The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-02-19
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PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 10, 1875.
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THE CENTENNIAL.
The five buildings designed for the
grand Exhibition of 1876, are the mem
orial Art Gallery, Main Exhibition
Building, the Machinery hall, the Agri-
cultural hall, and the Horticultural de-
partment, Contracts for the erection Of
all except the Agricultural hall have
been awarded, and work upon these
being pushed with all the energy char
teristic of American enterprise. Thous-
ands of tons of granite are being used
in the erection Of the Art Gallery, quar-
ried from the granite beds Of Virginia,
Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
The Conservatory will be the handsom-
est building of the kind every seen in
this country, and the glass requisite for
its construction will add to the wealth
of New Jersey quite considerably,
The Machinery hall has been con-
tracted for by firm in Wilmington,
Del, and it will give an impetus to the
iron industries of that thriving city.
The plan for the Agricultural hall is
now under considering by Messrs. John
Welsh President of the Centennial
Board of finance; Thomas Cochran,
Chairman of the building committee,
John Baird and the other gentlemen
who are giving so much time to the
erection of these vast buildings, cover
ing more than 40 acres of ground. A
suggestion has been made to the build
ing committee by an eminent agricul-
turalist, that in connection with this
building there shall be erected an i'm
.mense structure, in the form of an arc
of a circle, large enough to allow each
State and Territory in the United States,
to exhibit fairly and fully the products
of the soil of each.
Should this suggestion be carried into
effect, it will be one of the grandest
features of the exhibition; capitalists
from Europe and emigrants from
abroad, will be enabled to witness at a
glance the peculiar inducements that
each State and Territory presents for
the investment of capital and labor.
To make this particular exhibit all that
it should be, the executive Of each com
monwealth should select commission to
see that the State is fully represented in
everything pertaining to its agricultural
interest.
The magnitude Of these preparations
require large sum of money, and John
Wanamaker, President of the bureau
of revenue, and his able assistant, Gov
ernor Bigler, are lsboring assiduously
to raise the means requisite to carry in
to effect the plans of the commission.
The encouragement they are meeting
with from New York city is very graft
flying, and the manner in which the
New York Herald, Tribune, Times and
World, have taken hold of the centen-
NAL will evidently awaken an enthusi-
asm throughout the entire country.
Since the first of the year New York
city has purchased about $4,000 of
centennial stock-about one-tenth of
the amount allotted to that State. And
right here let me observe that the State
of New York proposes taking the lead
in the Exhibition, of everything grown
upon her soil, of works of industry and
of art; and L regard it as my duty as
your correspondent to apprise your
readers of this fact 30 that they may
arouse themselves to the importance of
competing with the Empire State in the
Exhibition of American Industries.
A REMINIsCENCE