Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-18

whatever city holds the exposition will require
many more hotels and that one, five, or ten
million dollars will build hotels as cbeaply and
quickly here as elsewhere. and that the money
VIII, as a matter of business and profit. be
readily forthcoming for that purpose. That
within 40 minutes ride of the Exposition park,
which Is no longer time than from the center
OF most cities to their Exposition parks. we
have the city OF Baltimore with its hotels to
draw upon.
And repeat that a matter of business the
hotel and boarding house supply will be equal
to the demand as it was in Philadelphia in 1876
and to greater extent than there in view of
the permanent features OF our exposition plan.
NECESSITY FOR GOVERNMENTAL BUILDINGS.
We have prepared no plans for building, be-
lieving the details of the Exposition should be
left to a Governmental Board. On this point
we simply invite your attention to the import
ance and necessity of permanent buildings for
various uses of the Government
FIRST In order OF Importance Is the enlarge
ment OF the present National Museum into q
Continental or Three Americas Museum. The
present building, while comparatively new
not more than years old, | thinks SO en-
tlrely inadequate that there are enough an
tlqulties. relics, and exhibits stored away un-
packed to fill another building the size of the
present one. If this Is the condition the first
seven years 1t will, in 1892, when exhibits of
the antiquities, history, and civilization of the
New World during the past 400 years come
here as they will from Mexico. Central and
South America, require a building or build
ings at least ten times the size of the present
one. On this point will quote briefly from
the official report upon the condition and
progress OF the National Museum for the year
ending June so, 1866, by Prof. G. Brown Goode,
the Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stItution, in charge of the Museum. He says:
"The exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia was
an event of great educational importance to
DeODle no tod fats tha
least OF its benefits were the lessons it taught
as to the possibilities for good in public
museums. The objects which were given to
the United States for its National Museum, at
the close OF the Centennial, were Of much in
trinsic value, but were still more important, in
that they led to the erection of large building
Tor the expansion OF the museum itself"
at is, I think, possible to show that WASH
lngton may readily be made the seat of one of
the greatest museums in the world. 1t will per-
maps be neither practicable nor desirable to
gather together in Washington collections of
ancient and medieval art, such as those which
adorn the capitals of Europe; but representa-
grow up. which shall tend to educate the public
taste. and to promote, so far as possible, the
study OF the elements of art and the history of
civilization, as we'll as to forward the growth
OF the arts of design. This having been ac-
complished, the attention of the Museum
should be directed mainly toward the exhibition
OF the geology and natural history Of America
and its natural resources, to the preservation of
memorials of its aboriginal inhabitants, and to
the exposition of the arts and industries of
America"
The Exposition of 1892 can be made the step
plng-stone to carrying out this grand and use
tul idea, and such buildings can with propriety
be erected in the rear of the Smithsonian and
on the north of it as will be of permanent
value.
Professor Powell of the Geolopical Survav
will, in his remarks, enlarge upon this idea.
Another building greatly needed is one for
an exhibit Of working models OF great Ameri-
n inve ntions. This would be an exposition