Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-11-26
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CENTEN-
NAL.

ARRANGEMEN1S EOR The CENIEN-
NAL.
The Act of Congress which pro-
vided for celebrating the one hun
dreth Anniversary of American In
dependence, by holding an Interna-
tional Exhibition of Arts, Manufac-
lures, and Products of Soil and
Nine" authorized the creation of
the United States Centennial Com
mission, and entrusted to it the man
agement of the Exhibition. This
body is composed Of two Commits
sioners from each State and Terrific
ry, nominated by the respective Gov
efners, and commissioned by the
President of the United States. The
enterprise, therefore, is strictly a
national one, and not, as has been
stated, the work of a private corpor-
alton.
The exhibition will be opened on
May 10th 1876, and remain open
every day, except Sunday, until
November 10th. There will be a
fixed price of so cents for admission
to all buildings and grounds.
The Centennial grounds are stu
ated on the western bank OF the
Schuylkill River, and within Fair
mount Park, the largest public park
in proximity to a great city in the
world, and one of the most beau
tiful in the country The Park con-
tains 3l6O acres, 45O of which have
been inclosed for the exhibition.
Besides this tract, there will be
large yards near by for the exhibi
tion of stock, and farm of AZ acres
has been suitably planted for the
tests of ploughs, mowers, reapers,
and other farm machinery.
The Exhibition buildings are ap-
preached by eight lines of street cars,
which connect with all the other
lines in the city, and by the Penn
sylvania and Reading railroads,
over the tracks of which trains will
run from the North Pennsylvania
and Philadelphia, Wilmington, and
Baltimore railroads. Thus the Ex-
hibition is in immediate connection
with the entire railroad system of
the country, and any one within 80
miles of Philadelphia can visit it At
no greater cost than that of car
riage hire at the Paris or Vienna
Exhibition.
The articles to be exhibited have
been classified in seven departments,
which, for the most part, will be To-
Gated in appropriate buildings,
whose areas are as fellows
DEPARTMENT. BUILDINGS. ACRES COVERED.
/ Mining and Metal!urgy,
HsRsias5Psfs E55salisH ssd Main building a
Art, Art Gallery, is
5 Machinery, Machinery Building, IA.
6 Agriculture. Agricultural do 10.
z Horticulture HORTICULTURAL DO 10
Total, l,...........-ss.....:.--- .---..-........4S 4SH
This proviC 9 nearly 10 more
acres for exhibiting space than there
were at Vienna, the largest Interna-
tional Exhibition yet held. Yet the
applications of exhibitors have
been so numerous as to exhaust the
space, and many important classes
of objects must be provided for in
special buildings.
An important special exhibition
will be made by the United States
Government, and is being prepared
under the supervision of Board
of Officers representing the several
Executive Departments of the Gov
ernment. A fine building of y acres
is provided for the purpose, space in
which will be occupied by the War,
Treasury, Navy, Interior, Post Of
fee, and Agricultural Departments
and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Woman's Centennial Execu-
tive Committee, have raised $4,000
for the erection of a pavilion, in
which to exhibit every kind of wo-
mems work. To this collection, wo-
men of all nations are expected to
contribute.
The list of special buildings is con-
stantly increasing, and present indi-
cations are that their total
number will be from 200 to 25O.
Most of the important foreign ma
tions-England, Germany, Austria,
France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan, and
others--are putting up one or more
structures each, for exhibiting pur-
poses, or for the use of the commits
sioners, exhibitors and visitors.
Offices and headquarters of this
kind, usually of considerable archi-
tectural beauty, are provided by the
States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey,
New York, Connecticut, Massachu-
sets, New Hampshire, Missouri,
Kansas, Virginia, West Virginia,
Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Della
ware and its likely others will fol-
the example.
Anumber of Trade and Industrial
Associations, which require large
amounts of space, will be provided
for in special buildings. Among
these are the photographers, the car
riage builders, the glass makers, the
cracker bakers the boot and shoe
manufacturers, beside, quite a num-
Der of individual exhibitors. The
great demands for space will proba-
bly, render this course necessary to
a considerable extent, especially for
exhibitors who have been tardy in