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New York, Connecticut; Massachusetts
New Hampshire, Missouri, Kansas, Vir
ginia, West Virginia, Nevada, Wiscon- ,
«n, Iowa and ItoUwarc ; and it is likely
that others will follow the example.
A number of trade anti industrial as
sociations, which require largo amounts
of space, are provided for in special build
ings Among these are the photo- {
graphers, the carriage builders, the glass
makers, the cracker bakers, the boot and
shoe manufacturers, beaidea quiteanum-:
ber of individual exhibitors. The great i
demand for space renders this cor rue no- j
cessary to a considerable extent, espec
ially J<ir exhibitors who have been tardy
in making their applications. In the
main exhibition building, for example, ,
three hundred and thirty-three thou-1
tY HALE
American Dental Convention; Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America;
Independent Order of B’nai B’rith;
National Alumni Association; .Sales
men’s Association ; Fifth Maryland
Regiment; Seventh New York Regi
ment; American Homological Society;
Malsters Association of the United
States; Army of the Cumberland;
Ifuinboklt Monument Association;
Christopher Columbus Monument Asso
ciation; Board of Trade Convention;
International Typographical Congress;
Rifle Association of the United States;
Centennial Legion ; J’hiiadclphin Coun
tv Medical Society; International Medi
cal Congrcm; Old Volunteer Fire De
partment of Philadelphia; German Rifle
Club; Army of the Potomac, etc.
W, S, D. WIKLE «fe 00., Proprietors.
THE CENTENNIAL.
The Great Anniversary Exhibition
Views of tho Exhibition Build
ings and Full Descriptions
of tho Various De
partments.
ArmngotnenU for tho Onntonliinl.
Tho not of congroHH wtaloh provide* lor
.'‘celebrating the one hundredth miniver-
rwrv of Amerleon independence,by hold-
ing an international exhibition of arts,
manufactures, and products of the soil
and mine." authorized the creation of!
the United States centennial eoinniisaion, i
and intrusted to it the management of
the exhibition. This body is composed of
two commissioner!! from each state nml
territory, nominated by the rciqwctive
Rovernors, and nun missioned by the I
president of tho United Staten. 'lira en- j
terprise, therefore, is distinctly a nation
al one, and not. as has sometimes lieen
stated, the work of a private coritora-
tion.
The exhibition will lie opened on May
10th. 1876. and remain oimmi until No-
veinlier 10th. There will be a fixed
price of fifty rent* for ndmission to all
the 'buildings and grounds.
The centennial grounds are situated on
the western bank of the Schuylkill river,
and within Falrmount Park, the largest
public park in proximity to a great citv
in the world, and one of the most lieaii-
tiful in tho country. The park contains;
• hr line humlrcil
acres, four hundred nml fifty of which
have been enclosed tor the exhibition.
•Besides this tract, there are large yards
near by for the exhibition of stock, and
a farm of forty-two acres is already suit-;
ably planted for tho tests of plows,
mowers, reapers, and other agricultural
machinery
sand three hundred square toot of space
had been applied for by the Iragimiing of
October by American exhibitors only;
whereas, tho aggregate spneo which it
has been possible to reserve for the
United States department is only one
hundred and sixty thousand square feet.
About one-third is consumed by passage
The machinery building, like the
* hers, is already Yuliy covered by appli
cations. There are about one thousand
American exhibitors in tills department,
one hundred and fifty English, and one
hundred and fifty from other European
countries—which is alsnit two hundred
and filtv more than entered tho Vien
na machinery exhibition. Extra provision
has been mado for annexes to accommo
date the hydraulic machinery, the steam
hammers, forges, hoisting engines, boil
ers, plumbers, carpenters, etc.
Power in the machinery hall is chiefly
supplied by a pair of monster Corliss en
gines. Kadi cylinder is forty inches in
diameter, with a stroke of ten feet ; the
fly-wheel is thirty-one foot in diameter,
and weighs fifty-five tons; the horse
power is fourteen; and the number of
iMtilers is twenty. This engine drives
about a mile of shafting.
