New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-09

We have received, with the compliments
Of Il. Bonzano, president Of the Louisiana
board Of managers, pamphlet prospectus
OF the international exhibition of 1876, Civ
ing full details Of the progress OF the COM
mission having it in charge.
The exhibition buildings are located in
Fairmount Park, upon which the city of
Philsdelphia has expended &6,000,OOO.
They are connected by Girard avenue, 100
feet wide, extending across an iron bridge
which cost 81, 500, ,000-built expressly for
the purpose-with the heart of the city.
The grounds cover 236 acres, to which will
be added other Enclosures for the display of
horses and cattle. The main building will
cover nearly twenty-one and half acres,
and be divided into departments of mining
and metallurgy, manufactures, education
and science; the art gallery one and half
acres; machinery building, fourteen acres;
agricultural building, ten acres; the horti-
cultural building, one and q half acres-
making total Of 4SA7 acres,
The art gallery or .memsrial hall, built
at cost of $l,5oQ, 800. by the State
of Pennsylvania and the city of Phila-
delphia, is the lost imposing and
ornate of all the t(nctures. Besides the
five principal buildilgs England, Japan,
Germany, Sweden, turKey, Morocco and
other nations will erSct buildings for their
own use, and there Will likely be 200 to $50
in all. On the highest ground will be ID
GATED an observatory $50 feet in height,
commanding view of. the grounds and
city, ny to the top of which visitors are to
be taken By spiral railway. The plan Of
grounds embraces seven miles of grounds
and footwalks, number of bridges, sum
mer houses, etc. A daily supply Of $780,
900 gallons of water will be furnished, like
steam and exhibition tpact, free of cost.
On either side Of ttA entrance will be .
building of twenty -fiss rooms each, for the
accommodation of Executive officers, GUS
tomhouse, police, telegraph operators, etc.
They will be connessad by veranda, 90
that passage may berade FROM the depot
to the buildings under cover. Facing the
entrance is the jury pavilion, an ornate two.
story structure, containing, besides jury
chambers, hall for receptions and ban
quets, conventions and congresses. In rear
Of this will be the Women's Exhibition,
costing $4,000, built by subscription among
the women of America. West of this will
be another structure, TO contain q collection,
by order of the President, of such articles
and materials as will illustrate the tunc-
tions and administrative faculties of the
government in peace, its resources as war
power, and demonstrate the nature and
adaptation of our institutions to the wants
of the people. Congress appropriated for
this $505,000. Specisl structures will be
put mp BY different States.
The centennial board of finance will re-
quire not less than $3,5o0, 900 to complete
their labors. and it is proposed to raise this
sum by sales of stock to citizens OF the
United States, to be issued in shares of $40,
emitting every holder to an interest in the
proceeds of the exhibition. The certificate
is to be model of engraving, executed by
the Treasury Department, and to be per-
manentiy retained by the holder; principal
and interest being paid after the close of
the exhibition, whom, should receipts prove
Insufficient to pay the entire amount, di-
vision will be made pro rata. Tickets will
be sold at fifty cents each, and basing esti-
mates upon the results OF the Paris Exposi-
tion, it Is expected to receive $4,000, 900
from this source. It is proposed that sub.
scriptions be made by States, counties,
cities, schools, churches, individuals, chill
dren and msos meetings. Auxiliary agents
will be chosen BY the boards to facilitate
the sale of stock,