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not delivered, necessarily, until the evening before the fair opened to the 

 public and it was difficult to get them in place in time for the opening; 

 under the new system adopted this year it was much better, and enabled 

 us to do the work with less help, notwithstanding the fact that the fair 

 commencing one day earlier made more time in which we had to employ 

 help. 



Wish also to say that leaving the exhibits in the building over night, 

 until the morning after the fair is over, was a much better plan for our 

 department than the old way of carrying everything out on the afternoon 

 of the last day of the fair, and as far as this department is concerned the 

 new method of handling the exhibits and keeping them intact until the 

 day after the fair, is the proper way in which to run this department as 

 to delivery of exhibits. 



In the other building it is customary for the fair management to 

 have an orchestra or bands play at stated times during the fair, while 

 in this department nothing of the kind has ever been done; and it 

 seems to me that this department deserves as much attention at least 

 as some of the other departments, and in view of the fact that it prac- 

 tically pays all its premiums and expenses from concession money re- 

 ceived, it does seem that it is entitled to more consideration from the 

 managers of the fair. 



Respectfully submitted, 



T. C. Legoe, 

 Superintendent. 



Mr. Legoe moved that the revision of the premium list for the 

 fine arts department be delegated to the executive committee and 

 the superintendent of the department, and that this department be 

 allowed an increase of not to exceed $500.00 additional for pre- 

 miums in order to build up the art department. Seconded by Cur- 

 tiss. Motion carried. 



Mr. Mullen made the following report of the machinery depart- 

 ment: 



REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF IMPLEMENTS AND 

 • MACHINERY. 



To the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the loua State 



Fair: 



Gentlemen: I wish to report that the relations between the officials 

 of the Machinery Department and the machinery exhibitors of all 

 classes were extremely pleasant and harmonious; that the exhibit as 

 a whole was bigger and better than the previous years. I wish to com- 

 pliment the executive committee on their action in the removal of the 

 old street car station, which tended to give the machinery exhibit bet- 

 ter appearance, and more compact. Also at the arrangements between 

 this department and the executive committee and the department of 

 safety whereby the policing of machinery hall was left in the hands 

 of the superintendent, and the labor saving in cleaning the building 



