The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-14
About the Centennial.

The price Of admission will be fifty
cents, payable in one noto at the entrance
gate, and admitting to everything that il
to be seen during the time the visitor re
mains within the enclosure, No season
tickets will be sold, nor will two twenty
FIVE cent notes for single admission. moi
dollar for two be taken at the gate
No matter how often person leaves Tho
ground during day he must again pay
fifty cent note each time that he re.en
ters. The hours Of admission will be from
nine A. NJ. to six p. NJ, each day. Roll
ing chairs will be kept at designated sta
tions within the principal buildings fol
the conveyance Of visitors desiring tt
use them. With attendants, the charge
pe- hour will not exceed seventy.fvt
cents without attendants, thirty-fve Oh
fifty cents for each class Of chairs respect
lively. There will be plenty Of ordinary
chairs, which weary sightseers may use
without charge. From soda water foun
tains, in pavilions scattered throughout
the buildings and grounds, a cooling
draught may be had for dime. A
building, entitled the House Of Public
Comfort" will contain separate parlors
for ladies and gentlemen, retiring rooms
barber shops, baggage rooms, etc. Re
firing rooms are also located at the en-
frances tO all the principal buildings
Near the carriage concourse will be car.
riage stands, at which checks will be Civ
en- for vehicles left in charge. The tele
graphic system will embrace a central
Office and numerous sub. offices, located IN
convenient parts Of the buildings and
grounds. In addition to the facilities oi
access offered by the different passenger
railway companies aud the steamboat
company on the Schuylkill, number ol
light wagonettcs. seating ten passengers
each, will be run between the city and
the grounds by tho exhibition transfer
company; the faie to be fifty cents each
way. In the branch Offices Of the Centen.
nial national bank established on the
grounds, every facility will be afforded to
visitors for dealing in coins and exchange
having letters of credit cashed, etc. Lo.
caities in the buildings can be detcrmin.
ed by the columns supporting the roofs,
which are both lcttcred and numbered,
those in the main building being lettered
from north to south. and numbered from
east to west, and in Machinery hall, let
tered from north to south and numbered
from east to west Just above each Gu
trance Of the various buildings will be a
numbered banner surmounted by small
flag. The color of the flag will cores
pond with the border of the banner, and
indicate the class of the building, viz
Blue-buildings erected by the centcn.
NAL commission red-United States and
state buildings; white-foreign buildings;
yellow-restaurants, places Of entertain
ment, etc. observation-disclosures build
ings, In each of the state buildings a
record of visitors names will be kept,
and copy Of each newspaper published
in that state found on file.
The system Of awards adopted by the
centennial commission is original, and
appears to be one that will give satisfac-
tion. Two hundred judges, one half oi
whom will be foreigners and the other
half citizens Of the United States, are
being selected for known good character
and qualification, and each will receive
81 900 for his services during the expo
sition. The awards will be based upon
merit and will be made by the United
States centennial commission, upon writ
ten reports signed by the awarding judges
They will consist Of diploma and 9
bronze medal, accompanied by specia
report of the judges, which exhibitors
will have the right to reprod ice and pub
lish. Over forty foreign nations anC
their colonies will exhibit in the mali
building most of them will also occupy
space in the other principal buildings
and many of them have special structures
Thirteen Of them are over five thousapC
miles distant from Philadelphia sever
over seventy.five, and two over ten thou
sand, the latter being about as far as on,
country can be separated from another
Offices for the foreign commissions are tt
be placed along the side aisles Of thu
main bulldog in close proximity to tn,
exhibits of their respective countries.
The following special events are to oc
cur during the exposition Opening Ger
cmouial May 10; grand ceremonies OIL
the Fourth Of July; harvesting displa,
in Bucks county in June and July
trials of steam pows and tillage imple
ments in the same place in Septembe
and October exhibition Of horses, mule
and asses September to Is; exhibition
OF horned cattle, September 20 to Octo
Der 8; exhibition of sheep, swine, goat
and dogs, October 10 to %, and the ex
hibition Of poultry, October 2S to No
vemher 10. The main exhibition vii
close on the 10th of November, and al
exhibits must be removed by the 3lst o
December. Tho following society meet
lngs, paradcs. regattas, etc., will occu
during the exposition Annual conclav
Of the Knights Templar, May 80; gran'
P"i" ~ '"O iA"ibh'S iCiupiai, DuuO
special gathering Of the order of Goo
Templars, June 10; international regatt
in New York harbor, June 90 yacht re
gatta on the Delaware river, June
special gathering of the Sons Of Temper
ance, June ; international series of crick
ct matches, June aud September con
gress OF authors in Independence Hal
July 2 parade of Catholic societies an
dedication Of the t. A. B. fountain, Jul
A; parade Of the Knights of Pythia'
August %; international rowing regattt
August % to September Is; interna
tional rifle matches, September; interna
tional medical congress, September A, an
on September 20 the parade of the Indt
pendent Order Of Odd Fellows.-PhHG
delphia Times.
All the daily papers in Pittsburg
having recently been sued for libel i