Connecticut western news., 1873-10-10
Interstate Industrial Exposition at
 Chicago.
Editor Connecticut Western News.

It was our pleasure to be present last evening at the opening of the Interstate Industrial Exposition. The building from without looked magnificent it's vast pro. portions, doines and turrets, from which a 1 flood of light poured forth into the night from inumerable windows, outshining them selves proudly against the evening sky, while the interior presented a dazzling and bewilde-ing scene, altogether unappreciable by persons not present. The throng began to assemble at about o'clock, and from that hour until after 9 o'clock constant stream of humanity poured into the build ing, the enlivening notes of the band and the booming of cannon adding to the en- thusiasm of the hour,
 | It was estimated that at least 20, GOO peo- pie were present, consisting of sprinkling of persons from Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee, New York and other cities. To attempt to describe the interior arrangement of the building would simply be impossi- ble' It was magnificent in the extreme ; one of the many attractions was the splen- did steam elevator manufactured by Messrs Crane Brothers of this city-it must have cost nearly two thousand dollars-and a throng was constantly waiting at the wire door to step on board and proceed heaven ward about one hundred and sixty feet. IL would take on from fifteen to twenty per sons at a time and carry them aloft, deposit 1 fIol ] firma for more; and thus it made trips about every five minutes during the entire evening.
 The magnificent engine of "Corless manufacture, which drives the machinery, was much admired by both ladies and gen. tlemen. The steam is brought some two hundred feet tc this engine, and it moves so quiet and still you would not 5o aware of it's presence unless you stood facing it. Although 10000 persons were in the build ing, there was plenty of room, and no one appeared to be in each others way. There are so many articles and apartments to be seen that it requires nearly week to give them all fair inspection. The art gallery was very much admired, and the sewing machine rooms were not only magnifice mt but actually dazzling.
 A soda fountain towering some twenty feet in the air was another attraction, anc as the evening was very warm, some dozer young men were constantly kept busy draw ing the toaming beverage. Another at oofsN cl, s,, ks
 Some sixteen men wearing red f1anne shirts, trimmed with blue, were making boots and shoes in the latest style, and tn, dexterity with which they would make thu
 holes and drive the pegs was astonishing
 One of the employees informed me that h. could peg the bottoms on twelve pairs o
 boots In sixty minutes. We noticed a yer,
 fine display of blows by former residen of Salisbury, MT. Brewster. In one pol
 ton of the gallery is buffalo COW an
 calf, from Kansas, which attracts grea deal of attention.
 Another article which was particular pleasing to look at, was a road wagon o
 ordinary size, enclosed in a glass case, an ? weighing but eighty pounds And sowe migt l go on and enumerate article after article UT s til we filled your paper all full, but as this ] the first day after opening we will not il o flict upon your ten thousand readers an
 such laborious job, but should time and ol portunity offer, we may send you som n more notes from our walks in the expos e tion. Yours, &c., s LAKE SHORE