Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-01-20
THE CENTENNIAL.

There seems now to De every
prospect that the celebration at
Philadelphis this year will be
worthy of the occasion. Still there
is a great deal to be done between
this time and the 10th of May next.
the day set apart for the opening OF
the exhibition, if the birth of Amer
lean independence is to be COM
memorated as we would wish. A few
facts and figures in connection with
the patriotic enterprise will doubt
less be of interest to our readers.
The articles to be exhibited have
been classified in seven depart
ments, which for the most part,
will be located in appropriate
buildings, whose several areas are
as follows Mining and metallurgy,
manufacturers, education and
science--main building. 81 ID acres;
Art = art gallery, ] IL acres;
Machinery machinery building,
IA acres Agriculture = agricul-
tural building, about 10 acres !;
Observation-Disclosures build
ing, / IL acres total, 40 acres.
This provides nearly ten more acres
for exhiting space than was at
Vienna, the largest international
exhibition yet held. Yet. the ap-
plication of exhibitors have been
50 numerous as to exhaust the
space, and many important classes
of objects must be provided for In
special buildings. The list OF
special building is constantly in
creasing, and present indications
are that their total number will be
from go to 80. Most of the i'm
portant foreign nations, England.
Germany, Austria, France. Sweden,
Egypt, japan, China, Italy and
others, are putting up one or more
structures each, for exhibiting pur-
poses, or for the use of the COM
missioners, exhibitors and visitors.
Offices and headquarters of this
kind, usually of considerable archi-
tectural beauty, are provided by
the state of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New
Jersey, New York, Connecticut,
Massachusetts,. Kansas. Virginia,
Wisconsin, Iowa and Delaware, and
it is likely that others will follow
the example. One of our Commits
sioners, Hon. G. c. Stevenson, is
now present upon the ground. and
from him we learn that the COM
mittee are very anxious to have
Nevada represented, and more par
ticularly want the quartz mill.
They offer to furnish engine and
boiler, fuel and man to run the
engine. Mr.. Stevenson is in doubt
whether it will be possible to secure
the required space in the main
building for the exhibition of our
minerals. The matter however was
in elegance, to be decided upon the
return OF Director General GEES
horn, then absent at Cincinnati. For
the art exhibition the most eminent
artists are at work, and it may be
confidently stated that, especially
in the department of landscape
painting, the United States will
present q finer display than the
public has been led to expect.
Quite aside from the contribu-
tons of American artists, applica-
tions from abroad call for more than
four times the exhibiting space
offered by the great Memorial Hall.
Provision for the surplus will be
made in temporary fire-proof build
ings, though all exhibiting nations
will be represented in the central
art gallery. The art exhibition
will include, in addition to the
works Of contemporary artists,
representative productions of the
past century of American art, those
for instance, of Stuart, Copley,
Trumbull. West, Aston. Sully,
Elliot, Kensett and Cole. We trust
all Of our readers as we'll as our
selves, twill be there to see."
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