84 New Yoek at the Woeld's Columbian Exposition. 



Prominent among the articles exhibited were the Washington relics 

 from the State library, autographs of the Presidents and the sign 

 ers of the Declaration of Independence, original model of Fulton's 

 " Clermont," and the wampum belt commemorative of the first treaty 

 and alliance of the Six Nations of New York, and now in the posses- 

 sion of Hon. John Boyd Thacher, of Albany. 



"Woman's Building. 

 Nearly every department in this building contained exhibits gathered 

 by the State Board of Women Managers, but New York's special feature 

 was the library room which was furnished magnificently by the New 

 York board. Five thousand dollars was granted by the Board of Gen^ 

 eral Managers for this purpose. The ceiling, designed and executed by 

 Dora Wheeler Keith, and the collection of books written by women 

 native to or resident in New York were the chief features. 



Exhibits of Special Peominence. 

 Although the foregoing exhibits were all, strictly speaking, that were 

 prepared under the supervision of the Board of General Managers, there 

 were several exhibits from New York, so specially noteworthy from 

 their size, beauty, and the credit they reflected on the State as to 

 demand more than a passing mention. In four departments, viz., 

 machinery, manufactures, electricity and fisheries, the Board of Gen- 

 eral Managers depended entirely upon private individuals to fully 

 represent the State, and in no wise aided them financially. The trans- 

 portation exhibit also was chiefly the work of individual companies. 

 The confidence of the board in the enterprise of New Yorkers was not 

 misplaced, and in every one of the five departments the exhibits from 

 this State were on a par with other States and countries, and in some 

 far surpassed them. While the general average was so completely 

 satisfactory to New York pride the incomparable excellence of a few 

 exhibits was a source of special gratification. Such were the exhibits 

 of Tiffany & Co., TifEany Glass and Decorating Company, the Gorham 

 Manufacturing Company, and Gunther's fur exhibit in the Manufac- 

 tures Building; Ward's natural science exhibit in the Anthropological 

 and Mines and Mining buildings ; the General Electric Company in 

 the Electricity Building; the Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. 

 engine exhibit, the Henry R. Worthington pumping machinery exhibit 

 in the Machinery Building ; and the New York Central exhibit in the 

 Transportation Building. 



