The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-11-19
Total, AS 40

This provides nearly ten more acres for
exhibiting space than there were at Vienna,
the largest International Exhibition yet
held. Yet the applications of exhibitors
have been SO numerous as to exhaust the
space, and many important classes of objects
must be provided for in special buildings.
An impoI tant special exhibition will be
made by the United States Government,
and is being prepared under the supervision
of a Board of Officers representing the
several Executive Departments of the
Government. a fine building of a acres
is provided for the purpose, space i'll which
will be occupied by the War, Treasury,
Navy, Interior, Post Office, and Agricultu-
tai Departments and the Smithsonian In
stitution.
The Women's Centennial Executive
Committee have raised $50, 600 for the
erection of a pavilion in which to exhibit
every kind of women's work. To this
collection, women of all nations are ex-
pected to contribute.
The list of special buildings is constantly
increasing, and present indications are that
their total number will be from 200 to $50.
Most of the important foreign nations
England, Germany, Austria, France, Swe-
den, Egypt, Japan, ard others-are putting
up one or more structures each, for eXhi Bit
ing purposes, or for the use of the comnis-
sioncrs, exhibitors and visitors. Offices
and headquarters of this kind, usually of
considerable architectural beauty, are pro
vided by the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New York,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, West
| Virginia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa, and
| Delaware and it is likely that others will
| follow the example. s.
"A number of Trade and Industrial As
| sociations, which require large amounts of
! space, will be provided for in special build
| ings. Among these are the photographers,
the carriage builders, the glass makers, the
| cracker bakers, the boot and shoe manu-
! facturers, beside quite number of indi-
! vidual exhibitors. The great demands for
space will probably render this course
| necessary to u considerable exient, especial
! ly for exhibitors who have been taIdy in
/ making :heir applications. In the Main
| Exhibition Building, for example, 333 300
! square feet Of space had been applied for
| by the beginning of October by American
| exhibitors only whereas, the aggregate
! space which it has been possible to reserve
for the United States Depart ment, is only
| 16O, 900 square feet, about onc-third of
which will be consumed by passage ways.
The Machinery Building, like the Others
| is already fully covered by applications
! There are about 1000 American exhibitors
in this department., $50 English, and $50
| from other European countries-which is
about $50 more than entered the Vienna Ma
chinery Exhibition. Extra provision is
being made for anneXes to accommodate
the hydraulic machinery, the steam ham
mers, foIges, hosting engines, boilers,
/ plumbers, carpenters, etc.
Power in the Machinery Hall will be
chiefly supplied by pal: of monster Corliss
Engines. Each cylinder is 40 inches in
diameter, with stroke of ten feet the
| fy-wheel is 81 feet in diameter, and weighs
55 tons the horse power is 400 and the
number of boilers is 30. This engine drives
about mile of shafting.
For the Art Exhibition, the most eminent
American artists are understood to be at
work, and it may be confidently stated
! that, especially i'm the department of land
| scape painting, the United States will pre-
| sent a finer display than the public has
| been led to expect. Quite aside from the
contributions of American artists, applica-
tions from abroad call for more than tour
times the exhibiting space afforded by the
! great Memorial Hall. Provision for the
surplus will be made i'm temporary fire.
proof buildings, though all exhibiting
nations will be represented in the central
Art Gallery. A& 8 ats
The Secretary of the Navy has arranged
that United States war vessel call pext
Spring, at convenient European ports, to
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ton 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, if desir-
able, 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 celebrated works in Lambeth, the one
which symbolzes America. The figures
in this group. are colossal, covering ground
space of 10 feet square. 1t will probably
be placed in the great central gallery, OPP
posite the principal entrauce.
The Art Exhibition will include, in ad-
dition to the works of contemporary artists,
representative productions of the past
century of American art--thOse. for in.
stance, of Stuart, copley, Trumbull, West,