The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-11
American Institute.


The twenty sixth annual fair Of the American Institute
oranad YESTERDAY 10 the public. The display Of goods
a. connaron with former exhibitions, is very limited
Int ne were informed that in the course Of few days al
The vacant spaces viii be occupied With the exception
of one or two departments there appeared to be little
M variety in the articles exhibited There some diff
ference In the arrangement of the goods but in this
spect those who have had charge of this part Of the work
have shown lamentable want of taste and judgment
Piles and cases Of scented soaps hair oil and cos
metics occupy the same old places, and even the
pianos have not changed their looation The dis
play of fruit flowers and vegetables is equal to
that OF any former fair and the apartment in which they
are exhibited is tastetuy fitted up OF these shall
SPEAK hereafter in detail The bridge or passage
leading the building Is taken up, usual, with
cultural mplements, Of which there is pretty dis
play There are however, few inventions. The
machine not yet IN operation, but will be
The miserable character of the present exhibition to
great extent attributable to the Crystal Palace II ap
pears il has taken away less than four hundred
exhibitors from the Fair of the American Institute This
great detection, certainly; but then the managers
live the hope that next year will transcend the
successful one they have yet enjoyed.
The attendance not very encouraging, and there
than two hundred present at the opening
ado In the evening the exhibition envened by
the Performance of Bloomheld's Band which has
engaged during the continuance Of the Fair AT seven
O'Clock Nj heSs, accompanied BY several members of
the Institute, made his appearance the stage and
delivered the following address -
Ladies and 6entlepen-The managers Of the Twenty
sixth Annual Ear call to address you this open
ing thereof obey cheerfuy and beg your indulgence
while try TO supply the place of more able to do
Justice to And allow first to pause at the
sad reminding have had within few days past the
tine condition of all hings their brief and rand
dissolution We have had taken from n esident,
week The clarion voice o. venerable President
Tallmadge will be heard procaimng the vic
tories al American industry-urging always, with deep
feeling home with all its virtue all its and indus
try-al its Independence and prospertyal that could
establish it the graz model repubic-the grand oasis
of moral and power His voice is at last hushed
but the remembrance OF il viii last as long as patriot
can be found here.
And the venerable Dickerson too whose years Of wis
dom the forty Of them devoted American
dustr avang himself Of the high rank justly awarded
10 him in and in the cabinet of the United
States give spread and gravity TO those noble senti
which grace and which form greatness Home
work forever Peace to their names They will not be
forgotten while any thing American remains
You know without my telling you what duty now
is Onward Onward is in the general order of to-day
The future calls for Like the airy Temple of Fame
drawn by artist Cole aspire to that grand scene
where America will form the model never dreamed OF Ia
After the lapse of in which the rich
ed at the humble rustic who behind the country
bored hard to raise their bread the lofty Of the day
who called him boor, villein-a bogtrotter-a
time has come Queens and Kings find the
proprety OF doing honor to all the abors of the farm
Science called To it. Acres that yielded bushels of
wheat required to give forty acreand they do
it. Our Institute boasts Of several members
country is indebted for their scien tic agriculture. One
member particularly to whom country is indebted,
and who has heard him from Maine to Ohio, has deserved
the highest reward for his agricultural philosophy, is
profound than the results profitable to mankind
Need him
The work formerly left to saves-it is now become
the glory of freemen
The mechanic arts better footing. We know
the painters and the scultors Of those thousand years
but no mechanics The myads Of interesting works OF
the mechanics failed TO give them fame. What a
trast with the present race Of men 1t IL not too
much to say that our statesmen, warriors, poets,
historians scientific men, painters and sculptors have
pale fame while that Of great mechanics
the unqualified admiration of all mankind. No has
yet ceased to view with wonder the animated engines
driving the world of and matter over hill and
dale through mountains rivers up the great
ers, every ocean The mechanic Is companyor sove
reigns nowNctora takes him by the and visits his
house. Your last President began life mechanic and il
Is mechanic who now does honor to the mayoralty OF
your great metropolis.
The order OF society is rst the farmer next the
mechanic, and last, the arts Our American Institute
charter speaks this truth plainly when declares
corporated for the purpose of promoting agriculture,
commerce, manufactures and the arts. Commerce is
common to all classes 1t is the great train on land the
steamship by Ii is made to carry all. But you see
that the arts must last of sheer necessity and
the progress of nations find II SO.
Our generation is a one composed of men born on
a soil in climate, and of who leaving the
old ratons old Land and skies behind them, here
and in one sense may be said to be born
again. With what aspirations are all
filed they breathe this air-stretch their
visie every side and only see no despot or his
minons but nothing TO remind them that there is
law IN existence. They find that those who came
here before them had become self respectful self
trolling capable Of uniting in huge various
opinions with every sort Of argument noise oratory of
ali sorts, and This seeming miracle is exhibited
al over land from the Atlantic TO the Pacific Ocean
and hitherto that vast conservative power
preserved sacred peace, but has impeded the
immense progress OF the nation in all the peaceful
and works
La Place of the greatest if not the greatest of
astronomers calls his great work Mechanque Celeste
the Celestial Mechanism. SO may call great
republic the Constitution Mechanque. No member it
is Iardonable for iding away his time No matter how
rich he would be respected by Others respect him
self he must pursue some honest business There
room here between the two great oceans for single
to do nothing in The first great lesson receive here
take myself for there is TO take care
one to whom he allegiance aud claims pro-
lection.
You remember well how great an alarm has been felt in
Europe wherever great machine has appeared for
fear that handwork would be no longer wanted Some
times the workmen have destroyed by violence the
dreaded machines That fear to have ceased alto
gether-popuation has increased at rapid fast
that about as fsst as machine make shirt We
back ready for il. 1t is said that our 20 OOC
miles OF railroads have caused increase in the number
horses That railroad always breec many is beyond
doubt for the enables carry all the material
for another; that the beginning of road helps
to build to the end and that carries for to the begin
ming Of another.
When we think of mechanics it is only necessary to
begin with the makers Of iron-they Of the world
who can grasp by his mental power the mysterious
grandeur or that metal and its workers One may
begin, but no man has summed it up. Begin WITH
small neecle, tack, nail bolt, rod, a bar hoop
tack hammer, sledge hammer, a forge hammer Of
ton. lancet sword pistol Paixham 100 FOUNDER
chain for squirrel chain cable for ship of 900 tons
railroads. railway bar 10000 miles in length here
double, IA sewing machine, marine steam engine
Those who the cunning workers in iron hold the
cles and tendons Of our power in their hands.
Those who build all dwellings factories &C. should
be held rank. he that mechanic can hardly
conceive what amount OF knowledge necessary TO
manage iron or build house Although iron has been
used thousands Of years still every year adds something
to its better development. And notwithstanding
immense experience in architecture for ages
improvements have been raade within few wears. Pro.
baby the iron viii ultimately prevail architecture
that after the building Of houses for thousands years
so destructibe that Of immense cities but public
edc,s remain visible when cities shall be built OF
their ruins after thousands OF years will be standing
Fire alone reduces to ashes and dust all former
checure.
We believe that speed railroads at sixty to one
hundred miles per hour Is the utimatum Of velocity for
and goods but already have plans suggested for
exhaustng the air in iac tubes by OF suit
able pton drive parcels Of goods through almost nan
taneouslyat any rate fast ball from air gun,
for the exhausted tube is but large one
1t has been supposed that messages be sent fas
than ty present telegraph considering the small
time lost by manipulations. Since wrote these lines
company is proposed, with capital OF half million Of
dollars to bay such tube Of two feet cabre from Bos
ton to his city