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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Hbney Hudson (ideal). No artist's name attached. 



given in this article has been almost literally fulfilled, and the writer 

 realizes more than ever that he was correct in saying that the museums 

 and institutions of our city would " furnish a greater display to the 

 visitor than any exposition yet held on the continent." 



New York, with its great variety of public buildings, its miles of 

 waterways, .its dozens of museums, its many civic buildings, its great 

 system of parks, stands alone as a prominent and fitting exposition 

 ground. Why erect a city of staff, wood and other inflammable material 

 to hold costly objects ? Whoever contributed his much-prized works of 

 art to such shelter, awaited, with fear and trembling, their safe return, 

 and few of the finest things were ever loaned except in Paris, where 

 they were shown in permanent structures such as the artistic Nouveau 

 Salon, and its dainty neighbor, the Petit Salon, to the right of which 

 is the magnificent Pont Alexandre II. 



Although not so named, this Hudson-Pulton Celebration really 

 presents the features of a great exposition, for when all the resources 



