The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-11-13

mediate connection WIN the entire Tall-
road system Of the country, and any one
within 80 miles of Philadelphia can visit 1t
at no greater cost than that of carriage hire
at the Paris or Vienna Exhibition.
The articles to be exhibited have been
classified III seven departments, which, for
the most part, will be located in appro-
pirate buildings, whose several acres are as
follows
DEPARTMENT. BUILDINGS. ACRES Gown.
l. Mnins and Me allurgy.)
2. Manu- actuTerS, Main Building N4I
Art Art Gallery. is
5. Machinery, Machinery Building, Il.
8 Agriculture, Agricultural Building 10.
:. Horticulture, Hoi ucultural Buildg, Is
Total - Is AZ
This provides nearly ten more acres for
exhibition space than there we're at Wen
ma the largest International Exhibition
yet held. Yet the applications of exhlb-
itors have been so numerous as to exhaust
the space, and many Important classes OF
object must be provided for in special
buildings.
An important special exhibition will he
made by the United States government,
and is being prepared under the supe-vi-
sion Of a Board of Officers representing the
several Executive Departments Of the Gov
eminent A fine building of a acres is
provided for the purpose, space III which
will be occupied by the War, Treasury,
Navy, Interior, Post Office, and Agricul-
tural Departments and the Smithsonian
Institution.
The Women's Centennial Executive
Committee have raised $4,000 for the
erection Of a pavilion in which to exhibit
every kind of women's work. To this col
lection, women Of al nations are expected
To contribute.
The list of special buildings is constantly
Increasing and present indications are that
their total number will be from 200 to $50.
Most Of the important foreign nations
England, Germany, Austria, France,
Sweden, Egypt, Japan, and others are
putting up one OF more structures each, for
exhibiting purposes, OF for the use OF the
commissioners, exhibitors and visitors.
Offices aud headquarters Of this kind,
usually of considerable architectural beau
ty, are provided by the States of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
New Jersey, New York, Connecticut. Mss-
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri,
Kansas, Viryinis, Vest Virginia, Nevada,
Wisconsin, Iowa, and Delaware and it Is
likely that others will follow the example.
Citations, which require large amounts of
Of space, will Ne provided for III special
buildings. Among these are the photo
graphers, the carriage builders, the glass
makers, the cracker bakers the boot and
shoe manufacturers, beside, quite num-
Der of individual exhibitors The great
demands 70: space will probably render
this course necessary to a considerable ex-
tent gsDEpIaiIV bthttnrs he hax
been 'ardy III making ,helr applications
In the Main Exhibition Building, for ex-
ample, 1873, 800 square feet Of space has
been applied for by the beginning Of Oc-
tober byAmerican exhibitors only whereas
the aggregate space which il has been pos
slb.e to reserve for the United States De
partment, is only 100, 900 square feet,
about one third Of which will be consumed
by passage ways
The Machinery Building, like the others,
is already fully covered by applications
There are about 900 American exhibitors
IN this department. $50 English, and $50
from other European Countries which il
about $50 more than entered the Vienna
Machinery. Exhibition. Extra provision
Is being made for annexes to accommodate
the hydraulic machinery, the steam ham.
mers, forges, hosting engines, boilers.
plumbers, carpenters, etc
Power in the Machinery Hall will be
chiefly supplied by pair of monster Cor
llss Engines. Each cylinder is 40 inches
in diameter, with a str.ba ~ ten feet fiv
wheel Is 81 feet IN diameter, and weighs %
tons the horse power is !, 400 and the
number OF boilers is 90 This engine
drives aoont a mile Of shafting
For Art Exhibition the most eminent
American artists are understood to he at
work, and 1t may be confidently stated that.
especially ~ the department of Landscape
painting, he United States will present a
inner d'splty than the public has been led
to expect Quite aside from the contribu-
tons q a lerlcan artists, applications from
abroad cal FOR more than four times the
exhibiting space afforded by the great
Memorial Hall. Provision for the surplus
will D, made in temporary FIRE proof
building though all exhibiting nations
will be presented in the central Art Gal. |
lerS~
The Secretary OF the Navy has arranged |
that United States war vessel shall call |
next spring, at convenient European norts
to collect and transport hither to the Ex'
hibition the works Of American artists re-
sldent in Europe. Among the ports TINS
far designated, are Southamton for Emo. |
land, Havre for France, Bremen for Ger
many, and Leghorn for Italy to which. if |
desirable, Others may be added
MIR. Bell, the eminent English sculptor.
who designed the groups for the plinth for |
for she great Albert Memorial in HYDE |
Park, London, is reproducing in terra |
Gotta, at lie celebrated works in Lambeth.
the one which symbolizes America. The
hgures IN this group are colossal, covering
ground space of 10 feet square. twill /
probably be placed in the great central gal
lery, opposite the principal entrance.
The Art Exhibition will include. in addi-
ton to the works Of contemporary artists.
representative productions OF the past GEN.
fury of American art-those, for Instance
of Stuart, Copley, Trumbull, West, Aston
Sullv, Neagie, Elliot. Kensett, Cole
These, a. well as The works offered by liv.
ing artists, win be passed upon by the
Committee of Selection, who will visit for
the purpose, New York, Boston, Chicago.
nd other leading cities, in order to pre-