National Republican., 1883-08-13
A BIG SHOW IN BOSTON.
The Great Exposition Of Articles Of Foreign
Manufacture 10 Begin in September.
A Vast Amount OF Material Already on tho
way-succcss Assured.

Boston, CODblSJlnR n1 num- VI IIlnCbt eA-
mayor of Boston, Gen. G. b. Norton, and Mr..
Ernest Edwards, came to Washington last
January to confer with the State department
and the ministers of the various foreign gov
ernments stationed here, regarding the For
eien Worlds Fair TO be open in Boston this
fall Their visit was most successful and
their plans and suggestions were cordially
approved. The State department sent out to
all our foreign consuls &C., special instructions
regarding the collection and shipment Of ex-
hibits, &C., and the foreign ministers at once
took active measures to notify leading manu-
facturers and secure creditable exhibits from
their own countries.
The result of all this has been that on the
third of September next, the centennial an
niversary of the signing Of the peace at Paris
between this country and Great Britain,
there will open ut Boston an exhibition such
as has never been seen in this country. 1t
will consist entirely Of an exhibition of for
eign manufactures, works of art, 60, and the
display will be more extensive than the for
eign sections at the centennial.
The state of Massachusetts, and the city of
Boston have officially recognized the impor-
tance of this exhibition by appointing special
committees of reception, at the heads OF which
are Gov. Butler and Mayor Palmer, and have
appropriated $4,000 for the entertainment of
guests of the state and the city.
Special delegations are coming from for
eign countries, aud the city Of Paris has ap-
propriated q sufficient sum to send over
large body of French artizans to study the
improved manufactures, &C., shown at this
exhibition.
The great areas of space Covering over FIVE
acres) in Washington and Franklin halls in
the fine building of the Massachusetts Char
liable Mechanic association will be filled with
complete exhibition of goods from all parts
Of the world. Booths, pagodas, and fancy
exhibition stands are being built, bridge
forty feet wide is being laid across the center
space between the galleries in Franklin hall,
and two new gallery staircases have been
added to this part of the building. In Wash
ington hall drapery decorations are being
hung around the galleries, and already the
place is gay with the flags of Spain, Portugal,
Brazil, Chilli, Peru, Venezuela, Cuba, Guate-
mala, China, Japan, and the East Indian
countries. Every foot of room in the vast
edifice is engaged by exhibitors, and will be
covered with a cosmopolitan display the third
day of next month and the custom house
examiners and clerks are busly occupied in
receiving and overhauling tons of freight
arriving by almost every European steamer
that lands here or in New York, congress
having passed special law making the build
ing bonded warehouse and admitting free of
duty articles intended for this exhibition.
In the Italian collection will be marvel
GUS display of artistically carved furniture,
the like of which has never been seen before
IN UHlb country. lU REPRESENTS many VI tuo
styles of the fifteenth century, and will be
among the most interesting works. These
will include great number of designs, some
of which are rare even to experienced trav-
elers. A group of Murano glass, Venetian
bronzes, mosaics, coral work, rich and curious
jewelry, costume figures, Neapolitan and ST.
Gillian, and many more varieties of miscel-
laneous virtu will be exhibited. In addition
to this collection thirty-seven cases of carved
and fancy furniture has arrived from Dem
mark which Is certain to attract attention.
And by the steamer Schiedam, due in New
York to-day, Mr.. Frank II. Norton, Of New
York, the commissioner to Holland and Bel
gium, will bring with him rare and valua-
BILE collection of Russian furs and many Chi
nese exhibits from the Amsterdam ex position.
There has come from Belgium q six hundred
and seventy pound case of colored and fine
yarns.
The Irish exhibition OF products will be
particularly fine on this occasion. Ireland
will not be classed with Great Britain, as
heretofore, but will have a separate space for
her own products, and these embrace the
rarest and finest whiskes made on the island
and bewildering variety of laces and linens
A collection of Irish antiquities, too, is al
hand, and among these things are said to be
many amusing articles, one of which is said
to be two hundred years old and bearing the
impress Of its makers fingers in it.
The London firm of Morris & Company is
fifteen feet high for their goods, to contain
nine rooms and be adorned throughout with
rich carpets, rare and costly painting, bric-a'
brac, and other costly articles.
In Washington hall the European coun-
tries are given crayOn portraits of their
rulers. The pictures are fine works of art
and are the productions of Miss Helene
Sleeper, of Boston. The pictures hang be-
meath the flags of each country on the gallery
fronts.
During the progress of the fair there will
be an encampment of fourteen Japanese
women in the front basement, and as there
have been but few of these strange people in
this country, the sight will be novel and in.
structive. They will work on wicker and
straw baskets.
Another odd attraction will be an encamp,
mont of Canadian Indians in the same part
Of the building, and the labor of these Wis,
eitors will be In the line of making bows and
arrows and ornamental head work for moe.
casins, pincushions, &C.
Forty-fve paintings are are now in the ART
gallery and hundreds are to follow. The
Italian collection, made under the super
vision of James jackson Jarvis, will be
especially fine. 1t embraces 100 tons of ART
works. consisting of antique relics, paintings
both ancient and modern, rare laces, medi@val
costumes of priestly vestments and ladies
array, rich art tapestries, decorative EN-
broideries and wonderful display Of ceramics
country, a collection Of autographs of royal
,personages and of those otherwise disting
guished, Egyptian ivories and statuettes, his
torical and artistic relics, old and beautiful
furniture, and designs OF manufactures and
industries The most ancient things in the
exhibition are two sarcophag that are 2,50C
years old. They are of Etruscan origin
One is Of that rarest and most beautiful ma
terial, Oriental alabaster. 1t is ornamented
with figures in relief in the Greek Etruscau
art, the finest art in the world The other
sarcophagus is Of the pure Etruscan, with
rude inscriptions Their Dimensions are Z
feet long, feet wide, aud feet high These
were discovered about fifty years ago They
are the property Of the wi ow of Luoien Bona
parte and were found on the Bonaparte estates
at Canine in Tuscany. They are considered
to be very important works. Each sarcopha
gus contains two figures, presumably man
aud his wife.
In the paintings there are rare and wonder
full works. Among these is a battle piece
from Salvador Rosa, whose great work was in
battle pieces portraits and other works by
Tintoretto There Is u picture that is un
doubtedly by Giotto. The arms OF Dante
Alighieri are ON it, and no and Giotto were
intimate friends. This is among the earliest
types of the Byzantine style. Among Others
represented are Fra Angelica, though this il
small one that is not very important; FRI
Fillipo, Lippi, Claude Lorraine, Tenniers