[Trade Journal]
Publication: Reports of the Board of Comissioners for the Second Cincinnati Industrial Exposition 1871
Cincinnati, OH, United States
p. 1-11,15,19,243-244,260,279, col. 1
REPORT
OF THE
GENERAL COMMITTEE
OF THE
CINCINNATI
Industrial Exposition,
HELD IN CINCINNATI,
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
BOARD OF TRADE, OHIO MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE,
AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
FROM
September 6th to October 7th,
1871.
CINCINNATI:
PUBLISHED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.
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CINCINNATI
Industrial Exposition
OF
1871.
GENERAL COMMITTEE.
Board of Trade. Ohio Mechanics’ Institute. Chamber of Commerce.
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A. T. GOSHORN, THOMAS GILPIN, H. WILSON BROWN,
D. B. PIERSON, H. McCOLLUM, JOHN MORRISON,
W. H. BLYMYER, JAMES DALE, P. P. LANE,
GEO. W. MCALPIN, J. F. WILTSEE, W. W. TAYLOR,
CLEMENT OLHABER. FRANK MILLWARD. A. ERKENBRECHER.
A. T. GOSHORN, . . . . . . President.
H. WILSON BROWN, . . 1st Vice-President.
THOMAS GILPIN, . . . . . 2d Vice-President.
A. ERKENBRECHER, . . Treasurer.
H. McCOLLUM, . . . . . . . Secretary.
JOHN B. HEICH, . . . . . . .Ass’t Secretary.
STANDING COMMITTEES
CINCINNATI INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION, 1871.
FINANCE.
AND. ERKENBRECHER, JAS. M. CLARK, P. P. LANE.
BUILDING.
DANIEL B. PIERSON, THOMAS GILPIN, HUGH McCOLLUM.
CLASSIFICATION.
FRANK MILLWARD, W. W. TAYLOR, H. A. GLASSFORD.
PRINTING AND ADVERTISING.
HUGH MCCOLLUM, JOHN B, HEICH, JAMES DALE.
SPACE.
GEO. W. MCALPIN, FRANK MILLWARD, JAMES M. CLARK,
A. T. GOSHORN, H. H. TATEM.
PUBLIC CONVEYANCE AND TRANSPORTATION.
H. WILSON BROWN, P. W. STRADER, SAMUEL STEVENSON,
H. J. PAGE, J. J. HENDERSON, W. L. O’BRIEN,
M. L. DOHERTY, J. H. RHODES, R. M. FRASER,
JAMES K. DEMING.
LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.
JOHN F. WILTSEE, JAMES DALTON, T. F. RANDOLPH.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
W. H. BLYMYER, GEO. W. MCALPIN, THOS. GILPIN, A. T. GOSHORN.
AMUSEMENTS.
CLEMENT OLHABER, A. T. GOSHORN, JAS. J. HOOKER.
AWARDS.
THOMAS GILPIN DANIEL B. PIERSON, W. W. TAYLOR.
FINE ARTS.
JOHN MORRISON, GEO. MCLAUGHLIN, P. H. BURT.
JUDGES.
JAMES DALE, HUGH MCCOLLUM, S. HANNAFORD.
MACHINERY AND MOTIVE POWER.
P. P. LANE, HENRY PEARCE, L. BARNEY,
L. M. DAYTON, FRANK MILLWARD, E. R. LOUGHEAD.
TEXTILE FABRICS.
W. W. TAYLOR, HENRY LEWIS, SETH C. FOSTER.
HORTICULTURE.
CLEMENT OLHABER, AND. ERKENBRECHER, B. BUCHANAN.
CINCINNATI INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.
1871.
INTRODUCTION.
The wonderful improvements and adaptations of machinery, the progress of the diversified industries of the country, and the desire of the people for a practical knowledge of these interests, suggested and sustained the Grand Industrial Expositions which have been so favorably and profitably conducted in Cincinnati. The alacrity with which the Expositions of 1870 and 1871 were received and supported, is sufficient evidence of their value to the exhibitors, and of the pleasure and profit afforded to the visitors.
The merchant and consumer were brought into immediate contact with the largest number of articles of consumption and the greatest variety of new and useful machinery; while the multitude, attracted by the unusual display, was interested and instructed in a manner that fully demonstrated the high character of such exhibitions as a school for the masses.
The central position of Cincinnati, with her advantages of interior communications and large and varied manufacturing interests, eminently fit her for sustaining such an enterprise, not only as a local interest, but as a national institution. It was a realization of these advantages that inaugurated the Exposition of 1870, which was a success, in every respect, beyond the hopes of its most sanguine projectors, and left no doubt of the feasibility of preparing at once for the SECOND GRAND EXPOSITION of 1871.
On the 26th day of April, 1871, the committees appointed from the Board of Trade, Ohio Mechanics’ Institute, and the Chamber of Commerce, the constituent and co-ordinate bodies in the Board of Management, organized by the election of A. T. GOSHORN, President; H. WILSON BROWN, 1st Vice-President; THOMAS GILPIN, 2d Vice-President; H. MCCULLOM, Secretary, and A. ECKENBRECHER, Treasurer.
