WISCONSIN DEDICATION DAY.

June 18, 1898.

The Wisconsin building was a handsome structure facing the Illinois building on
one of the best locations on that part of the grounds set aside for State
Buildings.  It was classic in style and excellently planned to meet the
purposes for which it was erected.  A.C. Clas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a member
of the Wisconsin Commission, was the architect of the building, and it was
erected at a cost of about $10,000.

The Wisconsin Exposition Commissioners present, were John C. Koch of Milwaukee,
president; E.C. Clas of Milwaukee, treasurer; J.E. Hansen of Milwaukee, C.H.
Baxter of Lancaster, G.H. Grenback of Madison, H.D. Fisher of Florence, Fred
Kickhefer of Milwaukee; Mrs. Angus Cameron of LaCrosse; General John Hicks of
Oshkosh; Mrs. Leonard Lottredge of La Crosse.  The commissioners and guests
gathered at the building at 11 o'clock A.M. and the following program of
exercises constituted the celebration of the dedication of this building:

Music - By the U.S. Marine Band.
Address - By President J.C. Koch
Response - By President G.W. Wattles
Music - The Bismark March - By Mr. Wm. A. Haas
Oration - By Hon. Wm. C. Quarles of Milwaukee
Original Poem - By Mr. John Goodby.

At 2 o'clock in the Auditorium, exercises were held by the women of the
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS.
Many of the delegates to the National Federation of Women's Clubs which was
held at Denver on June 20-21-22, stopped at Omaha en route, and the Omaha
Woman's Club took this occasion to celebrate their visit to the Exposition
Grounds.  The exercises were held in the Auditorium building, and in many
respects the meeting was one of the most notable ever assembled in Omaha.  It
included many of the most talented and progressive women of the nation.  The
large Auditorium was comfortably filled when the hour arrived for the
commencing of the exercises.  Mrs. Winona S. Sawyer of Lincoln, Nebraska
President of the Board of Lady Managers of the Exposition, presided, and
introduced the exercises by some well chosen remarks.  The program was as
follows:

Prayer
By Miss Margaret J. Evans, of Minnesota, Dean of
Carlton College.
Music
By the Lorelei Quartette, of Omaha
Address of Welcome
Mrs. Draper Smith, President of the Omaha
Woman's Club.
Address
By President G.W. Wattles
Response
Mrs. Ellen Henrotin of Chicago, President of the 
G.F.W.C.
Music
Love in Springtime, by Arditi, rendered
by Master Horace Simms, the boy soprano of Milwaukee.
Address
A Phase of Education - By Mrs. Mary E. Mumford, of Philadelphia.
Address
Art in the Home, the School and the Country - By Mrs. Herman Hall,
of Chicago.
Music
A Summer Midnight - By Mrs. Thomas Kelly, of Omaha.
Address
Club Courtesies - By Mrs. Kate Tannatt Woods, of 
Salem, Massachusetts.
Music
Stay With Me - By the Lorelei Club.
Address
The Keystone of the Education Arch - By Mrs. Ellen A.
Richardson, of Boston.

In the evening at 8 o'clock, further exercises were held in the Auditorium, at
which numerous addresses were given.