American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-11-27
The Coming Centennial.

THE Exhibition will be opened on May
10, 1876, and remain open every day, eX-
cept Sunday, until Nov. 10. There will
be fixed price of fifty cents for admission
to all the buildings and grounds.
THE Women's Centennial Executive
Committee have raised $50, 900 for the
erection of pavilion in which to exhibit
every kind of women's work. To this
pected to contribute.
POWER in the Machinery Hall will be
chiefly supplied by pair of monster Cor
liss engines. Each cylinder is forty inches
in diameter, with a stroke of ten feet; the
fy-wheel is thirty one feet in diameter,
and wVighs fifty five tons; the horse power
Is 1, 400, and the number of boilers is
twenty. This engine drives about mile
of shaftir.g.
MIR. BELL. the eminent English sculp-
tor, who dexigned the groups for the plinth
for the great Albert Memorial in Hyde
Park, London, is reproducing in terra
Gotta, at the celebrated works in Lambeth,
the one which symbolizes America. The
figures in this group are colossal, covering
ground space of fifteen feet square. 1t
will probably be placed in the great Gen.
trail gallery, opposite the principal en-
trance.
AN important special exhibition will be
made by the United States Government
and is being prepared under the supervis-
ion of board of officers representing the
several executive departments of the Gov
eminent. A fine building of four and
onc-half acres is provided for the purpose,
space in which will be occupied by the
War, Treasury, Navy, Interior, Postoffice
and Agricultural Departments ard the
Smithsonian Institution.
THE Machinery building, like the
others, is already fully covered by appli-
cations There are about 1000 American
exhibitors in this department, $50 English
and $50 from other European countries
which is about $50 more than entered the
Vienna Machinery Exhibition. Extra
provision is being made for annexes to
accommodate the hydraulic machinery,
the steam hammers, FORCES, hosting en-
gines, boilers, plumbers, carpenters, etc.
THE Centennial grounds are situated on
the western bank of the Schuylkill River,
and within Paramount Park, the largest
public park in proximity to a great city
in the world, and one of the most beauti-
full IN the country. The park contains
8, 160 acres, 45U of which have been in
closed for the Exhibition. Besides this
tract there will be large yards near by for
the exhibition of stock, and farm of
forty-two acres has already been suitably
planted for the tests of plOws, mowers,
reapers and other agricultural machinery.
THE Exhibition buildings are ap-
preached by eight lines of street-cars,
which connect with all the other lines in
the city, and by the Pennsylvania and
Reading Railroads, over the tracks of
which trains will also run from the North
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Baltimore Railroads. Thus the
Exhibition is in immediate connection
with the entire railroad system of the
country, and anyone within ninety miles
of Philadelphia can visit it at no greater
cost than that of carriage hire at the Paris
or Vienna Exhibition.
For the Art Exhibition the most emf
nent American artists are understood to be
at work, and it may be confidently stated
that, especially in the department of land
scape painting, the United States will pre-
sent finer display than the public has
been led to expect. Quite aside from the
contributions of American artists, applica-
tions 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
nations will be represented in the central
Art Gallery.
THE act of Congress which provided
for " celebrating the one-hundreth Ami
versary of American Independence, by
holding an International Exhibition of
Arts, Manufactures and Products of the
Soil and Nine" authorized the creation
of the United States Centennial Commits
sion, and intrustcd to it the management
of the Exhibition. This body is com
posed of two Commissioners from each
State and Territory, nominated by the re-
spective Governors, and commissioned
by the President of the United States.
The enterprise, therefore, is distinctly
national one, and not, as has sometimes
been stated, the work of private corpo-
ration.
THE list of special buildings is con-
stantly increasing and present indications
are that their total number will be from
200 to $50. Most of the important foreign
nations = England, Germany, Austria,
France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan and others
are putting up one or more structures
each for exhibiting purposes or for the
use of the Commissioners, exhibitors and
visitors. Offices and headquarters of this
kind, usually of considerable architect
ural beauty, are provided by the States of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Con-
necticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, West Viz.
ginia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and Del
aware; and it is likely that others will
follow the example.
THE articles to be exhibited have been
classified in seven departments, which,
for the most part, will be located in appro-
pirate buildings, whose several areas are
as follows:
Department. Buildings. Acres Couered.
!. M Nam az Mes .ss Main Building .s1.47
8. Educat' n and Sci.
4. Art Art Gallery. .-........ Is
5. Machinery. Machinery Bulldog. II.
g. Agriculture gricutural Building. 10.
z. Horticulture, Horticultural Building. Is
This provides nearly ten more acres tor
exhibiting space than there were at
Vienna, the largest International Exhibi-
ton yet held. Yetthe applications ofexhib-
itors have been so numerous as to exhaust
the space, and many important classes of
objects must be provided for in special
buildings.
A NUMBER of trade and industrial asso-
which require large amounts of
space, will be provided for in special
Among these are the pho
the carriage builders, the
the boot and shoe manufacturers,
besides quite a number of individ-
ual exhibitors. The great demands for
space will probably render this course
necessary to a considerable extent, espe-
cially for exhibitors who have been tardy
in making their applications. In the
main Exhibition building, for example,
1888 300 square feet of space had been ap
piled for by the beginning of October by
American exhibitors only; whereas, the
space which it has been posi-
ble tn reSarve for the Tinted States De-