t vice-president and chairman of the executive committee,
presided, and stated: "These ladies are here, gentlemen, upon my
invitation, and have some matters they wish to discuss with
you."

Mrs. Montgomery, the chairman of the committee on woman's work,
then said:

"Ever since we became members of the board of lady managers we
have been somewhat in the dark as to what we could and might do
to contribute to the success of this great exposition, and we
thought perhaps if we came and talked to you gentlemen upon the
ground that you could throw us a little light.' We, of course,
want to work in harmony with everything that has already been
outlined, and we feel that we are a very weak body, but we want
to add our efforts to those of the officers of this exposition,
and we came to ask you to please tell us how we can help you,
and to instruct us upon the line which we are to take up. We
feel that women of this country have become a very great factor,
but we also feel that the time has passed when we are to have a
separate exhibit of what women can do, and we thought perhaps in
some way we might be able to work in unison with the executive
committee and the various other committees of the exposition."

Several subjects were brought up by members of the committee on
woman's work, such as the organizations of the country, the
congresses at this exposition, the dates of meetings, and
provision for the care of the women in attendance. It was
suggested by a member of the committee that in the largest
audience that the exposition would have the majority would be
women. The company had already taken steps to provide a place of
meeting, so arranged that meetings could be held without
admission fee.

At this meeting a motion was made, and carried by the executive
committee, "that the director of exhibits, Mr. Skiff, be
instructed to formulate a programme suggesting the way in which
the board of lady managers can assist in inducing congresses to
come to the exposition."

The chairman of the committee on woman's work then called
attention to the fact that almost the first thing done after the
organization of that committee was to ask that immoral dances be
excluded from the exposition, to which no reply had been
received. During the discussion which followed Mr. Stevens read