Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-12
New York, Nav 81, 1ss2.-The Director,

New York, May 81, 1652.-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 To state that the bld
ing which they have erected, and the Exhibition
which they have prepared, will, they believe, fully
meet the Just expectations Of the public.
his proper that it should be known that, in order
10 afford ample scope for the inventive talent and
skill four counirvmen in machinery and agricultural
implements have increased the size of the build
ing by adding nearly fourth It's area, beyond
what was originally contemplated, so that we have
now for the purposes of exhibition two hundred thou
sand square feet, or nearly five acres. r G., $500.
Not limiting their plans to display merely curious
or attractive, the Directors have organized depart
ment of mineraogy and geology, i'll 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
of the country -.-
The Directors had hoped to open the Exhibition at
an earlier period, but the novelty and ntcacy of tile
style OF construction. and the high standard of arch
tectura beauty which il has been tile object of the
Association to attain, have produced delay, and il
has been impractcable for the Directors, notwitf
standing their utmost vigilance and their most earnest
desire, to announce the opening at an earlier day
In regard the general character of the Exhibition,
the result promises to be most gratifying, and not un
worthy of the confidence manifested towards it by
the Government of the United States, confidence
which has elected cordial response from the Gov
ernmcnts 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 OF industry, that has ever yet been made
Ill ths country, and will tend to increase the active
emulation Of the age i'll every branch of intellectual
Development. arl-.- ..--. .
The sole charge of the interior of the building, its
division, arrangements classification, and police bar
been confidcd TO two officers of the Navy of the
United States, Captains 4. F. Dupont and &. ii.
Davis; and the sanction of the Government given to
the appointment of these gentlemen, who have so
much distinguished themselves in the special service
IN which they have been employed, affords proof of
the confidence TeIOsed and the erestfet by the high
est authorities of the country, i'll the general objects
OF die enterprise r. ..tl-...
These gentlemen nave organized their department
as follows: .s.- H.. 20 .
J. VI. Bacheldcr-SecretaryO of the Superintendent;
Samuel 'Vebbcr-Arrangemen of Space and Clasr
sifcation; -- ..-. re. /
Prot. b. SiIliman jr-Mineralogy and Chemistry;
b. p. Johnson-Agrcultura Implements;
Joseph E. Holmcs-Machinery;
Edward Fincent-Textile Fabrics;
Felix Piatti-Sculpture. r.
The Official Catalogues and the llustated w eekly
Record of the Exhibition to be published, in the
Building, by Messrs. e. p. Putnam Co., under the
supervision efthe Association.
The Directors haXe sensbly felt the confidence re-
posed in them by their fellow citizens in all parts OF
the country, and they will continue to make every
effort to satisfy their just expectations. Z
DIRECTORS. ~ s.
Martmer Livingston, Philip Burrowes, II
Alfred PeH, Johnston Livingston,
August Belmont, Charles w. Foster,
Alex Hamilton, ir., Theodore Sedgyick,
George L.. Schuyler, William w. Stone,
EIbert j. Anderson, William Whetton,
Henry II. Dunham, John Dunham,
W. &. II. Waddell, William Kent,
Jacob A. Westervelt, Watts Sherman, =
James A. Hamilton, F. w. Edmonds,
Samuel Nicholson.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, President.
W. WHErTEN. Vice President, Treasurer, h Secy.
l.. T.. STrART, Assistant Secretary. jy3-n