Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-11-13
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and eleven days. According to the
official returns furnished by the Po-
lice, no less than 6,200,000 persons
visited the Palace while it remained
open. The grand total Of the in
come Of the Exhibition was f469,-
lis. Allowing the margin OF f2OO,,
600 for expenses of management and
other contingencies, there will re-
main the handsome balance Of a mil
lion of dollars to the credit Of the
Royal Commissioners.
The greatest numberSof people in
the building at one time was $4,000.
The same day the total of visitors
was 100, ,9I5. In the month oil May,
734,672 visits were made to the
Palace; in June, I,lI3,lI6; in July,
I,3I4,I76: in August, 1923, ,435; in
September, l,l55, ,240. and in the
first eleven days Of October, S4l,-
I07.
The Exhibition was opened on
the 18th and l4ih to the Exhibitors
and those introduced by them, and
on the 18Th the Juries' reports were
to be presented, and the whole def
nitely closed by the Bishop of Lon
don, and the performance of the
National Anthem. The Queen
visited the ChrystaI Palace on the
18th, and examined with much in
terest the American service OF plate
made from California gold, for Mr..
Collins.
We ado from the London Times,
the following graphic account Of the
final scene in closing the Great Ex-
hibition to the public:-Herald.
As the day wore on, remarkable
concentration Of people in the nave
began to be descernable. The side
avenues and courts were deserted,
and from end to end of the building
nothing was to be seen but a great
sea Of human beings, filling up the
centre, and agitated by a thousand
different currents of curiosity, which
kept the mass in motion without pro-
gress. Time passed, and the circu-
laiion in the transept became rather
impeded. The people seemed to be
taking up their position there, and
the galleries, as far as the eye could
reach, were occupied by spectators,
who, as they gazed upon the vast
assemblage beneath, evidently ap-
peared TO expect that some public
demonstration was about TO be made.
The organs, which had been played
constantly during the early part OF
day, were now silent, and even that
wonderful man, Herr Sommer, with
his still more wonderful instrument,
sent forth no longer those as;onish-
ing volumes Of sound which have
rendered him, par erceLlence, the
trumpeter of the Exhibition. Moth
ing was to be heard but that strange
and mysterious hum of voices. which,
rising from all large assemblages, is
imposing, but which, in the Chrystal
Palace, swelling upward from more
than $4,000 people, leaves an impress
sion upon the mind not soon to be
forgotten.
Ii was drawing near five O'Clock,
the whole nave, east and west, the
area OF the transept, and the CALLER
les might be seen packed with dense
mass Of black hats, through which,
at intervals, struggling females bon
net emerged here and there into light.
The vast multitude had now become
stationary, and were evidently await.
ing, in silent but intense excitement,
the last act Of great event, immor-
tai in the annals Of the 10Th century.
1t was a most solemn and affecting
scene, such as has rarely been wit
messed, and for which an opportunity |
cannot soon again arise. Words |
cannot do it justice, and fail utterly |
to convey the mystery and the gram
deur thus embodied 10 the eve. Let
the reader fancy what it must have
been TO comprehend with one glance
fifty thousand people assembled un-
der one roof in fairy palace, with
walls of iron and glass, the strongest
and the most fragile material happily
and splendidly combined. Let him,
if he can, picture to himself that as
semblage in the centre of that edifce
filled with specimens of human in
dustry and natural wealth from every
civilized community and the remotest
corners Of the globe. Let him tax
his imagination 10 the uttermost, and
still beyond the material alagnifi-
cence OF the spectacle presented TO
him-let him remember that the
stream Of life on which he looks
down contains in it the intellect and
the heart Of the greatest metropolis
in the most powerful empire in the
world-that strong feelings, such as
rarely find utterance in a form So
sublime, are about to find expression
from that multitude, and that in
heather times, even when liberty