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mittee regret tlie fact, the superintendents should not feel that their 

 good woik was lost, for they contributed to the completeness of this 

 exhibit, and have shown to the world the important part they bear in 

 the struggle the hospitals are making against diseases and death, and 

 how well they compare with the older schools of England and the 

 continent. 



Miss Emily Huntington had the kitchen garden exhibit entirely in 

 her charge, subject to direction from the executive committee. The 

 scheme of kitenen garden work, a method of developing in little 

 children a knowledge of household duties, originated with Miss Hunt 

 ington, who was in charge of the Wilson Industrial School for twenty 

 years. It could, tlierefore, be shown as a purely New York exhibit, 

 and the maiaagers early felt an interest in presenting it at the expo- 

 sition. Miss Huntington was invited to the board meeting of Sep- 

 tember 7, 1892, and there presented her plan for the exhibit. Such an 

 exhibit had not been made before, and there seemed no way of show- 

 ing the system other than by having children themselves demonstrate it 

 every day. This would necessarily be an expensive undertaking, and 

 the Board of "Women Managers decided to allow Miss Huntington 

 the $2,500 which she estimated it would cost, and within which limit 

 she kept. Miss Huntington planned to have Chicago children give her 

 the necessary aid, and she immediately received the co-operation of the 

 Cook County ^Normal School and the Chicago Kitchen Garden Asso- 

 ciation, two or three of whose teachers became her assistants. Miss 

 Huntington arrived at her post the last of April expecting to be able to 

 establish her exhibit at once, but she found the formidable obstacle tliat 

 hindered Miss Love. The rooms assigned to her in the Children's Build- 

 ing, two on the second floor, were unfinished, and she was obliged to 

 bide her time, hastening the workmen from day to day by the author- 

 ity of the chairman of the children's building committee. Miss Hunt- 

 ington was able to make exhibition of classes on the opening day, as she 

 had been drilling the children in the gymnasium of the Cook county 

 school, and an exhibition was made each day from the opening of the 

 Children's Building till its close. It was no small task to make arrange- 

 ments with the parents of twenty-five little girls to allow them to 

 come to the grounds every day at three o'clock, and then with the 

 exposition authorities for .their entrance. The same twenty-five 

 children were not obliged to come each day. Miss Huntington 

 being aided by the normal school and mission children at stated 

 times during the week. All the children had to be safely 

 taken to and from the grounds in wagonettes. Miss Hunting- 

 ton's agreement was to direct the exhibit herself during the entire 

 six months. The work was a severe task, however, and she was 

 obliged to leave Chicago and come east for a stay of two months 

 and a half. She left the work in the competent hands of Miss 

 Larrabee, who had been a pupil of Miss Huntington's years before, and 

 directed the classes each day. That great interest was shown in the 

 exhibit was manifested by the number of people who crowded the room 

 while the children were going through their exercises, and at other 

 hours sought information about establishing work of the same character 



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