ont and Hew Hampshire day at the
exposition.

The State commission was composed of the following:

Governor Charles J. Bell, ex officio chairman; W. Seward Webb,
president; Arthur C. Jackson, vice-president and executive commissioner;
Frederick G. Fleetwood, second vice-president; J.C. Enright, secretary
and counsel; F.W. Stanyan, treasurer; Miss Mary Evarts.

The legislature having failed to make an appropriation, Mr. Jackson, a
native of Waitsfield, personally raised all the money required for the
construction and maintenance of the State building.

Among the elaborate displays were those of private exhibitors in the
Machinery Building, marble in the Mines Building, and the granite
exhibit in the same building.

VIRGINIA.

During the winter session of 1902 the Virginia legislature by enactment
provided $50,000 for an industrial exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, with the condition that no portion of the sum should be used
for a State building. The act provided for three commissioners and five
assistant commissioners, one of whom was named principal assistant, with
duties of superintendent and treasurer. The State commissioner of
agriculture was named as one of the commissioners, and the appointment
of two was left to the governor, with power vested in the commission to
appoint the assistant commissioners. Governor Montague appointed Col. A.
M. Bowman, of Salem, Va., and J.L. Patton, of Newport News, Va., as
commissioners. This commission, in February, 1903, elected Hon. G.W.
Koiner, president, and appointed Hon. George E. Murrell, of Fontella,
Va., superintendent, treasurer, and secretary; Hon. W.W. Baker,
alternate and second assistant, and later appointed O.W. Stone,
Martinsville, Va., B.C. Banks, Bland, Va., Lyman Babcock, of Bay Shore,
Va., and J.C. Mercer, of Williamsburg, to complete the executive force.
Mr. Murrell immediately took charge of the work and assisted by J.C.
Mercer as his secretary and stenographer, with the aid of Mr. Baker,
planned the scope and took steps toward the collection of exhibits.
Later, as the force was strengthened, Mr. Stone was given charge of
tobacco and peanuts, Mr. Banks of minerals and timber, and Mr. Babcock
of fish and game.

Exhibits were planned in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, fish and
game, mines, and education, and were executed as follows:

In agriculture, exhibits of corn on the stalk, in the ear, and shelled,
to the extent of 1,000 bushels