The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-05-03
The New York Crystal Palace.

Nel0 York, april 10, 1854.
The undersigned joyfully announce to
tho Exhibitors and the public, that the
formidable obstacles which threatened
the complete discontinue and destruc.
ton of the noble enterprise which they
have chosen to serveare at length rcmov.
ed, in good part through the llbcrality
of portion Of our fellow citizens who
have pledged advances in aid of the Ex.
hibltion to tho amount of 100000
Thus aided. We have been enabled to
dissolve tho injunction which was n
source OF embarrassment to us,and alarm
or apprehension to many Of our Exhib.
tors-to Fay off or arrange all the debts
pressing upon us, and provide against
the possible occurrence Of such annoy.
ances in future. We therefore apprise
you that tho Exhibition will be Temporal
rily closed this evening, in order to be
completely renovated and refitted, pre-.
paratory to its formal re-oponing. on
Thursday, the 4th day of May next.
Tho directors need not, surely, dilate
on the value and Importance of this Ex-
hibition. Imperfect as it has hitherto
been, and as, in view of the total want
of experience on our side of tho Atlantic
in the arrangement Of Exhibitions of
such magnitude and variety, it could not
fail to DO, it has yet proved immensely
beneficial TO the Inventive views, Artis-
tic developments, and Industrial progress
Of the country. The opportunity there
in afforded for bringing valuable Inven-
tions or Improvements to the immediate
notice of the capable and approaching, is
but one among many benefits conferred
on the leaders Of Industrial enterprise
among us. If overwecning concoit or
inordinatc self-complacency has been re.
buked and chastened by irresistible evil
dences Of European superiority In elab-
crate and delicate workmanship, or even
educated, ripencd taste, the Exhibition
of 1853 has fully demonstrated the in.
| debtedness of Europe to America for
very important Inventions and Improve.
mcnts, stretching over The whole domain
of Agriculture, Manufactures and the
useful Arts In farming implements
and machines for fitting the rude staples
of Agriculture, for the convenient aud
economic use of the fabrication, our
country need fear no comparison; and a
young Nation of twenty-five Millions
which, while still arduously employed in
the clearing away of its 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 Electric Tclegraph,n need
surely neither repress nor conceal her
anxiety to profit by all in the line of Dis
covery, Art or Invention, which has been
or may be exhibited by others. If the
New York Exhibition has shown our peo
pie how to improve any implement or
process in tho light of European achieve
ment, that impulse is national benefit
Of signal and ever increasing value.
# the past has witnessed mistakes in
the conduct of the great enterprise now
confded to our hands, that circumstance
will render our own task easier and cur
success moro probable. If it has evolv-
ed many valuable suggestions and ilium
mated for us the path of duty by tri-
| uuiPhs 10 "cii ~ ueieate, We >Hdll Dc
able to walk surely where our prede-
ccssCrs stepped doubtfully and anxious
ly. With your cooperation, aud that
of the coming Fultons, Whitneys and
Morses, whose triumphs are yet I'M
achieved or unacknowledged, We hope
to render the Crystal Palace The rec
ognised centre of attraction for the yo-
taries of Industry, the devotees of Art
and the admirers of Genius, throughout
the Western World
To effect this, VIC noed the hearty and
immediate cooperation Of the present
Exhibitors, both through the coatinu-
ance of their best contributions, and the
introduction of others, as new inven-
tions, new patterns, new successes, shall
rOnder such further aid practicable-
While we trust that the Exhibition is
hencsforth permanently established, and
that before many more years shall have
elapsed, specimens or models OF every
valuable Invention. eminent works of
Art, improved Fabrics, or other Indus
trial achievements, will be exhibited in
the Palace, as matter Of course, we
shall yet remember with special graft