Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1873 — Cincinnati Industrial Exposition Buildings, 1873. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Cincinnati Industrial Exposition Buildings, 1873.

We present our readers above with a view of the buildings of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, in which the Fourth Annual Exposition is to be held from September 3 to October 4, 1873. . , This great Exhibition, which is the foremost among similar enterprises in this country, is already well known to many et Our readers, but we give some details which are of general interest. „ . .-it The buildings are situated in the heart of the city, and are five in number, including th«f Art Hall, which « connected- with the rest by a bridge across Elm street, shown at the left of the picture. They furnish to exhibitors nearly eight acres of space, the Power Hall alone comprising over an acre of every variety of machinery in motion. The Exposition is divided into sixteen departments, and each of the great halls is filled with the myriad products of American industrial enterprise, displayed in the most attractive forms and with endless profusion. It may be justly tenned a popular school of art and industry, teaching by object lessons of the most vivid and attractive description. ... . , . , . * „<■ Its immense popularity is partly due to the central location of Cincinnati, but mainly to the liberal character of its management, which is in the hands of the three commercial associations of the city. There being no stockholding interest, all its revenues are directly expended in increasing its popular attractions, while the high character and impartia 1 y 1 ?. ® r has made them eagerly sought after by exhibitors from every part of the Union. The national character of *he ExpUsiUon is indicated by the half-fare arrangements which last year extended over 15,000 miles of railway, or nearry one-third age of the United States; and by the attendance of over 600,000 visitors. A large increase is expected this yen adopted system of school excursions at reduced rates of admission.