The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-03-12
Our Philadelphia Letter.
PnmADELPH1A, March s, 1915
THE CENTENNIAL.

THE CENTENNIAL.
The Territory of Idaho has paid in full
to Gov. Bigler, Financial Agent, the
amount OF money required to pay for
the shares of stock assigned to her.
The Legislatures of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Indiana, have appointed
commissioners to see that the interest of
these States are properly represented at
the great exhibition.
Tho Board of Trade, of Wilmington,
have passed resolutions requesting the
Legislature of Delaware to appropriate
$4,000, the City of Wilmington So, 900;
and have pledged that the remaining
s17,O 900, of the $32, 900 assigned to Del
aware shall be raised by personal effort.
The Government of Japan has appro-
printed $500, 900 in gold, for the pur-
pose of having the industries of that ma
tion fully exhibited.
The Dominion of Canada has made an
appropriation of $3.50, 600 for a similar
purpose and the United States Govern
ment has made an appropriation of $780,
900 in greonbacks for the purpose of OK.
hibiting the scientific and political prog
ress the nation has made during the first
ono hundred years of its existence.
Believing that the Philadelphia e1hi-
bition should receive the support and
encouragement of the whole people, the
Board of Directors of the Cincinnati
Industrial exhibition have resolved that
it is advisable to give the Cincinnati ex-
hibition anything Of a centennial char
acter in 1876.
The president of the commission ap-
pointed by the Governor of Victoria,
Australia, in letter to the Centennial
commission, says: "It is proposed that
the exhibits from all the British posses
sions in these seas, shall be displayed at
Philadelphia in one court, to bo called
the Australian Court" The space re-
quired will be $4,000 square feet. In
order to make selection of the choicest
and most suitable objects an inter-colo-
NAL preliminary exhibition of compe.
titiVe character will be held at Mel.
bourne in August 1875.
Thecommittee central Of the Argentine
confederation announces that similar
exhibition will be held OF Buenos Ayers
during the coming summer, in order
more fully to prepare for the American
exhibition of 1876.
A bill has passed the Legislature o.
Arizona, and received Governor SAT
ford's approval, appropriating $5, 900 t.
make collective exhibition of the prod
ucts of that Territory at the coming cen
tennial.
A single days mail brought to til,
centennial rooms twenty-five applioa
tions for space at the exhibition, from
firms and individuals in Ohio.
BAzAAR OF THE NATIONS.
have heretofore in these letters e1
pressed wonder at the umount of worl
done by John Wanamaker, in organic
ing local committees throughout tn,
country, charged with raising funds 70,
the centennial The responsibility o
raising the millions Of dollars to carr,
lOut kha ;nfantiona of the oriorinofors y
the exhibition, was placed in his hands
: and right nobly is he carrying on hi
5 work. II is done gratuitously, and now
r in addition TO the business cares that re
cieye his attention-for he PERSONAL
directs the machinery that moves tn
|, largest clothing establishment in Amer
ca, and probably in the world-Ar
Wanamaker has determined that tn
lYonng Mems Christian Association shAI