Miss Adelaide Thorpe of this city [New York City] has won the $100 prize offered by the executive committee of the Pan-American Exposition for the best design for an official flag.

More than 300 designs were submitted. Miss Thorpe 's represents the North and South with a white chevron on which is the golden eagle carrying in his talons a ribbon on which are the words, "Pax, 1901."

Miss Thorpe has been appointed assistant interior decorator of the Exposition.

The design for the official flag for the Pan-American Exposition was accepted yesterday.

The design was worked out by Miss Adelaide J. Thorpe, assistant director of color, who has charge of the interior decorations at the Exposition.

It was the aim of Miss Thorpe to embody in the flag the national symbols of all the Pan-American countries.  Accordingly she selected for the basis the tricolor, the symbol of the Republic, in recognition of the fact that all of the Free States of the Occident have that form of government. The red and blue are divided by a chevron of white. In the triangular blue field, next to the staff, is the North Star. The blue and the star typify the countries in the cool Northern Hemisphere. In the red, typifying the warm countries of the South, gleam the four stars of the Southern Cross.

A golden eagle, with outstretched wings, typifying freedom, occupies the center of the white field. Its head is surmounted by the sunrays of the Aztecs and Incas. In its talons is a streamer bearing the inscription PAX 1901, "Pax" signifying "peace", and at the same time its letter forming the abbreviation for Pan-American Exposition.