Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-28
TUE WORLDS EAR AND ETPOSl
TION
vienna. July 9th lS1,


To the Edition If The Journal
Ii would be quite impossible to give in d.
tail ahat have seen this dav of the World
Fair and Universal Exposition, but, however,
while speaking OF it in general way | may
mention few things, to which my attention
was particularly called.
As might naturally lie supposed, the Star.
and Stripes first caught my eye, and there at
a.coye a, I, the days work began | am
very glad now that commenced at the Amer
lean department, for the reason that the first
Impressions are usually the most enduring.
Had beeun at the French, Austrian or En-
gIi.h, and ended with the American, the lat
ter compared with the former would have
been q tame show. looked for magnid-
cent Pullman Palace sleeping car, such as
would astonish the travelling denizens OF
England, ana the Continent, accustomed IS
,hey are 10 ride in penned in ami locked Up
boxes. bur not one was any whore to be seeh,
or even one of our superior locomotives.
When ! hal looked through the different de-
partm ns, and seen that the various quarter.
of the globe, except the United States had
arrayed before the inspection of the public
their choicest and most excellent, both an
t cient and modern, things in which the sepa-
rate parts Of the worl eAcrlled, there came
the Illuminating thought, that the United
States had kept back some of her most i'm
poftant features of industry. Had the money
improvilently appropriated lay our Congress
men for their own use, been raised and ex-
pended for the Worlds Fair, then the United
States might have been better represented.
would not be understood TO say that the
United States department is failure; indeed
SO far as il goes it is well represented, but
many of the things in Which the United
States, "a a nation, excel. seem to have been
LIFT out.
Before rntsr ring the main building stepped
into the Am, rican School House, an i'm
portant feature, as well as an attractive one,
IN the American department. 1t was STYLED.
think, 'country school house." a school
house in the rural districts, or the like; but
however. II had the appearance of being more
c!n'ied than some Of the rural school houses
% MHne Possibly its mold may be in
Massachusetts, or New York where there are
lever red school houses than in Maine, and
: ii That is the case, Maine ia not Dirigo in
country school houses, bay wouIA do well 70
? follow out the model here on exhibition.
winch, ny tHT way ls Quli' perfect in pVprv
appointment.
: The first hing that attracted lny attention
. on entering the American department was a
| whiskey, gin, and rum store from New York
, | think; having a large collection of those ar.
ticles in long neckcl bottles, and fiat flask.
tastetp.ly arranged in rows ard pyramids 4
Pullman Palace car in place OF this New York
store would probably have made better
show, especially in land like this where they
have plenty Of liquor, bu' never Pullman
car.
Specimens Of the mineral productions ar
| ranged with exquisite taSe: specimens Of art,
such az photographs, chromos, etc. imple-
ments Vt war small guns and pistols; agri-
cultural productions, such as the rich wheat,
! corn and barley of the West; both in point of
quantity, and neatness of arrangement, were
highly interesting. But in the sewing ma
chine room, an important part of American
Industry was well represented Operatives
were at work, showing the attentive bystand-
ers how they could make beautiful varegated
flowers sppear in q few minutes in the cor
ner Of piece Of plain white cloth, or how
| PAIR OF stockings, Or wristers, on Lambs ia
nous knitting machine. were turned off in
quick succession.
The British department, next in order,
claimed my attention. In this department
both the industrial and fine arts were extern
slveiy represented. 1t was the cream of Lon.
oon' and, to speak in detail, would be an end