Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-05-04
Circular to the Exhibitors Of the Crystal Palace.


cles 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 four
fellow citizens who have pledged advances in aid
of the Exhibition TO the amount OF 10000 Thus
aided we have been enabled TO dissolve the iniuac
ton which was a source of ergbarrassnent TO US,
and alarm apprehension to many of our Exhib-
irors-fo pay off or arrange all the debts pressing
upon US and provide against the possible occur
renee ofsuch annoyances in future. We therefore
apprise you that the Exhibition will be tenpora
rily closed this eyining in order to be completely
renovated and reiittedpreparatory to its formal re
opening on Thursday the 18th of May next.
The directors need not. surely. dilaie the val
ne and importance of this Exhibilien. Imperfect
as il has hitherto beer and in view ofthe total
want of experience or our side of the Atlantic in
the arrangement OF Exhibitions of such magnitude
and variety ii could not fail 10 be, it has yet pro
we'd immensely beneficial to the Inventive views
Artistic developments, aud Industrial progress of
the country. The opportunity therein afforded
for bringing valuable Inventions or improvements
TO the immediate notice of the capable and appre-
ciating is but one among many benefits conferred
on the leaders of Industrial enterprise among us
If overweening conceit or selfcomplacency has
been rebuked and chastened by irresistible eyiden-
ees Of European superiority in elaborate and del
icate workmanship, in educated, ripened |
taste, the Exhibition of 1853 has fully demonstra-
ted the Indebtedness OF Europe to America for We
ry important Inventions and improvements |
IT. 4,
Manufactures and the useful Arts-In farming |
implements and machines for fitting the rude sta
pies Agriculture, for the convenient and ecOno
micHse of the fabrication, our country need fear
no comparison; and young Nation of twenty-five
Millions which while still arduously employed in
the clearing away ofits primitive forests has found
time in half century TO bestow on mankind such
inventions those Of the Cotton Gin the Steam
boat, the Reaper and the Electic Telegraph; need
surely neither repress nor conceal her anxiety to
profit by all in the line of discovery Art or Inyen
ton which has been may be exhibited By 9th
ers. Ii the New York Exhibition has shown our
people how TO improve any implement or process
in the light OF European achievement that impuls Sc
is a National benefit of signal aud even increasing
value.
Ifthe past has witnessed mistakes in the con
duct Of the great enterprise now conided to our
hands, that circumstance will render our own task
easier and our success more probable If It has
evolved many valuable suggestions and ilIumina-
ted for us TIE path Of duty BY trumphs as well
defeats. we shall be able to walk surely where
our predecessors stepped doubtiulIy and anxiousy
With your cooperation. aud that of the coming
Fultons, Whineys and Aorses. whose triunlphs
are yet unachieved or uuacknosledsed We hone
to render the Crystal Palace the recognised cef-er
of attraction for the voarIes o.. Industry rhe de-
voices Of Art and the admirers of Genius through
ont the Western World
To effect this. we need tao hearty s-l .r.sr-l.
ate cooperation of the present Exhibitors. both
through the continuance OF their best contributions
and the Introduction OF others, as new inventions
patterns. new success shall render such far
Their aid practicable. While we trust that the Ex-
hibition is henceiorh permanently established ard
that before many more years shall have elapsed, /.
specimens OF models of every valuable Invention,
eminent works of Art. improved Fabrics or other
Industrial achievements viii be exhibited in the
Palace, as matter of course we shall yet remern-
Der with special gratitude, those friends of the en-
terprise, who did not wait for its triumph stood
By II in the DAYS OF experiment, and noby aided
TO achieve the conquest which 50 many are DIES
tined 10 enjoy. We shall be able and we rejoice
in the fact, TO accord more desirable positions and
ample space TO new Articles which shall be sent
in between this and the lst of May than it Is prob
able that we shall have at our disposal thereafter
The earliest possible Transmission Of all Articles
intended for Exhibition, at and after the re open.
ing, is urgently solicited.
Trusting that you will agree with us, that the
interest of Inventors, Artists, Manufacturers and
Artisans, all involved in the thorough and un-
deniabe triumph of the first American Exhibition
Of the trophies of the Worlds Art and Industry.
we remain.
Yours, PT. BARNUM.
President Of the Association tos the Exhibition of The
Iadus5yaf all Nations.
Dueri0rS-Phineas T. Barnum Thos B. Still !
man, VIM. O Bren. Edward Haight John H. Cor
nell, Jas B Brewster, Jacob A. Westervelt. War
rem Leland, Henry Hilton, VIM. Dinsmore- Jno
H. White, Dudley Perse, Chas H HasweIl, Morti-
mer Livingston. John T Parish, Charles w Eos.
ter, Horace Greeley, Watts Sherman, George B
Butler, Samuel Nicholson, VIM Whetten Frastus
c. Benedict Charles Butler, Theo Sedgwick VIM.
Chauncey.
New York, April Il. 1854