The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-16


extent, especially for exhibitors who have
been tardy in making their application
In the Main Exhibition Building, fol
example, 33s, 800 square feet of space had
been applied for by the beginning oil
October by American exhibitors only;
whereas, the aggregate space which it has
been possible to reserve for the United
States Department, is only 100 600 square
feet, about one third of which will be con-
sumed by passage ways.
The Machinery Building, like the
others. is already fully covered by appli-
cations. There are about 1000 American
exhibitors in this department, $50 Eng
lsh and $50 from other European coun-
tries-whch is about $50 more than en-
tered the Vienna Machinery Exhibition.
Extra provision is being made for annex
es to accommodate the hydraulic ma
chinery, the steam hammers, FORCES, hoist
ing engines, boilers, plumbers, carPen-
tors, etc.
Power in the Machinery Hall will be
chiefly supplied by pair OF monster
CoriIss engines. Each cylinder Is Az
inches in diameter, with stroke OF ten
feet; the iy wheel IS 81 feet in diameter,
and weighs 55 tons; the horsepower Is
400: and the number of boilers is 70.
This engine drives about mile of shaft
ing.
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
landscape painting, the United States
will present finer display than the pub
lie has 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 N
temporary fre-proot buildings, though
all exhibiting nations will be represented
i'll the central Art Gallery.
The Secretary of the Navy has arrang
ed that United States war vessel shall
call next spring, al convenient European
ports, to collect and transport hithor to
the Exhibition the works of American
artists resident in Europe. Among the
ports thus far designated, are Southamp-
ton for England, Havre for France, Bre-
men for Germany, and Leghorn for
Italy, to which, il desirable, others may
be added.
Mr.. Bell, the eminent English sculptor,
who designed the groups for the plinth
for the great Albert Memorial IN Hyde
Park, London, is reproducing in terra
Gotta, ut the celebrated works in Lam
beth, the one which symbolizes America.
The figures in this group arc colossal,
covering a ground space of Is feet square.
II will probably be placed in the great
central gallery, opposite the principal
entrance.
The Art Exhibition will IN ! de, IN adj
ditiou to the works of contemporary ar
fists, representative productions OF the
past century of American art-thcse, for
instance, of Stuart, Cop'cy, Trumbull,
West, Aston, Sully, Ncaglc, Elliot,
kersctt. and Cole. These, as well as the
works offered by living artists, will be
passed upon by the Committee of Selec-
tion who will visit for the purpose, New
York, Boston, Chicago and other lead.
ing cities, in order to prevent the useless
transportation to Philadelphia of works
Of art not up to the standard OF admis-
n.
4 large number of orders and frater-
mites have signihed ther intention to
hold gatherings ut Philadelphia during
the period of the Exhibition. Among
those which may now be enumerated, are
the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows; the
Grand Encampment, Independent Order
of odd Fellows: Grand Lodge, United
States, Independent Order OF odd Eel
lows; Grand Commandery nights Temp
lar; Grand Army of the RepublIci
PRESBYTERIAN Synod; Caledonian Club;
Portland Mechanic Blues; WEIGH MAJ
tional Eistedfodd; Patriotic Order Sons
of America; California Zouaves OF San
Francisco; an international Regetta, the
Life Insurance Companies; National
Board of Underwriters; State Agricul.
tural Society; Second Infantry, n. G. Of
California, Philadelphia Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church; Cincin.
natl Society; California Pioneer Society;
American Dental COnVehIloni Satno-
lie Total Abstinence Union OF Amer
lea; Independent Order of
B'nai Berth; National Alumni
Association; Salesmen'5 Association; 9th
Maryland Regiment; American Pomo-
logical Society; Masters Association Of
the United States; Army of the Cumber-
land; Humboldt Monument Association
Christopher Columbus Monument Asso-
ciation Board of Trade Convention; In
transitional Typographical Congress;
Rifle Association Of the United States
Centennial Legion; Philadelphia County
Medical Society; International Medical
Congress; Od Volunteer Fire Depart
ment o. Philadelphia. Iron Age, Nouen'-
Der IL.