The sub-committees were immediately appointed, and proceeded without delay to organize the different departments and to construct the necessary buildings.
On the 6th day of September, the day appointed for the opening of the Exposition to the public, the General Committee had accomplished its Herculean task of preparation; the immense buildings were completed, and the exhibitors had arranged their goods for the grand display. In the evening the formal opening exercises took place, in the Art Hall, in the presence of a large audience. After an overture by the orchestra, the President introduced the Rev. Dr. Briggs, of the M. E. Church, who invoked the Divine blessing on the enterprise, which was followed by the inaugural
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT A. T. GOSHORN.
Ladies and Gentlemen — For the past two months these great halls have resounded with the busy notes of preparation for the Grand Industrial Exposition, which this evening is opened to the general public. I congratulate you on the recurrence of the occasion, and on the auspicious beginning of the enterprise. On behalf of the management I extend to you, and to the exhibitors and to the thousands of visitors from all parts of the country, who will throng these halls, a cordial welcome.
We recollect the Exposition of 1870 with much pleasure and profit. It was, in its inception and organization, experimental in the highest degree, and yet was an assured success, beyond any anticipation, long before the public was invited to pass a judgment upon it. The hundreds of exhibitors who gladly brought their handiwork to that great storehouse, and the multitudes of visitors who daily and nightly came to critically examine that large collection of art, manufactures, and products, fully attested not only the practicability of the enterprise, but also its usefulness in the promotion of every branch of industry. It delighted, instructed, and added a new impulse to the manufacturing interests of the city, and promised competition in the future from every section of the country.
It attracted universal attention and sympathy, and this evening, as a most notable result, we inaugurate the Second Exposition as a national institution. The aim of the management has been attained — in that it can no longer be called exclusively a Cincinnati institution, except in so far as it is located in our midst, and is sustained by the energies of our citizens. The entire country has been invited, and I am happy to announce that the invitation has been accepted.
The East, the great South country, the West, and the prosperous valleys of the Ohio and the Mississippi contribute unmistakable evidences of the growth and advancement of the mechanic arts and of the domestic industries of the nation.
There is presented to you the largest variety of the products of skilled labor and of scientific ingenuity ever exhibited in America. Artisans, mechanics, and producers from every section of the country have been attracted hither by the unusual facilities offered for presenting their products to the public.
There is here, systematically arranged and displayed, a beautiful combination of the useful, artistic, and pleasing; a labyrinth of art, products, and mechanisms, of infinite variety, at once attractive and full of instruction. It gives us an enlarged idea of the industry of our country, its arts, its implements, and its products; an excellent school for studying the social, political, and domestic economy of the nation.
The thrift of the people and the activity of the American mind are here practically demonstrated. The proficiency attained in controlling natural forces to the use and benefit of man, and in the application of the same to the development of the .resources of the country, are here clearly and comprehensively revealed and established. In the presence of these magnificent products of a diversified native industry, evidences of national progress, we feel inspired for higher achievements. There is here a true sentiment of patriotism, and a noble emulation, that will add a new activity to every branch of industry.
Commerce and manufactures can have no more worthy exponent than this brilliant exposition of the industrial interests of the country. It is an epoch in the manufactures of the West, and I may say of. the entire country, that will be regarded pre-eminently as the most noteworthy in their history. This revelation in the domain of skill and labor will surprise many, and will interest all. It is a true index to the secret of our prosperity as a nation.
With free education and liberal political institutions; with private capital engaged in perfecting the implements of husbandry and with laws that encourage and protect the natural genius of the citizens, the labor of the country has always been intelligent and profitable, and the condition of the laborer is more comfortable and satisfactory than in any other land.
The theory of our institutions is to harmonize the naturally conflicting interests and jealousies of capital and labor, so that each may subserve a purpose for the general welfare. This can best be accomplished by a friendly competition, such as is here invited.
Labor is capable of infinite division, for it is rarely that we find all the requisites necessary for the performance of a task united in the same person; the manufacture, therefore, of almost every article is divided among those who are best capable of performing their several parts. The product is thus presented in less time, in greater quantities, is far cheaper, and as a natural consequence is subject to a wider circulation. No where can the economy of labor be better understood and better utilized, .than in the midst of the noise and clatter of the machinery collected in this Exposition.
The introduction of machinery into England was condemned by the public outcry of the people as supplanting human labor and destroying the industry of the country. It was frequently prevented by violence, and as often overcome by the intervention of law. Now that powerful nation has no greater element of wealth and prosperity than the one the ignorance of the people then condemned.
The same element is our greatest strength with more abundant resources for its development, and a more rapidly growing market for the consumption of its products. Although our manufacturers are not equal to some others in graceful designs, elaborate finish, and the artistic quality that pampers to luxury and extravagance, we are certainly not excelled in originality and fertility of invention, and in the adaptation of machinery to the wants they are intended to supply, thus lessening toil and multiplying results.
That we may be schooled in the wonderful progress being made in every branch of the useful and mechanic arts, and that we may understand the science that controls the elements and natural forces to the commonest uses, we have called together these innumerable witnesses to teach us wherein lies the strength of our prosperity and the future hope of our country.
