Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-11-26

ample, S33, 300 square feet of space
had been applied for by the begin
ming of October by American ex-
hibitors only whereas, the aggre-
gate space which it has been posi-
bic to reserve for the United States
Department, is only 100000 square
feet, about One-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 depart
ment, $50 English, and $50 from
other European countries-which is
about 25O more than entered the
Vienna Machinery E lhibition. Extra
provision is being made for annexes
to accommodate the hydraulic ma
chlnery, the steam hammers, forges,
hosting engines, boilers, plumbers,
carpenters, etc.
Power in the Machinery Hall will
be chiefly supplied by a pair of
monster Corliss Engines. Each cylin-
der is 40 inches in diameter, with a
stroke of ten feet the fly-wheel is
81 feet in diameter, and weighs 55
tones the horsepower is 400 and
the number of boilers is 20. This
engine drives about a mile of shaft
ing.
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 paint
ing the United States will present
finer display than the public has 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 by the great Memori-
al Hail. Provision for the surplus
will be made in temporary fre-proof
buildings, though all exhibiting ma
tions will be represented in the CEN
trail Art Gallery.
The Secrtary of the Navy has ar
ranged that a United States war
vessel shall call next Spring, at con-
venient European ports, to collect
and transport hither to the Exhibi-
tion the works of American artists
resident in Europe. Among the
ports thus far designated. are South
ampton for England, Havre for
France, Rremen for Germany, and
Leghorn for Italy, to which, if de-
sirable, 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 symbolizes America. The
figures in this group are colossal,
covering ground space of Is 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 contem-
POrary artists, representative pro-
ductiOns of the past century of
American art-those, for instance.
of Stuart, Copley, Trumbull, West,
Aston, Sully, Neagle, Elliot, Ken
sett, 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 pur-
pose, 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
fraternities have signifed their in
tention to hold gatherings at Phil
adelphia during the period of the
Exhibition. Among those which
may now be enumerated, are the
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows /; the
Grand Encampment, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows Grand
Lodge, United States, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; Grand Com
mandery Knights Templar /; Grand
Army of the Republic !; Presbyteri-
an Synod Caledonian Club Port
land Mechanic Blues Welsh Ma
tional Eistedfodd Patriotic Order
Sons of America ; California Zou-
ayes of San Francisco an Interna-
tional Regatta ; the Life Insurance
Companies ; National Board of I'm
derwriters State Agricultural
Society End Infantry, n. G. of
California Philadelphia Conference;
Methodist Episcopal Church Gin
cinnati Society /; California Pioneer
Society American Dental Conven-
tion ); Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America Independent
Order or B'nai Berth j; National
Alumni Association +; Salesmen's As
sociation 5th Maryland Regiment;
American Pathological Society )
Maltster's Association of the United
States Army of the Cumberland
Humboldt Monument Association ;;
Christopher Columbus Monument
Association Board of Trade Conven-
tion International Typographical
Congress Rifle Association of the
United States Centennial Legion /;
Philadelphia County Medical Society
International Medical Congress; Old
Volunteer Fire Department of Phil
adelphia.
CHILDREN IN SLAVERY.