All of the work on my relief maps was done by “woman,” my sister assisting me greatly.  On account of the limited time I had to finish the maps in, I was unable to finish them entirely myself, so had to employ assistants, but in each case it was the hand of woman.  I received a gold medal for my work, or rather my work received a gold medal, it being an order from the State of Louisiana, and forming a part of their exhibit the medal had to become the property of the State.

Surveying and engineering I have never studied, except in the making of these maps, when every assistance in regard to data, etc., was given to me by the most noted State and city engineers, they coming from time to time to supervise the work, and laughingly saying, when I had completed the same, that they would have to give me a diploma for proficiency in the profession.  Of course I had to read up and learn a great deal in regard to surveying and engineering in making the maps, as everything is done correctly to a scale.

Department D, manufactures, Mr. Milan H. Hulbert, chief, comprised 24 groups and 231 classes, the board of lady managers being represented in but 7 groups.

This would seem to be one of the departments where women should have been accorded fuller recognition.  Space does not permit an examination of the number of groups into which their work largely enters, but in the group of “clock and watch making,” for instance, it would seem scarcely just not to grant them their full measure of praise for work well done.  In one factory alone in Massachusetts, where more than 3,000 persons are employed, hundreds of them are women and girls, employed not only in assembling the parts, but attending various machines.  Under the group “Toys,” also “Dolls, playthings,” it is self-evident women must have much to do with their manufacture and preparation for the market, and their inventions of toys and playthings for children would seem to preeminently entitle them to the place in this group which was denied them.

Group 37, Mrs. R.A.  Edgerton, Milwaukee, Wis., Juror.

Under the heading “Decoration and fixed furniture of buildings and dwellings,” the nine classes into which it was divided represented:  Permanent decoration of public buildings and of dwellings.  Plans, drawings, and models of permanent decoration.  Carpentry; models of framework, roof work, vaults, domes, wooden partitions, etc.  Ornamental joiner work; doors, windows, panels, inlaid floors, organ cases, choir stalls, etc.  Permanent decorations in marble, stone, plaster, papier-mache, carton pierre, etc.  Ornamental carvings and pyrographics.  Ironwork and locksmiths’ work applied to decoration; grill work and doors in cast or wrought iron; doors and balustrades in bronze, roof decoration in lead, copper, zinc, dormers, spires, finials, vanes; crest and ridge work.  Decorative paintings on stone, wood,