tion is included in this report, although not legally required to
be made a part of it. It is added because it seemed desirable
to show in one place the entire cost, paid from all sources, of
the State's representation at St. Louis. An effort has been
made to mark clearly the distinction between those items paid
by the Kentucky Exhibit Association-such as the expense of
publicity work and soliciting contributions, etc.-and those
items paid out of the State appropriation. Attached to this
report will be found a list of the contributors to the fund of the
Kentucky Exhibit Association. It is deemed by the Commission
that this information has a proper place in this report, since with-
out these contributions no exhibit at St. Louis would have been
possible.
     The Association also prosecuted a vigorous educational
 campaign throughout the State for the purpose of arousing the
 interest of the people of the State in its undertaking. In this
 it had the unanimous co-operation of the press of the State, to
 whose public spirit the purposes of the Association strongly
 appealed. No member of the Association drew any compensa-
 tion except those who gave their entire time as members of its
 office force. As a result of its labors, when the General Assem-
 bly of 1904 met, representatives of the Association were able to
 point to a State building practically completed, to liberal allot-
 ments of space in every exhibit building, to complete plans for
 exhibit installation and to considerable exhibit material that had
 been gathered from various parts of the State and stored free
 of cost in the Haldeman Warehouse, at Louisville.
     The General Assembly was sufficiently impressed by the
work that had been done and by the popular demand for its
completion to make an appropriation of 75,000 to carry the
undertaking to a successful finish. Of the 31,44I.94 raised by
the Kentucky Exhibit Association, it had expended prior to the
organization of the State Commission the sum of 25,426.74 and
turned over to the State Commission 6,0I5.20, besides all prop-
erty that had been accumulated by the Exhibit Association up
to that time, including a State building nearly finished and the
material for the various exhibits.
    The Commission continued the work of the Association as
to building and exhibits without change in plan or in the per-
sonnel of those in charge. The same officers and superintend-
ents were continued.
    The total amount of funds that came into the hands of the
Kentucky Exhibit Association and the State Commission was

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