The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-11-18
Centennial Affairs.

TEE Exhibition will be opened on May
10. 1876. and remain open every day, ex-
cept Sunday, until Nov. 10. There will
be a fixed price of fifty cents for admission
to all the buildings and grounds.
The Women's Centennial Executive
Committee have raised 10000 for the
erection Of a pavilion in which to exhibit
every kind of women's r To this
! collection women of all nations are ex-
pected to contribute
POWER in the Machinery Hall viii be
chiefly supplied by a pair OF monster Cor
liss engines. Each cylinder is forty inches
in diameter, with a stroke Of ten feet; the
fy.wheeI is thirty-one feet in diameter,
and weighs ffty-fre tons; the horse power
is loo, and the number Of boilers Is
twenty. This engine drives about q mile
of shafting.
THE Secretary of the Navy has arranged
that a United States war vessel shall call
next spring at convenient European ports
to collect and transport hither to the Ex-
hibit;on the works OF American artists
resident in Europe Among he ports
thus far designated are Southampton for
( England. HAVE for France, Bremen for
Germany and fFeho-n for LAZY, to which,
if desirable. others may &c added.
Nh. BELL. the eminent English sculp-
tor, who Gesigned the groups for the plinth
for Tie great Albert Memorial in Hyde
Park, London. is reproducing in terra
Gotta, at the celebrated works in Lambeth,
the one which SyInbolizes America. The
figures in this group are colossal, covering
g ground space OF fifteen feet square. 1t
will probably be placed in the great Gen.
trail gallery, opposite the principal en-
trance.
AN important special exhibition will be
made by the United States Government
and IS being prepared under the snpervis-
ion of a board of officers representing the
several executive departments Of the Gov
eminent. A fine building of four and
onc-ha!f acres is ProTided for the purpose,
space in which will be occupied by the
War, Treasury. Navy, Interior, Postolice
and Agricultural Departments and the
Smithsonian Institution.
THE Machinery building, like the
( others, is already fully covered BY aPPli-
cations. There are about loo American
exhibitors in this department, 80 English
and $50 from other European Countries
which is about 80 more than entered the
Vienna Machinery Exhibition. Extra
provision is being made for annexes 10
accommodate the hydraulic machinery,
the steam hammers, forges, hoisting en-
J gines, boilers, plumbers, carpenters, etc.
TIE Centennial grounds are situated on
the western bank of the SChUylkil River,
and within Paramount Park, the largest
public park in proximity to q great city
in the world. and one OF the most beauti-
J full IN the country. The park contains
( $3.50 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 a farm Of
! forty-two acres has already been suitably
planted for the tests Of p!OwS, mowers,
reapers and other agricultural machinery.
THE AIT Exhibition Will include in adj
ditiOn 10 the works Of contemporary artists
representative productions Of the past
century of American art-those, for in
stance, of Stuart, Coplcy. Trumbul, West,
Aston, Sully, Neagle, Elliot, kcnsett,
Cole. These, as we'll Is the works offered
by living artists, will be passed upon by
the Committee of Selection, who will visit
for the purpose New York, Boston, Chi
cago and other leading cities. in order TO
prevent the needless transportation TO
Philadelphia OF works of art not up to the
standard of admission.
THE Exhibition buildings are sP-
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 Il 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 10 greater
cost than thai of carriage hire at the Paris
or Vienna Exhibition.
FoR The Art Exhibition the most emf
ncnt American artists are understood to be
at work. and it may be confidently stated
that, especially in the department Of land
sCapc painting, the United States will pre-.
sent a finer display than the public has
l,,., 1-1 ., n-,..,r fb,rTta aci.fa from, thu
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 Niue" authorized the creation
of the United States Centennial Commits
sion, and intrusietl TO it the management
} Oh lit T-NliliiitibI- Inns DotS Is t'ilt
posed of two Commissioners from each
State and Territory, nominated by the re-
spcctivc Governors. and commissioned
By the President of the United States.
The enterprise, therefore, is distinctly a
national one. and not, as has sometimes
been stated, the work of a private corpo-
ration.
TIE articles to be exhibited have been
CLASSIFIED in seven departments, which,
for the most part, will he located in appro-
pirate buildings, whose several areas are
as follows:
Department. Buildings. 4crss C0UeTe3.
! !. Ming " Met1'gy.
:. Manufactures. Main Building. .......-2l.41
3. EdGCai Ii and Sci.
4. .ATt.......... Ar Gallery. ............ Is
5. Machinery. ...... -. Machinery Bulldog III.
6. Agr5CGltnrc..... ..hgricu tnrgl Building. 10.
Z. Horticulture. ...... Horticultural Bcildiny.. Ii
This provides nearly ten more acres for
exhibiting space than there were at
Vienna. the largest International Eylibi-