The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-07-05

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than usual. hey range from 81 so to
5Oper day. boarding houses charge
from IS to SO PEE week, and within
the Exposition gropds 4 glass of lager
beer or lemonade caIfbe had for cents,
and a goodmeal for from Is to so cents.
SO you sec that ma might leave
Hartford with 500 and Scnd month
or two here and see the seatest show
the world has ever seen, and learn
much that would be of use o him all
his life to come. The reasonthat We
are not crowded is that the civ is so
immensely large. Our population OK
ceeds 500, 900, and our houses over
five or six miles square. Our city
park contains about $500 acres, andYf
the ground, $50 acres have been fencd,
in for the Centennial Exposition, aud
inside the enclosure Il railroad, over
three miles long has been, constructed
with double track, and it has been
furnished with handsome cars, and in
them you can ride around and see all
the buildings for n fare of ) cents; and
all through the grounds are beautiful
walks paved with asphaltum.
The exhibition buildings themselves,
when seen for the first time, strikes the
hcholdcr with establishment at their
size and magnifcencc. The principal
ones are the main exhibition building,
TART gallery, machinery hall, agricultur-
al building and horticultural ball. The
main exhibition building is mado prin-
cipally of iron Gad glass. 1t is 60 feet
high and 1880 feet, or over 626 yards
long (long enough, for n race course),
46i feet wide, and covers, therefore,
over t,centy acres of ground. The whole
i is lighted and ventilated from the roof
andwalls. What magnificent scamp"
this would have made for us, if we had
had it in the winter of 1868, when we
were in East Tennessee almost without
tents and with but little clothing, and
where some of us had to burrow in the
ground for warmth and shelterl
Then this vast building is filled with
costly and valuable things from "the
uttermost parts of the earth;" from
South America, Egypt, China and
Russia. You can well imagine how
much money it has cost these exhibitors
to bring their goods from remote
places, when the goods weigh hundreds
and thousands of pounds. 1 can not
attempt to describe all these things.
A Philadelphia jeweler pointed me out
his case of jcwelry and said it was
worth S117, 900. Rocks and trees arc
here from Australia, a distance of 5000
miles 4!
Machinery hall is 467 yards long
and 1870 yards wide, and is filled with
many wonderful things. For instance,
in central position is located n Corliss
engine, built by Geo. H. Corliss, of
Providence, Il. /. 1t stands say 80
feet high above the floor, its balance
wheel is so feet across, and it turns
all the machinery in the building by
means of its system of shafting, which
is three miles long! Yet that monster
machine runs so smoothly that you cam
not feel the floor tremble when you
stand near it. 1t moves like clock
work. One work that it does is to
drive a pump that throws 1900 gal
Ions Of water each minute Hiry-fUG
feet high. In the same building 1 saw
a piece of an iron plate from an Eng
fish iron-clad. The piece was 6 feet
long, 8 feet 81 inches wide, and IL
inches thick, and its weight was
90O2 pounds. The plate bore the
marks of solid shot which had been
driven into it to the depth Of seven
inches, and the bullet holes were six
inches wide! These were among the
big things. But near them saw a
scroll-saw that was about the size of a
common needle, such as is used to sew
common linen or jeans, and it was
moved by steam also a steam engine
made wholly Of glass running in full
blast. Not far from this was in full
operation amachine for knitting under.
shirts. The body of the shirt is made
without a scam, and from 60 to 20
rounds are knit per minute; and near
by was a machine for putting common
, brass pins in the papers in which VIC
, find them. The machine is driven by
steam power and does not require O
; touch of the hand, and feeds itself.
How is the Bullock printing press,
which prints 10000 newspapers pei
| hour! 1t takes the papers from roll
: like roll of carpeting, unwinds it,
prints it on both sides, cuts it off from
/ the roll, and splits it when it is of dou