Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-10
TWENTY-FIVE MEDALS.
Unprecedented Award to the Bal
timore 6 Ohio Railroad Com
pany at the st. Louis Fair.

st. Louis, Nov. 10.-The Balti
more g. Ohio railroad exhibit at
the Louisiana State Purchase ex.
position has won all the medals
that could possibly be awarded
to railroad company.
The highest award OF the expo
sition, carrying with it the pre-
mier honor in each department
or building, is the special gold
medal for the best, most complete
and most attractive exhibit. This
award was to be recommended by
the department jury, and ratified
by the superior jury. In the de-
partment of transportation exhib-
it's, the department jury, with
Vice President Kendrick, Of the
Sante Fe system, as its head, was
composed of distinguished rail
way men, engineers, mechanical
and other experts of this country,
Germany, England, France, Aus
tria and Japan. The superior
jury has for it's head Governor
Francis, while Director Of Exhib-
it's Skiff is first vice president,
and the membership throughout
of the most eminent and repre-
sentative men at the exposition
including the commissioners gen
eral of the foreign countries, the
presidents of department juries,
chiefs Of departments, etc.
Naturally, the rivalry was
strong for the special gold medal,
of which there is but one in each
building, the holder winning with
it the exposition honors, there
being none higher and so exclu-
sive.
The award was to the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad company by the
unanimous vote of the full depart
ment jury, and like great distinc-
ton was accorded by the full SUI
perior jury.
The grand prize, another gold
medal, was awarded the Bdlti-
more & Ohio on it's section as a
whole, and denotive of the high
est distinction in it's class or
group. In conjunction with the
grand prize, eighteen collabora-
tors medals were awarded !;
these going to those who had con-
tributed to the striking educa-
tional value and general COM
pleteness of the Baltimore & Ohio
section. The group jury, follow
ed by the endorsement of depart
ment jury, and ratified by the SUI
perior jury, awarded gold medal
Of honor to Major j. G. Pang-
horn, director of the exhibit, in
recognition Of the origination and
completion of the great historical
collection, and the scheme and
perfection of it's installation.
Additional to the foregoing,
and distinctive of the honors
awarded the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad company in another
building, is the grand prize and
gold medal in the department of
liberal arts, this being on the
model of the new Union station
at Washington, which is the cen
trail feature of the B. & o. Sec
ton in the department of trans
portation.
The sweepstakes, as it might be
termed, is the fourteen acres of
exhibits in The department Of
transportation. The grand prize
in the railway group of the same
building, another grand prize in
the department of liberal arts,
and the medal Of honor-four
gold medals of the evry highest
class, and eighteen other medals,
most of them gold, is the COM
pany's Louisiana Purchase expo
sition record. 1t is beyond paral-
leling, for it is topped by the spe-
cial gold medal for "the best, the
most complete and the most at
tractive installation" and there
is but one such medal.