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arts, and of the Decorative Art Society, and some individual exhibits 

 from the State, were installed tinder the personal direction of Miss 

 Tomes. 



There were delays in the delivery of showcases, and the boxes of 

 exhibits were slow in arriving. It was necessary constantly to coerce 

 the workmen, and the bad weather, with all the other disadvantages, 

 had a most depressing effect upon every one concerned, but although 

 good results were very difficult to obtain for the hard work expended, 

 the board was justly proud when the exhibits were finally placed. Mrs. 

 Wadsworth was not able to leave Chicago until June eighth. She then 

 consigned to Miss Tomes the care of the New York State exhibits in 

 the W Oman's Building, The listing and entering for award of a large 

 number of them which had not previously been entered, and other 

 duties besides the correspondence entailed by her work, left Miss Tomes 

 little time for the sale of the " Distaff Series," which was also intrusted 

 to her. Miss Jennyss was, therefore, spared from some of her office 

 duties and devoted a portion of each day to the sale of the books after 

 the middle of August. A regular routine was followed during the 

 summer. The last of August Mrs. Wadsworth went to Chicago, and 

 giving a week to the matter made such arrangements as were possible 

 at that early date for packing and returning the exhibits at the close of 

 the exposition. Such details as she could not enter into at the time she 

 left in the hands of Miss Tomes. It was by this thoughtful planning 

 of the work before the exposition officials were overburdened, that the 

 fine record of having every exhibit packed and out of the grounds by 

 November sixth was made. Mrs. Wadsworth called her committee to 

 Chicago October twenty-fourth, and by employing a sliipping agent 

 who engaged a team to bring the empty boxes to the Woman's Building 

 early on the morning of November first, and by having the packers 

 to begin the work at once everything moved as if by magi-c. The 

 library turniture was sent to New York by freight, but the boxes of_ 

 exhibits were all forwarded by express, it being considered wiser to 

 incur the extra expense rather than drag out the work. It was neces- 

 sary to have some of the collective exhibits sent to a place of safety in 

 New York and to retain Miss Tomes to make the distribution to the 

 individual owners. Miss Tomes returned to New York November 

 thirteenth, estabhshed her business headquarters at Miss Roosevelt's 

 house, by the latter's kind request, and until December sixth gave her 

 time to managing the return of the exhibits and to correspondence 

 with the exhibitors. The articles themselves had been sent to Bud- 

 worth's, which firm had successfully packed them in the spring, and 

 the distribution was made from there. Miss Tomes not having com- 

 pleted her reports and correspondence at the above date, she removed 

 her desk to her home in Washington, where she was occupied until 

 December fifteenth. With the exception of the loss b}'' theft of the 

 gold chain, brooch and ear-rings from the Afro-American collection 

 (mention of which has been made in the report of Miss Howard's work) 

 and two brass articles from the applied arts exhibit, which had never 

 been under the care of the installation committee, having been mislaid 

 by those in" charge of the preliminary exhibition in New York city 



