spacious, cool verandas and the odor from the fresh pine logs made the log house of Maine a favorite rendezvous during the heated days of the summer.  The building was furnished throughout with furnishings from the manufacturers of Maine.  The walls were decorated with moose heads and specimens of the game and fish to be found in Maine.  The walls of the building were hung with pictures of various scenes in the State.  The total cost of the building was $22,361.40, and the furnishings cost $159.80.

The legislature of the State appropriated $40.000 for the purpose of erecting the building and making the display.  There was no money given by individuals.  The total cost of the exhibit was $1,893.19.

The commissioners appointed by the legislature were as follows: 

Louis B. Goodall, Sanford, chairman; Lemuel Lane, Westbrook; Frank H. Briggs, Auburn; Charles C. Burrill, Ellsworth; Henry W. Sargent, Sargentville.  Edward E. Philbrook was elected secretary.

The purpose of the commission was primarily to advertise they resources of the State of Maine as a vacation and sporting State.  The only exhibit made by the State, beyond that described above, was a small display of potatoes and apples.

MARYLAND.

In the legislature of the State of Maryland in 1902 an item of $25,000 was provided in the general appropriation bill “for the use of the commissioners to the St. Louis Fair, hereby authorized to be appointed by the governor.”  The amount of this appropriation was less than the friends of the measure desired, but it enabled the work to be inaugurated.  Governor Smith appointed the following commissioners: 

Gen. L. Victor Baughman, chairman; Francis E. Waters, vice-chairman; Frederick P. Stieff, treasurer; Frank N. Hoen, William A. Marburg, William H. Grafflin, Wesley M. Oler, Thomas H. Robinson, Jacob M. Pearce, Orlando Harrison, Mrs. Frances E. Lord, Mrs. Parks Fisher, F.P.  Cator, H.J.  McGrath; Samuel K. Dennis, secretary.

A further appropriation of $40,000 was made, giving the commission a total of $65,000.  Through the systematic, scientific work of the Maryland geological survey the commission had at hand the basis of an excellent exhibit for the Palace of Mines.  After vicissitudes of various kinds, chiefly those occasioned by the great fire in Baltimore, the Maryland Building was finished and opened on June 8.  The total cost of the building was $18,402.70.  It was of a modern classic design, very boldly treated.  In plan it was a parallelogram 100 feet long by 40 feet wide, with a recess on the front 10 by 55 feet, forming a loggia, which was richly decorated in color (the only such external color scheme on the grounds), supported by six columns of the composite order 25 feet high, carrying a cornice and balustrade above.  The Maryland State arms were the central feature over the main entrance.  At either end there were large semicircular