Official Guide of the Centennial Exposition
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Excerpt from Official Guide of the Centennial Exposition: Of the Ohio Valley and Central States A single point is worthy of remark here. Such is human nature, ever buoyant, ever pursuing "with eagerness the phantom of hope," that the element of death never enters as a factor in one´s plans and machinations. That committee thought not of the probabilities of the fifty years to come, hut they had faith that what they planted and watered would yield fruit in its season. The evangel of higher and broader civilization than they dreamt of has been proclaimed throughout this Western Republic, and in the lapse of fifty years, from 1838, the five States which make up the great Northwestern Territory, have arisen into the potentiality of empire, recording one-third of the population of the whole country within its limits, and possessing half the wealth. Mindful of the past, the "Senatus-Consultu" of that committee of 1838, and the prosperity of the last half century, the Ohio Mechanics´ Institute Eairs, and their royal offsprings, the Industrial Fairs of Cincinnati, the Centennial Exposition was projected, and became a fixed purpose as early as 188-3. It was to be an attest of the development of art, science, and industry in a century of the Northwestern Territory. Formerly the Ohio Mechanics´ Institute Fairs had drawn only from the city of Cincinnati and the tributary regions in its vicinity. And so successful were they, from the first, to the year when they were abandoned pending the Civil War, that when in 1868 they were revived, it was under a more enlarged scope, and compatible with the stupendous strides which had been made in every field of industry. The Ohio Mechanics´ Institute Fair was merged into the Annual Cincinnati Industrial Expositions, the Mechanics´ Institute summoning to their aid the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade. The Directory was made up of five members from each of the bodies interested, and the Expositions since then have been wellnigh continuous, with unvaried success. In time the temporary structure where the Expositions were formerly held, gave way to a palatial Music Hall, with its circumjacent buildings, at a cost of one million dollars; and, therefore, when the Centennial year came, and the great Exposition was determined upon, the descendants of that committee of ´38 were prepared. The preliminary work of preparation for the present Exposition has been long under way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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