The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-09-30
Our philadelphia Letter.

ternoon last, as was sauntering leis.
urely through the Shoe and Leather
Building at the Centennial, I noticed
two gentlemen standing in the main
aisle in front of a case of shoes which
they were inspecting. One Of these
gentlemen has had some experience in
The leather business, or in the prepara-
ton thereof, in days gone by. 1t was
President Grant, himself, and his com.
panion was Geo. w. Childs, Of the
Public Ledger. The presence of our
Chief Magistrate was not known to but
few until some time after he had en-
tered the building. would have in
tervlewed his Excellency In the interest
of the ADVOCATE, but refrained from so
doing until some future time and more
opportune occasion.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works will
celebrate the completion OF their four
thOusandth locomotive on the 28th
inst Pennsylvania Day. The work
men, twelve to fifteen hundred in num-
Der, will make parade and visit the
Centennial In a hodv their omn,ov orc
having provided tickets What a nitv
that the whole four Thousand ,ocomo.
tlyes could mt he here IN whistle In
gether in a grand locomotive chorus.
Independence Hall Is crowded daily
with thousands of visitors. General
WashIngton's commission can now be
seen here in the safe With the Declare.
tion of Independence. Carpenters,
Hall, where the Continental Congress-
first met, is also another point of great
interest and should he visited nv ali
means.
Before this letter will have reached
YOUR readers Pennsylvania Dav will
have passed into history. Great preps.
rations have been made and II Is fond.
ly hoped that "Old Probability will
give us a fair day.
Little Emma OF the Centenn,a,
grounds 10 ready TO arrest all sparks.
She ie a credit to the L. G. A. Iron 20.
and though she Is the smallest locomo.
tive on the grounds she manages to get
up tho grades with satisfaction to her.
self and her passengers. especially now
that she has been furnished with a
'.spark srrester."
Many thefts of valuable articles from
the exhibition have been discovered. and
In some cases the thieves have managed
10 get away with their nlunder The
rascals who stole q number of bottles
from the Brewers Building the other
night. thinking they contained ale be.
cause they were SO labeled. must have
thought they we're being poisoned
when they found that instead of getting
sip of the malty fluid they were only
imbibipg water. 1t served them RIGHT
and its pity tbey eould not have mi.
lized the pearly fluid in washing their
dirty copscieDces,
The Knapp gun in Machinery Hall.
can send q ball fifteen miles, but IL
takes two hundred and fifty pounds of
powder 10 do II. What q start a fellow
could give an enemy with such a wpa.
pom. An Iiishman, on being asked
what he would say If he was hit with a
ball from this gun, remarked, "BeQorra.
l wouldn't say anything"
In is doubtful whether the Turks at
the exhibition are Turks, French or
Irish. / should hate to offer them
fortune in either language, for fear
they'd take me up. Their pavilion is
usually filed With small boys behind
yards of pipe, learning how to smoke
and get sick. "Look out - said a bur.
ly Turk as he brushed past me the 9th.
er day, with q cup of coffee and pipe
for one of his customers. "ParIez yous
FrancRis ?" said |, then Mr.. Turk
smiled grimly, and replied "Oui." It's
lucky the Centennial will be- over he
fore Thanksgiving or fear some harm
might come to these fat Turks from
Turkey (?).
Canes and umbrellas have sadly mu.
tulatrd some Of the statuary 10 the Ital-
ian section Of the Art Gallery Annex,
and 1t was only q few days ago that q
lady thoughtlessly ran her parasol right
across the beautiful psinting-"The
Marriage of the Prin ce OF Wales" the
property of the Queen of England, and
kindly loaned by her to the Exhibition.
October 17th will be Maryland's
Day. and among the features of the
celebration of the same will be tourna.
ment, In which fifteen knights will par
ticipate, there being q knight for each