The Republican journal., 1876-05-04
Ceutanuial Notaa.

! Inc grand musical festival vi tne GdnCO-
American Union in aid OF the proposed Centen-
NAL Statute to Liberty in New York Harbor,
was held on the evening of April 25th at the
Grand Opera House, Paris. NJ. Laboyaye adj
dressed the assemblage, and III concluding said
The proposed monument symbolizes Ameri-
| can freedom, which bears peace and enlighten-
ment everywhere. 1t will be an eternal monu-
ment of the friendship Of France and America,
ever recalling the united names of Washington
and Lafayette and the union of peoples who
| formerly united to found independence and
now unite to cement fraternity"
The hotel propretors of Philadelphia will
not advance their rates more than fifty cents or
a dollar day. But why, asks the New York
Herald very pertinently, should they make this
| advance The fact that these hotels will have
large crowds is a reason for reducing their
rates and not raising them. There is not hotel
| iii New York that would not gladly guarantee
to reduce its rates a dollar or fifty cents day
if it could be assured of full houses for any rea-
sonable time by so doing. The advance in the
hotels in Philadelphia is an eNtortion and will
| i'll the end do harm.
France sends delegation of workmen to the
Exhibition, where they will learn the POSSIBLE
| tiles of progress under republican institutions,
and be encouraged to uphold the new order OF
things in their own country.
Mr.. EDIToR-Please give notice that the
hotel headquarters of the Maine Centennial
COMMISSIONERS, III IIlllduelpulds Has DeeH
changed from the United States Hotel to the
Grand Exposition Hotel, at the junction Of
Girard, Lancaster and Monroe avenues. The
headquarters inside of the main building will
be as previously announced, at the extreme
eastern end OF the building. Letters addressed
to either of Us at the Grand EXPOSITION Hotel.
Philadelphia, Pa, will be promptly answered.
Yours truly, JOSHUA NYE.
CHAS. H. HASKELL.
L, S. Centennial Commissioners for Maine.
The new Atlas Hotel Philadelphia, Pa, is
conducted upon the European plan, and Will
accommodate 1000 guests al 81 per day.
Miss Sarah Foster of Portsmouth has pre-
pared for the Centennial five old-fashioned din
ner plates, in the centre Of which she has paint
ed the ancient historic houses in the vicinity of
Portsmouth, the number including the old Jack
son house, built in 1914; Garrison house, at
York, Me, 1913; Underwood house, in Ports
mouth, 100; Pepperell house, Kittery, 1920;
and the Tobias Lear house, Portsmouth, in
100.
A new route TO Philadelphia from New York
has recently been opened. 1t is composed as
follows;
Miles
Central Railroad Of New jersey, 3es
Delaware aud Bound Brook Railroad no
North Pennsylvania Railroad, go
Through distance between New York and
Philadelphia, s84
New Y rh and Philadelphia under the joint manage
ment of the New Jersey Central and the North Penn
sylvaniA companies.
The steamer Maryland will commence run
ming May Sth from Mott Haven wharf to the
depot of the Pennsylvania Railway Company.
The intention OF the owners is to make the
route continuous between Boston and other
points in New England and the South and
Southwest particularly with reference to the
accommodation Of Centennial travellers and for
ladies and families desiring to go through with
out change. The MARYLAND is to run in con-
nection with the New England the New York,
New Haven and Hartford and Pennsylvania
railways. She is the property of the New Eng
land Transfer Company, of New Haven. She
is 235 feet long and 80 feet wide, and carries
eight Pullman cars. Last fall she was entirely
rebuilt and remodeed, at Boston, for her pro-
posed trips as a transportation steamer Her
hull is of iroH, her engines are powerful and
the woodwork is new. Instead of carving the
cars on the upper deck the tracks are placed on
the main deck while overhead are the refresh
ment saloon aud promenade, which runs around
the entire upper deck.
The Centennial Commission has provided
thirty aquaria for the display of the fish of our
rivers. lakes and seas. The fresh and salt wa
ter will be of about equal quantities, the ag-
gregate approXimatng to fifteen thousand gal
Ions. Full preparations have been made for
thorough filtration and aration and when
necessary, for refrigeration. The expenses at
tendant upon the nsh display, will be assumed
by the Centennial Commission, and it is eX-
pected that fish will be contributed by the va
rious state fish commissions, by associations,
and by individuals interested in fish culture.
Parties SO desiring may exhibit fish in tanks of
their own construction, the care of which will
be gratuitously assumed by the commission.
In addition to the display of living fish, will be
exhibited, the processes of Matching fish, and
full series of all the apparatus used in hatch
ing and Transporting roe and young fish.
The Centennial Exhibition will be closed on
Sundays.
The Philadelphia North American says the
discussion by the Centennial Commission in re-
lation to the question of selling liquors within
the enclosure reveals degree Of narrow bgotry
that is surprising. Apart from the utter alb
surdity OF attempting at this late day to entirely
change the privilege for which thousands Of
dollars have already been paid to the Board of
Finance, and in the provision for the exercise
of which many other thousands have been
spent in the erection Of handsome buildings by
the people who have bought restaurant con
eessions, it must strike the liberal public as a
tanatical attempt to turn a great International
Exposition into temperance show. That
there will be any evidence of excessive liquor
drinking inside the enclosure is most unlikely;
that it should by any chance become offensive
is made impossible by the thorough provision
for complete police supervision.