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illustrated here. There is no older school system in the country than that 

 of New York, and there is no part of its civil organization of which it is 

 more justly proud. 



The great work which New York State and its civil subdivisions do for 

 the relief of pauperism, for the care of the insane and the education of 

 the defective classes has been demonstrated at this exhibition as it has 

 never been before. The whole range of activity of the charitable, correc- 

 tional and reformatory institutions of the State has been shown in a way 

 which makes the subject clearer than volumes of reports could do. It is 

 the boast of our Christian civilization that it cares for those whom pagan 

 civilization neglected. The private and public beneficence of New York 

 transcends all limitations of sect or creed, and its graphic delineation here 

 may well challenge the attention of the world. 



In all the work of woman at the fair the women of New York have 

 done their full share. They have decorated and furnished the library in 

 the Woman's Building, they have been the largest contributors to its 

 exhibit of works of art and its collection of articles of historical interest. 

 The trained nurses' exhibit was made under the supervision of the New 

 York Board of Women Managers, and the New York cooking school 

 exhibit was organized under their auspices. They have installed one of 

 the most interesting and instructive exhibits of the fair in a grouping of 

 the results of the education of the women of the Afro- American race. 

 The representatives of the women of New York at the Columbian Expo- 

 sition have shown in every field of effort which has been open to them 

 their characteristic capacity, enterprise and far-reaching sympathy with 

 all that is best and noblest in human effort. 



New York has built two houses at the fair. One is the palatial struc- 

 ture before us, a fitting representation of the dignity and opulence of tha 

 Empire State. The other is a humble structure at the opposite end of the 

 park destined to show how a workingman and his family may be enabled 

 to live with due regard to the requirements of sanitation and healthful 

 nutriment for $500 a year. The house in which we stand has been one of 

 the sights of the fair. It has been a matter of pride to every New Yorker 

 visiting Jackson Park that the headquarters of his State were so beautiful, 

 so commodious and so popular. He has found here the conveniences of 

 a club, the educating influence of a museum, and the rest and refreshment 

 of a summer villa. The true attitude of the people of New York toward 

 this exposition has nowhere been more fitly represented than in the superb 

 proportions and princely magnificence of this their State house of call. 

 But if this be New York's idea of the regal attire which befits her as a 

 guest at the table of nations, the other edifice — the model workingman's 



