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Supplement to the Cork Weekly News. SATURDAY, MAY 10. THE EXHIBITION GROUNDS. A GENERAL DESCRIPTION. THEIR SCOPE AND PURPOSE. There is a perfect unanimity of opinion, that no more beautiful site could have been chosen for the purpose of an Exhibition than the grounds that are in the vicinity of the Mardyke. It will prove a matter of real interest to every visitor, from the most emotional to the most prosaic, to note the buildings that rise on every side and form a most attractive group, and to observe how charmingly the sur- throughout the Exhibition fill the fine hall with splendid volume of rolling harmonium sound. The frontage of the organ is 27 feet, from stands 30 feet high, and is 14 feet deep from stands back. It is a splendid instrument, and well worthy of the great occasion that called it into being. The visitor will turn from the Concert Hall and enter the Exhibition grounds, and there will there come under his notice a large pavilion—it is chiefly interesting to Corkmen, and in a more general way to visitors, because it contains a considerable number of souvenirs of the man who exerted himself for such a number of years to stamp out the evil of drunkenness, and make the Irish people sober and industrious. In fact the visitor is a second pavilion—it is called the President's ravilion—and compares favourably in size and appearance with the one just described. There was no point missed by the committee when securing the Mardyke grounds, and the acquirement of the enclosure that forms the Sundav's Well Boating and Tennis Club is an addition that was valuable, because of its prettiness, and the use to which it can be turned during the progress of the Exhibition. These grounds are decidedly an acquisition, and so, too, is the cricket field, in which it is Proceeding along the transverse avenue, the visitor will find himself in the Machinery Hall. This is 200 feet long and 100 feet wide. To which attention person, the contents of the hall are not appeal, but to the person of the practical man, who believes in facts and thinks a steam engine interesting because it is useful—the hall will appeal strongly. The extent and the variety of machinery will give a keen sense of pleasure, and here he will find an epiteme of the work—a day morning that makes a progress largely through the medium of the whirl of machinery, and makes little account of anything it cannot turn to practical use. Connung out of the Machinery Hall the visitor will next find his attention directed to the Women's Section, which covers a superficial area of 3,000 feet, and which should be filled from day to day with all those who take an interest in building up an Industrial Ireland. Next to this comes the section under the immediate control of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Education, and the section encloses space to the extent of 15,000 superficials in connection with the Women's Section. Amongst the contents will be found a loan collection of artistic objects, in…