New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-09

TO see the boxes in which the peoples pack their
goods every box neatly made and with its contents
its owners name the price of its contents, DC, ~c
written on it, and the great pile OF them looking so
temptingly neat and convenient that one wishes he
had dozen or so for household uses. But no o'her
exhibitors show any such method and neatness IN
their packing.
The Spanish and Egyptian Departments are
closed and one only peep at what he would anu
dimly make out that there are great preparations Ioi
display. Tho Egyptian facade is handsome and
digniied; the Spanish is more tawdry.
We shall surely find the Scandinavian, SWISS, ana
Tyroese Departments interesting in soild fashion,
The TyroIese glass is a surprise, not so much in an
artistic sense for the decacy of its manufacture.
The forms, however, are disdppontingy conven-
tona and the color weak but the display is profuse
and is sure TO be very attractive. The Swiss are
strong in their educational display, and send the
whole apparatus of their schools. that we see the
very heart of the machine and learn how they make
their Agassiz and Guyots their Desors and SSnrels
If this goes on foresees the time when the Swiss
babes and Stockings will all take after one know,
who IA little mite of four years old, when asked
him if he wanted TO hear about Hop o My Thumb,
said yes. and when had finished asked me if
knew the chemical formula for sugar!
The Scandinavian Department is not handsome
but it is useful and there many things in 1t that
will please the housekeeping mind. My companion
to-day was greatly taken with the brass utensils
and there are articles in boctin and pottery that
will be found very salable. But am not sent here
TO review The Exhibition and IL would be impcrti-
nent to offer to do it when you have pat that duty
into the keeping of one well fitted for her task
And, after ALL to me- repeat it, the grcatcst charm
of the whole is not tho goods but the people The
atmosphere of quiet industry. quiet but with per
sstent "go"-of cheerful willingness 60 help things
on and the knowledge that this unity AMI harmony
come out of orr human solidarity. and belong 70 the
race while yet all these various peoples are socially
politically, morally quite diverse frVin each other
and even quite opposed 20 each othcg-thcsc corSld-
erations make this busy scene. acting ITSELF under
one roof greatly ntcrcStius and. 70 ne ~ tS, uc-
lightful in its novelty and IN lis Suggestions. surely
the opening day with is glorious music and iii us
sights and souuiS-itS "a reaching memories, 5 lar
looking hopcS and aSpraJious-wiil be one not 70 be
forgotten. and cbidpn ii to-day viii describe II
when old and gray 10 the children Of their children,
who viii say. d" would l had been there
This fine Sunday. 50 near the opening day. makes
me think seriously II the mistake that has been
Inade-at least Is many people tliuk-iu the deter
uiaatiou % clos the Exhibition Sunday. twill
be remcnbersd that small village Of hotels. res
has sprung up between the late limits OF the city
and the gates of the Park. Now, these al open
on Suuday-and the Exhibition. nay the grounds
themselves | believe. are 70 be closed The father
says, Ny dear child you cannot 60 into my library
ON sunday nor into my gallery nor yet into
my tool room. You cannot even go into the green
house. But my dear, you may go into the
stable with the gT0oms, or you may san boats
in the gutter, you may walk about
in the slums back of the village" Tins
is lust what the people have been doing all day
to-day and what they viii do every sunday for the
SIX months the Exhibition is opened. The grounds
were opened To-day and the buildings; t. al persons
with passes but the world without passes took
horse-caIs carriages, hacks, pleasure wagons, any
and every conceivable conveyance, ami came out
and swarmed into the Village Of IdlcHeSs, and
str0ed about il all day and far into the night In
this village, even supposlIg they ct no harm they
surely get no good they loaf and invite their souls
to loaf too. Sat open the Exhibition, II only an the
afternoon from Ia p. III, and thousands Oh these
people would desert the village ana seek innocent
amusement and instruction within the walls OF this
temple OF humanity.
1t is said now that the courts have decided the
greater part OF the village have dcsci bed - be
Illegally erected, rs no tnnbeT-!ramcd buildings are
allowed within the city limits. Il j. r1unOrcd hat
In ey can be declared q nuisance and ordered TO be
taken down. But u not possible 10 carry out such
a decision. Not only are there too many sEch baiid
ings but there is TOO much money invested ~ theu
and some of them very large but also the EXhi-
biti0n ground itef is fall of them. TO destroy
these last would give an irrepaTable blow to the
Exhibition. Bat the law that destroys one must
destroy all. - [. O.