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a city. On November 3 there was a civic parade, which was witnessed 

 by hundreds of thousands of spectators. In anticipation of this 

 parade a committee was appointed by the Board of Trustees to 

 prepare a float, which should represent in an appropriate manner the 

 activities of the Institute. It fell to the Director of the Museum 

 to act as the chairman of this committee. Unfortunately, owing to 

 the absence of some of the members of the committee, the duty of 

 elaborating a plan and carrying it into execution devolved upon the 

 chairman, as is very frequently the case in such undertakings. He 

 resolved to construct an accurate model, showing the Forbes Street 

 front of the main building of the Institute, on a scale of three-eighths 

 of an inch to the foot, mounted upon a base appropriately inscribed 

 and draped. 



The execution of the design was carried out with the assistance of 

 the members of the staflf of the Museum who are skilful in such matters, 

 who entered with willing enthusiasm into the plans of the Director. 

 Mr. Craver of the Library, and Mr. Beatty of the Department of 

 Fine Arts, kindly contributed the help of certain members of their 

 force, who, it was found, could be utilized. From the drawings of 

 Messrs. Alden & Harlow, the architects of the building, Mr. Sidney 

 Prentice made an enlargement, three times larger than the originals, 

 which were drawn to the scale of one-eighth of an inch. Mr. Banks, 

 Mr. Adam Gochincki, and Mr. Love, the cabinet-makers of the 

 Museum, gave proof of their nimbleness of finger and their resource- 

 fulness in attending to that part of the work which was entrusted to 

 them. Mr. Theodore A. Mills and the Director, assisted by Mr. 

 Arthur Coggeshall and Mr. Agostini, whose skill as a worker in plaster 

 is unequaled, provided the miniature reproductions and ornaments 

 of the exterior and of the shields. Mr. Prentice also lent a willing 

 hand in working at the architectural details. Mr. Polls, of the 

 Department of Fine Arts, patiently carried out the tasks entrusted to 

 him. Mr. G. A. Link, Jr., and Miss Florence Stribling finished and 

 put in place the inscriptions made of raised letters, which had been 

 sawn out of wood by our cabinet-makers after designs prepared for 

 them by the Director. Mr. Link, Mr. Prentice, and Mr. Mills, to- 

 gether with the Director, elaborated the shields, of which there were 

 eight. The draperies were attended to by Miss Dierdorf and Mrs. 

 Clayton, assisted by Mr. Scott and his associates in the book-bindery, 

 who kindly put their electrically driven sewing-machine at our 



