New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-17
THE INTERNATIONAL FAIR.

ACTIVE PREPARATIONS IN PROGRESS
GENERAL GRANT PRKsIDEs AT MEETING OF THf
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND MAKES AN ADDRESS
over HALF A MILLION now sUBsCRtBED-NA
TIoNAL LEGIsLATIoNrN REFERENCE TO THE f p.
The Executive Committee OF the WORRIES rsI
| Commission met yesterday at p. m az NO. 81 .
Broadway The members of the Commission hau
been asked to be present. and large attehdance
was the result General Grant, president OF me
Commission presided over the meeting; Mr. KOl-
stOn reported for the finance countries InaL, omrS
to the different books being still! scattered ne couo
make no formal report In regard TO subscriptions
IL was stated by member OF the commitlee, INV Nv
ever that the amount subscribed mp to yesteruay
was 50 Is, SEQ. letter was received irOn
stating that the Legislature wOui shorty MAKE az
appropriation for the Far. The Commissioners SO OF
Minnesota wrote that thev had asked Tor Soo'UOU'
and were to meet the Legislature to-day hne non'
Dr. Newman then called for the report OF tne Son
mIttee on National Legislation. AlgernOn D. oulii-
van chairman of the committee, SAID;
went to snlngon lay before Congress the Two
measures winch committee had PREPARED hhSy WEI
substantially the sane as those winch met with favor at
tnp Centennial very changes being maze. tne s
first JOINT resolution auh"rz ny me Gta "a
lie commission in the of the United states. as
prcnaratlOns we're IN ide TO iny'te oreiS
tries to participate IN the exhibition al W hat
sOners This appr"vel. me committee sayIns ,naS
IL, pass ge The other b TO admit goods Tree Oh
duty. IN the Senate the JONI resolution mas cox that
the whole matter will receive prompt attention.
This report was accepted DIR. Newman then re-
questeu &. NJ Bliss to say something. S.i. 100
stated that he had been travelling tnIoGgn , ,he
country and found much I0re interest," III tne
Worlds Fair project outside OF New-fOik tnah III IL
General Grant then SAID:
lam well awor+ thar the sentiment OF the country Is
III ayOr of holding Words Far III th5 city III go.
the intpress very aud Ii - ilt tnS ~ La
Will be Of value 10 the who's eomnts; ,cuIaT il
will he OF great value 10 N"w-N ORR Cly ~
is he fIcI ;hat VIII be Of sIra gn
value and interest 10 me conntry; n1 snrace rail-
ways and Otner methods vi conveyance AUD inc SUI
scTIplOns. 10 insure the success o. ms
donation by any means IL my judkment tns
subscribers will get back he!I yestmsnt
bonus adiltiOH II may not he ~ ntAo t' o.,
OWING to cngih Uf time they VIII Lave 70 Nht ioi
returUs. 10 Philadelphia tDey bad To wait io1r years
here Ihey VIII have 10 Na onN Two ah" =, ,aar e.ch
there doubt that, Tuen he EkpDslilo Is over e"o
the fact hpt IL the Centennial had received l5OOOOO
In receipts, IL wound have ad Odck 10 Tue S ~,
CITY the population when l. four times as greas Us
mai of PuadelphA IN 1876. The Centennial wac held
iis Country pnt The whole world h 1876 the gate fee
81 matter Of grtd consider atom W ,ats re
percentage OF the Urople. travelling expenses were
SIN greater cOn>idera ion No" We are In Cie aa9
prosperity which bss prospect ~ continuing w,
The Of getting the iHr grounds ana OF adms9lon
NIii be comparatively small. 30 mt IL looks reaSoa
bic 10 suppose That NJ lne Nr" YORK E1nol'iU tn o
number o. visitors will br Tom times as great as
at tnc Philadepha EKposiiion more peulie IN -
from abroad. to-" rs the means o. taVrI arc ,vs s
sve and the foreign EXHIBITS wiz D. arSrr WIN lhese
c"nridrTa'iOus ihInA We on&hi ~ b. e1cOurAseu-
Commissioner DAVIS. of Minnesota, urged the ne
ceSSltH OF subscribing AT blte' dp'i -"
thOugh very poor man, no wOnIu ~ '9'""' ~
Newman saia thar lie was aware thaI an 'iP't>oIo"
was abroad that the committee was some Nd At apa-
thefIc but tlat the subscriptions secured cou I"'
ted any >uch belief. Peter Bowe SAID that lie De,
leved IN the certain succrss "f tie exhibition am
would subscribe ~ mucn as lie cnnld, pl'""V'
Iredt rick l.. laicOL g'd the necessity 81 ISSUING
a pro,p CIus which would EXHIBIT 20 merchants anu
business men the cOndt al Lie PROJECT! lie Iedu
paper showing the comparative LES uI fni'uel-
PIMA and lis Vcinlty aud New YORK an" us SUBURBS
On motion lbs name WIS added 10 mat OF the coH-
mi ee appointed week to prepare Prospectus
The Finance COMMITTEE WAS insuucted 10 make
M appeal 10 the pnb.Ic through The press Dong
lass ayOr Suggeotru ttat each commissioner pe
provided with ,uOSc ptIOn bODk ami ehuedVOr 10
secure money. / x-tiuyeTubr u IwlOrd reporied LOT
tle commit zee Amounted TO attend the Convention
~ STATE superintendent II Sch"olS thdl tue hieui-
Der, of the convention had dressed themselves as
heartily III sympathy WIN the project. aud SAM tIat
they would Immediately mat appeals To Tue Legls-
ia Mes OF their respective States. lhey also passed
resolutions declaring tIat they would make hlleI
exhibit than they dId AT Philadelphia. MT. CTaW
furd also said that tine Legislature OF Kansas hau
passed the bill ue sent To Il IA rcRat1 " pIePai"
tons lur the Exposition, and had created StaIo
Board.
ne Commission then went INTO executive session.
The res gnai IOus of the sOlOwmE persons were ac-
ceprd: A. y Hewitt, j. a. Strwdr,, ID. I. ApplrtOn,
Dawn BOWS, UIrstcs cleveland HORACE Porter, H.
NJ Alexander, Fletcher iaipcT. 4. u. francklyn, l..
T.. Acton jackson =. Scuu.iZ. edward clark, w. ~
ID nsmure, ID. &. NhCOA, Is. Is. SHERMAN, =. d. IL.
Vance anu Henry lIltOD. y uO,l"u W.s hiaue thaC
eucu C,dums ,iolier should subscribe ri 200. Gen-
c.al GIauL Immediately put himself uu"h IOr tnaI
amount.