on to the
presidency of the board of lady managers in December, 1903, and
was as follows: Mrs. Frederick Hanger, chairman, Little Rock,
Ark.; Mrs. Richard W. Knott, Louisville, Ky.; Miss Lavinia H.
Egan, Shreveport, La.; Mrs. Fannie Lowry Porter, Atlanta, Ga.;
Mrs. Helen Boice-Hunsicker, Hoboken, N.J.

From the organization of the board its influence had been sought
and besought by women wishing positions connected with the
exposition work. The appointing of the committee of awards acted
like a wireless-telegraphy message throughout the country and
brought applications from "would be" jurors or recommendations
from friends of "would be" jurors until the files of the board
room were filled to the limit, and the colored postman of the
free-delivery postal service in the southern home of the
chairman thought he had relapsed into a "previous condition of
servitude."

The rules regulating the system of awards, enacted by the
Exposition Company, stated that the nomination for jurors must
be in the hands of the director of exhibits thirty days before
the opening of the exposition, for the approval of the
Exposition Company and the National Commission.

The division of exhibits had issued a list of all exhibits that
could be entered at the exposition, dividing them into 144
groups.

As woman's work is never done, and as she has worked her way
into almost every industrial avenue, to find out the "woman" in
the work of exhibits required more light than the act of
Congress or the rules of the Exposition Company gave on the
subject.

The chairman of the committee of awards made a special journey
to St. Louis, a month after the committee was appointed, and in
company with Miss Egan, a member of the committee, waited upon
the director of exhibits and asked that the World's Fair light,
for femininity, might be thrown on the 144 groups of exhibits,
that woman's work, "in whole or in part," might have a juror
appointed by the board of lady managers to judge of its merits.

The director of exhibits, with much genial graciousness, threw
up his official hands and said he was helpless, that not until
the exhibits were placed could the groups that would admit of
women jurors be determined, and that there would be women jurors
appointed by the Exposition Company as well as by