The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-06-23
NEW YORK, MAY 81, 1853.

yEyHE Directors Of the Association for the Exhibition
of ,ae industry Of all Nations, give notice that the
Exhibition viii be opened on the icih day oi Julv.
la making this announcement. The Directors avail
themselves OF the opportunity to state thai the building
which they have erected ard the Exhibition which they
have prepared Will they believe fully meet the just
psciHtoi,s OF he pubic.
II is proper that il should be known that in order t.
afford ample scope Tor the inventive talent and skill
coInIr} in machinery and agricultural pie
ments We have Increased tile size OF The building By
adding nearly oIetouIth to It's area, bey oLd what
originally cnnlenl plated, that have for the
purposes of exhibition, two hundred thousand SO uare
feet, neaIly ise No, limiting their plans
display merely curious attractive the Directors have
organized a department OF nneraogy and geology, in
which of The best scientific talent Of the country
has been employees and the foundation laid Of
most valuable national collection OF the mineral re-
sources Of the country.
The Directors had hoped open The Exhibition at an
earlier period but the novelty and ircacy of the sIy
OF construction and the hgi standard Of arco ctra
beauty which has been the object of the Association
aisn, have produced delay and II has been nprac-
ticabe the Directors, notwithstanding their utmost
vigilance and their most earnest desire announce the
opening al ali earlier day
In regard the general character Of the exhibition
the result promises 10 be most graf ing, ana
worthy of the confidence manifested oward- IL by the
Government OF the United States, confidence which
has elected cCrdal response from the governments
foreign countries. 1t w stiOnaby he the most
attractive and interesting collection of art
the results of science and the productions Of industry
that has yet been made in this country and " III
tend the active emulation of the age in every
branch oi intellectual deveopement.
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vision, arrangements classification and police, has been
conided oilicers Of the Navy Of the IT, s. Cant
Z Dupont and {. H. Davis; and the sanction Of gov
eminent given the appointment Of these gentlemen
who hsse much distinguished themselves IN the spe-
cial services which they have been employ ed affords
proof the confidence rcposed and The felt BY
highest authorities of the country the general
iects of the enterprise.
These gentlemen have organized tseir department a.
follows:
] VI. BatoheldeI-Secretaryo Of the Superintendent
5emue, W ebber--ArraEgeinent Of space 4 ciassidca
Prof Is. Siiiinan Jr.-Mineralogy and Chemistry
R p. Johnson-Agricultura implements.
Jose PHI +. HuimesMachinery.
Edward Vincent--TeNtIie Fabr 6.
Felix PRtii---SCGlpture.
The Official Catalogues and the Illustrated Weekly
Record OF the exhibition TO be published in TIA
building, by Messrs. G. I. Putnam a. Co. under the 81.
pervision OF the Association.
The directors have sesb!y felt the confidence reroscd
in Them by their fellow citizens, in all parts of the
country; and they will TO make every effort 10
sstisfy their just expectations.
DIRECTORS.
Mortimer Livingston, Philip Burrows
Alfred Pel, Johnston Livingston,
August Belmont, Charles w Foster
Aex snder Hamilton Jr, Theodore Se,gwck
George l.. SCHUYLER, William W Stone,
Ebert j. Anderson, William Whe.en,
Henry Durham, John Durham,
w. c. H. Waddell, William Kent
Jacob A. Westervelt, Watts Sherman
James A. Hamilton, r. w. Ed,nonds
Samuel Nicholson.
THEODORE sEDGwICK, President
VIZ. WHErTEN, Vice President, Treasurer and Sec
l.. c. srrAPT, Assistant Sec'y. tlO-4t