New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-08
ORR INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.


OUR INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
The progress already made in the erection
of the Centennial buildings under what APP
pears to he energetic and skillful management
enables visitors at Paramount Park to form
some idea of the grandeur of the scale on
which the Commission appointed by the frcSl-
dent are preparing for the American ana III
ternational Exhibition which Congress mas
enacted shall "be held under the auspices OF
"the Government of the United states"
and to which the President by his
proclamations, and Mr.. Secretary Fish
through the Foreign Minister'S and our own
agents. have cordially invited the Govern
ments of the world. Under the regulations
communicated by Mr. Fish to foreign Govern
ments. each nation accepting the invitation
was requested to appoint Commission, ana
"thc privileges of exhibition can he granted
"opy to citizens of countries whose Govern
"ments have formally accepted the invitation 10
abe represented and have appointed the before
"mentioned Commission With rare exceptions
the invitation of our Government has been
cordially accented The English Commission,
headed by the Duke of Richmond, is already
represcnted here by Mr.. Cunliife Owen, the
accomplished Director of the South Ken
slngton Museum and the Chief British
Manager at Vienna, and Col. Herbert
Sandford. NJ. Du SOmmears, Director OF
the Museum of Cluny, has been ap-
pointed Chief Commissioner of France The
space originally demanded by Great Britain at
Fairrnonnt was 1900 square feet This Mr.
Owen proposes to increase to $4,000, ana
representative of France has since preferred
similar request ON behalf of the French Republic
Should the international rivalry so strlkingly
exhibited at Vienna apply equally to an ex-
hibition on this side Of the Atlantic, it may
well he that the Centennial Commission has
not oycrestimated the extent of the accOmmO-
dation which will be required by American
manufacturers competing on their own soil
with those of all nations, and by the mannfac-
turers of Europe competing among themselves
for share in the great market Of the future.
The main Exhibition building is a parallelo-
gram, 1,SSO feet in length by 464 feet In
width, covering 20 acres. The Machinery
Hall. part of which is well advanced, is 1.4O2
feet long, with an annex covering about IL
acres. 1t is on the same line with the main
Exhibition building, and the two together will
present frontage upon the principal avenue
of 3.S24 feet. which will be some 500 feet
more than the frontage OF the Palace OF
Industry at Vienna. The Art Gallery, on the
Lansdowne plateau. JIG feet above the level OF
the Schuylkill, built of granite, glass, and
iron. and declared thoroughly tirc-proof, Is 800
feet in length Ivy 30 in width, and the center
hall and galleries will hold 5000 persons.
The Horticultural building, ornate and com
modous, built chiefly of iron and glass, Is $50
feet in length, with a width of 1913 feet and
the proposed Agricultural building. of wood
and glass, is to have nave OF $40 feet 10y
125. with tiansepts at the ends, the ground
plan covering paraelogram of $40 feet by
$40, and covering space OF ten acres.
II seems that "n,lmcrOus applications have
"becn made by manufacturers and by the
commissions of foreign Governments for per
emission to erect paviiions and various orna-
"mental and useful structures within the Ex-
"hibition grounds; and that numbers OF
"fountans, memorial statues, and other dec
"oratve objects are i'll preparation under the
"auspices of local organizations" Those to
be erected by the English Commission will
include, it is said. one for the residence of the
Commissioner, second for the Use
of his official family, and a third
for the accommodation of the British
workmen employed by the Government.
When one recalls the additional buildings at
Vienna. in all about $40, which lent 50 muSh
of beauty to the small area Of 800 acres in
the Plater, it is not difficult to conceive that
place for "a yet larger number of such struc-
lures should be demanded in the $500 acres
of Farmount, by the spirited citizens and
associations of our 80 States and the
Commissioners Of the foreign nationali-
ties, who are already represented in
our country by thousands and tens
of thousands of cnterprising emigrants.
At Vienna, apart from the Imperial pavilion
presented to the Emperor by the various trades,
each contributing its share of work. where the
Emperor received his guests, and the CORE
spending Jury pavilion on the opposite side,
there were the paviliOns of the foreign
Commissioners, especially of the English,
French, German, and Russian, the palace
Of the Khedive, tho payilions of the
Princes of Saxe-Coburg, Swarzcnbuig, and
Monaco; the Spanish, Persian, and Turkish
payilions, the Morocco villa, the Italian buff
fet, the various restaurants, warehouses, beer
halls, and cafes of all nations; and the peas
ant houses of Austria, Salzburg, Alsace, Gal
licia, Croatia, Roumania, Russia, Saxony, Hun
gary, tho VOralberg, and England-the last a
wOrkman's house of iron. Then came the in
teresting pavilion Of the New Free Press, which
it is rumored may be rivsled at Fsirmount by