Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-05-08

ticket is granted to each exhibitor and
also to each workman by him employed
The American department for some
reason or other. is far behind that OF
ENGLAND or France. in getting articles
ready for Exhibition.
In the main building there are some oil
CT. ickering's and Steinway's Pianos on
exhibition also specimens from the
American Lead Pencil Company some
Silver Ware from the establishment Of
Tiffany & Co, N. Y. an Electric CLOCK
by Fourier of New Orleans. display OF
cast iron in imitation of bronze from the
Tucke, Manufacturing Co. Boston, Bar
lows Planetarium from Kentucky, Pho
lau's g. Collander's Billiard Tables from
New York, some nice Mantlepieces by
John Schuster from Brooklyn, N. u Of
Tennessee, California and Vermont
marble, case of guns from the Peabody
Arms Co. and also one from Remington d
establishment at Illion, N Y.
In the "Anuex," or open shed, a splen
did street car from the Mandatory of j
Stevenson. N. Y, aud specimens of Howe's
Scales are the only articles yet on exhibi
ton. Fairbanks Scales are being opened
and put up and a splendid Locomotive
the "America" far ahead of anything
Of the kind in the Exhibition) is being
put together and will soon be ready. II
is from New Jersey. The rest of the
building is used for storing the unopened
boxes of American Exhibitors. These
boxes are in the care of Mr. Bertrand
clever Dutchman who can neither IN.
derstand nor speak word of English
vcntured to suggest to the Commissioner
General that a man should occupy that
place who could speak English. He re
piled 1T is the best thing there is about
that man that he can't speak English, for
he would be bored to death with questions
if he could Such philosophy =! The
man who is to point out the space to be
occupied by the Exhibitors is young
Frenchmau named Mulat, and very good
natured fellow he is too, and speaks Eng
lish enough to be impcrfectly understood
If the question were asked me why the
United States we're so far behind oths
nations in the display of their products |
should attribute it to the bad manage
ment of those who have the charge of the
American Department and the blame
would mainly rest on Mr.. Beckwith, the
Commissioner General. He may be a
good man and possibly the man for the
place, but am decidedly of the opinion
that his want of executive talent. system
and business. are the main reasons why
we are so far behind other nations and
have so little good space allowed us in
the Exhibition.
The uncivil and overbearing manner
manifested toward American contributors
has had the effect to sour the feelings Of
the latter and deprive them of the feeling
of reverence that they might otherwise en-.
terrain for the man--inefhcient as he has
proved himself to be.
As things now look. the Paris EXPOSE
ton will be far from beneftting any
American contributor. Even visitors from
America can but feel Inundated or pro-
vokcd to see these contributions crowded
"out into the cold" away from the main
building feel that Americans are sold
and contributors badly sold by this OK
hibition.
The exhibition as a whole, when com.
pleted and ready for visitors-say two
months from now-will be big thing,
but the United States contributions will
be a mere fly speck when compared with
those of England and France. Possibly
the judges who are to decide upon the
merits of the articles exhibited may be
men of sense and integrity and award
premiums to real merit rather than be
waited by the wind that is now blowing
advers ely to American interests. If so,
American genius will be acknowledged
even at this fair where the signs now seem
so unprcpitious. AS | was coming out of
the exhibition yesterday noticed the
g 'gs of the several nations displayed neal
the opening. AT tho top was the French
standard, and from this the o,her flags
iioatcd from two lines that divergcd from
the base OF the French flag and came to
the ground like an inverted letter V, thus.
A Next below the French fig came that
Of the United States and Great Britain
Below these came Russia, Prussia and so
Oh. What struck me was the fact that
both the French and English flags were
by the pole that bore them
iloff. but not so with the Stars and
Stripes. They aoatcd beautifully and
while the flags Of England and France