Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-20
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New York, Nav 81, 1s5e.-The Directors

of the Association for the Exhibition OF the Industry
of all Nations, give notice that the Exhibition will be
opened on the 18th of July.
In making this announcement, the Directors avail
themselves of the opportunity that the build
ing which they have erected, and the Exhibition
which they have prepared, will, they believe, fully
meet the Just expectations of the public.
1t is proper that ii should be known that, in order
10 afford ample scope for the inventive talent and
skill ofour cOuntrymen in machinery and agricultural
implements, we have increased the size OF the build
ing by adding nearly OnefOlrth to its area, beyond
what was originally contemplated, so that we have
for the purposes ofexhibitiOn two hundred thou
sand square feet or nearly five acres.
Not limiting their plans to a display merely curious
attractive, the Directors have organized depart
ment Of mineralogy and geology, in which some OF
the best scientific talent of the country has been
employed; and the foundation is thus laid of most
valuable national collection of the mineral resources
Ofthe country.
The Directors had hoped to open the Exhibition at
an earlier PERIOD but the novelty and nrcacy OF the
style Of constructions and the high standard of archi
tectural beauty which il has been the object OF the
Association to attain, have produced delay, and IL
has been impractcable for the Directors, nOtwith-
standing their utmost vigilance and their most 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 I'M
worthy of the confidence manifested towards it by
the Government of the United States, n confidence
which has elected cordial response from the Gov
ernments of foreign countries. 1t will, unquestion
ably, be the most attractive and interesting collection
of the works of art the results of science, and the
productions Ofndustry, that has ever yet been made
in this country, and will tend 10 increase the active
emulation of the age in every branch of intellectual
development.
The sole charge of the interior of the building,
DIVISION arrangements, classification, and police has
been cOnfidpd to two officers of the Navy of the
United States, Captains g F. Dupont and c. ii.
Davis; and the sanction of the Government given to
the appointment of these gentlemen, who have so
bod
in which they have been employed, affords proof OF
the confidence repOsed and the interest felt by the high
authorities of the country in the general objects
ofthe enterprise.
These gentlemen have organized their department
as follows:
J. M. MISUNDERSTANDING of the Superintendent;
Samuel Webber-Anangemen of Space and Clas-
siicatiOn;
Prof B. SiIliman, jr.-Mmeralogy and Chemistry;
b. Observation-Disclosures Implements;
Joseph E. Holmes-Machinery;
Edward Vincent-Texhle Fabrics;
Felix Piatti-Scuipture.
The Official Catalogues and the illustrated Weekly
Record of the Exhibition be published, in tie
Building, by Messrs. G. P. Putnam & Co., under the
supervision Ofthe Association.
The Directors haxe sensiby felt the confiderc re-
posed in them by their fellow citizens in all pats of
the country, and they will continue to make every
effort to satisfy their just expectations.
DIRECTORS.
Mortimer Livingston, Philip Bnrrowes,
Alfred Pel, Johnston Livingston,
August Belmont, Charles w. Foster,
Alex Hamilton, r., Theodore Sedgwick,
George l.. Schuyler, William w. Stone,
Ebert J. Anderson, William WhettOn,
Henry R. Durham, John Dunham,
w. G. Fl. Waddell, William Kent,
Jacob A. Westervelt, Watts Sherman,
James A. Hamilton, F. w. Edmonds
Samuel Nicholson.
THEODORE SEDGWtCK. President.
w. WHETTEN, Vice President, Treasurer, & Sec'y.
L. c. STUART, Assistant Secretary. jy5-tf