The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-27
Over at the Centennial.
Persons who visit the exhibition, now
come and go earlier.

Persons who visit the exhibition, now
come and go earlier.
The saloon and restaurant keepers in the
vicinity of the grounds, or those who are
left, don't complain of dull times any
more.
Over half a million of people were in at
tendance at the exhibition last week, an in
crease of about $4,000 over the previous
| week.
In machinery hall is portion of the cyl
inder of the first steam engine ever used in
this country. 1t was brought from Eng
land in 1856.
The statue of Christopher Columbus is
expected to be ready for unwilling on the
anniversary of the first di-covery of Amer
lea by Columbus, October 10.
On October 20 the statue of Witherspoon
will be unveiled with appropriate cere-
monies, in which Governor Bedle of New
Jersey, will make an Grafton.
Notwithstanding the terrible weather the
admissions on Saturday were much more
numerous than was anticipated. During
the day SO 500 persons passed Into Il @
| main exhibition, while 7S9 visited he liy G
stock show.
Mr.. w. g. Loug, the western excursion
manager, on Friday concluded a contract
with the Pennsylvania Railroad complny
to bring five thousand of the school child.
rem of Allegheny county, principally from
Pittsburg and Allegheny. to the exhibition,
The rates are five dollars rer head for
teachers and pupils, and seven dollars for
| parents. These terms are for the round
trip. The children will arrive about five
| o'clock in the afternoon of the second
Tuesday in October.
Although too late to cay anything new
about the exposition, few more expe-
rences may not be amiss for those whose
family visit is yet in store. We always
went early to seize the quietness and fresh
ness that precede the crowd. The first
morning hour of every day for the art col
lection in Memorial hall and its annex; the
next for the main building, studying care
fully the remotest and strangest countries
first, like China, Japan, Egypt, Russia,
sweden, Norway; not trying to see every
thing, but the best things carefully and In
detail, and more than once, to fix the i'm.
preston. Then, when the attention wea-
ries, restful ride around the grounds by
the West End railway, or a Sumter here
and there, after having gained perfect
knowledge by map and the bird's-eye
from the observatory of the main building,
so that the saunterng shall not be amless
nor reretitlous- Agricultural hall
supplementary in its way to
the various national exhibitions of the
main building, and to be mentally connect
ed with them. The government building,
noble study by itsell-the various depart
ments at Washington systemized and epit-
omized for popular education. Machinery
nall, wonderful testimonial to human
sk,ll and power over material forces, and
very fascinating in detail Woman's hall,
very suggestive of womans capacities and
OF what she has got to learn. Horticultu-
raj hall, in itself thing of beauty, and fit
~ commanding the most fascinating Wis
tas OF floral beauty and landscape garden
ing The special shows, nearly all worthy
OF special admiration, as testifying to pri-
vate or public enterprise, and particularly
such splendid outgrowihs of state enthusi-
asm as the combined exhibition of Kansas
and Colorado.