Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-23
NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
The Main Building Much Larger Than
that at Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON, April 22.-Director Gen
tions Committee of the House to-day on
the bill for a loan of ST ,000,O towards the
industrial exhibition at New Orleans. He
stated that the original act indicated that
cotton would be the chief exhibit, but a
provision was made to include all arts
and manufactures and products of the
soil and mine. Owing to the growth of
interest in eXpOsltiOns created by the
Centennial and fostered by exhibitions in
Boston, Atlanta and other cities, applica-
tiOns, he said, had been received for space
for miscellaneous exhibits, foreign and do
mestic, also from foreign governments
and from States and Territories. desiring
to exhibit their natural resources, until
cotton had become a mere incident. and
the enterprise should be regarded here
after as a Worlds Industrial Exposition.
The act of, 1888, like the preliminary cen
tennial act, required that the exposition
should be national and international in
its character. AS an evidence of the good
faith of the management, Mr.. Burke point
ed to the fact that all the preparations
had been on a liberal scale. The main
building, he said, covered one acre more
than the main building of the Philadel-
phia centennial. and three acres more
gr0undIthan both the main building and the
Machinery Hall of the Centennial. The
Horticultural Hall was larger than that
of the Centennial, and the other arrange
ments were on scale of sufficient magni-
tude for an ordinary national or lnterna-
tionaI exposition, but the enterprise had
grown beyond the original conception.
Applications had been received from
fourteen foreign nations asking for 275,-
600 square feet, from foreign exhibitors
asking for 210,000 square feet, from States
and Territories for 10000 square feet, and
from manufacturers and miscellaneous
domestic exhibitors for 1,1S5,000
in the main building was 1,215.000
square feet. ''In other words" he said.
''eight months before the opening, appli-
cations from miscellaneous exhibit
ors in the United States, exclusive of for
eign exhibits, and the government and
State exhibits, call for 1000, 600 square
feet more of space than appeared at Phila-
delphia in 1876. To this must be added
exhibitors who may wish to transfer from
eXpositi0ns to be held this year in Lon
don, Philadelphia, Louisville, Cincinnati,
Chicago, St. Louis and Denver. All clos
ing before the Worlds Exposition opens"
The management, he continued, claimed
that it could hold an Exposition in every
way creditable to New Orleans on the funds
raised by the citizens, but that it would
be impossible to meet the demands for
space from foreign countries, States and
Territories. Thirty-twO States had already
applied and others were raising funds.
An additional building was needed in
which to group the United States Govern
ment and the States and Territories, in
order to impress visitors with the re-
sources and power of America. Mr..
Burke. in conclusion, furnished full state
ments and estimates to show the i'm
portance of the Exposition. A sub-com-
mittee was appointed to consider the bill.