For the purpose of installation and review of exhibits and the conduct of the system of awards a classification was adopted which was divided into fifteen departments, which were divided into 144 groups, which in turn were subdivided into 807 classes.  They will show that while many of the groups and classes are not suited to the requirements of woman’s work, yet all products of female labor can be properly classed in these departments, and that there are extremely few occupations in which man is engaged in which woman can not and does not also work.

The list of appointments of group and department jurors appointed by the board of lady managers is given in the final report of the chairman of the committee on awards.

At a meeting held on May 9, 1904, the committee to present nominations for superior jury announced the names of Mrs. Eliza Eads How, Mrs. Philip N. Moore, Mrs. Thomas N. Neidringhaus, and Miss Mary E. Perry.  On ballot the result was the election of Mrs. Philip N. Moore, of St. Louis, with Mrs. Eliza Eads How, of the same city, as alternate.

In order to arrive at some conclusion in regard to the representation of women at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and to gain some knowledge of the extent of her participation in exhibits, the following questions were addressed to the jurors appointed by the board of lady managers.  They were not designed to be more than suggestive, as, of course, in some instances hardly more than one or two would apply to a given department.  They were based on the rules and regulations, however, by which awards were issued.

The Department of ——­ at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in which you were a juror in group No. ——­, contained ——­ groups and ——­ classes within the groups.  Can you give an approximate estimate of the proportional number of exhibits by women contained in these classes?

    Please give the nature of the exhibits by women (or articles
    exhibited by them) in your department, group, and classes.

    Which, in your opinion, were the most striking exhibits by women
    in your department?

    What advancement did they show in the progress of women in any
    special industry, art, science, etc.?

    What proportion, or, approximately, what number, of exhibits
    were installed by foreign women?

Was any display made that would lead you to think that women were now capable of executing unusual or more creditable work than they accomplished eleven years ago (at the time of the Chicago Exposition) or at any time in the past?

    In what way did their work (or exhibits) differ from their work
    (or exhibits) of the past?

Would their work, as shown at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where it was placed on equal terms of comparison with that of men, prove helpful or suggestive to those interested in the advancement and success of women’s work?  If so, how?

    Was the work of women as well appreciated when placed by the
    side of that of men?