rto Rican cigars and cigarettes are said to rank with those of Cuba.

Porto Rican cotton was said to be of superior quality and attracted
attention. Cotton growers in Porto Rico are adopting the best machinery
that is made in the United States. The liquor exhibit also was
noticeable. Porto Rico received highest awards in straw hats,
needlework, rice, beans, pharmaceutical products, etc.

In the Educational Building was the Porto Rican public school exhibit.
The development of this branch of the Porto Rico administration in the
last seven years was remarkable. The total number of schools is more
than twice the number maintained under the Spanish Government, although
it is said that the public schools are able to accommodate less than
one-fourth of the pupils, in spite of the fact that more than 25 per
cent of the revenues of the island, both insular and municipal, are
expended for educational purposes. In addition to the elementary schools
there are now established four high schools. Teachers are both natives
and Americans.

An appropriation of $30,000 was made by the Porto Rican legislature for
the purpose of representation at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The
Porto Rican Pagodo was designed by a native architect, Mr. Armando
Morales, and cost $5,000.

RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.

_Members of commission_.--Robert B. Treat, president; William F.
Gleason, vice-president; Edwin F. Penniman, treasurer; George E. Ball,
secretary; George N. Kingsbury, executive commissioner; Col. Patrick E.
Hayes, Frank L. Budlong, and George L. Shepley.

The Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Building was beautifully
situated on an eminence on Colonial avenue, facing north, and adjoining
Indiana and Nevada. The design for the building was selected in open
competition by Rhode Island architects. The building in its general form
was a reproduction of the Stephen H. Smith mansion in the town of
Lincoln--a model distinguished among types of colonial architecture in
old New England.

A distinctive feature of the design was the ogee gable, of which but one
other example is believed to exist in Rhode Island colonial
architecture. The Rhode Island Building imitated in cement the material
of which the old Smith mansion is constructed--seam-faced granite--taken
from the quarry on the estate. This material is curiously finished by
nature's handiwork in many colorings. The irregularity of the pieces and
the variety of th