ont, etc.;
forestry, fish culture, etc. They can add, and on broad lines
develop, the highest type of the condition of the times."

Replying to the question whether an exhibit of laces by a woman
could be insured, Mr. Skiff stated: "We have no money for
insurance; we have no people to go on bond; she is an individual
exhibitor, and must get in her own exhibit in a general way."

On the following day, March 12, I received from Mr. Stevens the
following letter, accompanied by a record of 1903 conventions of
organizations composed of women:

ST. Louis, U.S.A., _March, 13, 1903_.

MADAM: In pursuance of the conference held by your committee
with the executive committee of the exposition the 11th instant,
the acting president, Mr. Spencer, directs me to send to you the
accompanying list of conventions and delegate meetings of women
to be held in the near future. It is desired to obtain action by
these bodies the coming year to meet in St. Louis during 1904.
The acting president instructs me to say that if your committee
or the board of lady managers will assist in obtaining such
action it will be highly appreciated.

The exposition management, with a view to encourage the holding
of conventions and congresses, has arranged to have several
halls, the use of which can be given to conventions without cost
to them. Two or three convention halls will be so located with
approaches as to enable delegates to the conventions to reach
them without passing through the gates of the exposition. It is
also the purpose to afford hall room free to such bodies as may
desire to hold meetings downtown.

The acting president directs me to say, further, that from a
very thorough canvass made of the city, and from information in
the possession of the exposition management, it is believed that
good accommodations can be assured at reasonable rates during
the exposition. It is the purpose of the exposition to maintain
an information service, which will enable delegates to secure
accommodations by mail previous to their arrival here.

In other ways the exposition management will endeavor to make
the holding of conventions a prominent and satisfactory feature
of the World's Fair. If the board of lady managers will join in
the invitation to these bodies of women to hold their 1904
conven