30 New Yoek at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



A. Agriculture : food and its accessories, agricultural machin- 



ery and appliances 190 



B. Horticulture 119 



C. Live stock : domestic and wild animals 22 



D. Fish, fisheries, fish products and apparatus of fishing 26 



E. Mines, mining and metallurgy 94 



F. Machinery 280 



G. Transportation : railways, vessels, vehicles 194 



H. Manufactures 924 



J. Electricity and electrical appliances 105 



K. Fine ai-ts : painting, sculpture, architecture, decoration ... 43 

 L, Liberal arts : education, engineering, public works, con- 

 structive architecture, music and the drama 460 



M. Ethnology, archaeology ; progress of labor and invention ; 



isolated and collective exhibits 18 



N. Forestry and forest products 11 



Total , 2, 486 



It became obvious very early in the experience of the board that on 

 it would devolve the daty of providing for the proper representation 

 of the State in all departments where the commercial prompting was 

 not suflicfently strong to draw out exhibits to be installed and main- 

 tained at individual expense. It was found that no State department 

 or State supported association had funds available for presentation at 

 the World's Fair of the fruits of its activity. It is hardly necessary to 

 explain in detail why the board made the selection and classification 

 which it did of the exhibits best fitted to illustrate the resources, the 

 history and the present position of the State in education, art and civil 

 government. What was being done by other States had, of course, a 

 certain influence on the decisions of the board ; what the State owed to 

 itself was, however, the controlling impulse. In this connection it may 

 not be amiss to recall the fact that the feeling was still strong in 

 Chicago and throughout the West that New York was unfriendly to 

 the Columbian Exposition. That New York had not succeeded in its 

 effort to be selected as the site of the World's Fair of 1893 was deemed 

 to be sufficient reason for an absence of good-will on the part of its citi- 

 zens toward the enterprise undertaken by the city to which Congress 

 had awarded the coveted honor. 



