The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07
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= jPrs1[u.I,..e1A PHILADELPHIA, Sep. 1, 1851.
For more than three months I have
passed at least q dozen times day the
building which I am about to describe,
and /, confess i Ij,haxasshrunksfromI the
task, ,gfor I have Hooked upon lit with
almost fear and IN wonder. It is not a. sub
iect osbe dealt With lightly, for within
this mighty building is. oneentzated
more ofsthef brain power, by which the
world is moYsa than in all Of the Cen 5slsi
tennial Exhibition beside. Crosslloser,
to the Main Building and there, You see
the results; ncpmelsback, to Machinery.
Halfand there's you find the motive pow SsI'
eti;by .which shess saS results were achieved.
ItIstruen IN the1 Chinese and Japanese
Departments you see marvellous exhibi-
tions of,hapdisrafts wonderful carvings
are there on which whole lives of unre.
mitting toilqhayes been wastedY genius
which properly directed might have III.
vale1ethes creations of oPraxiteles, here;
produces nothing but lml.o,nstrosities l., which
rather appai than crafty the imagina-
ton. You shake the dust dust Of the past
from your shoes when yo9 enter Mschin7,
cry Hall Everything around you speaks
of the living present mot of q slow pres
ent, butia q present that keeps reaching
out and grasping into the future-that
ccmpresses years into months and months
into days, days into hours and hours into
minutes, and minutes into seconds which
ever appear too slow. Steam magnihes
its power million times, yet steam seems
weak. ,andg tasdyssand nowdthe: restless
genius that whips no onward like 9 pitt
less fend dives down into the bowels of
the earth add reaches upward to the stars.
in search Of some new motixe power
which shall supersede that terrible agent
which for seventy years has been the
wonder and admiration Of the world.
Machinery Hall IS fourteen hundred feet
long T. and az five hundred and sixty-eight
feet wide, { and covers nearly thirteen
acres: the outside aisles are forty feet
high. and the interior sislest are seventy
feet. Walk right along with me down
the main avenue, nor pause till we, reach
the giant engine by which all this ma
chinery il me moved. We are now in the
centre of the building; the hand is on
the hour of nine: the crowd around
watch in breathiess expectation the
movements of two men II who stand on
the elevated platform; one makes par
tial circuit of the sleeping monster; scam
ing everything with q critical eye, he re-
turns to his p.,oost, % and lays his hand upon
a polished iron wheel; his comrade does
the same: he gives il gentle turn, and
the man on the oppeosite side i has repeated
bis notion another turn and YOU see a
GENTLE nnff of steam .sstill another there
;s-a-tbr;ll. and..y;b,st;on.-sstiilt ,another-
and the p;ant arms begin to move, the5
miohtv fy.vbeel thirty fsetiin diameter.
s.eans ronnd .s sI,o snI,oo;selessly as ghost:
tha~rhirr and; bnzz Of IS itbousand ma.
chimes bTeaE tbrough the stiffness Of Il the !
,o-n;ng, and. the iday,s labor has fairly
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