ion coming under the
supervision and direction of the board won the respect and admiration of
the exposition officials and of all the representatives of our own and
other governments having connection with or participating in the
exposition.

It is but fair to say that this tribute of the Commission to the
efficiency of the board of lady managers is given not in compliment, but
in justice.

The vast amount of work performed by the lady managers and the delay in
the completion by the company of authoritative reports necessary to
enable the board to complete their final report to this Commission have
delayed the closing and presentation of this report by the Commission
beyond the period of six months from the close of the exposition.

The final report of the board of lady managers is now presented in
connection with the report of the Commission, and is herewith filed,
marked "Appendix No. 5."

The Commission calls particular attention to the excellence and the
interesting features of the report of the board of lady managers, and
suggests that its publication and distribution as a document is
especially to be desired.

GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT.

The exhibit made by the Government of the United States will long stand
as monumental in the history of Government exhibits. Not content with
the exhibition of special features of governmental activity in the
various departments of the exposition, Congress provided for the
erection of a Government exhibition palace, which was confessedly the
most striking and successful architectural triumph upon the exposition
grounds.

The Government Building was located on an eminence at the eastern
termination of "Louisiana Way," the principal avenue on the exposition
grounds. From its commanding position all portions of the exposition
grounds could be seen. Within the building every department of the
Government was represented by an appropriate exhibit upon a liberal
scale.

This great Government exhibit was under the direction and control of a
board, consisting of the following-named gentlemen:

_Members United States Government Board_.--Mr. Wallace H. Hills,
Treasury Department, chairman; Mr. William H. Michael, Department of
State; Mr. John C. Scofield, War Department; Mr. Cecil Clay, Department
of Justice; Mr. John B. Brownlow, Post-Office Department; Mr. B.F.
Peters, Navy Department; Mr. Edward M. Dawson, Department of the
Interior; Mr. S.R. Burch, Department of Agriculture; Mr.