In Machinery Hall there was an exhibit comprising a great variety of corundum products, every pound of whose raw material came from Canada.  The exhibit showed corundum in bulk, in large wheels, small wheels, hones, and every variety of grinding and sharpening specialties.  The amount of raw corundum used annually by the company reaches nearly 1,000 tons.  In the Machinery Building, also, was an exhibit of asbestos and its products, the raw material of which came from Canada.  The display consisted of steam-pipe coverings, mattings, packings, and everything of that nature required in heating and steam machinery; also asbestos mattings and fire screens, heavy papering and cardboards, and other things that asbestos can be worked into.  All the asbestos came from the Shedford and Black Lake mines, in the Province of Quebec.

In the Manufactures Building was a very fine assortment of stones, etc., from different parts of Canada.  Among the assortment were garnets from the Stikine River and also from the Province of Quebec; amethysts from Thunder Bay; labradorite, finest in the world, from the Isle of St. Paul; spinel from Ottawa County, Quebec; sodalite from British Columbia; pitanite, Litchfield, Quebec; lercon and perthite from Quebec; sunstone and lebra stone from Perth, Ontario, and crown sunstone from Renfrew County, Ontario.

Besides the exhibits mentioned there were in the Mines Building an exhibit of mineral water from Abenakis Springs, Quebec; in the Philadelphia exhibit in the educational department a fine display of asbestos and pulp.

CEYLON.

Consequent on the visit to Ceylon of Hon. John Barrett, commissioner of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in the latter part of 1902, Hon. W.H.  Figg was dispatched as advance commissioner to St. Louis to investigate the conditions of the proposed World’s Fair of 1904 and to make preliminary arrangements for the representation of the colony thereat.  Mr. Figg’s report, dated New York, February, 1903, was followed by the appointment of a commission composed of the following members: 

Hon. Stanley Bois, commissioner-general; Mr. R. Huyshe Eliot, assistant commissioner; Mr. P.E.  Pieris, assistant commissioner; Mr. Russell Stanhope, assistant commissioner; Mr. Peter De Abrew, commercial agent; Hon. J. Ferguson, C.M.G., Mr. F.C.  Roles, Mr. H. Van Cuylenberg, and Mr. D. Obeyesekeri, official visitors.

By vote $150,000 was placed at the disposal of this commission, and a further sum of $10,000 was contributed by the Planters’ Association.