dsome as that shown at the Chicago
World's Fair, but perhaps not on so large a scale.

I was a member of a committee of four appointed to adjust the
losses on the handsome imported costumes and wraps in the French
section that were damaged during a wind and rain storm that
swept over the exposition grounds during the summer and damaged
the building and the immense glass cases containing these
valuable goods, the loss of which amounted to hundreds of
dollars to the Exposition Company.

Group 59 (combined with Group 58 above), Mrs. William S. Major,
Shelbyville, Ind., Juror.

Under the group heading "Industries producing wearing apparel
for men, women, and children," the four classes into which it
was divided represented: Clothing to measure for men and boys;
ordinary costumes, suits for hunting and riding, leather
breeches and similar articles; suits for gymnastic uses and
games, military and civil uniforms, campaign clothing of special
types, robes and costumes for magistrates, members of the bar,
professors, ecclesiastics, etc., liveries, various costumes for
children. Clothing, ready-made, for men and boys. Clothing to
measure for women and girls; dresses, vests, jackets, cloaks
(made by ladies' tailors, dressmakers, or cloak makers), riding
habits, sporting suits. Clothing, ready-made, for women and
girls. Patterns.

Mrs. Major reports as follows:

In group 58, Department of Manufactures, the proportional number
of exhibits by women contained in these classes was small--I
would think about 10 per cent. Groups 58 and 59 exhibited laces,
embroideries, trimmings, decorations for gowns, costumes, and
wraps, drawn work and Tenneriffe. Art needlework was the most
striking exhibit by women in that department. Women showed great
advancement in each industry, without question. Very few
exhibits were installed by foreign women; the foreign costumes
were largely from the man tailor. The needlework in the Visayan
Village of the Philippine exhibit was of a very high order, but
no provision was made to grant awards upon this--the Philippine
exhibit--and Miss Anna Woolf, of St. Louis, and I called the
attention of the authorities to the deserving character of the
exhibit and made a plea for awards to be made by the higher
jurors, and they promised to do so. I do not know whether it