The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-11-09
THE CENTENNIAL NATIONAL EX-
POSITION OF 1876.

1t was a very gratifying occurrence
and n piece of good fortune, upon the
happening of which we felt not little
pleased and happily diverted from the
sense of bewilderment and semi-demoral-
ization which always results after the re-
taxation of the nervous tension of a po-
htical campaign, for our greatly respected
friend, Major W. W. Mccoy. the hold
over Senator from Lander county, to
drop in upon us yesterday and favor US
with the well digested grains of Informal
ticn-so pleasantly foreign to partisan
politics-which enable US to remind our
readers of the following facts and notify
them of the proposed events alluded to
in the subjoined:
As Major Mccoy informs us, a law
was passed by Congress in March, 1871,
which made it obligatory upon the Gov
ernors OF the several States to appoint.
and upon the President of the United
States to commission, one Centennial
Commissioner and one Alternate Centen-
NAL Commissioner for each District Tor
State, aud We are uncertain which,,
whose duty it should be to superintend,
SO far "a their State is concerned, the
matters pertaining to the Centennial Ma
tional Exposition, which is to be held in
Philadelphia in 1876. Governor Brad
ley appointed and President Grant COM
missioned Major Mccoy to fill the place
If Commissioner for the State of Nevada.
In June, 1872. = law was passed in
Congress naming the Centennial Trus-
tees from the various Congressional Dis
tricts. These, as provided in that law,
were of the number of four from each
State at large and two from each Con-
gressional District; and those named rs
1t large for Nevada are, F. A. Tritle Of
Storey. B. H. Meder of Ormsby. James
W. Haines of Douglas, and c. H Eastman
Of Washoe comfy; and as for the Con-
g-essional District, S. II. Wright and
Frank Tilford.
1t should be further stated that the
shceme looked to by the laws made and
provided in the matter before Us projects
the holding of Centennial Fair or Ex-
position at Philadelphia on the one-hun-
dredth anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence of the United States, said
Fair to be accommodated, SO far rs shell |
ter goes. in building erected in Fair |
mount Park, Philadelphia, which will
cover fifty acres of ground.
Further, the law provides for the rails
ing Of ten millions IF dollars by the Cor
poration Of which the above named gen.
,lemen are Trustees, said funds to be ap-
piled to the construction of the afore-
mentioned Exposition building and other
necessary expenses to be incurred in tho
premises.
This, then. is the scheme: A corpora
ton, chartered under law of Congress.
viii provide all the requisite facilities for
holding at Philadelphia. in the year 1876
and thereafter tfor u permanent Bazaar is
an International Fair; and
eAU Ntht- sAAl OOnS DtS- !
trict Trustees are to make provision for
the carrying out of the enterprise; and as
4 sep toward the dsyising Of those pro-
visions, it Is made the duty of the Com
l,,;ssioners to ciI the Trustees together,
II order that they may select and desig-
nate place for the opening of the requis-
itc subscription books, as well also as to
IL nne Bank wherein the funds arising
from said subscriptions shall be deposit
cd: and in compliance with this part of
the law Commissioner Mccoy has sum-
moned the afore- named Trustees to meet
him in this city to-day; and they are ex-
pectad to meet IL the Governors Office in
the State House.
The inducement to investment in this
grand scheme is the well-grounded prem
lse OF profits arising from the renting or
selling of /. certain allotment of space
10 each exhibitor; for the subscrip-