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Show i Industries of the Emerald Tsk. I I j Grand Display of Them Will Take Place During the Coming Year in the j - i City of Cork Interesting Sketch of the Exposition. I I .. ; : ; 1. 1 I The following interesting sketch of I the Cork exhibition, which takes place next year, lias been contributed to f s lionahoo's Magazine by the secretary A . 1 of the association, Mr. Herbert Hona- F lian, who says in part: For some months past the matter of k ; organizing what it is intended shall be . a great international exhibition, to be held in t'ork from May to November, "M J 1!02. has taken up the attention of a U lurgf- number of the citizens of the j , "Rebel City." The name iixed Upon at the first pub-' pub-' lie meeting was that of the "Cork Industrial In-dustrial Exhibition, JP02." but when the project began to take root and develop, de-velop, and when the department of agriculture and technical instruction for lr.-la.id. which was only called into existence last year by act of parliament. parlia-ment. Iicg:.ii to throw in their lot with the pn ino'ers, and subsidized the pro-i pro-i jct to the extent of $25,000, the com mitter' of o: gar.ization began to con-! con-! skl'.r v bet her it would not be wiser to considerably enlarge the scope and 1 alter ti e title to that of the "Cork In- f tei ator..il Exhibition, 1902." This it I was eventually decided to do some our -? mon:hs after the opening meeting, and i thi various committees set to woik j imnirOiately to endeavor to make the : xhib;tjon worthy of its title and wor thy ' f i": Ir land. k It was the co-operation of the de- partment of agriculture, indeed, that yf suggested embracing the entire coun- j I try in the programme of the exhibition. ; 1 The department propose to make the first real burst of their existence a through the medium of this exhibition. They have applied for a space of 30.000 f , superficial feet in which they propose ! to show a wonderful variety of exhib- S its of wool. clay, minerals, peat pro- duee. building stones, wood carving, i metal work, electric motors, etc., the j J raw materials in full process of devel- I i opment and manufacture. Of course i 5 all of what they purpose showing are ? - not produced or manufactured in Ire- ! ? - lml &U&rTtt&iiU hutsiLin. tie .opinifutlof ., ; I the department, from the experience of j j continental and other countries, that j ; those that are not yet in the country j mignt, with advantage, be introduced, ! l and thereby be a remunerative means ! of employment and help to stem the j I ewr-increasing drain of the country's I lifeblood by emigration, j The site is known as the Mardyke. I , and embraces as picturesque a bit of X-. scenery as can be found, for its size, j ' almost anywhere in the world. It ex tends from St. Vincent's bridge in the I city to Wellington bridge, about half a mile outside the civic boundary, and I contains an area of between thirty and forty acres. Amply wooded with shade trees, it will furnish lovely promenades, grounds for sports and all other winds of outdoor attractions and j amusements. Through the center of it Hows the silvery Lee. beloved of sor.g-steis, sor.g-steis, at this point a very dream of . beauty and grace. An ormmental bridge will cross the river from the grounds proper to the Irish .illage, which we propose to n iect on what is known as the Sunday's Well si I-. -he miniature Irish village will eon-tain eon-tain as many of the characteristic features fea-tures of rural Irish life as are consul- j j ered worthy portraying, 'and the aim i will be to show the peasant in the best I light, giving types of the neatest and most industrious households, with women wo-men and girls at work, knitting, lace-making lace-making and pursuing the various other avocations peculiar to their con- dition in life. Here, also, it is consid- I ered advisable to have a small museum mu-seum which will be confined solely to antiquities of Cork. A striking feature of the Irish village, perhaps one of the most striking features of the exhibition, exhibi-tion, will te a real Irish round tower which will be. designed from the best examples in the country. The ascent i to the top of the tower will be made by the old-fashioned winding stairs. From the top the observer will have I spread before him the magnificent pan-j pan-j oiama of the grounds and exhibition buildings, the beautiful river and the I ancient city. From the top of this I tower at night a searchlight will cast its rays from point to point over the grounds, and it is contemplated to i have a similar light placed on the -old Shandon, which is about three-quarters of a mile away. To bid a hundred thousand welcomes ! to the scattered children of the Gael who will come back rom beyond the seas to the cradle land. "The bells of Shandon That sound so grand on Xb-.pleaisa Hi-atecs ot th rjerJLee'-will rjerJLee'-will ring out as they were never rung before, and the Irish air will grow fragrant with Irish melody to welcome I their home-coming. In addition, the fine-toned bls of St. Finbarrs will add their musical voices to the welcome, wel-come, and for these great events the bell ringers are to be specially trained. The exhibition buildings proper will consist of an industrial hall, a machinery ma-chinery hall and a fine arts department, depart-ment, in addition to which there will. i i of course, he ft number of tea houses, kiosks and refreshment rooms scat- ! tered here and there through the grounds. j The committee are now entering into I arrangements for securing all the side I shows possible that, have been seen at the' earl's court, Glasgow and Paris ex-' ex-' hibitions. I Already hotel prospectors are busy looking up sites for new buildings, and large houses that might be converted into suitable hotels, and a suggestion which is now under consideration has come from Mr. Filgate. director of the Irish pavilion in the Glasgow exhibition, exhibi-tion, to convert some large ocean steamships out of active service into floating hotels and moor them in the Lee. The office holders of the exhibition comprise the leading men of Ireland without distinction of creed, class or politics, while the executive board includes in-cludes picked men of the commercial intelligence of Cork city. Lord Mayor P'itzgerald called by many of his friends Lord Edward Fitzgerald is the strong man of the affair. He conceived con-ceived the idea to be a practical step, to show how the cultivation of home industries, with an Irish exhibition as an object lesson, and to be the most effective way of stopping the unnatural unnatu-ral emigration of the young, of both sexes, which has really became a na- j tional peril. His head and hand have been actively engaged in every step of its development. The affair has been supported quite generously, but the amount required for such a huge undertaking un-dertaking is yet far from being subscribed. sub-scribed. In this connection it may be mentioned that one of the most cheering cheer-ing communications to the promoters was one received by the lord mayor, a few days ago, from Hon. James D. Phe-lan, Phe-lan, mayor of San Francisco, in which words of cheer and kindly eneourage-j eneourage-j ment were indorsed by a check for $100. It was the first financial aid received from America, and coming as it did from a son of Irish parents, from one who has risen to the highest position -in the pioneer city of the Pacific coast, "it was varueti'-not merely 'at its material worth ;it touched deeply every member of our committee, indeed every faithful Gael in Ireland. And now, at the close of this sketch I may say that while applications for space in the exhibition have reached the executive from many foreign parts it is interesting to note that the first application came from France, a country coun-try which has always been one of the foremost among the friends and benefactors bene-factors of Ireland. |