Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-06-02
FIRST EDITION.
The Great Uentemary.

ITS FEATURES, YEsTERDAY-A LARGE ATTEND
ANoE-PRoGREss OF THE EXPOSITION.
With the termination Of the great street
pageant of the Knights Templar at noon
yesterday the multitude of daily visitors to
the Centennial grounds received very con-
siderable accessions to their ranks from the
hosts hailing from points within radius OF
one hundred miles of the city, who had cen
attracted thither by the momentarily more
important spectacle of the morning i'll the
streets of the city. Large numbers OF the
visiting Knights and their families attended
the Exhibition in the afternoon.
With the opening of the gates yesterday
the regulation requiring the presentation
of the photograph of each holder ON every
exhibitors employees or newspaper mans
ticket of free admission was rigldly en-
forced.
Since the opening day the whole number
of car loads Of foreign and domestic goods
arriving on the ground amounts to SUI.
Fifty loads, of which "A were American, ar
rived on Wednesday, consigned to Machine
cry Hall.
The steam engine which supplies power
for tine machinery in the Women's Pavilion
is run by a young lady. Miss Emma Allison,
of Grimsby, Ontario. Sne is by 10 means
a soot-begrimed and oil-coyered Amazon,
but, on the contrary, of neat and cleanly
appearance and highly educated and re-
fined young lady. She keeps her engine
room as neat as new pin, and says she
accepted this occupation for three reasons
"a fondness for machinery, need of en-
ployment, and desire to make a new depar-
ture in women'a work. She expects after
the Exhibition, to start literary magazine
in San Francisco.
The music pavilion in Lansdowne Ravine
was formally iuaugurated yesterday with
morning and afternoon concerts by Gil
more's Band. The concerts are to be given
there, hereafter, Instead Of the Main Build
ing.
One of the curious things outside the
Government building is ali immense cypress
stump, weighing number of tons, and
which was taken from the mouth of the
Cape Fear river. The dental instrument
required to phil it out was an immense
dredging machine.
Tennt esee's headquar iers are in tent.
The Turks get good prices for the arti-
cles they say came from the Mount of
Olives.
The Japanese and English commissioners
will not let visitors in their buildings.
Rolling chairs are not permitted in the
! Art Gallery, and more restriction should be
placed upon their reckless use in the Main
Building. AT present some of the men who
have them IN charge have not the snSntebS
regard for mere pedestrians.
The New York bankers who attended the
o. ming were astonishei at the extent Of
The show"
Some of the engines on the railroad rum
ming around the grounds were stalled on
Wednesday, the number of passengers was
so great.
The Shoe and Leather Building is nearly
filled with domestic and foreign exhibits.
Russia 3 cases are not yet in place.
The first of what NAV prove to be series
of cheap European excursions of working
men to the EEnib4Glon has 55ei al aligoTl Uv
leave Southampton on the Och inst. The
entire cost to Philadelphia and back for q
first class passage. the living from South
ampton and back and first class railway
tickets from New York to Philadelphia and
back, has been fixed at 20 ponnds, or $1O'
gold.