Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-20
Centennial progress.

rur roRwAvpNrss OF tbs Bu LDiHGs-wuiT Is TO
90 ~ TueM-wn MiNdroS o THE FRoNr
"Glr," tho correspon eat of the New York
Times, writes from Philadelphia about the Cen
tennal IIo says
Nothing is moro surprising to the stranger in
phlad slplia who visits FIlrmouut PArk than
tina reulrlIlDly forw tri condition Of tho Cen
.onntai b1llnJ4. Tna ll3t has gpho abroad
far anl netr t,ist tho slpY Plttl1lp iiAni have
unlerttten III for Watch their Resources were
~ INSULT sent As ther tenperanent was nnsnt
able 1t might b3 NJ Az ,thpr tlma prliittble to
inquire INTO the sources of a notion so com
pletely falsiied by tho event, for II - certain
that whatever mty be tn Characteristics of the
Ph,liielphiaus IN oshar matters, they nave
shown neither tirnidty nor sloNhe-s III thls.
The agricultural hail is the only one that II
backward but liint 81 III ;}lt he tackled fairly un-
.il machinery hall is finished, l. is in charge OF
tho game contractor, AIr. Qiigley, OF Whining
Ton, Del wtio has given the greatest possne
ea.iSfactl III 20 the Centennial a!thoNteH. IL
ha4 been 30 quick in working, so faithful IN per
forms ance 70 Intelligent IN seiondlng the wishes
OF tho architect and the needs of tho engineers
that he has become u locai tayorte, and Phila-
.depha braGs of him. -,
hfnong the ex exhibitlons in Machinery Hlll will
be machines for plauing, matching, mnrtsing,
tanuning, scr1-work growing, satl anu door
making, in fact all the pieces OF wooheh
house. Speclallies in this department VIII DC
tha processes of making mttcle5 aud leai pen
,ch. There will be every variety OF saw mil III
culing tho wnnlerfnl jg saws which make lne
s-rofl-wurk. Foremost IN the Latter specialtN r.
WltEninet1n Dsl,, aud it wilt surprise tho people
who believe exclusively in the Yankee its Whit
tier tals al the s,ra work in thi. hnliilnS ahd
in the Ceuteunial Office came from that place.
Next coms che machines for working metaIR
and expsrGs say thlt it will inedia every ma
chine OF this description ever thought OF. Ap-
plicatipn. have already been made for To 0O0
feet and il the folks interested III soma depart
mants do not hurry mp they VIII be squeezed
out by this department. in which trchieh""u7
tide of activity has aeJ ill., Ehsfo VIII % no NJ
Justice in this, for the two deptrtEADbts OF ma
chiuerv for working in wood and metals cover
almost national area. III the formor Chcaso
10 as much ahead as lazy st Ions Is behihd.
in the latter New England, Now York. PitlAde
phia and Wilmington are each d HDlaylhg pIudl-
gies of enterprise anl Z3al. l wish l conld say
the same thing about loepm1t 1tiy1s anu cars. a
few makors will make u fine display, bnt the great
majority do not seem To have sot over the
panic and apparently are not to be represented.
There will be n grand and glorious show oi
drawiug-room and sleeping cars, and OF eiefa-
tor cara In ship building | may say what
have said about locomotiyes--a few VIII MAKE
iine display, but ali are from PhiladelNAia
aud Wilmington, especially from the latter
p'tca. Nsx5 yesr psople Will stare NJ tho eAui
bit mads by Wilmington, where neither pane
hard times have had the least erect
without breaking confidence, may NM
tha5 England will make irnmanse displays n
this ro 4pect. aud only from PhIladelphla alld
Wilmington will th4re bo anything to compete
with nnr