Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-15
New York. May 81, 1s52-The Directors

new YORK, may 81, 1S52--The Directors
of the issrcti1 for the Exhibition Of the Industry
of all Nations elFe that the Exhibition will be
opened on tire 18th OF jdT
In making this announcement, the Directors avail
thes't PCS - 'c opportunity 10 state that the build
ing when .iirs HatrG erected, and the Exhibition
which they have prePattdI Ii, aey believe, fully
meet the Just expectations OF thc public
III Is proper that Il should bc known thdt; III order
10 afford ample scope for the inventive tieht and
skill Ofour Countryen in machinery and agricultural
implements, have increased the size OF the build
ing by adding nearly One-Ourth TO its area, beyond
what was originally contemplated so that we have
now for the purposes Of exhibition two hundred thou
sand sq:Jrc feet, or nearly five acres.
Not limiting isFT tiaIS display merely curious
dr attractive the Dfc&tis Frve organized depart
ment of nlineraloey and scJioy, IN wlrich some OF
the best scientific talent of the country has been
employed; and the foundation i, thus laid 6f most
valuable national collection of the mineral rcsosTces
otthe country
The Directors had hoped to open the Exhibition AT
earlier period but the novelty and intrlcacy Of the
style of construction, and the high standard OF archi
tcctura beauty which il has been the object of the
Association to affair, have produced delay, and 1t
has been impracticatJo fr the Directors, notwith-
standing their utmost vigilance and their most earnest
deSIrei In Announce the opening at an earlier day.
In reGdr' III the general character Uf ilIc Exhibition,
the result promises "a he gratifying, and not
worthy of the confdcitce manifested towards 1t by
the Government of the Un',ef States, a confidence
which has ELECTED cordial restrsSe from the Cow
ernnI2f''s of foreign countries lt Sfl unqaestlom-
ably be the frost attractive and interesting collection
of the works Of sr:s the results of science. ard the
productions Ofnd|try, ;:'at has ever yet been made
III this country, and will tenf TO increase the active
emulation of the age i'll every bf,Sc of intellectual
development.
The sole charge of the interior of to Anilding, its
DIVISION arrangements classification, and fDllcr has
been cUirftdCd 10 two officers of the Navy of the
United STATES. Captains =. r. Dupont and e.. III.
Davis; and the Secretion of the Government given 10
the appointment Of fift" gentlemen, who have 20
much distinguished themselves IN the special service
IN which they have been employed affords proof of
the confidence reposcd and the nerestf.t by the high
est authorities of the country, III the general objects
Ofthe enterprise.
These gentlemen have organized their department
as fJiiuVNs:
J. H RacntIder--Secretary of the Superintendent;
Samuel ifetdtr--An1ngemen of Space and Clas-
sicarion;
Prot B. sivhnan jr,-s Mineraogy and Chemistry;
B. =. Johnson-Agricnitura' implements;
Joseph f. .Holme>-MachIneD;
Edward Vinccnt-TcXulc Fabrics5
Felix Piatti-Sculpture.
The official Catalogues and the lllustated Weekly
Record of the Exhibition 10 be published, IN the
BUILDING by Messrs. G.. ?. Putnam & Co, under the
supervision of the Association
The Directors haxe scnslby felt the confidence re-
posed in them by their fellow citizens III all parts ol
the country, and they will continue to make every
effort to satisfy their just expectations. -f .
DIRECTORS.
Mortimer Livingston, Philip Burrowes,
Alfred PeIl. Johnston lIlVingStOH,
Aupust ReImopt Charles w. Foster,
Alex. Hamilton. r., Theodore Sedgwlck,
Grmpe L. SCHUYLER William w. Stone,
Elbeu J. Anderson, William Nhetton,
Henry X. Durham, John Dunham.
w. G.. II. Waddell. William Kent
Jacob 4. Wesicrvelt, Waits Sherman,
James A. Hamilton, F. w. Edmonds,
Samuel Nicholson.
THEODORE SEDGWICk, President.
W. WHETrEN, Vice President, Treasurer, Sec'y.
l.. &. STUART Assistant Secretary. jy5-u