The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-10-27
TWENTY-FIVE MEDALS.
Un precede nted Award to the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Company at
the ST. Louis World Fair.

I'm precedented Award to the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Company at
the ST. Louis Worid's Fair.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
exhibit at the Louisiana State Pur-
chase Exposition has won all the
medals that could possibly be award
ed to railroad company.
The highest award of the EXPOSE.
ton, carrying with it the premier
honor in each department, or build
ing, is the special gold medal for the
best, most complete and most attrac-
tive exhibit. This.award was 10 be
recommended by the Department
Jury, and ratified by the Superior
Jury. In the department of Trans
portation Exhibits, the Department
Jury, with Vice President Kendrick,
of the Santa Fe System, at its head,
was composed of distinguished rail
way men, engineers, mechanical and
other experts of this country, Ger
many, England, France, Austria and
Japan. The Superior Jury has for
its head Governor Francis, while Di-
rector of Exhibits Skiff is First Vice
President, and the membership
throughout of the most eminent and
representative men at the Exposition
including the Commissioners General
of the Foreign Countries, the Presi-
dents 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 EXPOSE
ton first honors, there being none
higher and so exclusive
The award was to the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company by the
unanimous vote of the full Depart
ment Jury, and like great distinction
was accorded by the full Superior
Jury.
The Grand Prize, another gold
medal was awarded the Baltimore
and Ohio on it's Section as a whole,
and denotive of the highest distinc-
ton in its class or group. In coniunc-
ton with the Grand Prize, eighteen
collaborators' medals were awarded;
these going to those who had con-
trjbuted to the striking educational
value and general completeness of
Group Jury, followed by the en-
| tiOl Scinohb vi department. % uTy, anu
ratified by the Superior Jury, award
ed gold medal of honor to Major j.
q. Pangborn, Director of the Exhibit,
in recognition of the origination and
completion of the great historical col
lection, and the scheme and perfec-
ton of it's installation.
Additional to the foregoing, and
distinctive of the honors awarded the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany in another building, is the
Grand Prize and gold medal in the
group of Engineering and Architec-
ture" in the Department of Liberal
Arts, this being on the model of the
new Union Station at Washington,
which is the central feature of the b.
Il 0. Section in the Department of
transportation.
The Sweepstakes" as it might be
termed, in the fourteen acres of ex-
hibits in the Department of Trans
portation, The Grand Prize in the
railway group of the same building,
another Grand Prize in the Depart
ment of Liberal Arts, and the medal
of hoDor-four gold medals of the
very highest class, and eighteen other
medals, most of them gold, is the
Company's Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position record. 1t is beyond parall-
cling, for it is topped by the Special
Gold Medal for 1.-The best, the most
complete, and the most attractive in
installation" and there is but one
such medal.