Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-19
The Arrangements for the Coming
Centennial.


THE Exhibition will be opened on Ma,
| 10, 1876, and remain open every day, ex
cept Sunday, until Nov 10. There viii
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 exhibi
every kind of womsn's work. To thi:
collection women of all nations are ex
pected to contribute.
POWER in the Machinery Hall will be
chiefly supplied by a pair of monster Cor.
liss engines. Each cylinder is forty inches
in diameter, with stroke of ten feet; tie
f1y-wheel is thirty one feet in diameter
and weighs fifty five tons; the horse power
| is 400, and the number of boilers is
twenty. This engine drives about mile
of shafting.
The Secretary of the Navy has arranged
that United States war vessel shall call
next spring at convenient European ports
to collect and transport hither to the Elk.
hibition the works of American artists
resident in Europe. Among the ports
thus far designated are Southampton for
England, Havre for France, Bremen for
Germany and Leghorn for Italy, to which,
if desirable, others may be added.
Mr.. BELL, the eminent English sculp.
tor, who designed 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
a ground space of fifteen feet square. 1t
will probably be placed in the great CEN
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
one-half acres is provided for the purpose,
space in which will be occupied by the
War, Treasury, Navy, Interior, Postoffice
and Agricultural Departments and the
Smithsonian Institution.
THE Machinery building. like the
others, is already fully covered by appli-
cations. There are about 1 900 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 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 d 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-
tons 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 intrusted 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 a
| national one, and not, as has sometimes
been stated, the work of a private corpo-
ration.
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 Covered.
1. Ming & Met'rgy,
2. Manufactures, Main Building. ........ .21 AZ
3. Educat Il and Sci
5. Machinery. Machinery Bulldog. IA.
6. Agriculture. Agricultural Building. 10.
z. Horticulture, Horticultural Building. is
Total ............. ................ IS.
This provides nearly ten more acres for
exhibiting space than there were at
Vienna, the largest International Exhibi-
ton yet held. Yetthe applications ofexhib-
itOrs have been 50 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-
Citations, which require large amounts of
space, will be provided for in special
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