Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-21
New York, May 81, 1ss2.-The Directors

OF the Association for the Exhibition Of the Industry
OF all Nations give notice that the Exhibition will BIZ
opened on the 10Th OF July.
In making this announcement, the Directors avail
themselves of the opportunity state that the build
ing which they have erected and the Exhibition
which they have prepared. viii, they believe, fully
meet tie Just expectations %: the public.
IL Is proper that il should be known that in order
to afford ample scope for the inventive talent and
skill of our contrymen in machinery and agricultural
implements, we nave increased the size on tie build
ing by adding nearly One-fourth to its area. beyond
what was originally contemplated, 50 that we have
now for the purposes of exhibition hundred thou
sand square feet, or nearly five acres.
Not limiting their plans TO display merely curious
or attractive the Directors have organized depart
ment OF mineralOgy aud geology, i'll which some OF
the best scientific talent of the country has been
employed and the foundation Is thus laid OF
valuable national collection of the mineral resources
fthe country.
The Directors had hoped to open the Exhibition at
an earlier PERIOD but the novelty and nricacy of the
style of construction and the high standard OF arch
tecttIral beauty which il has been the object of the
Association to attain, have produced delay and il
has been impracticable for the Directors, notwith
standing their utmost vigilance and their most earnest
desire, to announce the opening IT al 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 ii by
the Government of the United States, confidence
which has elected cordial response from the Gov
erlncntS of foreign countries. 1t will, unqucStion
ably, he the most attractive and interesting collection
OF the works of art the results OF science. and the
productions ofIndustrv that has yet been made
in this country, and will tend increase the active
emulation OF the age Iii every branch OF intellectual
deveIopInp ut.
The sole charge of the interior of the building, it,
division, arrangements, caSSific alton, and police. has
been cOnided to two officers OF the Navy of the
United States, Captains s +. Dupont and e. H.
Davis; and the sanction of the Government given to
the appointment %! these gentlemen, who have so
much distinguished themselves the special service
III which they have been employed, affords proof of
the confidence repo:ed and the interest by the high
est authorities of the country, in the general objects
OF the enterprise.
These gentlemen have organized their department
follows:
J. NJ. MISUNDERSTANDING Of the superintendent:
Samuel acknowledgements Of Space and Clas-
sifcation
Prot. b. siIliman, jr-Mineraogy and Chemistry:
p. JoLnson-Agrcultural Implements;
Joseph E. Holmes-NIachinery;
Edward Vincent-Textile Fabrics;
Felix Piatti-Sculpture.
The Official Catalogues and the illustrated Weekly
Record of the Exhibition to be published. i'm the
Building, by Messrs. G. p. Putnam s. Co. under the
supervision of the Association.
The Directors liaye sen>bly felt the confidence re-
posed Ill them by their fellow citizens in all parts of
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 jr. Theodore Sedgwick
George l.. Schuyler. William w. Stone,
Ebert J. Andrson, William Whetton,
Henry Y. Dunham John Dunlam
w. G. II. Waddell William Kent,
Jacob A. Westervelt, Watts Sherman,
James A. Hamilton, w. Edmonds
Samuel Nicholson.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, President.
w. WHETTEN, Vice President, Treasurer, s. Sec'v
L.. Z. STUART, Assistant Secretary. jy5-tf