The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-20
Philadelphia Letter.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9th, rs

Inc live stock addition to the Exhi.
bition was formerly opened on Monday,
the 4th inst., and it is attracting to the
CREST fair many who have little interest
art, industrial fabrics, or machinery.
The horses, cows, dogs and sheep of
gentle blood, though numerous, are far
outnumbered by their worshippers. This
exhibition possesses features which
make it exceedingly desirable for own
ers of animals of patrician blood to
participate in it, besides the immediate
advertisement that it will give them,
there will be diploma, bronze medal,
and special report on the meritorious
points of the best animals exhibited.
This will be Of immense value to breed
ers Of blooded animals, constituting a
perpetual certificate of the superiority
of their stock.
In the display of fine horses, Canada
and the United States are the only
countries that have, at present, exhibits
Of any considerable extent, but it is re-
ported that a number Of superior Ara
bian horses have arrived at this port
and will be entered in few days. At
present Canada seems to have better
equine display than the United States,
at least this is the case in farm and
heavy draft animals, while the United
States has perhaps better display of
high-bred and light carriage horses.
Among the curiosities of this depart
ment may be mentioned a mule giantess,
"Queen Of Egypt % hands high, and
weighing 1900 pound; "Royal Tom,''
an attractive stallion in the Canadian
exhibit, weighing $500 pounds; and a
Clydesdale stallion, "Donald Dinnie,"
seventeen hands high, and pulling the
scales at 1880. These heavy weights
attract more attention from the average
visitor than do some Of the lighter but
much more valuable horses.
There has been recently much COM
plant and some alarm caused by the
typhoid and malarial diseases that have
prevailed to an almost epidemical ex-
tent, in and about. the Centennial
grounds. They are said, by medical
authority, to result from the large num-
Der of excavations that have so recent
ly been made in this portion of the city,
and to attack Il class Of visitors, who,
from exhaustion and hunger, are pecul-
iarly susceptible to their inroads. The
average visitor comes with the intention
Of "doing the whole thing in about
three days, and, stimulated by the en-
thusiasm of wonder, does an incredible
amount Of work, neglecting even so i'm
portant a matter as sufficient food.
Feeble women walk, without being
aware Of it, twice the distance that
they could have been persuaded to at
tempt if it had been measured in
straight miles. The high prices at a
large number Of restaurants, within
the grounds, deter many from eating at
noon, even when they are exhausted
and hungry, and, with systems debili-
tated, they fall an easy prey to the in.
sidious influences of bad air. It will be
advisable to prevent these attacks by a
thorough fertilization of the system
through the stomach and it will be bet
ter to buy sandwiches, cheese, crackers,
grapes, ETC., at a grocery outside the
enclosure; in this way better lunch
con may be obtained for 25 or so cents
than can be had ut the restaurants for
$l.OO or $l.5O. Many of the restau-
rants within the grounds are exhorbi-
tant in their prices. A rustic eating
place called the Dairy is an excep-
ton; there milk. cream, buttermi}k,
oatmeal, bread, butter and fruits, (but
no meats or hot d1inks) may be had at
very reasonable price. l have observ-
ed that the restaurants in the main
building and in machinery hall charge
considerably less than those within the
grounds outside. 1t has become quite
common for visitors to take luncheon
with them, and there are hundreds Of
delightful places where the noon-day
meal may be enjoyed.
1t is evident that foreign exhibitors
are verv anxious to dispose Of their
treasures; they would prefer not to take
them back, but the prices asked for