Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1901 — THE LIBERAL ARTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LIBERAL ARTS.

NOTABLE EXHIBIT TO BE MADE AT THE PAN-AMERICAN. Vaat FUld Covered by the Exhibit and the Methods to-Be Followed In i : Sts Illustration nt the Exp»«ition nt Buffalo Next Sommer. The building which is to house the exhibit in manufactures and liberal arts at the Pan-American Exposition' at Buffalo will be one of the most imposing In the splendid group surrounding the Court of Fountains. This building is 500 by 350 feet, with a central eourt and having a dome 70 feet in diameter over the entrance on the south. Manufactured products and those il'astrating the liberal arts are so closely allied that they naturally are classified lh the same general group, and at the great expositions of recent years they have been housed under t'.:e same roof. Under the genera) classification of liberal arts are included such subjects as those of education and social economy, books, periodicals, scientific apparatus, hygiene and sanitation, musical instruments, public works, civil engineering, constructive architecture, photographs and photographic supplies, medical, dental and surgical apparatus and other branches of intellectual activity. Indeed it is the most progressive and noble of the tendencies and achievements of this age of enlightenment and civill- i iatlon which are represented in the ex- I hibits of this -division of a great exposition. The work of collecting and classifying the Liberal Arts exhibit for the Pan-American Exposition is now well under way and is in charge of Dr. Selim 11. Peabody, whose successful han- ; dling of the same division at the great Columbian Exposition of 1593 marks him as the best qualified man on the American continent for the discharge of such a task. The exhibits of the Liberal Arts division as well as those of other departments will be concentrated and representative rather than vast in extent and exhaustive in scope. Most gratifying progress has been made since the World’s Fair at Chicago in methods of education In the public schools, universities and colleges of the United States and other Pan-American countries. The educational exhibit will give special attention to exemplifying this great progress and showing the present state of our educational institutions. It is the intention to have models prepared representing the equipments of schools, colleges and unn’ersities. The exhibit made by the United States in the Taris exposition will be removed to Buffalo for the Pan-American and will be supplemented with additional exhibits. Closely related to the educational exhibit will be those in social economy and in hygiene and sanitation. Under the head of social economy will be Included such subjects as charities and correction, co-operative associations and trades unions, apprenticeship and child labor, protection of workingmen in factories and mines, workingmen’s dwellings, etc.

The division of sanitation and hygiene is one of great practical importance, and great progress lias been made within a decade along this line. Indeed it may perhaps be said that the subject lias become almost a science in Itself, and certainly in its relations to ♦lie daily life of the people its impori -ce cannot be toe much emphasized. 'JL. exhibit at the I’an-American llxpos.l. which is under the immediate supers. nos Dr. Jacob S. Otto, an authority In ' ! is branch of science; will comprise so* ii subjects as physical culture. and the ; nnralus used in various institutions for -.lds purpose—hospitals and dispensaries, boards of health—and their function*' foods, their chemistry, preservation and adulteration; mechanical methods cf sanitation and sanitary architecture. The improved methods Introduced into municipal departments In recent years will be shown as graphically as possible. In pinny cases models will be used for this purpose, Maps end models showing the disposition of garbage In cities and the cremation of the dead will be features'of the exhibit In this division. Sewer drainage will also form an Important part of the exhibit Especially timely, in view of the tenement house investigation recently conducted by a state comsion appointed for that purpose, will be the exhibit to be made by the Charity Organization Society of New York City showing the past and present ns well as the Idpal sanitary conditions of homes In tenement districts of great , elties. Of Interest In the same connection will be the exhibit showing what la being done In the way of public

baths by the progressive city of Brookline, MasaF 1 The exhibit of public works will be closely related to that of hygiene and sanitation, and among its features will be a model of the Chicago drainage canal and a large model also of the city of Boston and its vicinity within a radius of 12 miles. I have not space now to speak of the exhibits of photographs and photographic supplies, of piano fortes and other musical instruments and of other features of the Liberal Arts exhibit, interesting though these will be. The whole field will be covered in a way to bring out the most attractive and educational side of the subjects illustrated. Edward Hale Brush.

ELECTRIC TOWER, WITH BALCONY OF COURT OF FOUNTAINS.