WORLD’S FAIR OF 1883.
Some interesting facts are transpiring in respect to the International Exhibition winch is to be opened in New York in 1883. In order to properly lay out the grounds, construct adequate buildings, provide the proper equipments, and organise the exhibition on a scale fitting the grandeur of the undertaking, it is estimated that at least ten millions of dollars will be necessary. Of course this sum cannot bo raised by contribution directly from the people. The usual issue of common and preferred stock will be made, and the general public will be called upon to subscribe. The projectors, above all, should seek novelty. No carelul observer of the three exhibitions of Paris, Vienna, and Philadelphia can forget the monotonous sameness that characterised the departments in those fairs. But there was one department in which the Philadelphia Exhibition was unique. It was in American painting. The display was a pitcablc agglomeration of cheap daubs, unrelieved by scarcely a single picture of pre-eminent excellence. New York possesses all the advantages for such a fair, and it should not bo a tame repetition of the other recent efforts.
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Patea Mail, 24 December 1880, Page 4
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