Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-10-29
GlINiiIs
Uwcnty-T.yO Medals.

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad OK
hibit at the Louisiana State pH;Chasc
Exposition has won all The medals that
could possibly be awarded to Il railroad
company.
The highest award Of the Exposition,
carrying with it the PREMIER Hulin" III
each department. or building, is the
special gold medal for the best, most
complete and most attractive exhibit.
This award was to I've recommended 10y
the Department Jury, and ratified by
the Superior Jury. Ia the department
OF Transportation Exhibits, the Depart
ment Jury, with \icc-pr"SidcI.t Ken
drick, of the Santa Fee System, AT its
head, was composed Of distinguished
railway men, engineers, mechanical and
other experts of this country, Germany,
England, France, Austria and Japan.
The Superior Jury has for its head
Governor Francis, while director of iIx-
hibitS Skitf is First Nice-PreSident, and
the membership throughout of the most
eminent and representative men dt the
Exposition including the Commissioners
General Of the Foreign Countries, the
Presidents of Department .JurirS. Chiefs
of Departments, etc.
Naturally, the rivalry was ,,trOng for
the special gold medal, of which there
is but one i'll each building, the holder
winning with it the Exposition first
honors, there being none higher and So
exclusive
The award was to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company by the unani-
nous vote of the full Department jury,
and like great dis inction was accorded
by the full Superior Jury.
The Grand Prize, another COLA medal
was awarded the Baltimore aud Ohio
on its Section as IL Whole, and dau0tive
of the highest distinction in its class or
group. In conjunction with the Grand
Prize, eighteen collabOratorS' medals
We're awarded; these going to Taos
who had contributed 10 til" striking
educational value and general complete
ness of the Baltimore and Ohio Section.
The Group Jury, followed by the en-
dors"ment of Department Jury, and
ratified by the Superior Jury, awarded
Il gold medal of honor to Major J. Ct.
Pangborn, Director of the Exhibit, in
recognition of the origiualion and com
pletion of the great historical collection,
and the scheme and perfection OF its
installation.
Additional to the foregoing, and dis
tinctive of the honorS awarded the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
i'll another building, is the Grand Prize
and gold medal III the group of 'I1ngi-
n"ering and Architectural in the Depart
ment of Liberal Arts, this being ON the
new Union Station at Washington.
which is the central feature of the b.
and o. Section i'll the Department of
Transportation.
The sweepstakes, as it might he
termed, III the fourteen acres Of exhibits
i'll 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 very highest class, and
eighteen other medals, most of them
gold, is the Company's Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition record 1t Is beyond
paralellng. for it is topped by the Special
Gold Medal for 1.-THE best, the most
complete, aud the most attractive in
stallation," aud there is but one such
medal