porches, supported on Ionic columns, which made the total length of the building over all 140 feet.  The site was an ideal one, close to the New York and other State buildings and on the direct route from the Inside Inn to the center of the grounds.  The building was surrounded by a beautiful oak grove, and was on gently rising ground.  Inside the classic feeling was maintained.  On entering through the loggia one found an imposing hall 55 feet long by 25 feet high.  The color scheme of this room was golden brown, with a lighter shade of the same for the vaulted ceiling.  Portraits of great value, taken from the statehouse at Annapolis, as well as one of his eminence Cardinal Gibbons, lent an air of dignity.  Other rooms on the ground floor were:  On the left a picture room, where a large number of framed photographs of Maryland scenery, buildings, and objects of interest were hung, and back of this a lunch room and pantry, for use on reception days.  At the other end of the building there was a drawing room, with a room at the back which was used as a men’s smoking room, with toilet attached.  A stairway led from this part of the building to the ladies’ boudoir, which also had toilet attached, and to a ladies’ drawing-room.

The second story, at the other end of the building, had a good room fitted up for the gentleman in charge of the building.  Mr. Albert Jones, of Baltimore, and Mrs. Parks Fisher, of Baltimore, dispensed hospitality in true Maryland style, and made many friends for the State among the many visitors who came daily to the building.  Upon Mrs. Fisher devolved much of the responsibility of making the building popular, and she was careful to have a few representative ladies of old Maryland families established in St. Louis to assist her in entertaining those who came.  To Mrs. Fisher is due much of the credit for the taste and judgment used in furnishing the building.

The exhibit of Maryland’s mineral resources in the Mines and Metallurgy Building covered an area of nearly 3,000 square feet of floor space, together with about 4,000 square feet of wall and window space.  The mineral products were as follows: 

Coals, building and decorative stones, ores, clays and clay products (including pottery, tile, terra cotta, fancy and common brick, fire brick, enameled brick, retorts and stove linings), limestones, sands, cement rocks, flints, feldspars, marls, tripoli, barites, soapstones, etc.  All of the leading operators and manufacturers in the State took part in the display, some of them supplying large collections of materials.  In addition to the exhibit of mineral products there was an extensive systematic collection representing the geology, mineralogy, and paleontology of the State, displayed in a series of plate-glass, cases on the walls.  In this exhibit the numerous materials found at the various geological horizons were displayed, the object of the exhibit being to show the great variety of geological formations represented in Maryland.