Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-25
The Coming Centennial.

A1I1 W p4I4Gu OcElCuHidl EN6CullV6
Committee have raised $4,000 for the
erection o. pavilion in which to exhibit
every kind of women's work. To this
collection Women of all nations are ex-
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 q stroke OF ten feet; the
fy-Wheel is thirty-one feet in diameter.
and weighs ffty-fve tons; the horse-powe
IS 400, and the number of boilers is
twenty. This en-. me 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,
II 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
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, Postofiice
and Agricultural Departments and the
Smithsonian Institution.
TIE Art Exhibition will include in ad-
dition to the works Of contemporary artists
representative productions Of the past
century Of American art-those, for in
stance, Of Stuart, Copley, Trumbull, West,
Aston, Sully, Neagle, Elliot, Kensett,
Cole. These, as well as the works offered
by living artists, will be passed upon by
the Committee Of Selection, who will visit
for the purpose New York, Boston, Chi
cago and other leading cities, in order to
prevent the needless transportation to
Philadelphia OF works of art not up to the
standard Of admission.
THE Centennial grounds are situated on
the western bank Of the SchuyIkill River,
and within Paramount Park, the largest
public park in proximity to great city
in the world, and one Of the most beauti-
full III the country. The park contains
3, 100 acres, $50 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,
rcapers and other agricultural machinery.
THE Exhibition buildings are aD-
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 s 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
THE articles to Je exhibited have been
classified in seven departments, which,
for the most part, will &c located in appro-
pirate buildings, whose several areas are
as follows:
Department. Buildings. -4cres CoUere9
J. Ming d Met'Tgy,
?. manufactures. Main Building. .........2 2 AZ
). EduC0t II aud Sci.
t. Art.................Art Gallery. is
s. Machinery ........ Machinery Builds .....14
6. AggcultHre....... A rcUltural Building. TO-
E. Horticulture. horticultural Building. 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 so numerous as to exhaust
the space, and many important classes of
objects must be provided for in special
buildings.
A LARGE number of orders and fraterni-
ties have signiied their intention to hold
gatherings at Philadelphia during the
period Of the Exhibition. Among those
which may now be enumerated are the
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows; the Grand
Encampment, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; Grand Lodge United States, In
dependent Order Of odd Fellows; Grand
Commandery Knights Templar; Grand
Army Of the Republic; Presbyterian
Synod; Caledonian Club; Portland Me
chanic Blues; Welsh National Eistedft id !;
Patriotic Order Sons OF America; Cali
fornia Zouaves of San Francisco; an In
ternational Regatta; the Life Insurance
Companies; National Board Of Under
writers; State Agricultural Society; Second
Infantry, \. G. of California; Philadel-
phia Conference Methodist Episcopal
Church; Cincinnati Society; California