The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
The Work They Will Do for the
Worlds Fair.
VERY ELABORATE DESIGNS.
Great Executive Ability Has Already
Been Developed.
Pen Sketches of the Utah Lady Members
OF the National Board of Lady
Managers OF the Worlds
Fair.


is a fact, that the decoration of the Utah
building at the Worlds Fair has been
left entirely in the hands of the board of
lady managers for Utah. That this course
was as wise as it was gallant, will be con-
ceded by all who glue the matter any re-
Election, and that its effect will be to
materially enhance the beauty and at
tractiveness OF the surroundings, is
equally certain. The details of this duty
have been assigned to committee of
ladies known as the committee on design
and color. AS the several departments
will be decorated and painted according
TO a formulated plan, the effect will be no
slight feature of the Utah exhibit. Al
ready elaborate designs are being made
for the decoration Of the building, and
Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Cache
and other counties are engaged in special
work for this purpose. Among the con-
tributions promised, of special cnarac-
ter, are a set of furniture made out of
Utah wood, designed and made by Utah
workmen and upholstered with Utah TX.
Also an onyx table and a clock nine tee,
high with an onyx face and gold and
silver hands
Up to date the lady managers have their
work much better in hand than the men,
but that is a usual custom with them and
will cause no surprise. In nearly all the
counties organizations have been effected,
and the county boards are working in
harmony with the territorial board.
There will be separate or competing
display made by the ladies in the Utah
building, but it is pleasant to state that
many are brave and confident enough 10
enter into competition with all others.
not only in the woman's general depart
ment but IN the main exhibition also.
The effect of this VIII be to add an in
creased interest in the fair generally, so
lar as Utah is concerned, and knowing
that the talent of our ladies is IN no way
inferior to that of the men who have
already won Us many honors In
competition with the world at large, who
can doubt that those entering the lists
viii return with trophies and gratifying
evidences of their skill and genius? il
must be said of the ladies that they are as
persistent in their work as they are sue
cessful in their results, and the whole
field of woman domain and influence,
excepting perhaps in the world OF politics,
is being brought to the attention OF the
public by means of their department in
the colossal exposition.
In connection with the general work for
the fair, is what is known as the s'WC-
men IS Progress, - which, it is said, ''is
proposed, not for the purpose OF adyanc-
ing any one cause or promoting any one
doctrine or of advancing any one propo-
ganda, but for the purpose of bringing
together the representatives of all worthy
organizations of women whatever their
nationality or their specific objects may
be.' The ladies of Utah, alive to the pos
sibility OF the occasion, are also working
along this line.
Another feature is what is called ssThe
Children s Home.'' This is designed to
see that children are not left without re-
cognition in the great movement culmi-
mating in the exposition of 1898. 1t has
for its object the care of the children at the
World's fair, where mothers can visit the
exposition and avoid the trying labor of
toting the little ones around, and at the
same time be relieved of every care and
vet enjoy the fullest advantage of the ed
vocational facilities offered there without
fear that the little ones may get i'll or be
injured or lack any motherly watchful-
ness.
so far as the beard of lady managers for
Utah is concerned. they have DISPLAYED a
business capacity which men hitherto
have been loathe to give them credit for
possessing. They are raising their own
funds and paying their own way. This is
no light labor in itself, and is evidence
that in their sphere and department the
ladies will show that they are abundantlv
able to take care of themselves.
OF the exposition generally, it is worthy
OF note that woman'S connection with it
is upon precisely the same basis as that OF
man. The work of both sexes will be ex-
hiblted side by side; and all the award
ing iuries will have women upon them,
even TO mines and agriculture. A dis
tinction has also been accorded the
women in this exposition. They not
only have absolute control of all that con-
Germs the women s building-which is not
the case as to any other deDartment-but
all connected with 1t will be the creation
of women's intellect. The designs and
decorations are the work of women, while
in this building there will be no exhibit
OF any work that is not entirely the pro-
duct of womeu's labor. As to the art de-
partment of the women's exhibit, none
but original work will be allowed IN it
even the most meritorious copying being
excluded.
The Utah members OF the National
Board of lady Managers of the Columbian
Commission are Mrs. Margaret B. Sails
bury and Mrs. Thomas a. Whalen: Miss
Margaret Keogh aud Mrs. Susie b. Emery
being alternates. These ladies have acted
rs an advisory board to the territorial or
ganizauion.
The members OF the board of lady man
ayers of this territory are: Mrs. Emily S.
Richards, president; Mrs. Jane S. Rich
ards, president; Mrs. Eiecta Bullock.
Mrs Luna V. Thatcher, Mrs. Mary c.
LYMAN, members OF The board, and Miss
May Preston, secretary
The following facts of q biographical
nature viii prove interesting to the gem
ersl reader:
MRS. MARGARET BLAINE SALISBURY,
eighth ce-president OF the board of
lady managers and one of the national
LADY commissioners for Utah, was born in
the CITY of Washington, D. G. Her father
is Major r. &. Walker, United States
<....,.- and her mother . sister Of Inr..-