The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-09-12
DIR CHICAGO LETTER.
CHICAGO, Sept. Z,

CHICAGO, Sept. I, 1851.
EDS TRIBUNE"
II there is any one thing over which
the American people develop a sort of
| harmless insanity, it is the passion foi
Fairs and Exhibitions" OF agrictiI,u-
re- products, mechanical ingenuity, artis-
tic skill etc, County, State and National
general and particular iii their coIlIuct
and purposes they seem to go Oh every
there, all the time. This season OF the
year is one i'll which this epidemic pecu-
liarly RACES, bus this year an additional
vim is given to it By Il general feeling Of
shame "a. the lneagre part we have taAen
in the great Paris Exposition. Hay
PLY it Is generally understood, not IN TINS
country aloie but iii Europe, that this
arose not from inability on the part OF ghu
American peope but from the gross in
efficiency and stupidity Of our lrpreseu-
ta,ive ". Beck iwih Well, to show that
we can do something sorth while, our
Fairs this season acquire more than ord
inary importance. Anng the first out
| side the ordinary list, is one which is now
being gotten UP hare ua;iur the auspices
of the " "lAIechanic, and Inventors Union ;,
and there can be no doubt that if the eff
forts Of its orignators are properly sec
ouded by the people Of the Northwest.
we shall have ii display OF which we may
! well be proud 1t is to be held at the
I West side Rink, on The corner OF West
Randolph and Ada streets and to he open
! ed on The 10th inst The speciality Of
the Exhibition will be machinery of all
/ kinds, to properly exhipit which steam
power and abundant space will be provld-
ed for all. Gen j. 3. Turchin to he the
! Superintendent Goods viii be received
up to the 18th inst, at the place mention
ed, if sent addressed to his care. Ali ap-
pilGitions for space should be made to the
office OF the Associations, No. l55 South
Clark street, Room IA, to j. s. Richard
son, President OF a. IL. Davis, Secretary
| have given this prominence to the
Mechanic Exhibition and tair, because
| regard it Us an excellent aud rare op-
por,unity ior our Northwestern inventors
and mechanics t. obtain publlc alI iutel-
hgent notice and consideration OF their
works. When machinery is sent to a
State or County tiir, especially when it
is app!ica bie To agricultural purposes, II
is seldom judged or even considered ac-
cording to It's merits, while here cOmpe-
tent judges, men thoroughly conversant
with machinery will be assigned to the
work of criticism and awarding real mer-
it. Did We have more Of SUCH exhibl
tions, and We're their awards given with
clrcumspection by strictly honorable ex-
perts, there would at this day be far fewer
worthless patents hawked about the
country by glib tongued agents to detiaud
con;idmg DENIES of the rural districts.
Another exhibition held here during
the past week, by the Horticultural So
ciety, was highly interesting, the display
, of plants, fruits aud flowers being much
larger than at any exhibition heretofore
There is still, however, much room for
Improvement in this direction Advanc-
| ed as We are in most other respects, there
seems to be pretty large proportion OF
our people who think with the cid woman
i'll the story that the pootiest posy III
the world is sunAower, next to that
a hoiyhock OF Il poppy. One thing
which seriously initiates against the cul-
tlvatlon OF u popular taste Tor aud knowl-
edge OF flowers here, is the fact that the
earth III this vicinity is quite uniavorabIe
to their growth. 1t is sandy and seem
ingly devoid of nutrlment. Gardners
therefore bring earth here from Indiana,
Southern Illinois and other places and
mix it with small per centage OF oul
own earth People unaware OF this fact
make experiments at flower growing
which turn out to be failures and are dis
gusted with the enterprise.
Nearly all our Chicago musicians have
been away this week, down to indianapolis
where the great Western .Saengerbund'
Was holding high carnival and 1t is with
no small degree Of qualification that we
learn that one of eur Societies, the Con
cordla' stood at the head of the long lis:
of competitors.
During the week ending Aug. alst there
were transfers of real estate in Chicago to
the amount OF S42E,6S9. Pretty good
that for rather dull season. BY the
way one Of the sales included in that
weeks list was the transfer OF large
tract in the southwest portion OF odori-
ferrous Bridgeport to the marine COM