For the art exhibition, tho most emi
nent American artists have sent speci
mens, and it may Is* confidently stated
that, cs|>ecially in the department of
landscape painting, the United States
presents a finer display than the public
1ms boon led to expect.' Quite aside from
the contributions of American artists,
applications front abroad call for more
than four times the exhibiting space
afforded by the great Memorial Hall.
Provision lor the surplus lias lieen made
in temporal^ fire-proof buildings, though
all exhibiting nations will Is* represented
in the central art gallery.
The secretary of the navy lias arranged
that a United States vessel shall call at
convenient Euro|>caii js»rts, Us collect
and irniia|M>rt hither to the exhibition
the works of American artists resident
in Kuro|*e. Among life porta thus far
designated, arc Southampton for Eng
land, Havre for France, Bremen for Ger
many, and Leghorn for Italy. Tho ar
rival of this vessel is cx|*eetcd daily.
Mr. Roll, the cinindtiL English sculp
tor, who designed the groups for the
NEWSPAPER
Tho exhibition buildings are up-1
preached by eight lines of street ran-
which connect with all the other lilies in
the city, nml by the Peniisylvanis and
Reading railroads, over tho tracks of
which trains also run from the North
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Wil
mington. and Baltimore rail rends. TIiih
the exhibition is in immediate connec
tion with the entire railroad system of
the country, and any one within ninety
miles of Philadelphia can visit it at no !
greater cost than that of carriage hire at |
the Paris or Vienna exhibition.
An important H|>crinl exhibition is
made by the United States government, ;
and is prepared under the supervision of
a board of officers representing the sev
eral executive departments of the gov- j
eminent. A fine building of four and I
a half acres is provided for the purpose,
space in which is occupied by the war, j
treasury, navy, interior, j»ost-ofIice, and j
agricultural departments ami the Smith
sonian institution.
Tho women’s centennial executive
committee have raised $60,000 for the
erection of a pavilion in which to exhibit
every kind of woman’s work. To this
collection, women of all nations have
contributed.
The list of sj>eeial buildings is con
stantly increasing, and the present indi
cations are that their total number will
Is* from two hundred to two hundred
and fifty. Most of the important foreign
nations—England, Germany, Austria.
France, Sweden, Egypt, Japan and
others—arc putting iij< one or more
structures each, for exhibition purposes,
or for the use of the commissioners, ex
hibitors and visitors. Offices and head
quarters of this kind, usually of consid
erable architectural Iranuty, are provided
by the slate- of Pennsylvania, Ohio, j
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey,
IIUILPINCL
plinth for the great Albert memorial in
Hyde Park, l/ondon, has reproduced in
terra cotta, at the celebrated works in
Lamlicth, the one which symlxilizcs
America. The figures in this group are
colossal, covering a ground apace of fif
teen feet square. It is placed in tho
great central art gallery, op|>o*itc the
principal entrance.
Tho nrtexhihition includes, iq addition
to tho works of contemporary artists,
representative productions of the past
century of American art—those, for in
stance, of ritunrt, Uoplev, Trumbull,
West, Alston, Bully, Neaglo, Elliot,
Kensett. Cole. These, as well as the
works offered by living artists, have lieen
passed upon by the committee of selec
tion. who visited, for the purpose 1 , New
York, Boston, <'hicago, and other leading
cities, in order to prevent the needless
trniiN|>ortation to Philadelphia of works
of art not up to the stajiuanl of ndinis-
A large number of orders and frater
nities have signified their intention to
hold gatherings at Philadelphia during
the |>eriodof theexhihition. A inongthose
which may now lie enumerated, arc the
Grand I»dge ol Pennsylvania, Indc-
|iendent Order of Odd Fellows; the
Grand Encampment, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows; Grand Jxxlge, United
States, IndejKuidcnt Order of Odd Fel
lows; Grand Commnndci y Knights
Templar; Grand Army of tho Republic;
Presbyterian Bynod; Caledonian Club;
Portland Mechanic Blues; Welsh Na
tional Eistcdfodd ; Patriotic Order Sons
of America; California Zouaves of San
Francisco; an International Regatta;
the Life Insurance Companies; National
Board of Underwriters; State Agricul
tural Society; .Second Infantry, N. G.
of California; Philadelphia Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church ; Cincinnati
Society; California Pioneer Society;
VOL. II. NO. 4!).
restoring the hull to Its ancient appear-
ance. The rarthiits of nearly every one
of the signers now adorn the wuIIh. Open
daily.
