Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-13
GARFIELD MEMORIAL FUND.

The National Bazaar, Art and Indus.
trial Exposition at Washington
Grand Preparations I'm she Capitol
Building- Remarkably Interesting
Series OF Events and Very Low Rail.
road Rates.
The National Bazaar, Art and Industrial
Exposition, which opens IN Washington
on the 18th, promises to be a very unique
thing, inasmuch as 1t will be the first time
the Capitol was ever put to such purposes.
The Bazaar is to be held underline auspices
of the Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land, and in the interest of the Garfield
Memorial Fund, and none can question the
course of Congress in permitting the Ma
tional Capitol to be devoted TO so worthy a
cause The work of remodeling the
rotunda, the Old Hall of Representatives,
aud other portions OF the main floor,
being rapidly pushed forward to compile
ton, and when all is in readiness the scene
presented will be a memorable one. The
magnificent rotunds is being converted in
to grand art gallery, in which will be dis
played fiery many Of the finest paintings
owned in the United States. The four CEN
ter spaces will be occupied by four of the
widest known art establishments in the
country, and their displays will rival any
thing Of the character shown at the Gen.
tennial. Directly in the center of the ro-
tunda will stand colossal statue OF Gar
field, about which cut flowers will be
most lavishly strewn every day. The old
hall of Representatives will be given up to
State booths, which will be presided over
by beautiful lady representatives, of the diff
ferent States of the union. These booths will
be exquisitely embelished, and offer attrac-
tons which will not only be exceedingly
difficult for the sterner sex To resist, but
the iairer sex as well. The four Executive
Departments of the GOvernment-Ireas-
ury, War, Navy and Interior-wilI occupy
the centre spaces of this hall, and make
thereon a peculiarly interesting exhibit
Special exhibits, booths and other attrac'
tons will be locate at other points upon
the main floor, in the lobbies OF the House
and Senate, and in fact throughout the
entire building. Even then the aceommo-
datiOns will not suffice, and the Agricul-
tural Building, with its fifteen thousand
square feet of space, will be thrown open
to exhibitors. 1t will be mainly devoted
to agricultural exhibits and implement
and machinery displays. The Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
will occupy much room with one OF its
remarkable displays of products, etc.
The fame OF this company in this line may
fairly be said to be worldwide, as its striE-
ingly brilliant success at the Centennial,
Cincinnati, Louisville and st. Louis Expo
sitions, not to speak of European centres OF
similar interest, have gained the admiration
of the agricultural public everywhere;
Other railway companies OF the West will
probably vie with the Santa Fe in extent
and artistic arrangement of their displays,
and certainly no opportunity of witnessing
such an exhibition has ever before been
offered the farmers OF Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, lndi-
ana and other States on the line OF the
Baltimore and Ohio, It's divisions and
branC hes.
The period OF the Bazaar and its kindred
attractions has been capitally apportioned
off for the series Of events. For instance,
Saturday, the 18th, will be the opening day,
and Hon. Stanley Matthews will deliver
the Grafton. Sunday. the Goth, will be Gar
field Memorial Day; Monday, the 9th,
Army OF the Cumberland and Veteran
Day; Tuesday, the 2Sth, School Children
Day; Wednesday, the 29tb, Bicycle Day;
Thursday, the 3Oth, Knight Templar Day
and Competitive Drill; Friday December
LIST, Military Day and Competitive Drill;
Saturday, the ID, District of Columbia Day,
with grand illumination of Pennsylvania
avenue at night; Sunday, the Sd, Closing
Day. During the week there will be bril-
liant receptions every night, and for the
outdoor day events a monster grand stand
has been erected just south of the White
House. The bicycle contests, competitive
drills and the like will take place in front
of this stand, which will seat fully ten
thousand people.
The B. & o.. with characteristic liberal
ity, has ordered very low fares to be made
from all points on its main line, divisions
and branches. The company's ticket
agents everywhere will be found thorough
" posted as to the limit Of tickets, when
they go on sale, and how long they stay
on sale. Also as to the time of trains, pro-
gramme of the Bazaar, and much other in
teresting and useful information. The ex-
traordinary attractions offered and the ex-
ceedingly low railroad rates make this a
most desirable time to visit Washington.