528 New York at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



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caution and exactness, as to materially reduce the usual percentage of 

 awards. Exclusive of France and Norway, who withdrew from exam- 

 ination, and the yarious individuals who also withdrew their exhibits 

 from examination, there were in the Chicago Exposition 65,422 individ- 

 ual exhibitors, and the judges made awards to 21,000 individual exhibit- 

 ors. This percentage is far below that of any other international fair, 

 as is shown by the following table : 



Exhibitors. Medals. Per cent. 



1873, Vienna 42,000 26,000 62 



1876, Philadelphia 31,000 13,104 42 



1888, Melbourne 9,000 6,000 66 



1889, Paris 61,722 33,889 55 



1893, Chicago 65,422 23,757 36 



Of course the number of exhibitors is not the measure of the num- 

 ber of exhibits, because an individual exhibitor might have several 

 exhibits in the same or different department, group or class. In fact, 

 and as illustrative of the labor performed by the juries of awards, over 

 250,000 separate exhibits were examined and reported upon, out of 

 which accrued the ultimate total of 23,757 medals awarded. 



The system worked expeditiously, and the number of dissatisfied 

 exhibitors was remarkably small. In the Paris Exposition of 1889, 

 there were more than 800 appeals filed from the awards of the juries, 

 670 of which were allowed, and different awards made upon the judg- 

 ment of the appellate court. In the Chicago Exposition, out of 65,422 

 exhibitors, only 259 complaints were submitted in any form against the 

 awards, and out of that number only forty rthree cases ripened into actual 

 appeals. Of these appeals all have been adjusted excepting five, 

 wherein the decision of the court of appeal has not yet been announced, 



All the awards, with the exception of the cases on appeal, were 

 announced from time to time on the bulletin boards of their respective 

 departments. It was intended, and preparations to that end had been 

 perfected, to have a formal and ceremonial announcement of awards in 

 Music Hall, of the World's Fair grounds, on the thirtieth of October, 

 the closing day of the fair, but the concurrent action of all the World's 

 Fair authorities in suspending public ceremonies in closing the fair, 

 because of the assassination of the mayor of Chicago, compelled the 

 awards committee to rest upon their prior and more informal 

 announcements. 



The members of the Executive Committee on Awards are : John 

 Boyd Thacher, New York, chairman ; A. T. Britton, District of Colum- 

 bia ; A. B. Andrews, North Carolina ; W. J. Sewell, New Jersey ; B. 

 B. Smalley, Vermont. 



New Yoek Awards. 

 The uniformly high merit of the New York exhibits which were found 

 in nearly every group of the exposition classification, is fully attested 

 by the great number of awards granted our exhibitors. Of the 23,757 

 awards, New York received 1,873 diplomas and 1,757 medals, not 

 including 182 premiums in the live stock exhibit, or about one-twelfth 



