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WOMAN'S BUILDING AND HOSPITAL 

 Coinmissioti^^r in Chargr, A. E, Perren, BiilValo, 

 ^upnintcndciit, Hattie G. SnnvAUTZ, Syracuse. 



About 1003 a building was fitted up for tlie coiivenionce of wompn and 

 cliildiou wlio visit tlie New York State Fair. This building lias proved 

 more and more popular each year. Jt contains a rest room where popular 

 concerns are given twice a day; a nursery where as many as 1.50 babies have 

 been cared for in a day; an auditorium, with a seating cajiacity of 400, 

 wiiere programs are presented every day by the various women's clubs of 

 the state; and an emergency hospital having a stall' of two physicians and 

 two nurses and an ambulance. During the 1910 fair several accident cases 

 were eared for in the hospital, as well as a large number of cases of tempo- 

 rary weakness and indisposition. 



In maintaining the high standard of the women's building tl'.e purpose has 

 been to educate the women visitors in the work of clubs and societies, to pro- 

 vide them with information which may be of practical value in their homes, 

 and with new thoughts which they may take back to brighten the lonely 

 winter days. 



Thousands of Avomen who visit the building are appreciative and grateful 

 for the comforts provided for them. But now the number of visitors has 

 so greatly increased and the building has become so crowded that this im- 

 portant branch of the State Fair is not able to accomplish all it ought; 

 and enlarged and better adapted facilities are earnestly recommended. There 

 is a growing demand that the state acknowledge the progress of woman's 

 influence in all institutions and provide means for her further advancement. 

 The new building should have a rest room to replace the one now in use 

 which is packed almost to suffocation on heavy days of the fair, even stand- 

 ing room being at a premium. A nursery several times as large as the 

 one now used is needed and it should be provided with hygienic equipment, 

 good ventilation and ordiiuiry comforts. ^lore toilets are desired but if they 

 cannot be had at once those in the present building ought to be overhauled. 

 Tlie hospital should be made larger and, perhaps most important of all, the 

 auditorium should be enlarged and properly ventilated and furnished. 



TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT 

 Commissiotier in Charrie. Ira Sharp. Lowville. 



The loading and unloading of heavy exhibits from docks which are entirely 

 inadequate (although lliey are nuich larger than ever before) makes the cost 

 of the transportation department far gi eater than it would be if the facilities 

 for handling were increased. The fair takes upon itself the transfer of every 

 exhibit from tlie cars to the locations on the grounds or in the buildings and 

 returns the same to the docks for shipment at the close of the fair. The 

 commission has been charging at the rate of fifty cents a load each way, but 

 I would recommend that this price be increased to one dollar per load each 

 way for the lieavier machinery. The conunission does not desire to make 

 any money from this department but expects that the department will pay 

 for itself. 



