The Deed of the Pen

Washington Correspondents Send Scroll
to President Francis of the World's Fair.

President David R. Francis, of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, has received from Waslington a scroll entitled “The Deed of the Pen.” It is by the standing committee on correspondents, representatives of the Gridiron Club and of the magazines, expressing to the management of the World's Fair their keen appreciation and untiring attention shown by the exposition authorities to the Washington correspondents when the latter visited St. Louis at the time of the dedication of the exposition buildings and grounds on April 30 last.

The scroll is in the form of a deed of conveyance. It is a magnificent piece of pen work, and was executed by E. B. Hay. It is decorated with black and white rlbbons, the colors of the Gridiron Club, and on one side is an immense quill, plucked from the largest eagle in the National Zoo.

A letter has just been received from President Francis acknowledging receipt of the work, in which he says: “‘The Deed of the Pen’ shall have a conspicuous place in the administration offices of the exposition.” The scroll, which is heavy cardhoard and incased in a heavy black oak frame, was signed, in behalf of the newspaper men, by Frank A. Richardson, D. I. Murphy, R. M. Larner, James R. Young, Rudolph Kauffman, and E. B. Hay, for the Press, Magazines, and Gridiron clubs, and John M. Carson, John P. Miller, and W. W. Jermane, of the standing committee of correspondents. Attest. P. V. De Graw.