idea of the extent of the Kentucky display at the exposition and
of its value as an advertisement of the progress and the resources
of the State. Appended also is a brief statement of the organi-
zation of the Kentucky Exhibit Association, which organization,
upon the failure of the General Assembly at its session of I902
to make an appropriation for this work, had taken up the task
of raising a preliminary fund and of enlisting public opinion in
support of an appropriation to be asked for at the next session
of the Legislature to complete its work.
     The Kentucky Exhibit Association was organized May 28,
 1902, and incorporated November 5, 1902, with the following
 gentlemen as Directors: A. Y. Ford, Louisville; J. C. W.
 Beckham, Frankfort; James H. Parrish, Owensboro; A. Smith
 Bowman, Lexington; Ed Woolfolk, Paducah; Clarence Dallam,
 Louisville; William H. Newman, Louisville; David B. G. Rose,
 Louisville; Marion E. Taylor, Louisville; Charles B. Norton,
 Louisville; Samuel Grabfelder, Louisville; Sam P. Jones, Louis-
 ville; Charles P. Weaver, Louisville; Samuel S. Savage, Ash-
 land, and E. J. Hickey, Covington. The Directors selected
 A. Y. Ford as President; Marion E. Taylor, Vice-President;
 R. E. Hughes, Secretary, and Logan C. Murray, Treasurer.
 Within a few months Mr. Hickey died and was succeeded on
 the Board by Mr. John C. Droege, of Covington. Judge Savage
 was a most active member of the organization until in August
 of 1903, when he was cut down by sickness, which within a brief
 period terminated fatally. At the next meeting of the Board
 Mr. Charles C. Spalding, of Lebanon, was chosen to fill the
 vacancy.
    It was the avowed purpose of this Association to secure
from all sources the sum of ioo,ooo, to be expended in erecting
a Kentucky Building and making a display of Kentucky's re-
sources at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Association
realized that an appropriation made by the General Assembly at
its session in I904 could not be utilized to advantage unless a
vast amount of preliminary work had been done. Its plan,
therefore, was to raise a sufficient sum to begin the construction
of a State building and the collection of material for exhibits.
It was necessary that the building should be erected during the
summer of 1903, in order to avoid the excessive cost of hurried
construction. It was necessary also to be in a position to secure
allotments of space in the various exhibit buildings and to make
considerable progress in collecting exhibit material. To this
end the Association created a Finance Committee, composed
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