The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-04-27
NUMBER 50.
Centennial.

Philadelphia Star: Ifeighty thousand
articles are on exhibition ut the Centen-
NAL, and the visitor devotes five hours of
each day to the exhibition, giving one
half minute to the examination OF each
article, it will take him five months to
go through.
Two hundred trains pass daily over the
Pennsylvania Railroad between New
York and Philadelphia. A train leaves
Jersey City every seven minutes, night
and day. After the Centennial has fair
ly opened it is reported that the number
Of trains will be nearly doubled.
One of the Crockets-RobertH H., grand
son of David-will take with him to
Philadelphia the rifle presented to his
grandfather fOrty-one years ago in Phila-
delphia, David's watch, and an original
portrait of himself. Robert is leading
lawyer in Arkansas, and chip OF the
old block.
They are going to have at the Centen-
NAL Exhibition, as at Vienna, chairs
which can be wheeled from place to
place for the benefit of the aged and in
firm. The chairs with an attendant who
will be able to speak several languages,
and thus act as guide or interpreter, will
be furnished at four dollars and half a
day, or sixty cents an hour. There will
be five hundred of the chairs, each
handsome ;and comfortable, in service
during the exhibition, and there will be
twenty stations from which they can
be procured.
The master armorer of the Springfield
Armory is preparing for the Centennial
Exposition an exhibit of the different
operations which each of the parts of a
Springfield rifle goes through IN its man.
:ufacture. The barrel goes through Al
operations, the bayonet 45, and its fas.
tening %. The parts peculiar to the
breach-loading system number las, the
mountings 175, ramrsd and bayonet
scabbards 27. The components of the
lock require 1876 pieces, and the rear
sight 73.
The home display promises to over.
shadow everything. In the amount of
space to be occupied in the Main Exposi-
tion Building, Pennsylvania is far ahead
of all the other States, New York being
second, Massachusetts, third, Ohio fourth,
New Jersey fifth and Connecticut sixth.
There is not an important business in.
terest in the first named State that will
not be fully represented. Large amounts
of space have been allotted to exhibitors
from al. parts of the Lehigh and Pitts
burg coal regions, and the iron display,
according to a centennial publication,
will be fully proportionate to the mag
nitude and importance of that interest
in the Keystone State. Maine will have
collective display of mill products,
granite, slate, iron, etc. The Newspaper
Pavilion is intended to contain full
and complete exhibition of the daily and
weekly journals, magazines and other
periodicals published in the United States
seven thousand eight hundred and sew
enty of them! An Historical Depart
ment, Just established under the super
vision of Mr.. +. M. Etting, of Philadel-
phia, it is hoped, will be the means of
bringing together great quantity of
material-manuscripts, books, maps, pic
lures, illustrative of our colonial history.
Historical, antiquarian and professional
societies, collegiate institutions and pub
lie Libraries are cordially invited to col
late and transmit list of the local events
which they possess, the materials to illus
trate, and catalogue of such materials.
A Centennial kindergarten, illustrating
Froebels complete system of instructing
little children, is in charge of commit
tee of interested ladies and gentleman.
The Philadelphia Northern Home for
Friendless Children (the first institution
of its class in the world to introduce this
system) have arranged to send class of
pupils several times week during the
Exposition, to 60 through the novel and
highly pleasing exercises.