit at St. Louis that has received so much attention 
from educational journals at that of New Jersey, and, while it is one of the 
most unpretentious, it bears close examination the best. 
New Jersey shares with Kansas the distinction of having the most exten¬ 
sive exhibit among the schools for the deaf. The detailed processes are 
illustrated by the inmates, of shoemaking, sewing, woodwork and millenery 
printing. The cabinets from the Woodbine settlement show how Hebrew 
youths are made into American citizens and taught the most up-to-date 
methods in agriculture, horticulture and dairying. Most conspicuous among 
institutions for the feeble-minded are those of the garden State. Orange and 
Vineland have contributed articles of sloyd, needlework and drawings. 
NEW JERSEY AT ST. LOUIS. 
SOME OF THE NEW JERSEY EXHIBITS AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. 
Taken from the New York Herald, Sunday, June 5, 1904, N. J. Edition: 
New Jersey has reason to feel very proud of its exhibits at St. Louis. 
They are pronounced by competent critics the best of their kind in the Ex¬ 
position. They are superior in their intrinsic excellence and in the artistic 
method of their arrangement and exhibition. Besides the regular work 
from nearly all the public schools in the State, the following are some of the 
unique features of the New Jersey schools exhibited in the Palace of Educa¬ 
tion. 
The exhibit is in a pavilion made by the New Jersey School-Church Furni¬ 
ture Company in Trenton and is one of the neatest in the palace. It is 
divided into four alcoves furnished with seventy New Jersey display cabinets 
on as many basis, having six drawers under each for books and other work. 
These drawers are used only by the New Jersey educational exhibit and are 
a new feature. The drawers keep the work clean and make it easy to be 
examined. The whole exhibit is divided into sections, and each cabinet 
and drawer is numbered. 
One of the original features adopted by Mr. S. R. Morse, the director of 
the exhibit, and only used in the New Jersey exhibit, is the index key to the 
whole exhibit. It consists of eight units. Each unit consists of one cabi¬ 
net and a set of six drawers filled with all grades of work from each county 
and city in the State. By consulting this key one will be informed where 
the work from any school having it can be found by its reference to the 
section, cabinets and books in which the work can be found. Every one 
who has seen the index key pronounces it one of the best features in any of 
the exhibits. It also has one unit and four books of work in the music and 
drawing combined, that no other State has. It is admired by all who see it. 
It also has a unit of historical pictures, sketches and descriptions of import¬ 
ant events and places of New Jersey. 
