Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-11-12

ecutivc Departments of the Govern
ment. A fine building of Al acres is
provided Tor the purpose, space in
which will be occupied by the War,
Treasury, Navy, Interior, Post Office,
and Agricultural Departments and
the Smithsonian Institute.
The Women 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 $50. Most of the
foreign nations-England,
Germany, Austria, France, Sweden,
Egypt, Japan, and others-are put
ting up one or more structures each,
for exhibiting purposes, or for the use
OF the commissioners, exhibitors and
visitors. Offices and headquarters of
this kind, usually of considerable
architectural beauty, are provided by
the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey,
New York, Connecticut, Massachu-
sets, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kan
sas, Virginia, West Virginia, Nevada,
Wisconsin, Iowa, and Delaware; and
it is likely that others will follow the
example.
\ number 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 number
of individual exhibitors. The great
'demsnds for space will probably
render this course necessary to con-
fsiderable extent, especially for exhib-
itors who have been tardy in making
their applications. In the Main Ex-
hibitlon Building, for example, $685.
800 square feet of space had been
applied for by the beginning of Oc:
tober by American exhibitors only;
whereas, the aggregate which it has
been possible to reserve for the Uni
ted States Department, is only l6O,-
600 square feet, about one-third of
which will be consumed by passage
ways. " 4
The Machinery Building, like the
others, is already fully covered by
applications. There are about 1000
American exhibitors in this depart
ment, $50 English, and $50 from
other European countries-whicl. is
about $50 more than entered the
Vienna Machinery Exhibition. Extra
provision is beng made for annexes
to accommodate the hydraulic ma
chinery, the steam hammers, forges,
hoisting engines, boilers, plumbers,
carpenters, etc.
Power in the Machine Hall will be
chiefly supplied by par of monster
Corliss Engines. Each cylinder is
40 inches in diameter, with a stroke
of ten feet; the tly-wheel Is 81 feet in
diameter, and weighs 55 tons; the
horse power is l, 400; and the number
of boilers is 20. This engine drives
about a mile of shafting.
For the Art Exhibition, the most
eminent American artists are under
stood to be at work, and it may be
confidently stated that, especially in
the department of landscape painting
the United States will present finer
display than the'public have been led
to expect. Quite aside from the
contributions of American artists,
applications from abroad call for
more than four times the exhibiting
space afforded b. the great Memorial
Hall. Provision for the surplus
will be made in temporary fire-proof
buildings, though all exhibiting ma
tons will be represented in the cen
trail Art Gallery.
! The Secretary of the Navy has ar
ranged that United States war YES
sci shall call next spring, at conven-
lent European ports, to collect and
transfer hither to the Exhibition the
works of American artists resident
in Europe. Among the ports thus
far designated, are Southampton for
England, Havre for France, Bremen
for Germany, and Leghorn for Italy,
to which, is desirable, others may be
added.
Mr.. Bell, the eminent English
Sculptor, who designed the groups
for the plinth for the great Albert
Memorial in Hyde Park, London, is
reproducing in terra Gotta, at the cell
ebrated works in Lambeth, the one
which symbolizes America. The
figures in this group are colossal,
covering Il ground space of 10 feet
square. 1t will probably be placed
in the great central gallery, opposite
the principal entrance.
The Art Exhibition will include, in
addition to the works of cotemporary
artists, representative productions OF
the past century of American art
those, for instance, of Stuart, Copley,
Trumbull, West, Alston, Sul(y, Nea-
gle, Elliot, Kensett, Cole. These, as
we'll as the works offered by living
artists, will be passed upon by the
Committee of Selection, who will
visit for the purpose, New York,
Boston, Chicago, and other leading
cities, in order to prevent the needless
transportation to Philadelphia of
works of art not up to the standard
of admission.
A large number of orders and fra
ternities have signitied their Intention
to hold gatherings at Philadelphia
during the period of the Exhibition.
Among those which may now be
enumerated, are the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows; the Grand Encamp-
ment, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; Grand Lodge, United States,
Independent Order Of Odd Fellows;