The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-11-13

Of carriage hire at The Paris or Vienna Exhi
btion.
The articles to be exhibited have been elias
sified in seven departments, which, for the
most part, will be located in appropriate
buildings, whose several areas are as follows:
DEPARTMENT. BUILDING. ACRES COVERED.
J. Mining g:S and aMetallurGy' Main pnud,ry g,
| s. Education and science,)
s. Machinery. Machinery building, i
| g. Agriculture, Agricultural Building, 10
| T. Horticulture, Horticultural building 10
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This provides nearly ten more acres for eX-
! hlbiting space than there was at Vienna, the
largest International Exhibition yet held.
Yet the applications of exhibitors have been
SO numerous as to exhaust the space, and
many important classes of objects must be
provided for in special buildings.
An important special exhibition will be
made by the United States Government, and
! is being prepared under the supervision of a
Board of Officers representing the several
Executive Departments of the Government.
! A fine building of ~ acres is provided for
the purpose, space in which will he occupied
by the War, Treasury, Navy, Interior, Post
Office, and Agricultural Departments and the
Smithsonian Institution.
The Womens Centennial Executive Com
mitee have raised 10000 for the erection of
pavilion in which TO exhibit every kind of
women's work To this collection, women of
all nations are expected to contribute.
| The list of special buildings is constantly
increasing, and present indications are that
their total number will be from 200 to $50.
Most of the important foreign nations--Eng-
land, Germany, Austria France, Sweden,
Egypt, Japan, and others-are putting up one
or more structures each, for exhibiting pur-
poses, or for the use Of the commissioners,
exhibitors and visitors. Offices and head
quarters of this kind, usually of considerable
architectural beauty, are provided by the
States of Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana, ILL.,.
nois, Michigan, New jersey, New York, Con
necticut Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, West Virginia,
Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and Delaware;
and it is likely that others will follow the tx.
ample.
A number of Trade and Industrial Associ-
atoms, which require large amounts OF space,
will be provided for in special buildings
Among these are the photographers, the car
rage builders, the glass makers, the cracker
bakers, the boot and shoe manufacturers, be
sides, quite a number of individual exhlbi
tors. The great demands for space will likely
render the course necessary to a considerable
extent, especially to exhibitors who have been
tardy in making their applications In the
man Exhibition Building, for example, 1884,
800 square feet had beeen applied for by the
beginning of October by American exhibitors
only; whereas, the aggregate space which it
has been possible to reserve for the United
States Department, is only 100000 square feet,
about onethird of which will be consumed
by passage ways.
The Machinery Building, like the Others,
is already fully covered by applications
There are about 1000 American exhibitors in
this department, $50 English, and $50 from
other European countries-whIch is about
go more than entered the Vienna Machinery
Exhibition Extra provision is beng made
for annexes to accommodate the hydraulic
machinery, the steam hammers, FORCES, hoist
ing engines, boilers, plumbers, carpenters,
etc, etc.
Power IN the Machinery Hall will be chief
ly supplied by PAIR of monster Corliss en-
gines Elch cylinder Is 40 inches in dame
ter, with a stroke of ten feet; the f1y-wheel is
81 feet in diameter, and weighs 81 tons; the
horse power is 1,i00; and the number of boil
ers is 90 This engine drives about mile Of
shaftlng.
For the Art Exhibition the most eminent
American artists are said to be at work, and
| it may be confidently stated that, especially
in the departments of landscape painting, the
United States will present a finer display than
the public had been led to expect Quite
aside from the contributions of American ar
| lists, applications from abroad call for more
| than four times the exhibiting space afforded
! by the great Memorial Hall Provision for
/ the surplus will be made in temporary fire
/ proof buildings, though all exhibiting ma
! lions will be represented in the central Art
Gallery.
The Secretary OF the Navy has arranged
that United States war vessel shall call next
spring, at convenient European ports, To col.
'lcct and transport hither To the Exhibition the
works oi American artists resident in Europe
Among the ports thus far designated, are
T Southampton for England, Havre for France,
\ Bremen tor Germany, and LeghOrn Tor Italy
:, to which. if desirable, others may be added
MIR. Bell the eminent English sculptor, who
!. designed the groups for the plinth for the
q. great Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, London
is Reproducing in terra Gotta at the celebrated
works in Lambeth, the one which symbohZes
? America. The figures in this group are Co
!, lossal, covering a ground space ot 10 feet
square 1t will probably be placed IN the
/, great central gallery opposite the principal
. entrance.
4 The Art Exhibition will include, in add
ton 10 the works uf contemporary artists, rep
!; 'rcscnta,ive productions OF the past century OF
: American ar.-thoSc, for instance, of Stuart
| Coplev, Trumbull, West Aston, Sully, Nea
} gle, Elliot, Kensct, Cole. These, as well a,
:. the works offered by living artists, will bC
\ passed upon by the Committee of Selection
T who will visit for the purpose. New York
q Boston, Chicago, and other leading cities. in
: order 10 prevent the needless transportation
S TO Philadelphia of works OF Art not up TO thC
. standard OF admission.
\ large number of orders AID fraiernitie: