THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION.
The American Exhibition of the arts, inventions, manufactures, products, and resources of the United States - such being its official and advertised description - opens today at Earl's Court, and it will remain one of the great sights. if not the sensation of the London season, until October 31. If with regard to our exhibitions at home, in London or elsewhere, difficulties are always found in getting exhibits ready to time, it could hardly be expeted that an exhibition composed entirely of American productions, which have to be collected from different parts of a very big country and conveyed across the Atlantic, would be an exception to the rule. As a matter of fact, the practical portion of this American Exhibition is not complete as yet, and some days must pass before the block of building 1,200 feet long by 120 feet wide, planned in sections with intervening streets duly numbered, will be ready for critical notice. Nothing has, however, been more striking that the rapidity with which the Exhibition as a whole has been brought to its present state. A few weeks ago we had to wade through mire and slush upon what seemed a most hopeless waste, and pick our way over a very chaos of building materials. Now the grounds are prattily laid out, and the great house of iron and glass is built. In the outer buildings about the grounds there yet remains much to be done, but no one who has watched the smartness of the operations in the past has any right to doubt that the balance of the work left for the future will speedily be mastered. The Wild West Show, however, of which the town is already talking, is waiting for public admiration. As our readers have been informed, Colonel Cody, his Indians, the buffaloes, horses, and deer have not only arrived in this country, but have for three weeks been established upon their own territory at Earl's Court. The Exhibition grounds are in two sections, a total of some twenty-three acres, offered to the proprietors by the Metropolitan Railway Companies o whom the property belongs and divided by the West London Railway. The setions are united by a substantial bridge from Fourth-sreet f the Exhibition's township, to the centre of the Grand Stand, stretching in a horseshoe shape round a part of the track round which the Red Indians, cowboys, and scouts career on horseback. The admission moen is a shilling on ordinary days, and half-a-crown on Wednesdays, and this pary ment includes the whole of the Exhibition, Today is in some senses ceremonial in character, and the admissions are restricted to the two guines season tickets, payment of one guines at the doors, or special guests to whom invitations have been sent. The grand stand accommodation 20,000 people is, of course the largest erection fof te kind we have every had, and the management has very wisely fixed low prices for the seats, amphitheater one shilling, grand circle two shillings, and reserved stalls five shillings. Only one exhibitions of "Wild West" will be given today. The Prince of Wales, Mr. Gladstone, and a large number of notable people
