The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-15

Il build o beautiful Horticultural Hall,
lcoverlrg nearly two ceres; Machinery
/ Hall, covering nearly fourteen acres, and
On A agricultural Hall, covering twelve
acres, all Of which are placed at the dis
posal of the Exposition, without cost.
Congress has appropriated $5O5;O0O to-
) bnild Government building to exhibit
til e Departments of War, Navy, Interior
4 Patent Office, Smithsonian Institute, etc,
: thus adding this great attraction of the
3 Exposition, free Of cost to the stockholders.
/ Tie citizens Of Philadelphia, with a.
few outside of her corporation (includ-
Fl ing 100000 by the State of New Jersy).
: have subscribed and taken two million
y dollars $4,000, O00) of Centennial Board
Of Finan ce Stock. This provides for the
erection of the Mem Building. to couer
taoentg acres, ard there will be under
cover for exhibition of all productions,
over fifty (5Ol acres of ground. a9s
i The Board of Finance has the right
to issue ten million dollars ($10.000,0 1000
in stock, but owing to the great liberality
of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, will
only issue half that amount, or five mil
i lions cf dollars. The subscriptions, as
a before given, have reached (mostly in
Philadelphia) two millions Of dollars,
4 enc the citizens of the other States, are
called upon to subscribe the remaining
three millions, to enable the Commits
4 sioners to complete their work properly.
This money is wanted TO complete and
decorate the interior Of the Main,
Machinery and Agricultural Halls, eract
: fences, cattle pens and sheds. shaft the
. fourteen acres of Machinery Hall. paint
. the whole, supply gas, lamp posts, pipes
9 for grading, gardens, fountains, to fence
e in the 400 acres, etc, '3'i
j All the, buildings are uGder contract.
e land all are to be completed by the list of
~IJanuary. 1876. The contractors must
: complete them, part of their payment
r is retGincd as security, besides heavy
e bonds given to insure the fulfllment Of
e their contracts The Pennsylvania
91Railfoad will erect grand Union Depot
t and large Hotel adjoining it on the
g grounds. Work on them has already
0 begun. ST. 81 ~ a
i THE DUTY OF THE NATION. aAl
From the foregoing facts and con
sideraticns, the duty of this country is
e manifest. Having failed, as a nation, to
j, do ourselves credit, either at the New
| York Exhibition, in 1858, at London, in
+ 1862, at Paris, in 1867, or, finally, at
d Vienna, in 1873, so much the more must
be done ia 1876 if the country would
d redeem itself from the discredit into
d which it has fallen, and make a fitting
e Idemonstration to the world Of the vast
ness and variety Of the national resources
and the + marvellous progress of the
Republic during the first hundred
years Of its existence. Add to these
motives for action, the certainty that, by
bringing together, in a peaceful and
patriotic rivalry the representatives of
all portions Of common country, the
proposed exhibition would also serve to
strengthen the sentiment of nationality
4 and mutual good will in the hearts of
the whole people, and thus to bring all
the states together in a more perfect
union; and what citizen Of the United
States can refuse to the enterprise, his
5 most cordial sympathy and hearty CO.
operation I
THE DUTY AND INTEREST OF WISCONSIN
o AS citizens of Wisconsin, We should
i also be influenced by proper regard to
& the interests and duty of this state as a
; constituent member of the Republic.
Il IF higher motives were wanting, the OPP
portunity thus efforded for making con-
! spicuous, before the whole country and
8 the world, the extent and superiority of
IS Jour natural advantages, should of itself
l. be sufficient inducement. But citi-
e gems of Wisconsin, cannot forget a
e patriotic duty they owe to the nation,
e whose birth and grand achievements
e they are asked to unite in commemorate
: ing in the year 1876.
o The late legislature, by its acts appro.
r priating two thousand dollars to be used
,r by commission of the Governors APP
! pointment, and one thousand dollars to
,. be placed at the disposal Of the Execu.