The Lake County star., 1876-05-25
MAIN BUILDING.

the western bank of the Schuylkill
river, and within FairmOunt Park, the
largest public park in proximity to a
great city in the world, and one of the
most beautiful in the country. The
park contains 3,160 acres, $50 of which
have been inclOsed for the Exhibition.
Besides this tract, there will be large
yards near by for the exhibition of stock,
and farm of forty-two acres has already
been suitably planted for the tests of
plows, mowers, reapers and other ag-
ricultural machinery.
The Exhibition buildings are approach
ed by eight lines ofstreet cars, which con-
meet 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 Pennsyl-
vania and Philadelphia, Wilmington,
and Baltimore railroads. Thus the
Exhibition is in immediate connection
with the entire railroad system of the
country, and any one within ninety miles
of Philadelphia can visit it at no greater
cost than that of carriage hire at the
Paris or Vienna exhibition.
An important special exhibition will
be made by the United States govern
ment, and has been prepared under the
supervision of board of officers repre-
senting the several executive depart
ments of the government. A fine build
ing of four and half acres is provided
for the purpose, space in which will be
occupied by the war, treasury, navy, in
terror, post-office, and agricultural de-
partments, and Smithsonian Institution.
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committee have raised $4,000 for the
erection of pavilion in which to ex-
hibit every kind of womens work. To
this collection women in all nations are
expected to contribute.
The list of special buildings will
be from two hundred to two hundred
and fifty. Most of the important foreign
nations-England, Germany, Austria,
France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan, and
others-have put up one or more struc-
lures each, for exhibiting purposes, or
for the use of the commissioners, exhibit
ors and visitors. Offices and headquar-
tiers of this kind, usually of considerable
architectural beauty, arc provided by
the States Of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New
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Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia,
West Virginia, Nevada, Wisconsin,
Iowa, and Delaware; and others have
followed the example,
A number of trade and industrial asso-
Citations, which require large amounts of
space, are provided for III special
buildings. Among these are the pho
tographers, the carriage builders, the glass
makers, the cracker bakers, the boot
and shoe manufacturers, btsides quite
number of individual exhibitors.
The great demand for space rem
ders this course necessary to con.
siderable extent, especially for exhibit
ors who have been tardy in making their
applications. In the main exhibition
building, for example, $685. square
feet of space had been applied for by the
beginning of October by American ex-
bibitors only; whereas, the aggregate
space which it has been possible to re-
serve for the United States department
IL only 100000 square feet. About one
third is consumed by passage ways.
The machinery building, like the
others, is fully covered by appli-
cations. There are about 900 Ameri-