American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-08-05
PHILADELPHIA LETTER,
From ON Special Correspondence
IIIIIADIIpIIIt ,July

/ rom ouI Special Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, July 81.
Dear CiiiscR: !
One visits the Exposition, and,
after Il days labor. i'll travelling and /,
looking, he goes away with tho idea
that he has seen almost everything,
that is, that he has had glance at
nearly everything.
On the second visit he finds there
are Some things he did not see
before; and, after the fifth or sixth
visit, he comes to the conclusion
! that 1t would take about every day
for a year 10 see all that il there.
In Machinery Hall, the PhiIadel-
! phia Times have or exhibition one
of the latest improved printing
presses, made by II Hoe & Co.,
which will be placed in the new
building they are now erecting,
when finished.
| What "a vast amount of improve
ments have been made in printing
presses within the last few years.
Here is press that is worked by
only three men, that prints on both
sides, and cuts and folds 10000
newspapers per hour.
The next Improvement i'm that
line will be perfect type-settiDg
machine. | believe there has been
one invented, but 1t does not work
satisfactorily yet. Nor never will.
EDS. CITIZEN.
After that, l wonld not be sur
prised to hear of an editorial ma
chine, one that will give us leading
editorials on all the topics of the
day.
Near the Hoe press are folding,
an envelope, a brick making aud a
pin sticking machine.
The folding machine takes the
sheet, after being printed, and folds,
pastes, turns, and delivers it in
book form. 1t is used for books
and periodicals.
The envelope machine, cuts, gums,
folds, and counts 120 envelopes per
minute. Is it any wonder envelopes
are so cheap?
The brick machine takes the clay,
presses and cuts it In the form Of
bricks, ready tor baking, at the rate
of 10000 per day.
The sticking machine sticks
1SO, 900 pins per day.
Having feasted my eyes for some
time Oh the ingenuity of man, /
| f1nrrrl I tynt.tI OF OF a. NJ
Machinery Hall; and, in doing so,
[ caught sight of a one story, circu.
lar building, painted red, which my
curiosity compelled me to visit
and on arriving there, found it to be
a Turkish Cafe.
Inside of the building there are
about q dozen Turks, dressed in
their native costumes, waiting Oh
] customers, and busy time they
have Of it, for it is always crowded,
and nearly everyone buys some
thing.
Sitting on one of the luxurious,
cushioned sofas, with cup of Moka,
| (coffee) and smoking a pipe thai
rests on a table about two yards
from you, it does not take q great
stretch of yOur imagination to feel
that you are really in Turkey.
| The coffse is ground very fine,
and, when you give your order, IL
| IS placed i'll u small br ass pot. with
Il little water, and held over the fire
until it just boiis. 1t is then brought
to you in n china cup that holds
about as much as an egg cup.
Neither milk, nor sugar are added.
and it is SO thick that you can
almost cat it with a fork, and so
strung, that one cup will he sufi-
cient for the rest of the day.
Besides coffee and tobacco, they
serve variety OF other Oriental
delicacies.
Leaving the Turkish Cafe, walk
ed over to the Glass Works, and,
JUDI ing from the vast thrOng of
visit ors that pour in and out of Il,
building all day:~it is one of the
most interesting exhibits here.
Here you see the whole process,
from the beginning to the end, OF
making fine glass bouquet. holders,
paper weights, gob'ets, plates, jars,
sc.
The greatest curiosities though,
are the steam engines, made en-
tirely of glass.
One is "A low pressure beam steam |
engine, which drives fountain.
and also set of pumps which sup
ply II stand pipe.
Another is a high pressure engine,
and drives quartz iushing ma
chine, also made of glass.
Then there is glass locomotive,
which, having been tried under
steam, attained a rate of speed of
six miles per hour.
In looking at these engines in
motion, you can see the whole il
terror workings, so that the steam
motive power can be understood by
anyone.
A variety of fancy glass work,
such as birds of paradise, pens,
candlesticks,p ipes, full-rigged ships,
&c, are exhibited here
also baby's hood, made of glass
plated together and twined
with different colored glass flowers.
The threads are as fine as hair,
and even after a close inspection
you can hardly realize it is made
entirely of glass. 1t is for sale,