Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-18
New York, May 81, 1s52.-The Directors

OF the Association for the Exhibition of the Industr
OF all Nations, give notice that the Exhibition will b,
opened on the 18th of July.
In making this announcement, the Directors avail
themselves of the opportunity to state that the build
ing winch they have erected, and the Exhibition
winch they have prepared, will, they believe, full.
meet tile Just expectations of the public.
Ii Is proper that it should be known that in orde
10 afford ample scope for the inventive talent ant
skill OF our countrymen in machinery and agricultural
implements we have increased the size of the build
ing by adding nearly onefOurth TO lis area, beyond
what was originally contemplated, that we hav,
now Tor the purposes OfeXhibtion two hundred thou
sand square feet, or nearly five acres.
Not limiting their plans to display merely curiou.
or attractive, the Directors have organized depart
ment of mineralogy and geology, in which some Of
the best scientific talent of the country has heeI
employed; and the foundation is thus laid of a mos
valuable national collection of the mineral resource.
OF the country.
The Directors had hoped to open the Exhibition a
an earlier PERIOD but the novelty and ntrcacy of the
style OF construction and the high standard of arch
tectura beauty which il has been the object of the
ASSOCIATION TO attain, have produced delay, and il
mas been lmpracticabe for the Directors, nOtwith-
standing their utmost vigilance and their earnest
desire, to announce the opening at an earlier day.
In regard to the general character of the Exhibition
the result promises to be most gratifying, and not un
worthy OF the confidence manifested towards il BY
the Government of the United States a confidence
which has elected cordial response from the Gov
erIlinents OF foreign countries 1t will, nnqueSton-
interesting collection
OF The works OF art, the results of science and the
productions OF industry, that has yet been made
IN TINS country, and will tend to increase the active
euatlon OF the age in every branch of intellectual
development.
The sole charge of the interior of the building lis
DIVISION, arrangements classification, and police,
been confided to two officers of the Navy of the
United States, Captains S. F. Dupont and G. II
Davis; and the sanction of the Government given to
the appointment of these gentlemen, who have SO
much distinguished themselves in the special service
IN which they have been employed, affords proof of
the confidence reposed and the interest felt by the high
est authorities of the country, the general objects
ofthe enterprise.
These gentlemen have organized their department
as follows:
]. NJ. MISUNDERSTANDING of the Superintendent;
Samuel Webber-Arrangement of Space and Clas-
sificatOn;
Prof b Siiman, jr.-Mneralogy and Chemistry;
b. T. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Implements;
Joseph E. Homes-Machinery;
Edward Vincent-TeXtile Fabrics;
Felix Piatti-Scupture.
The Official Catalogues and the illustrated Weekly
Record of the Exhibition be published, in the
Building, by Messrs. G. P. Putnam & Co., under the
supervision Ofthe Association.
The Directors haXe sensibly felt the confidence re-
posed in them by their fellow citizens in all parts
the country, and they will continue to make every
effort to satisfy their just expectations.
DIRECTORS.
Mortimer Livingston, Philip Burrowes,
Alfred Pell, Johnston Livingston,
August Belmont, Charles w. Foster,
Alex. Hamilton, ir., Theodore Sedgwick,
George l.. Schuyler, William w. Stone,
Ebert ]. Anderson, William Whetton,
Henry r. Durham, John Durham,
w. c. II. Waddell, William Kent,
Jacob A. Westervet, Watts Sherman,
James A. Hamilton F. w. Edmonds
Samuel Nicholson.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, President.
w. WHETTEN, Vice-President, Treasurer, g. Sec'y.
L. Z. STUART, Assistant Secretary. jy5-tf