Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-16
WHAT WE SAW AT THE CENTEN-
NIAL---COntinued.

moment near the reservoir and watch
the operation Of numerous pumps and
water engines. that are lifting the water
from the reservoir and forcing it up into
the roof Of the building to fall in drops
or spray back to the reservoir. Here are
a thousand kinds of pumps. to set the
estimate low. and many of them are IN
operation One Of them Is huge ma
chine. lifting water up into the
miniature Niagara, that pours stream
thirty feet wide over the artificial cata-
ract into the reservoir. We stop while |
we pass along, and examine some Of the
various engines with which part of this
vast hall is filed. Here are steam en-
giues Of all sizes, from small, glass, toy
engine, up to the Corlis and the sixty
ton locomotive then there are ealorie,
gas. electric, petroleum. explosive gas
and compressed air engines, many Of them
at work. Those versed in these kind Of
machines might spend months IN look
ing them over. The fearful clatter
heard in one part Of the Hall is made
by loom machinery. We stop. Here is
a machine where they are weaving cloth
twenty feet wide, and near by is that
mysteriOusly complicated automatou, a
machine that is separating from the nu-
merous spools Of high colored yarn just
such eolors as are needed to make the
finest carpeting. Another machine is
weaving beautiful silk handkerehiefs,
book-marks and searfs. We stop to buy
some of these as mementoes Of the exhi-
bItiou.
But what is the news? They are
printing the Times aud the Herald on
the great power presses, just little way
of, and we 90 over and learn how fast
the great daily papers are "struck of "
Several hundred yards of paper, wide
enough to make two copies of the daily,
stands in front Of the press, and when
the machine starts up it is wound IN
among the rollers and type cylinders,
and comes out at the rear in four sepa-
rate departments, printed into papers,
and ready to be taken away from the
end of the press and folded up for the
news-boy's table So fast are the papers
discharged from the press that one man
is kept busy in taking them away from
the place of their discharge at the real
of the press They are carried to anoth
. er machine and snapped in between roll
: ers, folded and packed ready to be de
] Iivered to those who want to buy them.
!, We find as We pass along some heav,
e machinery that occupies considerable
space, and discover that rags are bein
:. ground up for paper. After passini
e through large machine. the wOrn-ou
r rags ooze out upon an apron in pull
Of and after passing between heated roller
Z assume the character Of paper. On an
n through a long system Of rollers, the p;
D. per passes until it Is rolled to a suitab
D. thickness, dried aud trimmed, and fna
ly rolled up. or bundled up, in packag
st for the printers.
q Out little further IS huge machil
be that is making room paper. A lar
ar drum or cylinder is slowly reyOlvin
he while ten or fifteen small rollers a
on placed around and contiguous to it. 7
he plain white paper starts in on the dru
-ar and as it passes each of the smaller TO
ef- ers, some one Of the various colors in t
the figure Of the paper is left upon it, a
zen when it goes of the large roller it
the printed. and then sent a long wa
aes around on sloW-moving racks, to be DIR
De and delivered to q boy who measures a
In rolls it up ready for sale.
9re. Before leaving this room, We exam
the noisy little machines that are nj
eat ing small nails, brads and tacks-
ters wire, OF suitable size. is drawn In
the rollers, bu. how the presses and h.
Ieks mers and knives jam and press and f
the the iron into Its various shapes, we CO
not discover.
tan They are making sugar plums e
or fectionery) yOnder, and we will see
J to it is done: The sugar Is wet, mel
1ne- put INTO revolving barrel, colored
und scented with peppermint, and as the
they rel rolls along over metallic table,
and sweet matter drops out in large DIR
falls on the table, spreads out into
Is IN size and shape Of sugar plum. cool
did scraped into boxes and then offered
Cold sale at about three dollars a pound
efOre We judge from the prices asked for /
ards the Centennial mznufactory-
uish- We just pass through the space &
and pied BY weighing apparatuses, and
Iaeri- anime with pride the excellent dis
ItlOn- made by the scale manufactures Of
the mont. The Fairbanks aud the Z
from Scale Co.'S have each very exter
addle show Of their scales. and they are
attic credit to the little State Of Vermont
and As We leave the vest end Of Ma,
rViee. cry Hall. it Is only few steps .
oing7 the railroad to the neat. comfortable
that welcome building erected through
with superintendeney Of n. I. sprague.
'vern- Of Brandon, aud BY contributions
posed in different parts Of the State. He