ays after the receipt thereof, certify
the same to the superior jury, including such work as may have
been left incomplete by the department jury.
The officers and members of the superior jury shall be as
follows: President, the president of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition Company; first vice-president, the director of
exhibits; second vice-president, a citizen of the United States
to be named by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission. The
members of the jury shall further consist of the
commissioners-general of the nine foreign countries occupying
with exhibits the largest amount of space in the exhibit
palaces, the chairmen and first vice-chairmen of the department
juries, the chiefs of the exhibit departments, and one person
appointed by the board of lady managers.
The superior jury shall determine finally and fully the awards
to be made to exhibitors and collaborators in all cases that are
formally presented for its consideration.
For the purpose of installation and review of exhibits and the conduct
of the system of awards a classification was adopted which was divided
into fifteen departments, which were divided into 144 groups, which in
turn were subdivided into 807 classes. They will show that while many of
the groups and classes are not suited to the requirements of woman's
work, yet all products of female labor can be properly classed in these
departments, and that there are extremely few occupations in which man
is engaged in which woman can not and does not also work.
The list of appointments of group and department jurors appointed by the
board of lady managers is given in the final report of the chairman of
the committee on awards.
At a meeting held on May 9, 1904, the committee to present nominations
for superior jury announced the names of Mrs. Eliza Eads How, Mrs.
Philip N. Moore, Mrs. Thomas N. Neidringhaus, and Miss Mary E. Perry. On
ballot the result was the election of Mrs. Philip N. Moore, of St.
Louis, with Mrs. Eliza Eads How, of the same city, as alternate.
In order to arrive at some conclusion in regard to the representation of
women at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and to gain some knowledge
of the extent of her participation in exhibits, the following questions
were addressed to the jurors appointed by the board of lady managers.
They were not designed to be more than suggestive, as, of course, in
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