Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-26
BALTIMORE'S CENTENNIAL
Proposed Celebration of the Incorporation
of That City.
According to the Prospectus 1t Will
BE IL Big SUCCESS i'm
. Every Way.

While sufficient time has not elapsed
since the incorporation of the Baltimore
centennial exposition for the scope of the
enterprise to be fully completed, the COM
mittees having the arrangements for the
celebration in charge are working with
great industry, and preparations SO far
made indicate that it will be on an elabo-
rate and magnificent scale The object of
the exposition is to commemorate the one
hundredth anniversary of the Incorporation
of Baltimore as a city. and it will be held
in 1897, opening May Is and closing on the
same day in November .~e -.
The terms upon which the centennial as
ISOLATION was made corporate body are
extremely liberal and allow the incorpora-
tors to maintain hotels, restaurants amuse-
ments or any species of entertainments
which may be deemed proper by the board
of directors, well as to operate rallroadS
and electric plants. The officers and .uncor.
porators comprise the leading citizens of
the monumental city, with Lloyd l.. JACK
son. president; Daniel G. Gilman, Aiexan-
der Brown, c. Morton Stewart ana John r.
Hurst, vice presidents; George Z. Wedcer-
burn, secretary; Robert e. Davidson, treas
urer; Edwin Harvie Smith, SOLICITOR, ana
Fred Bracket. acting general manager.
In all the eastern cities contiguous TO
Baltimore committees of citizens nave been
formed to cooperate in making the expo
stion a success by interesting the manu-
facturers, merchants and business men gen
orally of their respective communities IN
the project, and the committee Tor w ASH
irgton is composed of Brainard H. Warner,
John Joy Edison, Beriah wilkins, James III
Berrett, Theodore w. Noyes, Lawrence
Gardner, John b. Wight, Col. Alexander ID.
Anderson, s. w. Woodward Congressman
Conn, Scott Towers, Gardiner G. Hubbard,
c. J. Bell and c. c. Glover.
Same plea snnt Estfm0tea,
An interesting pamphlet has just been
issued from the headquarters of the asso-
citation, No. 1OI West Saratoga street. Bal
timore, embracing a detailed statement
showing the proposed buildings and con-
struction, the general and operating ex-
penses and the chances for the success OF
the enterprise. The construction expenses
are estimated to amount to $500 200, in
GLIDING the manufacturers and liberal arts
building at $iGO,OU; machinery, S4ooOt,
transportation, 100000; agriculture, Sllo,-
900, and art, sl50,oG0 The operating ex-
penSes and other expenditures are expected
to reach total of 81 ,;,SI ,1GO. In order to
meet this outlay it is expected that appro-
priations aSgregating $l,0OO,OOO will be made
by the United States, the state of Mary
land and the city of Baltimore, and it is
proposed to issue $2,W0,OO0 in stock and
bonds, the former of which will soon be
placed on sale at 80 share, payable in
Oh 81 per snare at the time Oh
subscription, 81 at the end of three. six
and nine months respectively, and 81 at
the end of twelve. fifteen and eighteen
months. respectively. Within a radius of
2'D miles of Baltimore there is population
of 12,OO0.HO people, while the southern
states and New York contain 21,UO0,O0
more.
The incorporators believe that 1000, 900 of
these people will pay admission of fifty
cents each to the exposition, while the citi-
ZenS of Baltimore will buy 4,00Ue0 admis-
sions during the 1874 days that the affair
will continue. The estimate is therefore
made that from all sources the receipts will
amount to 100000, out of which there
will have to be paid the general and operat-
ing and construction expenses. the redemp-
ton of stock amounting to 81, 100000, and ~
per cent dividend thereon, amounting in all
to A.9j6,SGN, leaving an expected balance of
$3.50. 40 at the close of the exposition.
Some Sources of Revenue.
A large sum is expected to be realized
from the sale of concessions, while a per-
centage will be charged upon all sales made
by both foreign and domestic exhibitors
While the exposition is to be in a measure
national and international in it's character
it will be to a great extent an exemplifica-
ton Of the growth and general progress Of
the south in the last decade, while the In
innate commercial relations Baltimore en-
Joys with the South American republics win
make it's Pan-American features particu-
larly striking. The financial success of the
naidwinter fair in San Francisco, following
so closely upon the heels of the great CO.
lumbar exposition, and at a time when the
country was suffering from the worst COM
mercial depression 1t had ever known, in
spires the gentlemen who are laboring 50
arduously for the success of the Baltimore
exposition u feel sanguine that their efforts
will be amply rewarded. ..,.,