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home — is no less typical of her care for the welfare of the lowly and her 

 sense that the qualities which go to make her great are those which are 

 nourished in the homes of the toilers. 



And, for all this and more than I have been able to specify in detail, 

 New York has had her reward. Judged by the most practical standard, 

 the foremost commercial State of the Union could afford to be represented 

 here generously, even lavishly. Her producers and merchants could not 

 if they would have been swayed by any narrow sectional prejudice, and 

 it would have been foreign to all the history and alien to every great 

 tradition of the State to have left any question about too frank and 

 friendly rivalry with which it sought to enhance the glories of the Colum- 

 bian Exposition. That has been recognized by every visitor to the fair, 

 and by none more cordially than by this great, progressive and whole-souled 

 western people, with whose interests our own are so closely bound. Their 

 triumph here has been largely ours, and in their satisfaction with the 

 grand, the world-famous result we can participate not only without 

 jealousy, but with the calm assurance that we have done our full share 

 toward rendering it immortal. Had the fair, as most of us hoped, been 

 held within our own borders, there would have been no grudging, halting 

 CO operation from the West. Carried out as it has been on a scale more 

 splendid and more comprehensive than we had ever dreamed of, it is a proud 

 satisfaction to be able to say on behalf of New York : " We are in it as 

 no other State is ; we are of it as no other State could be ; we shall come 

 out of it with laurels which will be among the most cherished of our pos- 

 sessions, and the most enduring part of the legacy which the Empire 

 State of to-day will transmit to the remotest posterity." 



I cannot close without adding my contribution to the many tributes of 

 respect that have been paid to the memory of the late Donald McNaughton, 

 the chief executive officer of the Board of General Managers of the State 

 exhibit. No man could have worked more assiduously, more laboriously 

 than he did in preparing for an adequate representation of the State at the 

 Columbian Exposition. With every detail of the process he was familiar, 

 and no one can have felt more genuine satisfaction with the result. His 

 whole public career was marked by absolute devotion to the interests of 

 those whom he represented, and he brought to the discharge of his 

 duties in connection with this fair a self-sacrificing conscientiousness 

 which is not so common as to pass without special notice. The State is 

 fortunate which can command the services of such men ; the State is 

 great which out of the ranks of its citizenship can at all times summon 

 such men to assume public responsibilities. Donald McNaughton was a 

 genuine son of New York, and his pride in his native State was of that 



