New-York tribune., 1876-05-31
EXHIBITION GOSSIP.

EXHIBITION GOSSIP.
A GREAT DAY-sUNDAY PAsSEs-TERRIFIc ToG-HoRN
THE '7G CLUB-1HE HUGE KRUPP GUNS.
lyRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
PHILADELPHIA, May $3.50 far from drawing the
crowds away from the Exhibition 10 attend tie ceTe-
monies at the cemeteries, Decoration Days legal
holiday gave freedom to many employees IN the
CITY that together with the cool air and cloudy
noon it brought through the gates by far the largest
number of visitors since the exceptional crowds of
the opening day. The gatekeepcrs at l O'Clock re-
ported the cash admissions at 32,0C0 people, and II
is estimated that by night at least 10000 pay Wis
1tors will have passed the gates. The rapid increase
in the number Of admissions may be seen now week
by week by taking any particular day i'll each, as,
for instance Monday, and noticing the record. Thus
the attendance on the first Monday was 10,S9G; the
second Monday, l24Ol; the third Monday (yester-
day, 1920. Mr.. Little, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Admissions, says with qualification 1--WE
keep all we've got and get more every day."
Among the managers of the Exhibition therenowis
some outspoken dissatisfaction at the want OF con-
sistency on the part of some of the leading CommiS
siOners on the Sunday question. While they vote
and speak in the Commission to exclude the public
from the grounds and buildings Sunday some of
those having authority are in the habit of giving
special passes to friends for admission Sunday.
considerable numbers the theory Of necessary
work and when officers and employees counted
the Sunday population numbers sometimes a thou
sand people. Mr. Little, in answer to question 10y
The TRIBUNE correspondent to-day, expressed him.
self as decidedly in favor Of throwing open the gates
to oeverybody or else closing them absolutely against
everybody, exhibitors aud all.
The Conference Committee on Differences between
the Commission and the Board of Finance have just
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ences,r and the Committee practically asks to be
discharged This satisfactory outcome Of what
promised to be serious complication, ii is said,
suits solely from the recent election OF the present
Executive COmmittee.
The International Jury, under the competent
direction of Gen. Francis Walker. who brings 70
play his long experience the director of the ninth
census 1S72) for the organization of the 2S groups
of judges is fairly at work upon the different classes
of exhibits. One of the peculiar features OF the
system adopted by the managers of this Exhibition
already begins to show its excellence in the facility
which il gives for individual personal work by the
ju ges. At Vienna and Paris the jury had 20 go
about in squads TO view the exhibits upon which
they to decide and make up their verdict, as
does the common petit jury of the court il panel;
but here anywhere about the buildings, may be
now seen single judges taking notes of specialties
which they propose to report on in writing. The
Committee of the Commission 90 Judges met to-day
and made some changes in the list, rendered neces-
sary by designations.
To the "noises' with which Exhibition visitors
get familiar such as tine ringing Of the chimes morn
ing noon and night, blowing OF steam whistles, rat
Ting of cars not to omit the more delicate sounds of
music by the bands and even the falling OF thespray
from the fountain in the center of the lake. was
added to-day the bray of the enormous foe-hom in
front of the United States Building, hearing the
euphemistc name Of "The Syren.' 1t is here on
exhibition, under the direction of the Lighthouse
Board and Col. Clay, the efficient Chief of the Cen
tennial Guard, proposes 10 utilize the sound, which
can be worked up to power of being heard go miles
away by having it blown signal to visitors, eX-
hbrtOrs, and worlmen within the Exhibition
grounds. Ii viii signal tomorrow, and every day
hereafter al in the morning for the opening OF
the visitors gates and at at night notice to the
visitors to leave the buildings. At C:30 p. m. the
signal will be for closing the buildings and gaJcs.
Between Ii and i'll the day those interested III such
matters can study the sound and others with nerves
will be annoyed until they get used 10 a sound
which suggests. for all the world an eleph0utme
donkey.
At the annual meeting of the '7G Club, an organi-
zation composed Of lady correspondents having
rooms in the Judges Hail. Susan b. Anthony to-day
made a speech in which she went over the rights of
women ana their cdlaDlNtlfS. MIS-. MaNNtI OF
Colorado also spoke. 1t is claimed that this lady
has killed 200 bears and stuffed them
Several bolls of cotton from the Southern Islands,
growing in the Pacific Guano Company's Pavilion,
broke into bloom to-day and form quite object
of curiosity to many Of the visitors who have never
seen them
The famous Krupp gun, weighing so tons with its
lotion carriage is standing at the doors of Macbin
cry Hall awaiting admission. 1t is resting on a 1G-
wheeled truck of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and suggests tD those who saw smilareX-
hibit at Paris in 1SG7 the fact that krupp was
obliged to have a special car of steel made forjts