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construction, and peculiarly adapted to the purposes of a fair. 

 The northward movement of population was every day rendering 

 it more central and accessible, and its loss is even now less fully 

 felt by the citizens of New York, than it is likely to be hereafter. 



In consequence of this disaster, it became of course the first 

 duty of the board to take measures for securing a proper place 

 for holding the fair. After considering the comparative advan- 

 tages of the various places proposed, among which were the 

 Cooper Institute, and the State Arsenal, on Seventh avenue, the 

 board came to the conclusion that the Palace Garden, on the 

 north side of Fourteenth street, between Sixth and Seventh ave- 

 nues, united more advantages of space and location than any 

 other, including a new hall, fifty feet in width and two hundred 

 feet long, grounds of the same depth, with a frontage of two 

 hundred feet on Fourteenth street, and furnishing ample space 

 for the erection of an Arcade for steam engines and moving 

 machinery, of a tent for agricultural implements, flowers, vegeta-' 

 bles, and fruits, of galleries for vehicles, iron castings, and other 

 heavy articles, while the main hall was well adapted for the exhi- 

 bitfion of articles of art, ornament, and domestic use. 



Although the space afforded was greatly less than at the Crystal 

 Palace, which, with its galleries, enclosed five acres, it was hoped 

 that the situation of the Garden, which, as regards the dwellings 

 of the city, is perfectly central, would favor a large attendance, 

 and the managers determined, by greater discrimination in the 

 selection of articles for exhibition, at once to raise the standard 

 of our fair, and to lessen the inconvenience of lack of space. 



A lease was accordingly obtained from Mr. C. V. De Forest, of 

 Palace Garden, from the 15th of September to the 5th of Novem- 

 ber, which was approved by the Institute June 1, 1859. 



The board would gratefully acknowledge the generous donation 

 of $500 by the Sixth Avenue railroad company, which was 

 promptly paid towards our expenses in leasing Palace Garden. 



By-laws were adopted by the board May 18, 1859, in accordance 

 with which, standing committees were on that day appointed : 



On Finance — B. Lewis, Jr., chairman. Printing and Publication 

 committee — D. M. Reese, chairman. Tickets — James C. Baldwin, 

 chairman. Premiums — John A. Bunting, chairman. Invitations — 

 James Renwick, chairman. Horticulture — A. Bridgeman, chair- 

 man. Police — William Ebbitt, chairman. Light — John Johnson, 

 chairman. Reception of Goods — William B. Leonard, chairman. 

 Music — J. V, Brower, chairman. Flags, Freight, and Transpor- 



