subscriptions of nearly an equal amount, and an exact replica of Monticello, the home of Jefferson, was erected.  In this building, outside of the manual exhibit made in the Education and Social Economy Building, by the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institute of Stanton, all of Virginia’s educational exhibit was displayed It consisted of an exhibit valued at over $10,000, made by the University of Virginia.  A comprehensive exhibit was made by the Randolph Macon system, and exhibits were made by Roanoke College Hollins Institute, and a number of other schools.  The building, in addition to its social offerings, provided an interesting historical study through its furnishings of articles owned by Jefferson, and was classed among the most satisfactory State buildings of the fair.

WASHINGTON.

In March, 1903, Governor McBride, pursuant to the act of the legislature, appointed the following-named gentlemen members of the Washington State commission for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition: 

A.L.  Black, Bellingham; Edward C. Cheasty, Seattle; Thomas Harrington, Buckley; M.E.  Hay, Wilbur; G.L.  Lindsley, Ridgefield; G.W.R.  Peaslee, Clarkston; R.P.  Thomas, Anacortes; W.W.  Tolman, Spokane.

At the first meeting of the commission, held in Tacoma April 2, 1903, A.L.  Black was elected president of the commission; G.W.R.  Peaslee, secretary; and Elmer E. Johnston, of Everett, executive commissioner.

The type of structure selected for the Washington State Building at the St. Louis World’s Fair was an unique and attractive one, designed primarily to demonstrate the quality, character, and exceeding dimensions of the State’s forestry product.  It consisted of eight pieces of fir timber 24 inches square and 110 feet long, placed on end at the points of an octagon 90 feet in diameter at the base, five stories in height, the eight timbers surmounted by an observatory carrying a flag pole 60 feet in length.  All the material entering into the construction of the State Building was shipped from the State of Washington, and was donated to the State by the Northwest Lumber Manufacturers’ Association.  The market value of said material in Washington would be, in round numbers, $8,000.  The freight on the material from Washington to St. Louis and the construction of the building amounted to $18,823.10.  The unique design and unusual construction features of this building constituted it at the start one of the features of the exposition construction.

It was photographed by many thousand visitors, illustrated in railroad guides as one of the attractions, featured by papers and magazines everywhere, and will probably be distinctly remembered longer by a greater number of people than any other building on the exposition grounds.  As a practical exhibit of the State’s lumber products it was a tremendous success, and together with its exhibit contents, representing a composite collection of the State’s natural products and resources, was a colossal advertisement and demonstration of the State’s natural wealth.