metal, canvas, or other surfaces.  Signs of all varieties.  Mosaic decorations in stone or marble for flooring; enameled mosaic for walls and vaulted surfaces.  Various applications of ceramics to the permanent decoration of public buildings and dwellings.

As much time was consumed in endeavoring to communicate with the principal of this group, Mrs. Edgerton as alternate did not arrive in St. Louis until the work of the jury was far advanced, and therefore could make no report.

Group 45, Mrs. Isaac Boyd, Atlanta, Ga., Juror.

Under the group heading “Ceramics,” the 13 classes into which it was divided represented:  (Raw materials, equipment, processes, and products.) Raw materials, particularly chemical products used in ceramic industrials.  Equipment and methods used in the manufacture of earthenware; machines for turning, pressing, and molding earthenware; machines for making brick, roofing tile, drain tile, and pottery for building purposes; furnaces, kilns, muffles, and baking apparatus; appliances for preparing and grinding enamels.  Various porcelains.  Biscuit of porcelain and of earthenware.  Earthenware of white or colored body, with transparent or tin glazes.  Faience.  Earthenware and terra cotta for agricultural purposes; paving tiles, enameled lava.  Stoneware, plain and decorated.  Tiles, plain, encaustic, and decorated; mosaics, bricks, paving bricks, pipes.  Fireproof materials.  Statuettes, groups and ornaments in terra cotta.  Enamels applied to ceramics.  Mosaics of clay or of enamel.  Mural designs; borders for fireplaces and mantels.

No report.

Group 53 (later combined with Group 61), Mrs. F.K.  Bowes, Chicago, Ill.,
Juror.

Under the group heading of “Equipment and processes used in sewing and making wearing apparel,” the nine classes into which it was divided represented:  Common implements used in needlework.  Machines for cutting clothes, skins, and leathers.  Machines for sewing, stitching, hemming, embroidering, etc.  Machines for making buttonholes; for sewing gloves, leather, boots and shoes, etc.; plaiting straw for hats.  Tailors’ geese and flatirons.  Busts and figures for trying on garments.  Machines for preparing separate parts of boots and shoes (stamping, molding, etc.).  Machines for lasting, pegging, screwing, nailing.  Machines for making hats of straw, felt, etc.

Mrs. Bowes writes as follows: 

    AMALGAMATION OF GROUPS 53 AND 61.

Chairman, Daniel C. Nugent, St. Louis; honorary vice-president, Jean Mouilbeau, Paris, France; first vice-president, John Sheville Capper, Chicago; second vice-president, J.E.  Wilson, Elmwood, Ill.; secretaries, Charles W. Farmer, New York City, and Ella E. Lane Bowes, Chicago (elected by the jury to fill the place of Secretary Charles Farmer, owing to his being called to New York City).  Group 53:  Chairman, J.E.