The primary object of this enterprise, which last year was marked by such distinguished success, is to encourage the mechanic arts, and every branch of industry, of whatever character, and to place them in friendly competition before the public, thus bringing to notice many new and useful inventions and products that otherwise might remain unknown. We have no political views to promulgate, and no political dogmas to subserve. The tariff and finances we leave to individual opinion. The problems of political economy are slow of solution; if the industries of the country were not always in advance of them, the happiness and freedom of the people would be greatly endangered. Whether merchants or manufacturers, we have a common cause which is higher than our individual interests; the utmost development of the industry of the whole country, the security of our industrial independence as a nation, and the acquisition of all those blessings to our people which follow from fully occupied and well rewarded labor.
Realizing how much the proper encouragement of skilled labor and the promotion of a cultivated taste adds to the growth of a country, we have invited to this magnificent bazaar the substantial evidences of the peace and prosperity of the land and of the culture of the people. I do not overestimate when I assert that no institution has ever afforded more enlarged opportunities and more liberal facilities for promoting industrial interests. The constituent bodies in the management represent the mechanic, the manufacturer, and the producer; the laborer, the merchant, and the consumer. To this is added the sympathy and goodwill of the entire community. Strangers and citizens are alike welcome to the opportunities and pleasures of the Exposition.
Through the liberality of our merchants and manufacturers these immense buildings have been called into being. The merchants, and manufacturers of the country have brought here the fruits of their industry, until we are almost overwhelmed with the extent and variety of the display. To see so many interests, at other times and places antagonistic and jealous, brought thus together in harmony with a common motive, is a spectacle worth seeing, and teaches a lesson worth knowing. We are all, to a certain extent, influenced by the local opinions and prejudices that surround us, and are apt to become illiberal and narrow-minded. In order to modify these local opinions and prejudices, it is necessary to meet together, to ascertain whereon comparatively the peculiar merit of our claim is based.
In a country so extended as this, there is no cause for jealousies between different sections and mercantile interests. There is room for all; there is work for all. Our institutions are of such a character as to naturally make us dependent on each, other. A new invention or discovery that adds to the comfort or wealth of one section, is speedily appropriated by the whole people. This sentiment of harmony and good-will, and the desire to encourage capital and labor in the work of advancing our industries, have suggested and sustained this noble enterprise. It is not directly encouraged by state or national patronage, but is eminently an American institution, in that it is a creature of the people.
With these brief remarks I again bid you welcome, and. pronounce the Exposition of 1871 formally opened to the public. We hope that the arduous duties of the management may be fully repaid by the entire satisfaction of exhibitors, and by the pleasure and instruction that will be afforded to visitors.
From the evening of the opening to' the close, on the 8th day of October, delighted multitudes, from every section of the country, daily and nightly thronged the halls of the Exposition.
The success of the enterprise in all its departments and arrangements, the general satisfaction and approval of the exhibitors, and the pleasure and instruction afforded visitors, fully compensated the management for their, gratuitous labors to render it the largest and most interesting exhibition of Manufactures Products, and Arts ever held in this country.
LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
TO
GUARANTEE FUND
OF
CINCINNATI INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.
Ohio Mechanics’ Institute............................................................................ $1,500 00
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Hemingray Glass Co......................................................................................... 100 00
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Zeiler, Isaac..................................................................................................... 100 00
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Total subscribed.............................................................................................58,145 00
The amount subscribed has been returned to the subscribers.
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CATALOGUE OF ARTICLES
ENTERED
FOR EXHIBITION ONLY,
CINCINNATI INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION, 1871.
At the close of the Exposition, it was the design of the General Committee to prepare and publish a succinct report or description of all articles entered for exhibition only, and to this end a circular was issued soliciting information of such articles; but, after having prepared several hundred pages of manuscript, the publication of a report of the character intended has been deemed inadvisable. It was found impossible to give an impartial and adequate description of the vast number of articles on exhibition, without directly or indirectly passing a judgment or instituting comparisons which would have subjected the Committee to unjust criticisms, and thus detract from the benefits intended to be given to exhibitors; besides, the limits of this report necessarily preclude the publication of a description of each article that would be alike useful to the exhibitor and creditable to the Exposition.
CATALOGUE OF ARTICLES ENTERED FOR EXHIBITION ONLY,
AT THE
SECOND CINCINNATI INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION,
HELD IN CINCINNATI, FROM SEPTEMBER 6 TO OCTOBER 7, 1871.
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CLASSIFICATION OF ENTRIES
FOR EXHIBITION ONLY.
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CLASS 46. — HORTICULTURE
James King...................................... New Haven, Conn.........Rustic Stands and Hanging Baskets;
Nourse, White & Co........................Westboro, Mass..............Pot Plants and Garden Trellises.
Louis Juniet..................................... New Baltimore,
Pike Co., O....................Coxcomb.
Hemmingray [sic] Hemingray Glass Co...Cincinnati, O........ Aquarium.
R. B. Price....................................... Delhi Township, O.........Cut Dahlias.
Wm. Weidgenant............................. Cincinnati, O.................Beets.
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