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LUTHERANS. 



Textile buildings is a natural amphitheater sloping 

 to what will be a great basin. Down the slopes of 

 the hill above the cascades will be a long curved 

 architectural screen, with a beautiful Festival 

 Hall in the center and restaurant pavilions at the 

 ends. Sculpture emblematic of 14 States and 

 Territories will constitute an important decora- 

 tive feature of the screen. 



Of the other larger buildings, the Government 

 Building will be on the plateau, east of the Art 

 Palaces, and will be 175 feet wide by 800 feet 

 long. Its estimated cost is $450,000. The exhib- 

 its shown in it are under the supervision of a 

 Government board, organized as follows: J. H. 

 I'.in-liaiii. Department of Agriculture, chairman; 

 William H. Michael, Department of State; Wal- 

 ter C. Hills, Treasury Department; J. B. Brown- 

 low, Post-Office Department; Frank Strong, De- 

 partment of Police; Edward M. Dawson, Depart- 

 ment of the Interior; B. F. Peters, Navy Depart- 

 ment; John C. Schofield,, War Department; G. W. 

 Hanger, Bureau of Labor Statistics; W. de C. 

 Ravenel, United States Fish Commissioner; Wil- 

 liams C. Fox, Bureau of American Republics; 

 W. V. Cox, Secretary; W. M. Geddes, Disbursing 

 Officer. 



Immediately adjacent to this building will be 

 the pavilion of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion. 



The office of administration will be housed in 

 the building of the Washington University, which 

 has been leased for that purpose. It is of Mis- 

 souri pink granite and Bedford (Indiana) sand- 

 stone, and will cost $740,000. 



In the extreme southwest corner of the grounds 

 will be the department devoted to Physical Cul- 

 ture, which will include a gymnasium 182 feet 

 long and 94 feet wide, to cost $150,000. The 

 athletic field will be 750 feet long and contain 

 one of the finest tracks in the world. 



Among the other buildings of which informa- 

 tion is available are: Hawaiian Building, in the 

 form of a cross, being 90 feet each way on the 

 axial lines; Missouri Building, to be a permanent 

 fire-proof structure, to cost $300,000 and to be 

 used as a museum after the exposition; Press 

 Building, a modest but commodious structure 

 that was dedicated on Oct. 25, 1902; Temple of 

 Fraternity, an adaptation of the Parthenon in 

 Athens, to cost $200,000, paid for with funds 

 raised by the fraternal orders. The Burns Cot- 

 tage Association will produce a replica of Burns's 

 Ayrshire cottage and Stirling Castle. Acting 

 under the authority of Congress, the United 

 States Government Commission has appointed a 

 board of 21 woman managers, as follows: Miss 

 Helen M. Gould, New York city, President; Mrs. 

 James L. Blair, St. Louis, Mo., Vice-President; 

 Mrs. Louise E. Frost, Winona. Minn.; Mrs. John 

 A. McCall, New York city; Mrs. John M. Hoi- 

 combe, Hartford, Conn.; Miss Anna L. Dawes, 

 Pittsfield, Mass.; Mrs. Fannie L. Porter, Atlanta, 

 Ga.; Mrs. Frederick Hanger, Little Rock, Ark.; 

 Mrs. W. E. Andrews, Hastings, Neb.; Mrs. Helen 

 Boice Hunsicker, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Emily 

 W. Roebling, Trenton, N. J. ; Mrs. Jennie Gilmore 

 Knott, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Belle Everest, At- 

 chison, Kan.; Mrs. William H. Coleman, Indi- 

 anapolis, Ind.; Mrs. M. H? DeYoung, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal.; Mrs. Margaret P. Daly, Anaconda, 

 Mont.; Mrs. Finis P. Krnest. Denver, Col.; Mrs. 

 Kdward L. Buchwalter, Springfield, Ohio; Mrs. 

 Mary Phelps Montgomery, Portland, Ore. 



Thirty-eight States and Territories have ap- 

 pointed or authorized world's fair commissions, 

 committees, or bureaus. These are: Alabama, 

 Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Flor- 



ida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indian Terri- 

 tory, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Maine, 

 Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mon- 

 tana, Nebraska, New. Hampshire, New Jersey, 

 New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, 

 Oklahoma, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, South 

 Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West 

 Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Also the 

 following States have made appropriations of the 

 amounts donated herewith: Arizona, $30,000; 

 California, $300,000; Colorado, $100,000; Dela- 

 ware, $10,000; Idaho, $20,000; Illinois, $800,000; 

 Indiana, $75,000; Iowa, $50,000; Maine, $40,000; 

 Massachusetts, $75,000 ; Michigan, $100,000; Min- 

 nesota, $50,000; Missouri, $150,000; Montana, 

 $50,000; Nebraska, $50,000; New Hampshire, 

 $25,000; New Jersey, $20,000; New Mexico, $25,- 

 000; North Carolina, $25,000; North Dakota, 

 $25,000; Ohio, $100,000; Pennsylvania, $300,000; 

 Rhode Island, $25,000; Vermont, $15,000; Wash- 

 ington, $100,000; West Virginia, $40,000; Wis- 

 consin, $65,000; Wyoming, $30,000; total, 

 $2,695,000. 



There will be, in connection with the exposi- 

 tion, a gathering of congresses, and it is expected 

 that there will be meetings of the different trade- 

 unions. Efforts will be made to procure the meet- 

 ings of the national conventions and associate 

 conventions for the nominations of candidates 

 for President and Vice-President. 



Although nearly all the larger buildings are 

 either completed or nearly so, it was found early 

 in 1902 that the time was too short to prepare 

 properly for a world's fair, and it was therefore 

 decided to have a formal dedication of the 

 grounds an'd buildings with appropriate cere- 

 monies on April 30, 1903, and to open the expo- 

 sition a year later, April 30, 1904. 



The usual amount of attractive advertising 

 material has been distributed by the Exposition 

 Company, and the World's Fair Bulletin, the 

 first issue of which appeared in November, 1899, 

 is published monthly in the interest of the Louisi- 

 ana-Purchase Exposition. 



LUTHERANS. The statistics of the Lutheran 

 Church in the United States and Canada, gath- 

 ered and collated for the Lutheran Church Al- 

 manac, show a steady progress in every depart- 

 ment of church work. The Lutheran Church is 

 one in faith, though, on account of its polity, due 

 very largely to diversity in languages used, it is 

 divided into general and district organizations 

 or synods. The Church, as thus organized, em- 

 braces 62 district synods, classified under 4 gen- 

 eral bodies and 15 independent synods, all to- 

 gether having 7,090 ministers, 11,678 congrega- 

 tions, and 1,723,819 communicants. It has 4.478 

 parochial schools, with 3,170 teachers and 184,902 

 pupils, and 6,104 Sunday-schools, with 57,246 of- 

 ficers and teachers and 525,467 pupils. The 

 benevolent contributions, exclusive of congrega- 

 tional and local expenses, amount to $1,252,466.26. 

 The statistics of the several bodies are as follow: 



The educational institutions of the Church 

 number 116, of which 23 are theological semina- 

 ries, with 905 students, 50 colleges with 8,833 stu- 



