Statement Made by the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, in Regard to the Organization and Progress of the EnterpriseCarr & Hicks, 1853 - 56 σελίδες |
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53 BROADWAY abroad agent ALEXANDER HAMILTON American Industry Architect arts Asso Association assurance AUGUST BELMONT Austrian Barytes bonded warehouse building character CHARLES BUSCHEK charter circular citizens City of New-York co-operation columns commerce Committee consists Company coöperation copy cordial Corporation Crystal Palace DANIEL WEBSTER Department desire DETMOLD Directors distinguished consideration dome duty edifice enterprise erection European Exhibitors favor feet high Foreign galleries girders give Government ground floor honor HORATIO ALLEN important inclosing Industrial Exhibition interest iron and glass JAMES large number letter liberal London Exhibition manifested manufacturers of Europe minerals Ministers Nations New-York Exhibition Nova Scotia obedient servant objects October October 12 OFFICE Old World organization President principal prise purpose Pyrites receive represented Reservoir Square respectfully Secretary SECT secure SIR-I Sixth Avenue specimens square feet Stockholders success Tallmadge THEODORE SEDGWICK tion undertaking United Universal Exhibition Webster WILLIAM WHETTEN
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Σελίδα 38 - Sedgwick, the President of the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations...
Σελίδα 55 - ... stock held by them respectively for all debts and contracts made by such company, until the whole amount of capital stock fixed and limited by such company shall have been paid in, and a certificate thereof shall have been made and recorded as prescribed in the following section ; and the capital stock, so fixed and limited, shall all be paid in.
Σελίδα 55 - The stockholders of any company organized under the provisions of this act, shall be jointly and severally individually liable for all debts that may be due and owing to all their laborers, servants and apprentices, for services performed for such corporation.
Σελίδα 55 - All the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act, shall be severally, individually liable to the creditors of the company in which they are stockholders, to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively for all debts and contracts made by such company, until the whole amount of capital stock fixed and limited by such company shall have been paid in, and a certificate thereof shall have been made and recorded, as prescribed in the following section...
Σελίδα 53 - SECT. 2. The Capital Stock of the said Company shall be Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, and shall be divided into shares of One Hundred Dollars each...
Σελίδα 19 - Gildemiester, of New York. The general idea of the edifice is a Greek cross, surmounted by a dome at the intersection. Each diameter of the cross will be 365 feet 5 inches long. There will be three similar entrances — one on the Sixth Avenue, one on Fortieth, and one on Forty-second Street. Each entrance will be 47 feet wide, and that on the Sixth Avenue will be approached by a flight of eight steps.
Σελίδα 21 - ... from half an inch to one inch. These columns receive the cast-iron girders. These are 26^ feet long and 3 feet high, and serve to sustain the galleries and the wrought-iron construction of the roof, as well as to brace the whole structure in every direction. The girders, as well as the second story columns, are fastened to the columns in the first story, by connecting pieces of the same octagonal shape as the columns, 3 feet 4 inches high, having proper flanges and lugs to fasten all pieces together...
Σελίδα 22 - The whole quantity of iron employed in the construction amounts to 1,800 tons, of which 300 tons are wrought and 1,500 tons cast iron. The quantity of glass is 15,000 panes, or 55,000 square feet. The quantity of wood used amounts to 750,000 feet, board measure. The general mode of erection by base pieces, columns, connecting pieces and girders, is the same with that of the great Hyde Park building ; but the construction of the arched nave, and of the dome, is of course entirely peculiar, and the...
Σελίδα 20 - The exterior angles of the building are ingeniously filled up with a triangular lean to 24 feet high, which gives the ground plan an octagonal shape, each side or face being 149 feet wide. At each angle is an octagonal tower 8 feet in diameter and 75 feet high.
Σελίδα 17 - Bogardus submitted one of a circular building, consisting of successive colonnades, placed one over the other, somewhat resembling the Colosseum at Rome, and involving a new mode of joining, for which he has obtained a patent. Mr. Julius W. Adams presented one of a great octagonal vault or dome, supported by ribs made of fasces or clusters of gas pipe. Several other plans were offered, of great beauty and originality. The task of selection was difficult and delicate ; the Board, however, after much...