A Hundred Years Ago.
Main Building.
This is a parallelogram, running east
and west one thousand eight hundred
and Kovonly-six foot long, and north and
south four hundred and sixty-four feet
wide. Tho larger |>ortio» is one story
high, the interior height being seventy
feet, and ttifvcorniee on the outside for
ty-eight feet from tho ground. At the
ivntor of the longer aides are projections
four hundred and six feet in length, ami
on the ends of the huildiug projections
two hundred and sixteen fleet in length.
In them*, which nro in the center of the
four sides, are located the main en
trances, which arc provided with
arcades U|m>ii the ground floor, and cen
tral facades ninety feet high. The
east entrance forms tho principal ap
proach for carriages, V isitors alighting at
tho doom of the building under cover of
the arcade. The south entrance is the
principal approach from railway cars.
The west cutranco ojiens upon the main
passage-way to two principal buildings,
tbc machinery and agricultural balls, and
the north entrance to memorial ball (art
gallery). Towers seventy-five feet in
height rise at each corner of the building.
In order to obtain a central feature, the
naif for one hundred and cighty-lour feet
square at the center has lieen raised above
the surrounding jstrtlon, and four towers
forty-eight feet square, rising to one hun
dred and twenty feet higli, are intro
duced into the corners of t^iiH elevated
roof. This gives ventilation, ns well as
ornament. 'The main building has nine
hundred and thirty-six thousand and
eight square feet of surface, or nearly
twenty-one and a half acres. Its ground
plan snows a central avenue one hundred
and twenty feet in width, ami one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty-two feet
in length, which iH the longest avenue of
that width ever introduced into an vxlii-
bit inn huildiug. On either side of this
is another avenue of equal length, and
one hundred feet wide. Between the
central and side avenues are aisles forty-
eight feet wide, and on the outer sides of
the building smaller aisles of twenty-four
feet width. To break the great length
of the roof-lines three transepts have
lieen introduced, of the same widths ami
in the same relative positions to each
other as the longitudinal avenues. Those
cross the building, and are four hundred
and sixteen feet In length. Tho Inter
sections of these various avtmues make
at the center of the building nine spaces,
free from supports, which are from one
hundred to one hundred and twenty foot
square, and which aggregate four hun
dred and sixteen feet square. The gen
eral elevation of the roofs of all these
avenues varies from forty-five feet to
seventy Tcet.
The huildiug rests uiion tho ground,
tho laud having lieen thoroughly graded
and prepared. 'The foundations consist
of piers of masonry, the superstructure
being roinjioHod of wrought iron columns
placed twenty-four feet apart, which sup
port wrought iron roof trusses. Thoro
are six hundred and seventy-two of those
columns in the entire structure, tho
shortest Iming twenty-three foot and the
longest one hundred and twenty-five foot
long. Their aggregate weight is two mil
lions two hundred thousand ismuds. The
roof trusses and girders weigh five- mil
lions of |Hiunds. The sides of the build
ing, to seven feet above tho ground, are
finished with brickwork in panels lie-
tween the columns. Abovo this there
arc glazed sashes. 'Tho roof covering is
of tin, that being the lrast roofing known
in this climate to resist leakage. 'The
flooring is of plank, upon sills resting
upon the ground, with no open
uni the building
at ail the corners and angles, and the na
tional standard, with appropriate em
blems, is placed over each of the main
entrances. There arc numerous side en-
h lxdng surmounted with a
the country occupying that portion of the
building. In the vestibules variegated
brick and tile are introduced, l/mvre
ventilators surmount all the avenues,
and sky-lights the central aisles. Light,
of which there is ample supply, comes
from the north and south sides almost
entirely. Theie underlie tho building
two miles of drainage pipe, the water
supply and drainage system being com
plete. Offices for the foreign commis
sions arc placed along the sides of the
building, in close proximity to the pro
ducts exhibited. Offices for the admin
istration are at the ends. The design of
the huildiug is such that all exhibitors
will have an equally fair opportunity of
exhibiting their goods to advantage.
