Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-11-19
The Coming CsntennInL

erection OF pavilion In which TO exhibit
every kind Of women's work. To this
collection women Of all nations are OK.
pected to contribute.
Power in the Machinery Hall will be
chiefly supplied by u pair Of monster Cor.
liss engines. Each cylinder Is forty inches
In diameter, with stroke of ten feet the
| fly.whcel Is thirty lone feet In diameter,
and wVighs fifty five tons the horse power
Ia 400, and the number of boilers is
twenty. This engine drives about mile
Of shaflirg.
Mr.. BELL. the eminent English sculp.
tor, who dcVigned 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
a ground space Of fifteen feet square. II
will probably be placed in the great cen
tral gallery, opposite the principal en-.
trance.
AN important special exhibition will be
made by the United States Government
and is being prepared under the supervis-
ion of board of officers representing the
several executive departments OF the Gov
ernment. A fine building of four and
one half acres is provided for the purpose,
space in which will be occupied by the
War, Treasury, Navy, Interior, PostOflice
and Agricultural Departments and the
Smithsonian Institution.
THE Machinery building, like the
others, is already fully covered by appli.
cations. There are about 900 American
exhibitors in this department, $50 English
and 150 from other European countries
which is about 250 more than entered the
Vienna Machinery Exhibition. Extra
provision is being made for annexes to
accommodate the hydraulic machinery,
the steam hammers, forges, hoisting en-
gines, boilers, plumbers, carpenters, etc.
TIE Centennial grounds are situated on
the western bank of the Schuylkill River,
and within Fairmount Park, the largest
public park in proximity to great city
in the world, and one of the most beauti-
| full IN the country. The park contains
3, 100 acres, 4jU of which have been in
closed 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 plows, mowers
reapers and other agricultural machinery,
THE Exhibition buildings are ap-
preached by eight lines of street-cars,
which connect with all the other lines in
the city, and by the Pennsylvania and
| Reading Railroads, over the tracks Of
which trains will also run from the North
| Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Whining
ton u Baltimore Railroads. Thus the
| Exhibition is in immediate connection
with the entire railroad system of the
country, and anyone within ninety miles
of Philadelphia can visit it at no greater
cost than that of carriage hire at the Paris
or Vienna Exhibition,
For the Art Exhibition the most emil
nent American artists are understood to be
at work, and it may be confidently stated
that, especially in the department of land
scape painting, the United States will pre-
sent 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 four
times the exhibiting space afforded by the
great Memorial Hall. Provision for the
surplus will be made In temporary fire.
proof buildings, though all exhibiting
nations will be represented in the central
Art Gallery.
The act OF Congress which provided
for " celebrating the one-hundreth Ami
versary Of American Independence, by
holding an International Exhibition of
Arts, Manufactures and Products of the
Soil and Nine" authorized the creation
of the United States Centennial Commits
sion, and intrusEd to it the management
of the Exhibition. This body is com
posed of two Commissioners from each
State and Territory nominated by the re-
spective 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 corpo-
ration.
THE list of special buildings is con-
stantly 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, Sweden, Egypt, Japan and others
are putting up one or more structures
each for exhibiting purposes or fur the
use of the Commissioners, exhibitors and
visitors Offices and headquarters of this
klno, usually Of considerable architect
nral beauty, are provided by the States of
Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana Illinois,
Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Con.
necticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, West Vir.
ginia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Iowa and Del
aware; and it is likely that others will
follow the example.
THE articles to be exhibited have been
classified in seven departments, which,
for the most part, will be located in appro.
pirate buildings, whose several areas are
as follows:
Department. buildings. Aeres Copered.
/. Ming & Met'rgy,
2. Manufactures, Main Building. ........ la
8. Educat N and Sci.
8. Machinery. ...... Machinery Build'g. III.
6. Agriculture. Agricultural Building. 10.
z. Horticulture. horticultural Building. is
Total............... ................. 4s.47
This provides nearly ten more acres tor
exhibiting space than there were at
Vienna, the largest International Rxhibi-
tion yet held. Yetthe applications ofexhib-
itors have been so numerous as to exhaust
the space, and many important classes of
objects must be provided for in special
buildings.
A NUMBER of trade and industrial asso-
Citations, which require large amounts of
space, will be provided for in special
buildings. Among these are the pho
tographers, the carriage builders, the
glass makers, the cracker bakers,
the boot and shoe manufacturers,
besides quite number Of individ-
ual exhibitors. The great demands for
space will probably render this course
necessary to considerable extent, espe-
clally Tor exhibitors VINO nave been taruy
in making their applications. In the
main Exhibition building, for example,
333, 800 square feet Of space had been ap
piled for by the beginning of October by
American exhibitors only; whereas, the
aggregate space which it has been posi-
BILE to reserve for the United States De
partment is only 100000 square feet,
about one third of which will be consumed
by passage ways.
A LARGE number Of orders and fraterni-
ties have signified 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, lndepend-
ent Order of Odd Fellows; the Grand
Encampment, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows; Grand Lodge United States, In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows; Grand