Delphiniums are also very popular and many commercial and private growers have contributed to the displays. Dr. Matthew D. Mann, a respected Buffalo gynecologist and delphinium fancier, has his own plants on display.

This in itself is not remarkable, but the summer will not turn out as he might have hoped. On September 6, Dr. Mann will be summoned to the Exposition grounds after President McKinley was shot. Among the doctors gathered at the Emergency Hospital on the Exposition grounds, Dr. Mann will be elected to perform the surgery on the President.

He was an experienced surgeon but had no experience with gunshot wounds.