Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-06
Virginia's Mt. Vernon Exhibit at
CHICAGO.

A most interesting section Of the exhibit
made by Virginia at the Worlds Far
will be the work undertaken by the ladies
to supplement the display provided by
tho States appropriation. The Legisla-
ture appropriated out S25, 900, a sum felt
to be insufficient to secure an exhibit that
would accord with Virginia's character as
the mother of States aud of statesmen
The women of the Virginia Worlds Far
commission accOrdiGcly resolved to pro-
vide by their own efforts IA fuTther fund
to insure worthy representation of the
Old Dominion. 1t was resolved to add to
the State Building on the exposition
grounds another building which should
be an exact reproduction of Mt Vernon,
to be a repository of historical treasures
The rooms, it was determined, should
contain the furniture and appointments
of a mansion of the colonial period, every
article at Mt. Vernon being represented
as far as practicable by genuine antiques
The visitor would thus in the Virginia
Building have about him the verItable
objects among which the men who made
the Union lived and moved and had their
being. There would be thus obtained an
instructive idea OF the civilization and
the social and domestic life of the fathers,
such as could not be had otherwise with
out the perusal Of dozens Of musty vol
umes. This design, thanks to the energy
and untiring zeal of Miss Elizabeth Borst,
of the Virginia commission, and others,
has been carried far toward realization.
Last July at the White Sulphur Springs a
Mt. Vernon Columbian Memorial Associ-
alton funl of $4,000 was planned, aud
ball then given supplied the nucleus of
the balance of S., 600 now in bank. The
work has prospered in the hands of ladies
constituting auxiliary boa rds in various
parts of the State, and tho building IS
now in process Of construction. The re-
gents of the Mt. Vernon Association have
cordially cO-operated in the enterprise,
the success of which is now believed to
be assured. Valuable bronzes, paintings,
furniture and other articles of colonial
times have been obtained from the Car
ters. the Lewises, the Harrlsons, the Pres
tons and other old families of Virginia.
Mrs. Kate Green Paul. of Virginia, has
prepared a list of over 5000 books by
Virginia authors, examples of which will,
it is hoped. be secured for the literary
exhibit. Mrs. Drewry, of Westoyer, will
furnish a collection Of photographs of
notable colonial homes on the lower
James. Arcbeologists Will be interested
in collection made by Miss Borst Of
articles illustrative of prehistoric life in
Virginia, recently obtained from mounds
near Luray and other points in the Val
lev. The Virginia Mt. Vernon exhibit is,
in short to be varied in character. so as
to embrace features that would not he in-
cluded in a merely industrial exhibit
Virginia's interest for the world at large
lies in her past as we'll as in her present.
1t is largely a historic, not to say 70,
mantle, interest. which cannot be ignored
IN representation of the State at Chi
cago. 1t is gr. flying to observe that the
ladies of the ST. e have appreciated the
importance OF the matter, and that their
efforts in its behalf are so successful
Baltimore Sun.