New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-09
The WORLDS FAIR.
MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONERS

| THE BODY TO ASSEMBLE on TUESDAY AT THE
CITY HALL-PROGRAMME OF EXERCIs Es-THE
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SITES.
The Commissioners Of the United States Interna-
| tional Exhibition. to be held in 1888, will meet IN
this city Tuesday at noon. in the Governors
room In the City Hall. A special committee of the
local commissioners met Saturday to determine the
order OF business at the meeting and to discuss
of the bylaws governing this. The or
! der determined upon is follows: Colonel II. e.,
Stebbins will be elected temporary chairman Of the
meeting and w. II. c. Price secretary The Rev.
DIR. Newman will then open the meeting with PRAYER
Mayor Cooper will welcome the Commissioners. At
ter responses from some of the Commissioners have
been listened to- addresses VIII be delivered
by AlgernOn s. Sullivan and others. The usual
committees viii then be appointed. The real busi-
ness of the meeting will come on the second day,
when the subscription books will be opened,
and temporary Executive Committee will he
elected This committee will have charge of all
business until the Commission meets again.
The report of the Committee Sites, of which
Samuel 4. Hanes is chairman, will be presented on
Wednesday.
On "Wednesday or Thursday the Commissioners
will take sail around the harbor to what iaci
ties NewYork has for an exhibition of this kind.
The subscription books will be kept open sixty
days i'll accordance with act of Con-
gress. At the expiration of this time, the
Commissioners will be called together again. when
they will elect a Finance COMMITTEES. The sub
scrlbers to stock will also have meet
pose of meeting AMI consulting with the COmmis-
TRIBUNE reporters We expect TO have
s., 100000 in stock taken during the
two months that the books are kept open. There
seems to be great deal of interest mau-
liested in the exhibition all over
the country and from the encouraging letters which
we receive every day, | have not the slightest
doubt that this amount of stock will be taken,
When the Finance Committee is appointed we can
really begin work, and not till then All hat mas
been done in the past has been simply preparatory"
How many of the Commissioners do you expect
will be present at the meeting IuesdayT
1t Will be pretty generally attended think"
The report ofthe Committee OH Sites, consisting of
Samuel 4. Haines, NJ; G. Leonard, Cyrus W, Field,
Joseph Seligman, X. Carman Combes, f. l.. 1alcott,
l.. n. Fuller Uriah Welch. A. J. Dam, Rufus Hatch,
| Nelson Bell samne Mors6 hDi'
Frederick Law Olmsted, has been printed in pam
phlet FORM This states that the committee had no
power to select any particular site, that it has
consequently described the advantages Of each site
without making any recommendation. The first
described is the Washington Heights site. Tfs con-
ssts OF four separate tracts of land the first being
between rcdand-thrty- y-iifth-st. and One
hundred-and-ftty -hrst-st, at Eighth-ave These
tracts of land contain 325 acres. but
by wide streets and avenues IL Is claimed for this
site that the grounds capable of great deal of
landscape adornment, that it is accessible
that there are many attractions near, like Central
Park, and that the grounds could be prepared at |
very little expense. The next site reviewed is the |
Inwood site. This comprises from 200 to 400 |
acres, east Of the Klngsbridge. road, between |
Fort George and point near Kingsbridgc, with |
the Harlem River for its eastern boundary. The |
Manhattan-square site embraces Manbattan-Square |
and the adjoining unoccupied private lands |
extending from Eighh-aye. to the Boulevard OF to
the Hudson River. The Mornlngside and Riverside |
Parks site embraces the high plateau be- |
tween these two parks, and extends from
One-hundred- and -tenth-st. to Manhattan-st. |
This tract includes 300 acres including |
the parks. 1t is described in the report more fully
than any other, and it is claimed that it possesses
everything required.
The Brooklyn site, or the Prospect Park and East
Side land site. is also described at some length The
great advantage claimed for this is its proximity
to the seashore. Tho Port Morris site Is
and letter from Vaux x Radford, pub
lished in I4E TRIBUNE April 16, 1879, recon-
mendlng this, is quoted. The Harlem Flats
-third-sts. and Second and Third
aves., and the Hudson site, bounded by One
hundred-anl-tenth and northumberland. twenty
thlrd-sts aud Fifth and Eighthaves., are described
briefly as is also the East Side sIte extending from
Nlnetleth-st. far south along the East
River bank as necessary, lt IL also
that some site the Sound. short dis
tance above Port Morris, would be suitable.