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commissioners were appointed by their respective Governors, the 

 others by the President. An alternate was also appointed for each in 

 case the origmal appointee could not serve. The duties of the commis- 

 sion were to accept such plans for site and buildings as were submitted 

 by the Worlds Columbian Exposition; determine the plan and scope 

 01 the exposition ; allot space to exhibitors ; supervise the classifica- 

 tion and installation of exhibits ; provide for awards, and have gen- 

 eral char^ of all matters relating to exhibitors and foreign represen- 

 tatives, ihe compensation of commissioners was six dollars per day, 

 while on business of the commission, and actual traveling expenses, 

 i he ofhcers of the commission were : President, Thomas W. Palmer, 

 Michigan; first vice-president, Thomas M. Waller, Connecticut; 

 second vice-president, M. H. De Young, California ; third vice-presi- 

 dent, Davidson B. Penn, Louisiana ; fourth vice-president, Gorton W. 

 Allen, JSTew York ; fifth vice-president, Alexander B. Andrews, North 

 Carolina; secretary, John T. Dickinson, Texas; director-general, 

 George E. Davis, Illinois. 



The World's Columbian Exposition was an Illinois corporation, 

 organized to comply with the terms of the act of Congress authorizing 

 the fair. Its duties were to provide grounds and buildings for the 

 reception of exhibits; to provide for the transportation and protec- 

 tion pf visitors ; collect admissions, and in general control the finan- 

 cial interests of the fair. The corporation was represented by its 

 board of directors ; the officers were : President, Harlow IST. Higin- 

 botham ; vice-presidents, Ferdinand W. Peck and Kobert A. Waller ; 

 secretary, Howard O. Edmonds; treasurer, Anthony F. Seeberger; 

 auditor, William K. Ackerpian ; director of works, Daniel H. Burnham. 

 _ It was inevitable that the province of each board should seem at 

 times to overlap the territory of the other. To remedy this, a Board 

 of Reference and Control, composed of members of each of the princi- 

 pal boards, was created, and afterwards a Council of A4ministration, 

 composed of two members from each board. This arrangement was 

 far from satisfactory, and after the exposition was fairly under way, 

 and it became imperative that matters of administration shoul^ be 

 decided without delay, the Director-general was made the chief execu- 

 tive officer of the fair, and the Director of Works subordinate. 



BoAED OF LaDT MaNAGBES. 



The act of Congress also provided for a Board of Lady Managers, 

 two from each State and Territory, nominated by the national com- 

 missioners thereof, one nominated by each commissioner-at-large, and 

 nine from the city of Chicago appointed by President Harrison. 

 Alternates were also appointed, and the compensation of the members 

 of the board was the same as for the Board of National Commissioners. 

 The powers and duties of the Board of Lady Managers were to man- 

 age and control the Woman's Building ; to be represented on all juries 

 of awards examining products in which female labor was a factor ; and 

 in general to look after the interests of women at the exposition. 



The officers of the board were : President, Mrs. Potter Palmer, 

 Illinois ; first vice-president, Mrs. Ralph Trautmann, New York ; 

 secretary, Mrs. Susan G. Cooke, Tennessee. 



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