Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-24
THE EXPOSITION.
How Nashville Turns Out 90 See HIS
Great ShOw-Netes ON the Agrieultu.
raj and Mechanical Departments
The Place Where the Farmers Ought
10 RaudexvOus

Great shOw-Netes ON the Agricultu.
raj and Mechanical Department.
The Place where the Farmers Ought
10 Rendezvous.
The crowd which fiocked to The EXPOSE
ton last night was not less than that which
assembled there Tues Jay night. Nothing
could be more encouraging than the at
tendance, and, so far, this is all due to the
eagerness of the Nashville people to see
the Exhibition, and to their appreciation of
the display; for visitors from the country
and from distance have been, as always
during the first days, comparatively few.
But strangers are expected to pour in in
due time to witness our splendors, and to
profit by our inducements.
The entry clerk had as much as he could
do yesterday to accommodate exhibitors
and the improvements which they effected
added much to the fine appearance of vari-
Gus departments. Those interested in the
Exposition have become aroused TO the
achievement of success and are thoroughly
enlisted in their work.
There is nothing else to be said of the
show in a general way, but that j. is mag
niticent, containing vast d., 20 interest
and smuse, and well worth repeated visits.
We might, in to-day's paper, describe
with some detail what the Exposition has
to fascinate the farmer. The agricultural
and mechanical departments are large and
unusually full. There are four cotton and
hay presses to be seen on the grounds and
a model of fifth. There are several hand
some gins of various kinds. Wagons and
carriages occupy a large portion of the
space in the west wing. To simply emu
merate the rest, as they appear in classes,
one may see in the agricultural department
a horse mill and corn-sheller com
bined, a collection of corn-shell-
erS, feed-cUtteIs, crank churns, cider mills
and presses, sorghum mills, plows and cul-
tivators innumerable, reapers, mowers,
hay-tedders, hay-loaders, hay rakes, threst-
ers, fans, grain drills, washing machines
all IN great variety and of splendid finish.
And in the mechanical department, where
in the agriculturist as well as the mechanic
is interested, may be seen boilers of three
different patterns, the largest of which,
built in Nashville, is employed TO
propel the whole machinery; five ele-
CANT engines, the smallest of which, re-
cent Nashville invention, is the only sue
cessful rotary engine ever built and the on
~ specimen, save model at Washington,
in existence. IL has a single steam chest
9ixS inches, in which the whole power is
applied, not to a piston, but to eceentrics,
and it has ready capacity of eight horse
power. This little engine obyiates the
''dead point entirely and saves force in
this way. II has many features to com
mend it, and is a thing much admired at
the Exposition. There is an interesting
collection Of attractive machines, adapted
to various arts, including several which do
fancy woodwork, all operated by these en-
gines.
The enginery and agricultural imple-
ments constituted an exceedingly credita-
bic exhibition. and are all that the farmer
could wish. They make display of which
the Exposition managers are justly proud.