commissioner.

The members of the board of lady commissioners were: Mrs. L.S. Thorne;
Miss Kate Daffan, Ennis; Mrs. B.F. Hammett, El Paso; Mrs. O.T. Holt,
Houston; Mrs. W.R. Roberts, Brownwood; Mrs. Fannie Foote Emerson,
McKinney; Mrs. J.B. Wells, Brownsville; Mrs. W.F. Beers, Galveston; Mrs.
C.L. Potters, Gainesville; Mrs. E.P. Turner, Dallas; Mrs. William
Cameron, Waco; Mrs. William Christian, Houston; Mrs. W.F. Gill, Paris;
Mrs. W.E. Green, Tyler; Mrs. J.F. Wolters, Lagrange; Mrs. F. Hufsmith,
Palestine; Mrs. I.H. Evans, Austin; Mrs. J.C. Lea, Dallas; Mrs. W.F.
Robertson, Austin; Mrs. Bacon Saunders, Fort Worth; Mrs. T.V. Sessions,
Nacogdoches.

The Texas commission installed and successfully maintained exhibits in
the palaces of Fine Arts, Education, Transportation, Mines and
Metallurgy, Forestry, Agriculture, and Horticulture. The cost of the
installation was as follows:

Fine Arts ................. $1,225.50
Education ................. 948.00
Transportation ............ 459.30
Mines and Metallurgy ...... 10,577.85
Forestry .................. 4,477.05
Agriculture ............... 6,899.87
Horticulture .............. 6,099.14

The contract price for the Texas Building, which occupied one of the
most admirable sites on the exposition grounds, was $45,562.
Expenditures in furnishings and in ornamenting the grounds were $12,000.

The Texas Building contained exhibits of a character intended to
demonstrate the kinds of homes in which Texas people live, the kinds of
schools in which their children are educated, and the churches in which
they conduct their worship. These demonstrations were the conception and
work of the Texas Federation of Women Clubs.

The work which the Texas commission did for Texas in forcing a
recognition of the rights of breeders of pure-bred cattle below the
Federal quarantine line, and the rights of breeders and raisers of beef
cattle, on the attention of the exposition management was noticeable.
The original ruling of the Live-Stock Department of the exposition was
to the effect that pure-bred cattle from below the Federal quarantine
line should not be allowed to participate in the live-stock show at the
exposition, and that none but halter-broke cattle should be exhibited in
any event. The effect of this ruling, the commission claimed, was,
first, to shut out from participation the breeders of pure cattle from
below the quarantine line, and, second, to prevent a demonst