There is comparatively little choice of
location, as the light is uniformly dis
tributed, and each of the spaces devoted
to products is located upon one of the
main thoroughfares.
Machinery Building.
This structure is located about five
hundred and fifty feet west of the main
exhibition building, and as its north front
stands upon the same line, it is practi
cally a continuation of that edifice, the
two presenting a frontage of three thou
sand eight hundred and twenty-four feet
from their eastern to their western
ends, upon the principal avenue within
the grounds. This building consits of a
main hall, one thousand four hundred
and two feet long and three hundred and
sixty foet wide, with an annex on the
southern side two hundred and eight
feet by two hundred and ten feet. 'Hie
entire area covered is five hundred nml
fifty-eight thousand four hundred and
forty square foot, or nearly thirteen
acres, mid tho floor apace afforded is
about fourteen acres. The chief portion
of the building is one story in height,
the main cornice upon the outside Isdiig
forty feel from tho ground, mid the in
terior height to the top of the ventilators
in the avenues seventy feet, and in the
aisles forty feet. To break the long lines
of the exterior, projections have been In
troduced U|ton lira four sides, anil the
main entrances are furnished with
rneudes oxtending to seventy-eight foot
in height. The eastern entrance is the
principal approach from railways and
from the main exhibition Iniilding.
Along tlie southern side are placed tho
honor houses,, iitiu suelj other buildings
for special kinds of machinery us may be
rcuii i red.
The plan of the niUehinery building
shows two main nvenues ninety feet
wide, with a central aisle lietwocn and
an aisle on cither side, these lielng sixty
feet ii\ width. Those avenues and aisles
together have three hundred and sixty
feet width,and each of them Ih one thou
sand three hundred and sixty feet long.
At the renter of the huildiug there is a
transept ninety feet in width, which at
the south end Is prolonged licyoud the
building. This extended transept, Ira-
ginniug nt thirty feel from tlie building
and extending to two hundred and eight
feet, is flanked on either "bide by aisles
sixty feet wide, and forms an annex for
hydraulic machines. The promenades
are: In the avenue fifteen loot wide, in
tho aisles ten feet, and in the transept
twenty-fire feet.-Tho walks extending
across the building nro nil ten feet wide,
and lead lit either end to exit floors.
The foundations of this building are piers
of masonry, lira superstructure consist
ing til solid timlicr columns siip|Mirtlng
roof trusses, constructed of straight
wooden principal beams and wrought
iron ties and struts. 'The columns are
placed in longitudinal lines, ami in
these rows stand sixteen feet apart.
Tho columns are forty feet high, anti ,
support respectively tho niucty-fcet!
root-spans over the avenues at a height i
of forty feel, and the sixty feet roof-
spans fiver the aisles nt a height of
twenty feel. 'The outer walls are built
of masonry to a height of live feet, and
above that are composed of glazed sash j
between the columns. Portions of these
sashes are moveable for ventilation, and j
I/>uvro ventilators are introduced in .
continuous lengths over Ixitli the ave
nues ami the aisles. The building is on- 1
own use. Tho machinery hall proper
tains nbovo ono thousand two hundred
American exhibitors, having an uvr
space of two hundred and seventy square
feet each—a more nun pact arrangement
than has boon accomplished previously,
since nt Vienna there were iiino hundred
and fifty-nine exhibitors of machinery,
with an average floor spneo of threo hun
dred and three square feet. .
