Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-04-27
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to become especially interesting.
T. Allow me to recommend, in this connsctien.
Y that the Board of Directors announce, at an
early day, its determination to award Medals and
other marks of merit to those who may be. bv
lcompetant Judges, pronounced worthy of the
distinction The Medals and Diplomas awarded
for 1853, will be ready for delivery in the be-
ginning of May
Under the new organization every article will
be classified tofa cilitate inspection. Those of
the same kind, as far as practicable. will all he
grouped together, no matter from what quarter
of the world contributed. The visitor NAV TIM,
at single glance, institute just comparison be-
tween the different developments of taste and
skill in different countri's. A novel and useful
plan of re- arrangement has been decided upon
that will nearly double the space previous an .
propriated to Exhibitors Throughout the entire
building. Weneed not hesitate to publish, there
fore, our ability to find room for anything pleas
ing or useful that may be entrusted to US, and to
invite every man and woman in the world to
originate something for this concentration of the
g Industry of all Nations" that may rebound to
their credit and benefit our common humanity
! Among the accommodation arranged for visi.
tors to the Crystal Palace, will be found two
Telegraph Offices, Letter Boxes for the Mails,
| Express Boxes, Police Station, an Office for
Property Lost and Found, and two spacious Re-
| freshment Saloons, where everything will be
provided of unexceptionable quality at unexcep-
tionabe prices.
! Arrangements have been completed with some,
and are in progress with other Steamboat and
Railroad Companies connecting this City with
various portions of the Union, agreeably to which
visitors will be conveyed to the Crystal Palace
from the remot st spot, at greatly reduced rates
of travel. Nothing else shall remain undone, on
my part, to conduct this magnificent enterprise
with that libetality which is due to the public,
and that energy and economy which are due to
the interests of the ssociation.
To conclude, cannot help reiteratng my firm
impression, that the Crystal Palace has before it
a brilliant and enviable future. All legation has
ceased Every suit against either the Directors
or the Shareholders, has been Withdrawn. as un-
tenabe, or as now supsrfuous. The recent ex-
tension of the Charter by The Legislature, with
power to increase our capital TO mill ion of dol
lars, has opened TO our choice, should it ever be
expedent to avail ourselves of it, the most un-
limited field of public usefulness. 1t has given
our phllanropc ambition room to work as events
may dictate, for the best interests of Production
both at home and abroad 1t has inspired us
with solid confidence in the manifold resources
OF our gigantic enterprise. 1t has taught US 10
be ieve that, when the Crystal Palace shall have
been re- opened on the 4th of May with grand
Coronation of Labor and Art, and as stable
and homogeneous Institution for the People it
will present itself in form that must Command
the sympathy of Skill and Industry throughout
, the world and deserve, as well as receive a sue.
cess at once gratifying to our patriotism, and
consollng to our perseverance.
Very respectfully Yours &C.,
P. L. BARNUM President of the Association
for the Exhibition Of the Industry of all Nations.
CIRCULAR TO THE EXHIBITORS OF THE CRYSTAL
PALACE.
Ne,o York, April, Is, 1854
The undersigned joyfully announce to the Ex-
hibitors and the pnbic, that the formidable obsta-
Giles which threatened the complete discontinue
and destruction of the noble enterprise which they
have chosen to serve, are at length removed, in
good part through the liberality of portion of
our fellow citizens who have pledged advances
in aid of the Exhibition tn the amount of $780,
900. Thus aided, we have been enabled TO dis
solve the injunction which was source of en-
barrassment to us, and alarm or apprehension TO
many of our Exhbitors-to pay off or arrange all
the debts pressing upon us, and provide against
the possible occurrence of such annoyances in
future. We therefore apprise you that the Ex-
hibtlon will be temporarily closed this evening,
in order to be completely renovated and reftted,
preparatory TO its formal re-opening, on Thurs
day the 18th day of May next
i The directors need not, surely, date On the
value and importance of this Exhibition. 1mper-
feet it has hitherto been, and as in view of the
total want of experience on our side of the At
lantc in the arrangement of Exhibitions of such
magnitude and variety, it could not fail to be, it
has yet proved immens ly beneficial to the In
ventive views, Artistic deve'opemenrs, and In
dustrial progress of the country The opportu-
nifty therein afforded for bringing valuable lnven-
tons or Improvements to the immediate notice of
the capable and approaching, is but one among
many benefits conferred on the leaders of indus
trial enterprise among us. Ii overweeuing con-
cet or nordnate selfcomplacen has been re-.
buked and chastened by irresistible evidences of
European superiority in elaborate and delicate
workmanship, or even in educated. rpened taste,
the Exhibition of 1853 has fully demonstrated
the Indebtedness of Europe to America for very
important inventions and improvements, stretch
ing over the whole domain of Agriculture, Man
ufactures and the useful Arts. In farming i'm
plements, and machines for fitting the rude sta
Piles of Agriculture, for the convenient and eco
nomc use of the fabrication, our country need
fear ne comparison and young nation
of twenty-five millions which, while still ardu-
ously engaged in The clearing away of primitive
forests, has found time in half century to be-
stow on mankind such inventions as those of the
Cotton Gin, the steamboat, the Reaper and the
Electrict Telegraph, need surely neither repress
nor conceal her anxiety to profit by all in the line
of discovery. art or invention, which has been or
may be exhibited by others If the New York
Exhibition has shown our people how to improve
any implement or process in the light of Europe
an achievement, that impulse is national benefit
OF signal and even increasing value.
If the past has witnessed mistakes in the con-
duct of the great enterprise now cOnfided TO our
hands, that circumstance will render our own task
easier and our success more probable. If ii has
evolved many valuable suggestions and illumina
ted for US the path of duty by triumphs as well
as defeats, we shall be able to walk surely where
our predecessors stepped doubtfuIly and anxiou~ly
With your corporation, and that of the coming
Futons, Whitneys and Morses, whose iriumphs
are yet unachieved or unacknow lodged, we hope
to render the Crystal Palace the recognized cen
ire OF attraction for the votares of Industry, the
devotees of Art and the admirers az Genius,
throughout the Western World.
To effect this, we need the hearty and imme-
diate cooperation of the present Exhibitors, both
through the continuance of their best contribu
tons. and the introduction of others, as new in
venions, new patterns, new successes, shall rem
der such further aid practicable. While we rus
that the exhibition is henceforth permanently es
tablished, and that before many more years shall
have elapsed, specimens of models of every valu.
able invention, eminent wotks Of art, improved
fabrlcs or other industrial achievements, will b,
exhibited In the Palace, as matter of course, W,
shall yet remember with special gratitude, ,hcs,
friends OF the enterprise who did not wait for il.
triumph stood by it in the days of experiment
and nobly aided to achieve the conquest which $,