Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-06-24
LETTER FROM MIR. WATSON.

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The Great ENpOsition-The System
OF Awards and Practical VaIu,
Thereof Reference to the Govern
ment Exhibits Including Certain
States and TerritOries-NO Des
criptiOH Gives an Adeq uate Idea
of the Vast Exhibition.
! PHILADELPHIA May 29.-Day by day
) the exhibition grows in beauty anC
interest As before written to THE
! CITIZEN, foreign exhibitors and Judge,
on awards, who have been active
participants in all former international
exhibitions, continue to declare thai
this display of the worlds products
eclipses all of them in extent and
variety, and will in usefulness. The
system of awards adopted for tins ex-
hibition, is new and untried. and has
met with some opposition by few OF
the foreign judges, but the English
and German judges are highly pleased
and have practically silenced all
others. In this matter alone, some
( fault has been found by foreigners, and
in all other respects there is most
hearty approval and cordial coopera-
ton. The system is substantially this
The articles on exhibition are en-
braced in proper groups, each group
having assigned 10 it certain number
OF American and foreign judges who
are experts upon the subjects embraced
in the group to which they are assign
ed. No moneyed award is to be made,
but these Judges, being men of the
highest attainmcntS and integrity, are
to give written opinions of the inner
ent and comparative worth of each
article passed upon and append their
signatures thereto for permanent rec
ord, the opinion in each case To con
tain, in brief, reasons for the opinion.
In 50 far rs the opinion of men emf
nent in any special line. is a guarantee
Of the superior worth of articles, this
exhibition Will give mankind the
benefit thereof; and when il is under
stood that the. judges are men who
take greater pride in the accuracy of
their opinions in their specialtics than
in the possession of wealth or popular
prominence, the value of their awards
will hardly be doubted or lightly es-
'imated. The whole number of judges.
is 2J0-I2j of whom are Americans
and the remainder foreigners of the
various countries participating in the
Exhibition. With few exceptions. the
foreign judges heartily approve of the.
system and il is very gratifying to say
that the English and German judges
are unanimously with uS, and substan-
TALLY say that they only want to know
our rules in this and other matters. to
give them a hearty support. Hon ~
VI Beckwith, Commissioner from New
York, and L. ). Commissioner at the
Paris Exposition, Is the author of the
new system Of awards, and has no.
doubt of lis universal acceptance and
adoption hereafter. Heretofore awards
were given in money and costly medals
which were silent as to reasons why
they were given. and hardly machine.
process, fabric, work of art, or any
thing Of any age Is without medals
from some local. national or interna-
tional Exhibition; hereafter it is be
lieved a record of the reasons why DIV
judges of acknowledged integrity and
capacity an article is superior, will
be the rule and be more highly priced
by the author, inventor or proprietor.
and be ready and reliable reference
for uniformed persons seeking to pur-
chase. The judges are empowered to
decide whether or not an article pos
sesses merit worth any mention, so
that in cases wherein it occurs that
only ordinary articles in a certain line
are exhibited, they may have no notice;
but the exhibit is so complete from all
the great nations of the earth and most
of the smaller ones, that the record of.
awards will contain valuable opinions
on almost every article for use and
ornament in human affairs, thereby
all who can read print, 10
learn what is superior and why it is.
Thousands upon thousands Of art
icles on exhibition are not there for
competition and awards; for instance.
the immense display by the United
States government in its own large
The government exhibition
alone is wonderfully instructive, and in
thousands of ways shows the people
not only for what their money is eX-
pended. but the usefulness of the eX-.
pcnditure. The Department of Agri-.
culture has four maps about ten by
fifteen feet square, which would be
treasures in any school room as they
contain a variety Of instruction in ad-
li;ion to any other maps in use. They
show by different colorS, the selling
price of lands in the various sections.
ranging from government price TO
above $50 per acre, also in the SAME
WAY. the rate Der month paid for farm