Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-06-06

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
l.oNDoY, Tuesday, May 6, 1851

'The Worlds Fair as we Americans have
lpen accustomed to call it, has now been open
five days, but it is not yet in complete order, nor
anything like it. The sound OF the saw and
The hammer salutes the vster from every side,
and | think not less than five hundred carpen-
ers and other artzans are busy in the building
to-day. The week will probably close before
he fixtures will have been all put up and the
articles duly arranged for exhibition. As vet.
n great many remain in their transportation
toxes. while others are covered with canvass,
hough many more have been put in order
within the last two days. Through the great
centre aisle very little remains unaccomp,hcd,
but on the sides in the galleries. and in the de-
par'ment of British Machinery there is yet
work to do which another week will hardly see
concluded. Meantime, the throng of visters is
immense, though the uneXampleG extent Of the
Peoples Palace prevents any crush or incOn-
venience. think there cannot have been less
than Ten Thousand vislers in the building to-
day.
OF course, any attempt to specify, or to set
forth the merits or defects of particular articles,
must here be futile. Such a universe of ma
tcrials, inventions and fabrics defes that mode
of treatment But will endeavor to give some
general idea of the Exhibition.
If you enter the building at the East, vou are
in the midst Of the American contributions, to
w'l'" E'e%' SP"' mas oeeH a'o"'u' wncn
.''y inedEe''S III. %SH''9 nts'""'u w" !,
'hP a's'e' our next ne'3noor Is huSS,a' WHO nag a
'ol an e' gn," " our SPact a'o.,eu ~ ner' ann
I"S h',eu u'"' "''e ''' ieSS t''o'""gny ",'u
creu'ao'y 'nar we nave 1t Is S''u ''l'' ,ne
Si'",'' p'.'' VI 'l'e ''t'ueu
,o' u, we a" ''e tr' 'o'-Uo"'u III '!c DAY
'"'''' t"S'''"' y" '""u -" "." o','t'
NPIl"a" ',"'eN Succetu ne' ) '!le 'e"oi co" ~
o"uohS oP'ng eq"aI u '"''N ~ VaIue !. "o' VI
cX'en' ana variety 10 'hose ol all 'le rest oi 'I'e
Oom''"e"t
b'n''h'a has sem some u'n'fao'e "''SS"are
Austria Su't OF apartments 'horo"G''y ana
s"'"P'u""SN lu'n'S"'u' ""lCm m wins 'h"c" re-
gard ana some a"'H',".o"i l"e'e u VI course
great array "' '"Str'"' Design ara eNI"'S'e
Work'hah>"P from france !n""gn ! 10 not
just now call 10 m'''u any o''ic'e o' "a"Sce"'
demi merit ,
Inc man a'S'e Is very vice, forming oroau
prouchaue on eacn sIue, ",'n co''ec''o" VI
nc"'P'"'e' ''a'u''H' C'S'S' ~, w. ,e,Meen
.me'n' r"'''""s' "'.i'',H ,n'Se - "" "'cIH
H'aVe, never see" 10 o9''er au'au''He ',u
Sn"u'u say 'at'e are '""' Wy ~ n'"u.eu
"'"e' ""' ~ VI !" i"' I,V ~ :" ~
'''He VI 't'n ""'' e''"' ''v't' ~ P'''
reach the Transept where the great diamond
'Koh-i-Noor' (Muunlain of Lighr) with other
ROYAL contributions. have place, Here in the
exact centre of the Exhibition is a beautiful
Fountain, (nearv all glass but the water,
which has rarely been cXcellcd in design or et-
feet. The fluid is projected TO a height of some
thirty feet, falling thence into a succession of
regularly cnlarging glass basins, and finally
reaching in streams and spray the reservoir be-
low. a Hundred feet or more on either side
stand two stately graceful trees, entirely in
cluded in the building, whose root of glass rises
clear above them. seeming a nearer sky. These
trees (eIms, believe are fuller and fresher in
leaf than those outside. having been shielded
from the chilling air and warmed by the genial
roof. Natures contribution to the Great Exhi-
bion is certainly a very admirable one, and
fairly entities her to frst-class Medal.
The other half of the main aisle is essentials
ly Duplicate Of that already described, bnt is
somewhat differently filled. This is the British
end of the Exhibition, containing far more in
quantity than all the rest nh, toGether. The
finest and co,rhcsr fabrics are ranGed on either
side of this end of the orsnd aisle
The show of Colonial produc,s is not vast
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