Identifier: reportofnewjer00newj (find matches)
Title: Report of the New Jersey commissioners on the Centennial Exhibition.
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: New Jersey State Centennial Board.
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)--New Jersey. New Jersey--Description and travel.
Publisher: Trenton, N.J. : Naar, Day
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ts unexampled success in comparison with allthat have preceded it; who has heard from either foreign orAmerican voice, but the one verdict? It was no easy task for the projectors, and those who haveso successfully executed the plans and trusts committed tothem, to overcome the obstacles and meet the objections,which at times well nigh destroyed all hopes of the Phila-delphia International Exhibition being a success. It was at this stage of the enterprise that the friendly in-terest which had been awakened in our State in its behalf,culminated in a legislative stock subscription of one hun-dred thousand dollars. This, the first State appropriation,for Centennial purposes, imparted new courage to the Com-missioners, and no doubt had its influence upon other Statesand communities, until contributions from public and pri-vate sources, removed all doubts of ultimate success. Such a timely and munificent subscription was scarcelyanticipated from our little six by eight Jersey, and this ren-
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JERSEY DAY AT THE CENTENNIAL. 83 dered the action of our Legislature doubly electrifying inits consequences. The Government Commissioners and theFinance Board have never ceased to entertain grateful re-collections for the prompt and substantial aid thus oppor-tunely afforded, and it is the merest justice to say that ifour service under your Commission has been at once enjoy-able and successful, it is largely due to the great ability,constant kindness and cordial furthering of our designs onthe part of the Director General Goshorn, the President,General Hawley, Hon. John Welsh, and their associates inoffice. For this no State Commission owes them and cer-tainly none renders them heartier acknowledgements. On two or three occasions this summer our State has dis-played on this avenue and around this building, in com-pact masses, thousands of her operatives, representing themagnitude of some of her individual manufacturing enter-prises. To-days spectacle is other and even better. We comen

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