Arizona citizen., 1875-11-27

plicstions. In the Main Exhibition
 Building, for example. SS3, 300 squar,
 feet of space had been applied for by
 the beginning of October by American
 exhibitors only; whereas, the aggregat,
 space which it has been possible tC
 reserve for the United States Depart
 ment, is only l60,00 square feet, abou
 one-third of which will be consumed
 by passage ways.
 The Machinery Building, like tho
 others, is already fully covered by ap plications. There are about 1000 Amer
 ican exhibitors in this department, l5C
 English. and l50 frrll other European countries-which s about 250 mor, than enter l ihe -rna MacA;ner, Exhibition. Extra provision is being
 made for annexes to accommodate the
 hydraulic machinery, the steam ham
 mers, forges, hoisting engines. boilers plumbers, carpenters, etc.
 Power in the Machinery Hall will
 be chiefly supplied by pair of monster
 Corliss Engines Each cylinder is
 forty inches in diameter, with 8 stroke
 of ten feet; the fiy-wheel is thirty-one
 feet in diameter, and weighs ifty-fve
 tons; the horse power is HOO; and the number of boilers is twenty. This en. zine drives about mile of snafting.
 For ihe Art Exhibition, the most eminent American artists are under stood 10 be at work, and It may be con
 fidcnly stated that, especially in the department of landscape painting, the
 United States will present finer dis play than the public has been led to expect. Quite aside from the contribu- tons of American artists, applications from abroad cali for more than four times the exhibiting space afforded by the great Memorial Hall Provision for the surplus will be made in tenn porary ire-proof buildings, though all exhibiting nations will be represented in the central Art Gallery.
 The Secretary of the Navy has ar ranged that a United States war vessel shall call next Spring, Gt convenient European ports, to collect and transport hither to the Exhibition the works of American artists residen; in Europe. Among the ports thus far designated, are Southampton for England, Havre for France, Bremen for Germany, and Leghorn for Italy, to which, if desirs- blc, others may be added.
 Mr. Bell, The eminent English Sculp tor, who groups for the plinth for the great Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, London, is reproducing in terra cn;ta, at the celebrated works in Lambeth, the one which symbolizes America. The figures in this group are colossal, covering ground spacc of fifteen feet square. It will probably be placed ill the great central gailery, opposite the entrance.
 The AEt Exhibition rill include, in addition to the works Of contemporary artists, representative productions of the past century of American art those, for instance, of Stuart, Copley, West, Aston, Sully, Neagle, Elliot, Kensett, Cole. These, as well as the works offered by living artists, will be passed upon by the Committee of Selection, who will visit for the pur- pose, New York, Boston, Chicago, and other leading cities, in order to prevent the needless transportation to Phils- ielphia of works of Art not up to the standard of admission.
 A large number of orders and fra ernities have signified their intention .o hold gatherings al Philadelphia turing the period of the Exhibition. Among those which may now be emu nerated, are the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Grand Encampment Independent Order of Odd Fellows ! Grand Lodge, United States Independ-I ,nt Order of Odd Fellows; Grand ! Jommandery Knights Templar; Grand Army of the Republic; Presbyterian synod; Caledonian Club Portland Mechanic Blues; Welsh National Patriotic Order Sons of California Zouaves of San an International Regatta he Life Insurance Companies Nation | Board of Underwriters; State Agri- 'ultural Society; Second Infantry, x ! l. of California; Philadelphia Confer :nce, Methodist Episcopal Church !; jincinnati Society; California Pioneer. society; American Dental Convention Jatholic Total Abstinence Union of America; Independent Order Of B'nai }erith; National Alumni Association Association; Fifth Mary and Regiment; American Pomological society; Masters Association of the United States; Army of the Cumber- and; Humboldt Monument Associa- ion; Christopher Columbus Monu- lent AssocIation; Board of Trade International Typograph- cal Congress; Rifle Association of the Jnited States; Centennial Legion; County Medical Society Medical Congress; Old