Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-02-03

'He LleuuS el american laDOr that are pre-
sented by this metropolis. These advan-
tages cannot be overlooked by the sagacious
men who have this great interest at heart.
The Government has favored this Exhi-
bition in a marked and peculiar manner
The enlightened liberality which prompted
thd Secretary of the Interior to accord to
the Institute the use of the Patent Office
building, has been seconded by the energy
with which the Commissioner of Public
Buildings has carried out his views in has
tening the completion of the Hall and fitting
it for this temporary purpose. The Archi-
tect and Contractors have given their hearty
cooperation, and the Hall is now in such a
state as to render it's preparation in ample
time certain. The various executive bureaus
have shown their willingness to help on the
good work by contributing in the way of
industrial or artistic works in their pos
session. The Coast Survey sends it's plates
and charts; the office of weights and meas
ures its interesting appliances the Obser-
vatory, the celebrated electro-c -chronograph
which has done so much for astronomical
science; the Smithsonian Institution con-
tributes interesting apparatus and paintings;
the Arsenal shows the percussion cap ma
chine, and variety of models illustrative
of the systems Of artillery in use in the
French, English, and American services;
the Typographical Bureau contributes mod
els of engineering works. If there were no
other contributors, these alone would form
collection over which an enlightened
mind might spend days Of valuable thought.
These, however, are but few of the ex-
pected contributions. The machinery build
ing, it is expected, will be filled with the
evidences of the mechanical genius of our
countrymen. So numerous are the appli-
cations in this department that the Commit
tee is now engaged in enlarging the build
ing devoted to it, The machinery is to be
driven by beautiful 40-horse power en-
gine made expressly for the occasion by
Mr.. McKinstry Of this city. The leading
merchants and manufacturers of our city
are coming forward with thoir best produc-
tions, and many from other states-states
in every quarter of the Union-are about
to avail themselves of the opportunity to
place their industrial works before the eyes
of the discriminating and influential audi
ence that will be gathered at the Capital
during the next two months.
Does all this look like miserable failure?
Go to the Patent Office and see how Eek
hardt is preparing to serve his customers
with every delicacy his art can prepare look
at the foundation of his gigantic cake which
is not to be ''lengthened sweetness long
drawn out" but solid substantial sweetness
high built up; look at the names Of the
contributors from this and other cities, and
at the ample preparations that are making
to receive them, and then say that the first
exhibition of our young Institute is to be a
failure? Dick, who took a council medal at
London, is to be here with his matchless
presses Palmer is coming with his leg more
famous than that Of Mynheer Won Klam;
nor do we even despair of Hobbs the un-
pickable.
Success, then, say We, to the Exhibition
for, if successful, it cannot fail to confer
important benefits upon our city by elevating
the standard of public taste, by inspiring
our mechanical and mercantile classes with
the spirit of emulation and improvement,
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