The Art Gallery.
'l ira most imposing and ornate of nil
the structures is memorial hull, built at
a cost of $1,GOO,000, by thu state of
Pomisyfvnria and the citv of Philadel
phia. This is placed at the disposal of
the centennial com mission, to ih? used
during the exhibition iih an art gallery,
after which it is designed to make it the
receptacle of an industrial and art col
lection similar to the famous south Ken
sington imiseum. nt liOtulon. It stands
oil a lino parallel with, and a short dis
tance northward of, the main building,
and is in a commanding position, looking
southward across lira Schuylkill ovc
Philadelphia. It stands upon a tcrrac
one hiimircd mill twenty-two feet nbov
the level of lira Schuylkill. Being de
signed for an absolutely fireproof struc
ture, nothing comhiiHlildo has lieen tmed
'The design is modern Renaissance. II
covers an acre and a half, and is three
hundred mid sixty-five feet long, two
hundred mid ten feat wide, nml fifty-
nine feet high, over a spacious basement
twelve fret high. A dome, rising one
hundred feet iiIkivo the ground, sur
mounts the center, capped by a colossal
bail, from which rises the figure of Co
lumbia. Tho main front of IIiIh build
ing looks southward, displaying a main
entrance in the center consisting of threo
cjmrmoiiH arched doorwayH a pavilion on
each end, and two arcades connecting
the pavilions with tho center. Tho en
trance is seventy feet wide, to which
there is a rise ol thirteen steps. Each
of the huge doorways Ih forty feet high
ways are clusters of columns, lorniiimtiug
in emblematic designs illustraiive of
science and art. 'The doors are ol iron,
relieved by bronze panels, displaying the
coats of arms of all the states and ter
ritories. The United Btalcs coat of arum
is in the center of the main frieze. Tho
dome is of glass and iron, of iiuiquo de
sign. While Columbia riscH at tho top,
a colossal figure stands at each corner of
the Imso of the domo, typifying tho fou
quarters of the glol>e.
In each pavilion there is a large win
tirely lighted by side light from the
north and south. Space in machinery
hall has lieen allotted as follows:
Chili 408
Norway .. 300
Tho United States occupies three hun
dred thousand square feet.
This machinery building has very su
perior facilities for shafting and double
lines are introduced into each avenue
and aisle at a height of about twenty
feet. A Corliss steam engine of one
thousand four hundred horae-powor
drives the main shafting. 'There are
also to be counter-lines of shafting in the
aisles and special steam {tower furnished
where necessary. Btcam power is to Is:
furnished free to exhibitors. In the an
nex for hydraulic machines there is a
tank sixty feet by one hundred and sixty
feet, with ten feet depth of water. It is
intended to exihit all sorts of hydraulic
machinery in full operation, and at the
southern end of the tank there is a wa
ter-fall thirty-five feet high by forty feet
wide, supplied from the tank by the
pumps on exhibition. There will prob
ably be a larger exhibition at Philadel
phia of processes of manufacture than at
any previous exhibition
The applications for space have been so
numerous as to require the addition of
three annexes, covering two and one-
half acres, while numerous private ex
hibitors have put up buildings for their
dow, twelve and one-half feet by thirty
four feet. There are altogether eight of
these windows, used for the display of
stained glass paintings, etc. Tho arcades
designed to screen tlie long walls of the
galleries each consist of live groined
arches, and form promenades looking
outward over the grounds and inward
over gardens extending back to the i
wall of the building. These garden plots
are each ninety feet by thirty-six feet, or
namented in the center with fountains,
and intended to display statuary. 'The
arcades are highly ornanonted, and the
balustrades of them and of the stairways
are also designed for statuary. The
walls of the east and west sides of the
structure display the pavilions and the
walls of the picture galleries, and arc
relieved by niches designed for statues.
