Arizona citizen., 1875-11-27
CENTENNIAL MATTERS.
A Concise and Interesting State ment of What is Accomplished and What will be Seen in 1876 in Fairmount Park.

General Goshorn sends out the follow
 ing:
 The Act of Congress which provided
 for celebrating the one hundredth An
 niversary of American Independence,
 by holding an International Exhibition
 of Arts, Manufactures, and Products
 of the Soil ard Mine" authorized the
 creation of the United States Centen-
 nial Commission, and entrusted to it
 the management of the Exhibition. This
 body is composed of two Commission
 CTS from each State and Territory,
 nominated by the respective Governors,
 and commissioned by the President of
 the United States The enterprise,
 therefore, is distinctly national one,
 and not, as has sometimes been stated
 the work of private corporation. The Exhibition will be opened on
 May 10, 1876, and remain open every
 day, except Sunday, until November 10. There will be a fixed price of fifty cents for admission to sll the
 buildings and grounds.
 The Centennial grounds are situated on the western bank of the Shcuylkill
 River, and within Fairmount Park, the largest public park in proximity to great city in the world, and one of the most beautiful in the country. The park contains 31G0 acres, 450 of which have been enclosed for the Exhibition. Besides this tract, there will be large yards near by for the Exhibition of stock, and farm of forty-twO acres has already been suitably planted for the tests of ploughs, mowers, reapers, and other agricultural machinery.
 The Exhibition groundsare approach ed by elght lines of street cars, which connect with all the other lines in the city, and by the Pennsylvania and Read ing railroads, over the tracks of which trains will also run from the North Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Will mington, and Baltimore railroads. Thus the Exhibition is in immediate connec- ton with the entire railroad system of. the country, and any one within ninety miles of Philadelphia can visit it at no greater cost than that of carriage hire at the Paris or Vienna Exhibition.
 The articles 10 be exhibited have been classified in seven departments, which, for the most part, will be locat- ed ill appropriate buildings, whose sev- eral areas are Rs follows;
 Department of mining and metal lurgy, manufactures, education and. science, Main Building, 21.47 acres covered; department of art, Art Gal lery Building, 1.5 acres covered; de- partment of machinery, Machinery Building, IA acres covered; depart ID mcnt of agriculture, Agricultural Building, 10 acres covered; depart ment of horticulture, Horticultural Building, 1.5 acres covered; total of acres covered, 4S47.
 This provides nearly ten more acres for exhibiting spacS than there were at Vienna, the largest International Ex- hibition yet held. Yet the applications of exhibitors have been SO numerous as to exhaust the space, and many i'm portant classes of objects must be pro vided for in special buildings.
 An important special exhibition will [ be made by the United States govern ment and is beng prepared under the supervision of a board of officers rep resenting the several Executive Depart ments of the government. A fine building of four and one-half acres is provided for the purpose, space in which will be occupied by the War, Treasury, Nay, Interior, Post Office, and Agricultural Department and the Smithsonian Institution.
 The Women's Centennial Executive have raised $30,000 for the erection of pavilion in which to ex- hibit every kind of women's work To this collection, women of all nations are expected to contribute.
 The list of special buildings is con- 'tantly increasing, and present indica- ions are that their total number will De from 200 to 25O. Most of the i'm Dortant foreign nations - England, Irrmany, Austria, France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan, and others-are putting ID one or more structures each, for ex- libiting purposes, or for the use of the exhibitors and visitors. Offices and headquarters of this kind, lsually of considerable architectural are provided by the States Of OAIo, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, Vir- ,inia, West Virginia, Nevada, Wis .onsin, Iowa, and Delaware; and 1t Is likely that others will follow the ex- -mple. !,
 A number of Trade and Industrial Associations, which require large 1, mounts of space, will be provided for | n special buildings. Among these are he photographers, the carriage build rs, the glass makers, the cracker ukers the hnnt and shoe mannfnc.L