The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-08-19
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
correspondence Of the Democratic Advocate.

instant, since the opening of the Exhibi-
tion, and there Is, at last, some promise of
an Increase in the daily attendance. The
trains coming into Philadelphia are crowd.
ed with centennial visitors, and the daily
cash admissions are increasing gradually.
In consequence of the competition Of the
great railroad lines, fares have been much
reduced, and the rates are now as low as
could be reasonably desired. The hotels
and boarding houses have also come down
from their great expectations, and visitors
who propose to stay one or two weeks, and
who have time to look around, may find
comfortable rooms for prices as low as in
any city in the United States, and board
at restaurant for from one TO three dol
lars per day, according to their tastes and
appetite. Whether the boarding house
keepers will be able to endure with un-
shaken virtue this faint promise of better
times, do not know, but think the
greater number of them are more anxious
now to get through the centennial with
as little loss as possible, than to make a
fortune in the remaining three months.
If the average Philadelphiah were not
Quaker he would swear ut every mention
of the Centennial lie is thoroughly dis
gusted with it, and will be happy when it
is gone; all because he has failed to make
money out of the show. While the COM
mission were spending sS,000,00O in the
erection of buildings aud grading and
paving streets in Fairmonnt Park, Phila-
dclphia was, in great measure, exempt
from the pressure Of hard times, and her
people were making great preparations for
the millions that were expected to pour
into the city and spend money continually.
But the hey day Of Illusion is past, and this
greatest manufacturing city on the conti-
nent is suffering severely from the indus
trial and financial paralysis, and the Gen.
tennial is powerless to help her.
An increase of interest will doubtless
result from the display of live stock which
will soon take place, not in the centennial
grounds, but near them, and under the
auspices of the centennial commission. 1t
will embrace many fine animals from Eu-
rope, and Canada, as well as from the
United States. Arrangements for the
accommodation and exhibition of horses,
mules, sheep, horned cattle, goats, hogs,
dogs, and poultry, are about completed.
This show will be at the intersection Of
Girard and Lancaster Avenue. 400 stalls
for horses and 800 for cattle have been
built, and supplied with water, and lighted
with gas. The animals entered are of the
finest blood; the display of Canada alone,
will consist of about seven hundred speei-
mems, the prizes will be gold, silver, and
bronze medals, but no prize will be award
ed to any inferior animal even if there is
no competition. As an evidence of the
high class Of the exhibits that will be here,
lac of the finest sheep of the Cotworld
and other breeds recently exhibited at the
Royal Agricultural Exhibition Of Birming-
ham, England, are now on their way across
the Atlantic, and will arrive in few days.
The aggregate entries to date include 700 |
cattle, Gan average Of about six to each |
exhibitorD 300 horses, and 400 dogs.
Entries may be made up to the opening
Of each department Of the Exhibition, but,
it is important for exhibitors to be in time
as those who come late will lose the op-
portunity of having their display properly |
catalogued. The periods devoted to each
section of the display will be as follows
Horses, mules, and asses, from September
l to IA, dogs, September 4 to 8; horned
cattle, September 81 to October 4; sheep,
swine, and goats, October 10 to Is; poul-
try, October 27 to November 6. Every
convenience will be provided for the pro-
per care and treatment Of animals, Hay
and straw will be furnished free of charge,
and grain at cost price, at depots within
the grounds. The commission will erect
ample accommodation for the protection and
display of live stock, but exhibitors who de-
sire to make special arrangements for their
own stock will have the privilege Of doing
so. The stalls will be distinctly numbered,
and each exhibitor will be furnished with
numbered labels, corresponding with the
stall, and no animal will be allowed to leave
its stall without the label attached. Vc-
terinery surgeons will be in attendan &c.
A ring will be provided for the display and
exercise of horses, mules and cattle, and,
on the last day Of each serial show, a pub
lie auction will be held for the sale Of an.
imals. 1t will be allowable to sell at pri-
vate sale, but no animal can be removed,
by the purchaser, until the conclusion of
the exhibition in the department to which
the animal belongs Fifty judges have
been appointed by the commissioners to
decide upon the merits Of the respective
varieties Of the live stock, and to award
medals and diplomas. Forty of these are
American, five are English, and FIVE are
Canadian. THIS display will doubtless at.
tract many who are interested in live
stock, and it win furnish an agreeable
change for those who are sated with the
older features Of the exhibition. G.
Among the many novel schemes Of the
day is French association organized under
the name of che Society Of Student Travel