164 New Tokk at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



Syracuse and organize the work of the fifth judicial district. It was 

 afterwards learned that Mrs. White was in ill-health, but when Miss 

 Dennis reached Syracuse she received the kind co-operation of Mr. H. 

 G. White in organizing the district. Mrs. A. M. Dodge was elected 

 to take the place of Mrs. White on the executive committee, and upon 

 the resignation of Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Wadsworth was appointed in her 

 stead. As the board included a member of the Afro-American race, a 

 recognition that no other State had shown this people, the women were 

 particularly desirous of giving prominence to the arts and industries of 

 the women of that race, and it was early decided by the executive com- 

 mittee to place in the hands of Miss Howard the entire charge of the col- 

 lection of exhibits, as well as statistics of this department. The record 

 of her work is made in its proper place, and it onlj^ needs to be added 

 here that Miss Howard accomplished her several tasks as only a woman 

 with remarkable energy and executive ability could. On account of the 

 absence of Mrs. Andrew D. White her portion of the State, which con- 

 sisted of five counties, had also been neglected. Mrs. Wadsworth, who 

 was pi-esent at the meeting of the executive committee on November 

 fifteenth, offered to visit Ithaca at once and place the work in compe- 

 tent hands. A detailed account of the method of organizing the dif- 

 ferent districts has already been given, but mention is made of the sub- 

 ject here because the extra work was done through the action of the 

 executive committee. At the meeting of December sixth the proposi- 

 tion was presented through the New York local committee to prepare 

 an historical doll exhibit, the dolls to be dressed to represent different 

 periods since the time of Columbus. , 



An exhibition of colonial relics was proposed when the board was 

 first formed, as the National Board had desired representation from the 

 thirteen original States. The task of making the collection was a 

 difficult one, and it was only at the meeting of the executive committee 

 of January tenth that Mrs. F. K. Jones, who had been invited and had 

 consented to take charge of the exhibit, presented her plan which 

 required an .appropriation of from $5,000 to $10,000. Mrs. Dodge 

 reported at this meeting that it would not be possible with less than 

 $2,500 to carry on the Fitch Creche and Day Nursery exhibit in the 

 children's building, work that came within her jurisdiction as chairman 

 of the philanthropic committee. This exhibit cost a still larger sum 

 before the end, but was one in which the- entire board took the greatest 

 interest and satisfaction. 



The executive committee exerted its influence at all times to induce 

 well-known organizations of women, whether of business, educational 

 or philanthropic interests, to find representation at the exposition, so 

 when it was learned that Miss Grace H. Dodge was finding some diffi- 

 culty in settling upon a place for exhibiting the idea of the working 

 girls' associations, an idea not easy to classify, the executive com- 

 mittee urged her to enter her exhibit in the organization room of the 

 Woman's Building as educational work, and offered to aid in obtaining 

 space, they deeming that the exhibits from women of New York State 

 would be incomplete without a representation of the working girls' clubs. 

 In the same way an exhibit from Miss Potter's children's outfit estab- 



