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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1864.
$1,00 FOR FOUR MONTHS.
$3,00 PER YEAR IN
ADVANCE.
Entered according to Act of Congress,
in the Year
1864, by Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of
New York.
THE METROPOLITAN FAIR
BUILDINGS.
WE give
on this page views of the buildings on
Fourteenth Street, and on page 228 those on
Union
Square, which have been erected and adapted for the uses of the Metropolitan
Fair. The buildings on Fourteenth Street are appropriated to the exhibition
and sale of the many varieties of goods contributed—the
main building of the group, that with
a cupola, forming a great bazaar, with departments adjoining for the exhibition
of pictures, for restaurant
purposes, etc. The Book Department is in this building. These are the main
buildings of the
Fair, and to the majority of visitors will form the principal point of interest.
The building erected over the sidewalk, and extending beyond it into the street,
is occupied in part by the Indian Wigwam
of Mr. BIERSTADT, the artist,
in which Indian dresses and curiosities are exhibited; and during the
Fair a band of the " Red Men" will
perform some of their dances, and give other illustrations of Indian life.
Another part of this building will be occupied by the Ordnance Department, which
will give to our peaceful citizens a glimpse of the field and garrison
appointments with which our brave defenders have lately become as familiar as
they were aforetime with the plow and plane, or
any other implement of industry. The Firemen's display in these buildings is
creditable at once to the generosity
and taste of this important branch of the public service.
The building on Union Square is appropriated, among other things, to a Children's
Department, which will be remembered
as one of the pleasantest features of the Fair. In this department daily
entertainments will be furnished, during the Fair, by some thousands of
children. There are ten booths, one containing a miniature skating-pond; another
embracing contributions from the public schools ; a third gifts from
benevolent societies, etc. Another
feature of the
Union Square buildings is the Knickerbocker
Kitchen, in which New York, as it was long years ago, is reproduced for
the gratification of the Young New York of today. Here, too, as the Fair goes
on, our friends from the country, whose ancestors used to make pilgrimages to
New York once a year, half a century or so ago, will be able to see illustrated
precisely the manners, customs, and
life which their fathers looked upon, and
can thus determine, from personal examination, in how far the new life is
an improvement upon the old.
Probably, however, some may conclude that
the old
life was better, more
practical and full
of soul, than the new, in
whose responsibilities we all are sharing.
THE METROPOLITAN FAIR BUILDINGS ON FOURTEENTH STREET NEW YORK.
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