The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-12
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
,on.cl,l correspondence to The Herald


PHILADELPHIA, November 4, 1876.
Thinking that political letter from
Wellington would be of little interest
van now, when in two days we will
lave results, facts, nations verdict
instead of arguments and predictions
have come to Philadelphia to take a
I,.t look ut the Centennial Exposition.
There is no tagging Of interest in the
aren't show and, in all probal ility,
,yice as many people, or one hundred
anJ forty thousand, will be present to
sse the curtain fall as were here to see
!, lined. For weeks the average daily
cosh attendance has been over one hun
dred thousand dollars, and this number,
notwithsrand the catch penny pagean.
ny does not diminish.
On the tenth of this month, three
DAYS after the election, the exhibition
wIil be formally closed, and on the
tbrtieth of November, ut | | o'clock a,
M there will be general sale ofall the
bindings belonging to the Centennial
Board of Finance The list comprises
tbe main building, and the carriage an.
nexed agricultural Hall with its
annexes, the art annex, photo.
grapbers building, shoe and leather
building, butter and cheese building
Judges hall, guard and station houses
and various other small buildings.
Oute sufficient to establish an Utopian
cty at Duluth, Napoleon,or somewhere
else in the swamp or desert, if there
could be some flow invented to watt
them there
The expectation that most of the
State buildings will be presented to the
Park mmission at the close of the
exhibition is, think, delusive Indeed
il is hardly desirable that they should
remain permanently in Fairmont Park;
with but one exception they are built of
wood, and besides their danger from
fire, the expense of painting them and |
keeping them in repair would detract
from their value for park purposes.
The Ohio State building, however is
built of stone, and is so substantial in
every respect that it will for years pre-.
serve its present appearance and be an
ornament to the park. The original in.
tention was to present this structure to
the city, and ut recent meetings of the
0hioState Board the subject of its trans
fer has been discussed. The German
pavilion, substantially built structure,
it is thought, will also become the prop
erty OF the Park Commissioners SO far
as is known at present the other build.
ings will be sold TO the highest bidder
or disposed of at private sale. Those
who desire to purchase them will doubt.
less have to give fair prices for many of
them are handsome, and built of the
best material and can be easily
taken down and rebuilt. 1t is
said by Philadelphians, and by
the gatekeepers that the proportion
Of strangers is smaller at present than
for some time past. This may be ac-
for upon the supposition that
nearly everybody is remaining at home
until after the election--some of these
will of course not see 1t at ALL for in
two days after the election the Exhi-
bition will be closed. Strange as it may
seem, there are many Philadelphians
who have not yet seen the great show,
while many Others who have lived
within half an hours ride of it have been
here only once or twice. These will
nave to solace themselves with the
mailer permanent exhibition which it
s now understood will be established.
The projectors of this enterprise are
'ery confident of its success. Within
he last week they have received hun
lreds of communications from exhibi-
ors and others asking for information
n reference to displays which they de-
ire to make. These are exclusive of
he many exhibitors who have at pres
mt displays in the main building,
many OF whom will allow them to re-
main there. 1t is thought that one
bird of the exhibits in Agricultural
Iall, and many of the garden orna-
nents in Horticultural Hall, and the
grounds, can be obtained
or the permanent exhibition, if the
desires to have them. One
hundred or more exhibitors in Agri-
ultural Hall who have been consulted
~ Mr.. Landreth, have agreed to allow
heir exhibits to remain.
The great difficulty in the way of
permanent exhibition would seem to
De that OF warming such an immense
as the Main Building. 1t will
De like an attempt to heat all out doors.
It cannot be done with dry heat, and it
will doubtless be necessary to build an
furnace and run steam pipes
The daily running ex-
pense of the permanent exhibition con
lined to one building, and requiring no
army of doorkeepers, guards and at
tcndants, will be UNNECESSARILY less
than that of the present, and there
would seem to be no reason why the
price should not be reduced to twenty
five cents for adults and ten cents for
children.
On the whole, think we have reason
to congratulate ourselves that so much
that is attractive in the exhibition will
remain. 1t seemed like u great waste
of money and energy to build so splen-
did an exhibition only to pull it down
in a summer and thousands who have
not vet seen the Babel OF the new
world, may still see what remains of it
with more comfort and at less expense
than when the hotels and grounds were
so densely crowded, Memorial Hall is
here and will remain. With only half
the pictures and statrary 1t now con-
tans, it will attract hundreds OF visitors
daily,