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honors. Those who failed to visit the line-art hall will be well re¬ 
paid by calling at their gallery on Spring street. 
I cannot close this part of rny report without expressing my 
thanks to Hon. Benj. Bagnail and Mrs. Abby, for their kindness in 
contributing their valuable paintings to this department. “ Flor¬ 
inda,” owned by Mr. Bagnall and valued at three thousand dollars, 
and the “trial of Red Jacket,” painted and owned by Mrs. Abby, 
were the two central points of attraction. Could the donors have 
witnessed the satisfaction expressed by the visitors as they gazed 
upon these paintings, I have no doubt they would have considered 
themselves fully compensated for the trouble and risk in placing 
these celebrated works of art on exhibition. 
Millinery and dress-making were placed in this department. 
There were no entries in the former and but two in the latter, and 
these the judges deemed unworthy of premiums. I can account 
for this lack of entries and interest only on the supposition that 
Milwaukee dealers have nothing worthy of exhibition in these 
classes. 
Needle, shell and wax-work class was also placed in this depart¬ 
ment. The executive committee when making up the premium-list 
named all the articles to be found in other premium-lists, and by 
their united wisdom added many more, but the entries embraced more 
than a score of articles not named. To enumerate the articles and 
give the premiums would occupy too much space. I shall content 
myself with saying that every variety, both useful and ornamental, 
which the mind could conceive and the hands of the fair sex exe¬ 
cute was displayed. Even the sore-headed reporters could take no 
exceptions to this part of the exhibition. % 
Rev. E. A. Wanless, formerly a missionary in Turkey, again, fa¬ 
vored us with a large collection of curiosities from that far-off 
country. 
Asking pardon of the exhibitors for any omission or injustice in 
this report, I take pleasure in saying that future reports from this 
department will come from abler hands. 
