Members of Georgia commission.—­Governor J.M.  Terrell, ex officio chairman; O.B.  Stevens, commissioner of agriculture; Col.  Dudley M. Hughes, commissioner-general; Glascock Barrett, assistant commissioner-general; Hugh V. Washington, vice-commissioner-general; F. B. Gordon, commissioner; H.H.  Tift, commissioner.  Advisory board:  John M. Egan, Col.  P.A.  Stovall, E.L.  Rainey, I.P.  Cocke, Dr. L.H.  Chappell, Harry Fisher, Oliver Porter, Dr. J.H.  Turner, W.J.  Kinkaid, A.H.  Shaver, W.J.  Neal, Dr. T.H.  Baker, McAlpine Thornton, James M. Smith, Dr. J.F.  Erwin, H.M.  Franklin, E.B.  Hook, Col.  J.F.  De Lacy, W.S.  Humphries, John A. Cobb, R.C.  McIntosh, James B. Gaston.

Situated on one of the main avenues of the exposition, known as “The Trail,” and immediately north of Virginia and opposite Tennessee and Ohio, was a replica of the home of the late Gen. John B. Gordon at Kirkwood, near Atlanta, erected by the Georgia State commission as the official headquarters of Georgia.  The building was paid for by a fund raised by public subscription, at an approximate cost of $16,000.  The house was furnished entirely with Georgian manufactures.  The cost of furnishing the building was approximately $3,000.

Although the appropriation made by the State of Georgia was only $30,000, the amount was largely increased by popular subscription from counties and cities.  The $30,000 appropriated by the legislature was designated as a basis for increasing the State’s museum.

Owing to the lateness of the date that the work of preparing for the exposition was begun—­October, 1903—­Georgia did not make so complete and comprehensive an exhibit of her natural, educational, and manufacturing advantages as she would otherwise have made.

In the Forestry, Fish, and Game, Georgia contributed a very fine exhibit, at a cost of $3,500, of which much the larger part was composed of Georgia pine.  In this department there was a complete exhibit of naval stores, beginning at the pine tree, showing in detail the different methods of boxing, gathering the crude products, tools used, distillation, turpentine, different grades of resin, and its different by-products.  This was donated by the Board of Trade of Savannah, Ga., at an approximate cost of $2,000.

In the Agricultural Building, one of the most interesting exhibits contributed by Georgia was that of the manufacture of the celebrated Georgia cane sirup, which was demonstrated by two negro women serving waffles and sirup from a miniature log cabin.  Sirup and cabin and expenses were donated by the Georgia Sirup Growers’ Association, and cost approximately $1,700.  There was also a complete display of sea-island cotton in bales and types, together with threads and the various cloths manufactured from same, the cost of installation and maintenance being $2,400.