80 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Extracts from the Plainfield Express. 
NEW JERSEY LEADS AT ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. 
ITS EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT AS AT THE PAST FAIRS THE FINEST. 
Silas R. Morse, curator of the State Museum at the State House, Trenton, 
and superintendent of the New Jersey educational exhibit at the St. Louis 
Exposition, has left for the fair to superintend the judging of exhibits and 
the awarding of the prizes. The judges began the examination of the ex¬ 
hibits a few days ago. 
He states that the New Jersey educational exhibit is unquestionably the 
best of the kind at the exposition, and he expects that, following the secur¬ 
ing by this State of gold medals for the most superior exhibit at the Chicago, 
Charleston and Buffalo expositions, other medals will be added to the num¬ 
ber for the finest showing among all the states at St. Louis. 
What John McDonald of the Kansas Educational Journal 
says: 
Mr. Silas R. Morse, of Trenton, takes charge of the New Jersey School 
Exhibit because he loves the work. He might just as w T ell be living at his 
ease on the Jersey coast, for he is a wealthy man. He not only supervises 
the educational exhibit, but the Fish, Game and Forestry and Insect ex¬ 
hibits from his State. Mr. Morse is curator of the New Jersy State Museum. 
He is the inventor of the swinging leaves in the cabinet cases so generally 
used in the Education Building. Mr. Morse has houses in Trenton and 
Atlantic City, and in the woods of Maine, and a hospitality which has no 
limits. 
The people in Education Building refer to the Connecticut exhibit as “the 
orphan,” because nobody looks after it. Why so attractive a display should 
be left to show itself is a mystery. 
