The display of tobacco was conceded to be most instructive.  Occupying an entire block—­4,628 square feet of space—­it covered more floor area than any other display in the 1,240 acres of the exposition devoted to a single product.  There was shown in miniature or by pictures tobacco in every phase of its culture and manufacture.  A box of plug tobacco 3 feet square, the largest ever made, was shown here.  To show to good advantage the successive steps in the culture, harvesting, curing, and marketing of the tobacco, two platforms, each 31 feet long by 8 feet wide, were utilized.  They were on opposite aisles of the space, running parallel with the 89-foot sides.  On one platform were shown the plant beds and fields, on the other the curing barns and warehouses.

The State Pavilion was dedicated as the “New Kentucky Home.”  By a careful study of the visitors’ register with the total attendance at the exposition it was found that 1 out of every 18 visitors to the fair visited the “New Kentucky Home.”  The registers showed for one day alone citizens from 35 States and 11 foreign countries.  Its walls, hung with more than $20,000 worth of the paintings of Kentucky artists, the most important collection in the State Building; a score of glass cases holding one of the exhibits of fancy needlework and a display of relics, with a library of the works of Kentucky authors and an art-design piano with Kentucky-written music, the “New Kentucky Home” was most interesting.  With four sides, and every side a front, its doors were always wide open and no restriction was placed upon visitors.  Its 582 lights at night spoke an invitation to all.

LOUISIANA.

Members of commission.—­Governor Newton C. Blanchard, president; Dr. W.C.  Stubbs, State commissioner; Maj.  J.G.  Lee, secretary; Gen. J.B.  Levert; Col.  Charles Schuler; H.L.  Gueydan; Robert Glenk, assistant to State commissioner; Charles K. Fuqua, assistant secretary.

The legislature of the State of Louisiana in 1902 passed an act providing that a board of commissioners, to be known as “The Board of Commissioners of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,” be created, consisting of the governor, who should be ex officio president thereof, and four other members to be appointed by the governor.  The sum of $100,000 was appropriated by the same act for Louisiana’s participation in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

In the city of New Orleans is an old Spanish building, erected in 1795, used during the Spanish reign as a cabildo or court building.  In this building the actual transfer of the Louisiana purchase from Spain to France and from France to the United States occurred, the first on November 30 and the last on December 20, 1803.