Botching The Awards

fl'hijaddphia Cor. New York íribuHo.j The pith öf the system of awards has beón palette! b+it bjf thfe action of a rump of the Centonnitu tií1ri'.;'isoá ia secret sessiö'n, so that Iittle more than sJü emtj aíd t:aluele(ss forni is left. This tnay secm like a sironL Strttasht, but it is borne out by all the faois the piiulld oan get at. For six weeks a small fracticn of te OpmmissioD, clothed with all the po were of tlio whoJe bctdyhns been tinkering with the reporta of the jttdgis in the interest of unsuccesBful exhibitors, and with the aid of a newly constituted group of Judges on Appeals is preparing a supplementary list of awards. NoW a good deal pan be aaid in favor of making Some adtUfionfll aWfxdfli Among tens óf thvtsítarís.oí articles.it is probable that soins inö a&ipr b6cü oVerlooked, and some palpable eirtrs iiiity have been inadvertently committed by the judgos. Kightly constituted, a Board of Appeal Judges would seem to be a proper adjunct to n system of dealing out. h.onors at n, great exhibition. The fault of t!io Ctüömiasion is Üjat, ia order to give the reports of these judgeS the same weight as those of the regu'.nv judges, and to cover up their own tinkeriug with the regular reports, they havo at one blow broken up the tk hole care.fullydevised and admirable system of sigiied repoits, bearing tlie nnmes and restiug upön the responsibiiity öf the judges making hem. The vèry meat and marrow üi iho ftystetn fldopted for the Centennial was thai in tíaüo Of eflch awatd the examining judge should rniik.; a written report stating themeritsof the article for whicli it ws recommended; that ho should affix his signatÜro to the report, and that the other judges of the same group should add theirs as approving it. Successful exhibitors irete to be furnished _with copies of these reportS, with liberty to publish them. The reports, sigijèd to moet cases by experts of established reputation, were to be the real prizes, not the trumpery copper medals and paper diplomae. Aiter the Commission began to change some of the reporta at the instanee of exhibitors, it was seen that it wóullt not do to send out these doctored documentí, to be disavowed perhaps by the judges whose names were affixed; nor could the signatures of the regular group judges be placed to supplementary awards which they had no hand in making; so it was determined to change the whole system. The signatures are, therefore, to be suppressed on all the reports, and the awards are to go out signed by Director General Goshorn and Secretary Campbell instead of by the judges.