Newark Industrial Exposition

1872 - 1875

From Newark Street Guide 1872:

On the 20th of August of the present summer, a first exhibition of various industries of the city of Newark will be opened for inspection. As it is designed to be an annual recurrence, a notice of the fact is appropriate to these pages. The arrangements are under the charge of a Board Managers of our best citizens, of whom the following are the officers: Hon. Marcus L. Ward, president, Thomas B. Peddie, first vice-president, Leopold Graf, second vice-president, David Campbell, third vice-resident, Albert M. Holbrook, secretary, Isaac Gaston, treasurer. The movement has been endorsed by the city authorities, and the Board of Trade. It is certain therefore to result in a series of most interesting expositions of the skilled industry of our citizens, in which every class of people and all sections of the Union may find both interest and profit. From the pages immediately preceding, strangers may gather some idea of the immense variety of our manufactures, and the Exhibition itself will very certainly prove, that in point of quality they are not only entitled to take rank with the best productions of the Union, but that in many branches they surpass those of any other city. The Exhibition will probably be opened for some weeks and the period of holding it has been expressly chosen at a time when the merchants and business men of almost all the States make their annual visit to New York. The location of the Fair has also been decided on with a view to economize the time of such visitors as can only spend a limited number of hours in Newark.

The Skating Rink which is being improved and enlarged for the purpose, is within gunshot of the centre of the city, and within three to eight minutes walk of the stations of every railroad that enters it. There is no time therefore lost in going to, or returning from the grounds. Return tickets from New York costing only thirty-five cents the round trip, enable visitors from that city to be in the Exhibition within thirty minutes, and return to their hotel again, if necessary, with ease and comfort in the evening. This can be done through a delightful country, and by the elegant cars of three lines of railroad, connecting with the ferries at Cortlandt, Liberty, Chambers and Desbrosses streets, and running at intervals of half an hour, from early morning until midnight. Direct communication is also had with every other part of the country, and a cordial invitation has been extended by the Board of Managers to all the people of the Union to visit Newark at the time of the Exhibition, and judge for themselves of the variety and excellence of the daily productions of this, the first manufacturing city of America, if estimated relatively to population.

Manufacturer and builder / Volume 4, Issue 9, September 1872