Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-08-13
The Next Exposition.

The Next Exposition.
From the inception of the Cincinnati
Exposition to the present time there
have been no backward steps. Wber
it was simply local exhibition, cen.
fined chiefly to the merchants and man.
ufacturers of Cinninnati, it ranked firsl
among the displays in the country o.
the arts and sciences. Year after yeal
its sphere has continued to broaden
Each successive autumn exhibitors have
been attracted from a wider territory
until it stands to-day, pre-eminently
the representative American Exposi.
ton. Its fame is known from one end
of the country to the other, and when,
last year, the Fine Art Committee
sought to increase the attractions of the
gallery of paintings by borrowing from
some of the famous collections of
Europe, its members found no difficult
ty in securing what they wanted. Ex-
hlbitions of similar nature, under
taken in other cities, have been organ
lied on the plan furnished by our own
"a delicate compliment to the sagacity
and judgment of the Cincinnati Com
missioners that has probably not been
unappreciated, and which well shows
the reputation the Exposition has
throughout the land.
The success that has attended the
Commissioners is due, first, to the in
defatigable energy and sound common
sense that have marked their work;
and, second, to the experience which
each succeeding year makes richer and
more valuable. The chief executive
officers OF the Exposition have been
educated in the business of conducting
great exhibitions; and as the officers of
one year have retired to make room for
new men, the new men come thorough
familiar with all the details, and are
new, therefore, only to the dignities of
office, and not to the knowledge of the
necessities of the duties. They have
gone through all the grades of this great
practical school, and worked their way
up by their ability and perseverance.
The splendid success they have won has
been fairly earned and is richly de-
served.
There is no reason to doubt that the
Exposition of 1874 will excel those that
have preceded it. Wendell Phillips
said, in the old abolitionist times: Gre
member, you can not be the equal of
your ancestors, unless you excel them
as they excelled theirs" 1t is in the
full spirit of this remark that the men
who are at the head of the Commission
ers for this year are pushing things. We
suppose there are many who fancy that
it will be impossible this year to repeat
the glories of the Exposition of 1873. |
We only say--just wait and see. The
officers are doing an immense amount |
of labor, and the results they have al |
ready secured are astonishing. Widely |
rs the Exposition last year was adver-
tised, the coming one has been adver-
tised mere widely still. Many as we're |
the lines of railroad over which reduced |
rates of fare were obtained year ago,
more extensive arrangements have been
made for this year. Large as was the |
space devoted to display in '73, there is |
more in "A. Last year the catalogue
showed seventy-eight classes in which
premiums were to be given. This year
there are nearly Dinety. Last year the
of premiums given was eight
hundred. This year over eleven hun
lred are offered. A million printed
forms, advertisements Of the EXPOSE
tion, have been sent out, and arrange
ments are perfected to make the Expo
sition known throughout all parts of
the country. More applications for
space have been received up to the pres
ent time than ad-beeR- received last |
year, and the applications already at
hand make it certain that every State
east of the Mississippi will be repre-
sented, and many of those west of it.
In special departments also this years
will be peculiarly rich. The
display will be by all odds
ahead of that of any previous year, and
The fine art department will have some
Of the finest paintings in New York,
and collection of engFavings from Phi
adelphia that is famous the country
over. Moreover, arrangements are in
which, it is hoped, will secure
;ome of the famous paintings of this
,ity that have not yet been exhibited.
No citizen of Cincinnati need fear
hat the Exposition is not going to MAIN
.ain its pre-eminence as the most con-
'picuous and comprehensive display of
he industries and arts of the country
low before the American people. By
business, that already feels
/ new life, will be fairly on its legs
lgain; energies repressed for year
will be working, and it is safe to count
ipon an attendance unprecedented in
he history of the Exposition.-Cincin-
,ati Daily Gazette.