Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-03-25

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE GREAT
BUILDINGS AND THEIR COST
Alta Martha Washington tea party, recently,
Mr.. @. 8. Keyser delivered an address, in
which he made the following interesting state
ments in reference to the approaching Centen-
nial
TINE OF THE EXHIBITION.
II will begin on the 10th day Of May and end
on the 10th Of November, 1876, six months Of
ono perpetual jubilee. You will stand In Phila-
delphia and zee the whole world pass under your
eyes.
the PARK AND BUILDINGS.
The park in which the buildings are being
erected contains nearly three thousand acros OF
ground, and 10 connected by railways running to
the doors Of the buildings, with every part Of
this country, New Orleans Charleston, San
Francisco. Montreal and Chicago. and all inter
mediate places by ocean steamers and tho larg-
est steamboats, OF the country, and by canal to
the borders Of the park.
COMFORT OF THE Visions.
The park itself is filed with shade trees and
shrubbery, there being quarter OF million
large and small trees In the grounds it Ia wa
tered by one large river and one stream for .
distance Of twelve miles within its borders ; it
has two hundred springs i've smaller and enc
large reservoir Of 100 acres Of water.
THE BUILDINGS.
Inc EuRlu eNulDltOu Dululuk will 10 1,otolocp
long, covering twenty acres machinery hall, l,776
feet, covering ten acres conservatory, covering
one and half acres agricultural hall, five
acres government buildings, four acres art
gallery, one and half acres. These will cover
forty acres, aud beyond these there will be she'd
ding, koisks, newspaper offices, telegraph Of
fees, 10. The grounds cover $50 acres.
PROGRESS OF THE WORK.
The art gallery is ready for the roof. or the
main exhibition building foundations are laid
and super structure ready for setting up a. soon
as the spring opens. The whole work is under
contract for ali the buildings. The departments
are organized. Exhibits are already arriving in
Philadelphia, and the commissioners Of several
nations are located in the city. Full instructions
| in the principal Ian ,uagrs of Europe have been
| sent to the different nations, and space allotted
to them in the building. No longer is it pro-
| blem-shall we have the exhibition-but
SHALL WE MAKE IT WORTHY OF OUR NArIoN2
| And, now, = word in conclusion, the commits
sioners need the help Of the whole country, eve
ry man and women according to their means. 1t
il not mouey given away it is Al investment
made. Whatever stock you take goes into build
ings, which will lie fully insured. they are free
from taxes, and the ground on which they stAnd
for the stock the buildings belong absolutely to
the stockholders, then every dollar paid to enter
the exhibition, also, goes back to the stockhold-
ers. What you. as stockholders, individually pay
| to enter, goes bacK INTO your own pocKete. Whab
the pecuriary result will be to the stockholders.
we are now able pretty closely to estimate
Leaving out the art gallery, which is
PAID Fob BY THE CITY AND STATE,
\ come to the estimate Of the expenses, which
will fall on the stock and the receipts, which will
come back to the stockholders. am not author
ICED to make all official statement, and, believe
none can, with absolute certainty, be made at
| the present time, but these results may be con-
| sidered for all practical purposes, reliable