The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-09-05
An Industrial Fair.
Proposed Exhibition In New York Next
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From the New York Herald, August %.

From the New York Herald August 49,
A number of gentlemen interested in the
welfare and success of the laboring classes
held meeting last evening for the purpose
of making arrangements for tie holding of
a crank Mechanics Industrial Fair in the
city Of New York during the spring of 1868,
at which will be exposed on exhibition the
products Of journeymen mechanics of every
trade the members Of which choose to con-
tribute.
On. motion of Mr.. Kinsella, DIR. E. B.
Guernsey, an inventor OF some note, was
elected chairman of the meeting.
The chairman, upon taking his seat, said
that the proposed enterprise which had
called them together was one of great and
| lncalcuable importance to the laboring
classes throughout the country, aud one
which would tend to elevate the taste of the
iourneyman mechanic in his daily labor,
besides giving to the world many new in
ventions and improvements in their respec-
tive vocations All of the fairs which have
been previously held or suggested in the
| United States have been under the control of
parties having but little interest in the la
boring classes, and the products of labor ex-
hibited by them were the property of CAPT
talists, and the honors anG profits Of exhi-
bition went to the credit Of the propretors
of the shops and not to the workingmen.-
They proposed i'll this enterprise to inaug-
urate a new system of exhibition, in which
the iourneYman mecbenics should them
selves become the exhibitors of the products
of their own ingenuity and industry, and
should thereby reap the entire reward OF
their labor. The chairman referred to the
great Industrial exhibitions held in Lameth
aud Southwark, in the city of London, and
in Manchester, Leeds and BirDing CHAM, and
in other cities in England and Scotland, and
/ of the great success which has attended
these fairs, and said there was no reason
why grand industrial fair of the products
of American workingmen, to be held in the
commercial metropolis of the New World,
should not be as successful as similar exhi-
billions in older countries.
Upon on motion committee of three was
appointed to prepare preliminary circular.
to be transmitted Ito the various shops
Throughout the United States and the Do
minion of Canada Informing the mechanics
employed therein Of the proposed exhibi
ton
/ The Committee on Circulars presented
their report. which was received, read and
adopted, aud ten thousand copies ordered
to be printed. 1t reads as follows:
| New York, Aug. %, 1867.
To the Journymen Mechanics of the United States.
At meeting of the representatives u
several leading trades, held in the city Of
New York. on the evening of the--o
=. a. d. 1867, it was resolved to in
vite the cooperation of the journeymer
mechanics of the United States in prepar
ing such objects of their skill and handi
craft in the various departments of theil
labor as they may feel inclined to manufac-
ture before or after their hours of regular
labor. Such articles SO manufactured will
be place in the Grand Exhibition of Indus
trial Products, to be held in the city o
New York at such time and place as viii
hereinafter be designated by the committee
in charge Of the proposed undertaking
The various committees on the location 0
articles, award of premiums, on exhibition
and on the sale Of articles, will be composed
Jointly Of leading scientific and professional
gentleman and skilful mechanics, who's
names will be announced when the tempo
rary committee are convinced of the success
of the proposed enterprise. All communi
cations relating to the proposed exhibition
addressed to the Secretary of the COMMITTEE
Twill receive a circular giving complete
delineation of the proposed exhibition.