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Vol. XLIII. No. 1799 
NEW YORK, JULY 19, 1884 
PRICE FTVK CENTS. 
92.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congreng. In the year 1884, by the Rural New-Yorker In the office of the Librarian 
of ConprresB at Washington.) 
buildings will cover a greater area than those 
of any previous exhibition in this or any other 
country. The main building covers S2 acres, 
being t,375 feet in length and SOS feet iu 
width, affordiug 1,656,300 square feet of floor 
space, with convenient appointments attached 
for police. Are department, public comfort, 
offices and meeting-rooms for various national 
organizations. There is a central music hall 
capable of seating 11,000 persons, while Ma¬ 
chinery Hall is 1,375 feet in length by 350 feet 
in width. Two hundred and fifty thousand 
square lest of space have beeu reserved in the 
center of tbebuilding for foreign governments, 
and an equal area for the United States Gov¬ 
ernment for collective exhibits of the States 
and Territories So great was the demand 
for space from the various States and Terri¬ 
tories as well as from foreign countries seven 
months before the opening, that 
stock. Agricultural products of all kinds, in 
every condition, from the crude state to the 
finest results of manufacturing skill, together 
with specimens of manufacturing machinery, 
and exemplifications of manufacturing pro¬ 
cesses will also excite interest and afford in¬ 
struction. 
Horticulture will be excellently represented 
under charge of the Mississippi Valley Horti¬ 
cultural Society, which will make tho llucst 
pomological display ever seen. In addition to 
the show of trees, plants and flowers, there 
will be an exhibition or over 22,000 plates of 
fruit. A building (500 feet long and 100 feet 
wide, costing 4)100,000, with ample facilities 
for cold-storage, will accommodate the exhib¬ 
its in this department. Fruits from every 
State and Territory iu the Union, well as 
from Canada, Mexico, Central America and 
tbo nations of the Old World, will be shown 
side by side for comparison. This exhibition 
will be continuous for the whole term of the 
Exposition by the help of cold-storage. The 
premiums and medals on fruits alone will ag¬ 
gregate over $15,000, 
Great liberality and energy have been exer¬ 
cised to make this exhibition a phenomenal 
success. The General Government has lent 
$1,000,000 to tho undertaking; besides the 
$500,000 necessary to secure the loca¬ 
tion of tho Exposition there, Now Or¬ 
leans, in its municipal capacity, has 
subscribed an additional $100,000 towards 
the expenses of the enterprise, and stock to 
the amount of nearly $1,000,000 has been taken 
by its public-spirited citizens. The State of 
Louisiana has also appropriated $100,000, 
while several jfarishes and organizations in the 
State have made liberal contributions. Large 
sums have also been appropriated by other 
Slatos and tho Territories as well as by for¬ 
eign countries, notably by Mexico, to aid in 
defraying the cost of making special exhibits 
representative of their various products and 
industries. It is certain that the present gene¬ 
ration of Americans has never had uu oppor¬ 
tunity of witnessing so grand an exhibition of 
the products and arts of the world as that 
which will be held in the Crescent City next 
Winter, and it is very doubtful whether so 
line a display will again bo made in this coun¬ 
try within a lifetime. Arrangements have 
already been completed with all the railroads 
and Rteumboat lines converging to New Or¬ 
leans, securing extraordinarily low passenger 
rates during the Exposition, and if. is to be 
hoped that people iu all parts of tho country 
will make preparations beforehand to pass a 
few days or weeks at the show. Farmers will 
have special opportunities to make so instruc¬ 
tive und pleasant a trip, for tho season will be 
one of the greatest leisure for them, while in 
manufacturing, Winter is often a busy time. 
We trust, therefore, that hundreds of our North¬ 
ern renders will escape from the inclemency of 
tho uoxt Winter by visiting the “sunny Mouth’’ 
and the grand Exposition, a bird’s-oyo view of 
which is depicted below. 
THE WORLD’S INDUSTRIAL AND COT¬ 
TON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. 
o EW ORLEANS, the com- 
mercial metropolis of the 
South, is also, even in or- 
) diuai T years, one of the 
-ff/ / pleasantest places in the 
PJ'M ^7 o' Mtat.es iu which to 
SugjnuY* pass the Winter. At that 
season it is a remarkably 
f t Wealthy city; the climate 
is very mild—that of the 
Gulf, The American sec- 
Jvlyi tiou of the town is well 
built and handsome, while 
^/ the Creole part is antique 
and interesting. The peo¬ 
ple are cheerful aud hospitable; amusemeuts 
are plentiful, and out-door life (^unaccompa¬ 
nied with any of the discomforts which are 
inseparable from it amid the rigors of nor¬ 
thern Winters, 
To the ordinary attractions of the Crescent 
City the great World’s Industrial and Cotton 
Centennial Exposition will add a wondrous 
charm the coming Winter. This will be 
opened on the first Monday in December, 1884, 
and will close not later than May 31, 1885. 
It is situated on the lower side of the city in 
the principal park, containing 247acres. The 
arrange¬ 
ments were at once made to afford additional 
accommodation by the erection of separate 
buildings for special exhibits. Agriculture, 
Horticulture and Art have each separate 
structures for their display. 
This Exhibition differs from ail its predeces¬ 
sors in the marked attention bestowed on 
agriculture in all its branches. Indeed, this 
will be the prominent feature of thedfsplay. 
Specimens of farm buildings, utensils and 
machinery will occupy a large space in Agri¬ 
cultural Hall, while the largest collection of 
domestic animals ever seen ou this Continent 
will delight and instruct the lovers of live | 
NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXPOSITION BUILDINGS. Fig. 127. 
