insurance, accident insurance, sickness insurance, old age
and invalidity insurance, fire, marine, and other insurance of
property.

Miss Wade expressed a somewhat pessimistic view of the work of
women in this special department, as she said "the part taken by
women as shown by their exhibits showed no high degree of
excellence, the only exhibit in group 135 being not up to the
standard, and therefore, in her opinion, it would have been no
advantage to women to have had their work exhibited separately."

This would be a somewhat difficult class, no doubt, for women to
endeavor to make an exhibit, because, while thousands of them are
employed in the offices of insurance companies and as solicitors, it is
probably not a field in which they will assume the risks involved for
many years to come.

Group 136, Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago, Ill, Juror.

Under the group heading "Housing of the working classes" the
five classes into which it was divided represented: Building and
sanitary regulations, erection of improved dwellings by
employers, erection of improved dwellings by private efforts,
erection of improved dwellings by public authorities, general
efforts for betterment of housing conditions.

Miss Addams says in her report as group juror of the above:

From the nature of the exhibits in this department it is
difficult to divide the work of women from that of men, for,
although the erection of dwellings by public authorities, as in
London, was naturally done through men who were members of the
London County Council, and while the model dwellings erected by
large employers, such as those built by Mr. Cadbury, at Port
Sunlight, England, or by the Krupp Company, in Germany, were
naturally carried through altogether by men, the earliest
efforts for amelioration in housing conditions, and in many
cases the initiatory measures for improved dwellings, have been
undertaken by women.

The activities of Octavia Hill, in London, preceded by many
years the governmental action, and there is no doubt that the
creditable showing she was able to make on the financial as well
as on the social and educational side had much to do with making
the movement for better housing popular in London. The efforts
of Fraulein Krupp in connection with the model housing at Essen
are also well known, althoug