Financial statement.—­Following is a brief review of the expenditures made by this commission and a report of the disposition of its properties: 

Salary State commissioners ....................   $3,000.00
Total amount expended .........................   31,725.06
Unexpended balance ............................      274.94
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Total .....................................   35,000.00
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Received from sale of State properties: 
State building ..............................      365.00
Furniture ...................................      387.50
Booths and fixtures .........................      225.50
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Total .....................................      978.00
Returned to the State treasurer unexpended
balance, salvage ............................      978.00

The following properties have been turned over to the State Historical Society, for the use of the same, or such purposes as the State may deem advisable: 

Educational exhibit (cases and bases, glass and
cards), value ...............................     $400.00
Exhibit glass jars, globes, and bottles .......      115.00
Exhibit ores and specimens ....................      200.00
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Total .....................................      715.00

TENNESSEE.

Members of commission.—­Governor James B. Frazier, chairman; J.H.  Caldwell, Chas. A. Keffer, E. Watkins, John F. McNutt, J.M.  Shoffner, E.C.  Lewis, John W. Fry, Hu.  C. Anderson, Thomas W. Neal, I.F.  Peters, Mrs. J.P.  Smartt, Mrs. Mary C. Dorris, Mrs. A.S.  Buchanan; B.A.  Enloe, secretary and director of exhibits; D.F.  Wallace, jr., assistant secretary.

The State of Tennessee made nine different exhibits at the World’s Fair, designated and located as follows: 

(1) Tennessee State Building, a reproduction of “The Hermitage,” the home of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. (2) Collective agricultural exhibit, Palace of Agriculture. (3) Special tobacco exhibit, Palace of Agriculture. (4) Palace of Horticulture. (5) Palace of Forestry. (6) Palace of Education. (7) Palace of Mines and Metallurgy. (8) Mining Gulch on Intramural Railway. (9) Administration Building, section of anthropology.

The idea of raising a fund for the reproduction of “The Hermitage” as the Tennessee State building originated with the commission appointed by the governor of Tennessee to take charge of the participation of that State.  The secretary of the commission was directed by the commission to inaugurate the movement.  He began the agitation through the newspaper press, and delivered addresses on the subject to the commercial bodies of Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, and Jackson and to the representatives of the commercial organizations of Nashville.  Intelligent zeal and persistent energy carried the enterprise to a successful conclusion.  The entire expense of constructing the building and maintaining it was defrayed by voluntary contributions.  It was Tennessee’s greatest single advertisement at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.  “The Hermitage” was appropriately furnished with furniture of the period in which Andrew Jackson lived, and a great many articles of the original furniture owned by Jackson were exhibited in the building.