Tho frieze is richly ornamented, and
above it the central dome shows to great
advantage. Tho rear or north front of
the building is of the same gem
character as the main front, out,
place of the arcade, has a scries of arched
windows, twelve in number, with the
entrance in tho center. Between the
pavilions is the grand balcony, a p
ennde two hundred and seventy-five feet
long and forty-five feet wide, elevated
forty feet above the ground, and over
looking to the northward the beautiful
grounds of the park. On each front of
the buildings the entrances open into
halls eighty-two feet long, sixty leet
wide and fifty-three feet high, decorated
in modern renaissance. 'These, in turn,
open into the center hall, eighty-three
feet square, the ceiling rising over eighty
feet in height. From the cast and west
sides of this center hall extend the gal
leries, each ninety-eight feet long, forty-
eight feet wide and thirty-five feet high.
These galleries admit of temporary di
visions for tho better display of paint
ings, and with tho conter hull form a
grand hall two hundred and oiglity-sovoii
foot, long and eighty-three feet wide,
cnpnlilo of comfortably accommodating
olght thousand persoim. This is .nearly
twice lira dimcnuioiiH of tho target l hall
in the United Btalcs. From the gal
leries doorways open into two smaller
galleries, cighty-nino feet long and
twenty-eight feet wide. These open
north and south into private apartments
connecting with the pavilion-rooms, and
forming two side galleries two hundred
and ten feet long. Along the whole
length of the north side of the main
galleries and central hall extends a cor
ridor fourteen feet high, opening on Us
north line into a series of private rooms
twenty-throe in number designed for
studies and smaller exhibition rooms.
All the galleries and the central hall are
lighted from above; the pavilion and
studios from the sides. Tho pavilions
and central hall nro designed especially
for the exhibition of sculpture. 'This
fine building gives s'eventy-five thousand
square feet of wall space for paintings,
and twenty thousand square feet of floor
•olonial times, whose extravagant 1
•lied the alarm of the village.
the eldest sen got a pair of boots, the
second nn overcoat, (lie third a watch,
and the fourth a pair of shoe buckles;
ami the nciglilNirs all shook their brails,
iimi whispered to each other: ‘That,
family (son the high road to Insolvency.' ”
Legislation in New England tried to
restrain extravagance in dross, and laws
were passed mini list wearing laces, em
broidery, needle work cups and " im
moderate great sleeves." A century
later we And people making much the
same complaints, and quoting "good old
colony times."
The shoes wore of the same material a*
the dross, often skillfully embroidered.
Country gills sometimes carried tho
broadcloth shoes with peaked Iocb in
their hands till they got to church ; but
the pink satin and yellow brocade shoes
of city maidens were supported on clogs
and pattens. Mrs. .Inhn Adams asked
iier husband to send her from Philadel
phia in I77G, “ two yards of black cala
manco for shoes," saving sho could not
wear leather If she went barefoot.
By way of silently reproving the vanity
of their wives and daughters, the sterner
sex appeared in immense powdered wigs,
stiffly starched rullles, glittering knee
nml shoe buckles, embroidered silk vests,
white silk stockings, and coats of every
line but. black, trim mad with grcnl gilt,
or silver billions. With these claborato
wardrobes of the men to keep In order,
Hint wonder'the women had no tiinn to
ullivnlo their "squirtels' brains?" to
quote ono of the gallant croakers of the
Alter all, wo fancy tho most ardent
lovers of the past would hardly In* in
favor of the early days of the republic
With the ninlmgony sideboard rescued
from oblivion, (lie spinning wheel set up
in the parlor, and the quaint china tea
sot upon the closet shelves, wo can all cry:
■'.OhI IIiohu pleasant times of old, with their
i for statues, * etc. Tho skylights
throughout are double, the upper being
of clear glass and the under ol ground
glass.
Groat as is the space afforded ill the
memorial hall, the applications from
American and foreign artists have proved
so greatly in excess of its capacity us to
require tho erection of a much more
spacious building. This, only of brick,
harmonizes architecturally with the me
morial hall, and it is to In; permanent.
