REPORT 



Of the Board of Managers of the Twenty-Eighth Jinnual Fair of 

 the American Institute. 



The Board of Managers of tlie Twenty-Eighth Annual Pair of 

 the American Institute, beg leave to 



REPORT: 



That in pursuance of the important duties assigned them by 

 the American Institute, they organized on the 13th day of May 

 last, by the appointment of Mr. George E. Nesbitt as chairman, 

 Mr. Charles A. Whitney, as vice-chairman, and Mr. John W. 

 Chambers as secretary. 



The success of the exhibition last year, at the Crystal Palace, 

 gave them encouragement that no better arrangement could be 

 made than by securing the same building in which to hold the 

 Twenty-Eighth Annual Fair. 



The rent we had to pay was dq,uble that paid last year, and 

 fears were expressed by some members that the exhibition of 

 1856 would prove disastrous, in a financial point of view, to the 

 American Institute; but this, we are happy to say, proved not to 

 be the case. It was apprehended that the number of visitors 

 would be greatly lessened in consequence of the excitement which 

 followed the first appearance of yellow fever at Quarantine; and 

 as our success depends in no small measure upon strangers, who 

 would be deterred from visiting our city from fear of this dread 

 disease, it was feared the result would be disastrous; but the 

 statements herewith presented contain the evidence of a great 

 success. 



The managers lost no time in informing the manufacturers, 

 griculturists, mechanics and others, by advertisements and cir- 



