The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-31

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---Pumps-Maps--The Northern
Pacific Railway.
The American court, adjoining TIN
main gallery, has received due shar,
Of anathema from every countrymaI
that has visited it. Here, more thar
anywhere else, is our weakness visi
ble. As mere structure Of wood and
glass the court is self-evident failure
All the courts are Of necessity inferior
to the galleries. They were never in
tended to ba more than so many make
shifts to exc out space. Yet the otheI
nations have succeeded in making
them ut least respectable and tolera.
ble, while we have put up . some
thing that Is not only hideous In its
nakedness, but q nuisance to those
who are compelled to stay in it. On a
warm day the atmosphere is sitting,
like that Of y ba,hing.houss on the
beach In August. The walls are for
the greater part bare, and the objects
exhibited are so inadequate to fill the
space that they straggle along as the
procession of charity school.
There is Cat somewhere in the bag.
Such an architectural abortion would
have cost at home $1,000 or $1,000.
Here under the present regime OF
high prices, and, in land W here the
facilities for rough wood work are
fewer. the fair sum might have been
fixed at $4,000. The builder is to get
back the building at the close of the
exhibition. Every one will say that
this is paying dear for the whistle. So
far as can learn, the contract was
not everhauled by the Investigating
Committee. II that be the case, Con-
gress will have an additional item Of
grievance next winter, when the final
reckoning is taken.
The objects exhibited in the court
are good in themselves some OF them
are even elegant. for instance the sew
ing-machine stands. Had they been
placed In y smaller and more tasteful
Iy planned building, like the Schwarz-
enberg pavilion or the Swedish pavil-
ion for iron industry, the effect of the
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all wear poverty stricken mien. On
from the gallery by the up
per door the first object that strikes
ones eye is the exhibition of pumps
rom the Middletown Company wv. &
b. Douglass. There are here about
100 pumps of all sizes and patterns
garden engines. air pumps, etc. On
the same stand IL also exhibited q case
Of hatchets and axes from the Doug
las AK Company, of Boston, and an
other containing specimens of cast
steel and iron shovels and spades
from n. B. Sherman. In this wilder
ness of Austria 1t is refreshing to en-
such handsome garden and
forest tools; besides they are re-
minder of home. The evidences Of
A Austria's back wardness in the indus
trial arts are plentiful, but no one is
more striking than that afforded by
Of our axes and spades
with like articles in the Austrian de-
partment. The entire collection is
The exhibition of the well known
agency OF Rollins & Co., London.
The shows Of pumps from the Cow
ngs Company Of Seneca Falls, aud
rom the GouIds Company, Of the
'ame place, resemble in all general
features the Middletown collection.
There is no novelty-to an American
lin any of them. They are the same
pumps that we have been using the
asst five or six years To an Austrian,
IN the contrary, they cannot fail to be
by reason Of their evident
'uperiority to those of his own coun-
.ry.
The eastern wall is hung-I cannot
.ay ornamented-with set of three
huge and coarsely executed pictures,
he exhibition of the Pork-packers'
of Cincinnati. One who
s interested in such matters can study
here the entire process, from slaugh-
Iering and singeing to curing and pack
Ing. 1t is not my wish to cast any
iisrespect upon go important branch
of trade as pork-packing. England
'till buys largely Of US, and our hams
and pork are slowly but surely eating
their way into the digestive organs of
Still, in the interests Of high art, I
cannot but wish that the said pictures
might have received less conspicu-
,us position. Along the walls, under
Or near by the pictures, are some spe-
cimens Of what we can do In the way
IF wheel making. There are . few
very light trotting buggy wheels (no
name attached, and case
of spokes, hubs, and bent tires from
the Union Spoke Works, of Philadel-
phia. The work, all done by machin.
cry, is excellent, and makes one regret
that no one Of our great carriage max
ers has seen fit to make any exhibi-
ton. From all that l can hear and
Judge this Is a mistake. There are
many wealthy men In Austria who
have heard of American carriages and
buggies, and who would be glad to
give them trial. A cursory exami
nation of the Austrian collection has
me that we could easily
have beaten their best makers. There
are in this collection many splendid
upholstered and painted
in exquisite taste, but nothing that has
the solid comfort of our coach es or the
combined lightness and strength OF
our buggies. Imay give here, en- pas
SAINT, . fresh instance of the readiness
with which the Japanese adopt foreign
ideas. In strolling through their