Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-06-23
OUR CENTENNIAL COERE>PoND-
ENCE.
The Vermont Exhibits.

PHILADEIFHIA, June :, $50
To the Editor Of the Free Press and Times
The exhibits of NermOnters AMI vermont
firms are some of them yet, Ike those from
other States, quite incomplete. But tii-
will only be for few DAYS. As the enter
prising exhibitors are pushing forward their
arrangements with all speed. L, Is difficult.
too, as yet, TO find many of the exhibits a-
there are numerous inaccuracies in the 1f
cial catalogue.
In Machinery Hall. probably no display
from the Green Mountain state exec. ia
magnitude and completeness those OF OUT
scale manufacturers, and in no respec, ar.
they second to any in the Exposition. f--
Fairbanks Scale Manufacturing Co., of =
Johnsbury, is represented by Fairbanks AMI
Ewing, Of Philadelphia. The exhibit ocel.
pies a central and conspicuous position. AL
shows at once every kind of scale made ly OBJ,
immense and deservedly prosperous c-ucsrn.
whose warehouses are in every large city in
the Union, and whose haudiwork estimate
the force of gravity in every quarter Of tl-
globe. Just adjoining this l. the exhi1., H
the Brandon Manufacturing COMPANY % tar
Howe Standard Scales. The latter doe ~,
occupy quite a. much space a. the former
but In other respects it does not appear TO-
ferior. The products of these two com
panies are too well known to neea dc-crir
ton. just as yOu enter the pImpauneA
Of Machinery Hall, at the left. v1I come
upon the Steam Fire Engine exhibited ti
B. 5. Nichols, Of Burlington. Ii is beau.
tiful piece of workmanship and attracts
much attention. Further on at the end of
another annex, which We can only d.-riu
guish as not being the pump-anncz is
Stone Saving Machine, exhibited by Thomas
Ross, of Rutland. Exactly opposite it is
Stone Channeling, or Quarrying, Machine
which the Steam Stone Cutter Company, t
the same town, exhibit. Both arr very
noticeable Mr. Ross has also on exhIh.,.ru
a Steam Crane, which will deserve further
remark. Beside these there are number
of exhibits in this building, which reflect
much credit on the exhibitors and the Sta-e.
and of which We hope soon to b. abe 60
give full description.
In the main building, the Columbia Mar
bic Company (Rutland) exhibit some d1c
specimens OF marble. The example 90.
waiDscoting and tilins are especially 50. la
fact, the whole display is good but, unt'F-
tunately. 1t occupies rather a bad position t.
attract the attention of one not boxing tr
it. The same NAV be said of the exhib, %
the Rutland Marble Company, which i-oniy
a few steps from the preceding. Tle~per
mems of marble in this. wrought AMI uH-
wrought, are very beautiful , and without
question, if it were on larger scale, ami go
a better place, would provoke good deal FOL.
IN hnr = beth
would be noticed at all now, if 1t were not
curtained of, so that many stop and take
peep, wondering ''what anybody Is trying ~
hide there" SheldOns and Slason. Of ltlt-
land, have marble PEDESTAL on the space
allotment of the Brandon ManullcIurius
Company, in Machinery Hall, which i cita
logued as in the Nam Building. II Is
beautiful piece of marble, well wrought, and
probably attracts more attention there than
if isolated 10 the Main Building. They have
also a number Of specimens Of blue ant
white marble pedestals in the Art Gallery.
The St. Johnsbury Granite COMPANY ha>
made a good display of wrought and IN
wrought granite. Most conspicuous in the
IS granite monument, the pedes-
tai OF gray granite, the shaft of red, AMI the
'ap OF light gray. The red granite takes
|. very high polish, and this exhibit catehe1
he eye Of many a visitor.
The Burlington Woollen Company occupies
IN excellent position near the main aisle
uuning north and south, and its display oil
castorines, moscows, dOeskins,
tc., is quite equal to any of its kind in the
Exhibition. Ii is surprise to many visitors
o find woollen goods riyalling those Of for
ign makers in fineness, beauty and finish
rought here from Vermont but then, they
emember, or some of them do, that Yer
,ont is great State for ine-wooled sheep
nd they cease to be so much surprised al
he superior quality OF the goods.
A description Of other Vermont exhibits
lust be deferred to another occasion.
Yours \.