Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-21


danger is very great.
These speculations seem idle in
view of the telegraph. But one must
talk of current topics, even at the
risk of writing post norton details
and venturing predictions which can
never come to light until after the
Day of Judgment.
The letter which l intended to
write was one descriptive of some OF
the matters and things of special
interest il and about the Centennial.
/ intended to describe some OF the
more magnificent pictures in the
German and Austrian Departments
of Memorial Hall; of the beautiful
Mexican onyx top table in Tiffiney's
show in the main building which has
been purchased by Mrs. Charles
Croker of Sacramento for $500; of
a Florentiue Mosaic table top in Me-
mortal Hall, valued at $50. 600; of
ream of flat cap from the Whiting
Paper Company, 6 Is feet, and
which will cut into 500, 900 sheets of
note paper; of great concert we
heard under the great central organ,
with Theodore Thomas in the lead;
of the great sody fount-but avast!
1 will only transcribe from my note
book as follows: II sit by a door,
will call it the "Back door of the
Government Building (where our
neurological exhibit is, and look
out at the row of handsome, quaint
and fantastical cottages in sight.
These line one side of the Park.
Tire is the English cottage. Johl
Bulls Head Quarters. with It's up
rights and it's cross beams and It's
stacks of c:nmneys-all of the Eliza
bethan period and fashion-and the
cross of st. George flying from a
staff at the fore. There is the New
York Head Quarters building, Or
nate. light, attractive and with
lookout tower. New Hampshire
plain and substantial; Michigan light
and bird-case-like; Wisconsin plain,
sober. sided brown louise; Illinois white,
gothic and airy; Indiana and Ohio close
alongside. Indiana very roomy, Ohio
with . foundation OF solid masonry;
New Jersey very roofy and shingly. Fur
Tier along is CANADA. in log cabin:
Spain has be- shingled yellow brown or
Drowned yellow round tower-rather
Moorish; whii- Turkey is also very yell
low aud Fiance ve.y bizarre and
Frsnchy. rlay finish the list one OF
these days.
will, when l get some time to 10 it
and an. not Hurried and worried, de-
scribe crowds and incidents; Tie Depart !
ment OF Public Comfort, General Tom
Williams vending lis way under my |,
pilotsge, to the Turkish Bazaar; the !
great leather and shoe building with its
whole department Of olackins and its |
display OF wonderful shoes and boots /
and gold mouu.ed harnesses, and music .
which is the sole delight.
Here are some crude notes of my
sleepiess trip from Cincinnati, jus! as
they were taken:
At Altoona .. 4 40 4. NJ. Out Of . sue !
eession of stump fields into a CITY,.
The propensity to lightning rods
among people with very poor houses and
barns-their lingering clutch at a show
Of responsibility My doing. distant
~ alongside Of q shy old maid The
vail of passing engine bells as they dash
past into the night . . Competent clerks
can be employed a. So per month.
Think of that, Oh says brusher, and be
content . Many full grown women.
and with children in their arms going
about bare footed many WOMEN and
girls hoeing in tha fields. The dense
wooded hills Of Pennsylvania - how
beautiful they ale. now almost exhaust
less their supply Of wood The vast
ness of the coal product. -. The lower
ing clouds Of smoky PittsDurs in the
distance. The many little suspension
foot bridges over creeks and :::vines 49,.
The clover and the corn and the monot-
onous sameness of the s,ssn hills OF !
Ohio. The loud, inevitable, ear.uloUs.
dogmatical old ass who
has bsen to see the Centennial and
means to let the fact be known Il paid
ten cents at Columbus for the privilege
Of washing my face and hands. Upon
my honor as . gentleman and a cores
pendent, l did,. Ohio is II succession
Of lovely parks from Columbus to Gin
cinnati ..r
will close these wanderings by say