It stands just in tho rear of tho original
art gallery and communicates wlt.li it.
ItauordH sixty thousand square foot ol
wall space available for paintings, and
contains twenty-four galleries, each forty
feet square, besides two galleries, each
ono hundred feet long by forty feet wide,
and two transverse central corridors,
twenty feot wide.
Independence Hall.
Tho hall of tho independence, on Ghost-
nut street, between Fifth and .Sixth, ’
commenced in 172ff, and completed
17JM, having been designed for the use of
tho provincial assemblies; and the long
hall formerly in the upper story was
often used for grand official banquets
given to governors, distinguished
stranger and generals, and to the moi
hers of tho first congress when they i
rived in 177*1. It was originally «l
coratcd with a stately steeple, which w
taken down in 1771 on account of decay ;
only a small belfry was left to cover the
Ixdf until the year 1828, when the pres
ent steeple was erected as nearly like the
ancient one as circumstances would per
mit. The nneient liell. formerly used for
the clock, is remarkable for its prophetic
inscription. Originally Imported from
England in 17G2, but cracked in its first
ringing, it was recast in Philadelphia,
ami the inscription—“ Proclaim liberty
B to rend their chronicles which such
bravo deeds relate.
B to slag their ancient rhymes, to hear
their legends told—
lint Heaven lie thanked I live not In those
blessed times of old !"
The Agricultural Huildiug
stands north of the. horticultural huildiug,
being separated from it by a romantic
ravine, and has a commanding view of
tho Schuylkill river and tho north western
suburbs of Philadelphia beyond. This
huildiug illustrates a novel combination
of materials, mainly wood and glass, and
consists of a loiiffimvo crossed by three
transepts, each being composed of truss-
arcltesof Gothic form. The nave iseight
hundred and twenty feot long by one
hundred and twenty-five feet in width,
with a height of seventy-live feet from
the floor to the (Mi'intof tho arch, the cen
tral transept one hundred foot wide and
seventy-five feet high, and tho two end
transepts eighty feet wide and seventy
foot high. Its interior apponrnnee re
sembles that of a great cathedral, and in
looking from transept to transept, tho
vista4s extremely imposing. A portion
of this building is supplied with steam
power for tho use of agricultural machin
ery. The four courts inclosed by the
nave, and transepts, and also tho four
spaces at the corners of tho building,
having the nave and end transepts for
two of their sides, are roofed, and form
valuable space for exhibits. Tho ground
plan of the building is parallelogram five
hundred and forty foot by eight hundred
and twenty feot, covering about ten and
one-quarter acres. Sixteen foreign na
tions have space in this building, and in
tlie ono hundred and forty-seven thou
sands five hundred and seventy-two
square feet which remain, more than one
thousand American exhibitors urn ac
commodated. This necessitates sjieeial
throughout lira land, and to all the poc-
plo thereof”—was placed upon it. This
was more than twenty yean* before the
independence of the colonies was dreamed
of; yet, when the declaration was signed,
this very boll was the first, by its merry
peal, to "proclaim liberty throughout
the land.” It now occupies a place in
tlie south vetishule of tho Imilding. The
Declaration of Independence was signed
in the chamber on tho left of the prin
cipal entrance. Homo years since the
nutinue architectural decorations and
furniture of this room were re
moved, and their places supplied
with new furniture mid tn|»csLry
in modern style. 'This error bus
since been repaired, iw far ns possible, by
buildings for the collective exhibits of
their natural resources provided by tho
different stales.
In addition to the grounds within the
inclosure, an eligibly located stockyard,
twenty two acres in extent, has lieen pro
vided’for the display of live slock, which
will be exhibited in a series of shows
during the months of September, Octo
ber, and November. Two farm#, more
over, of alsmt fifty acres each, have lieen
suitably planted lor tho trials of agricul
tural machinery.
Cary Stockino, the smallest man in
Connecticut, is dead. Ho was only thir
ty six inches high, and at the Limn of
liis death was sixty-four years old.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 26, IS7C.