Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-10-27
Centennial Letter

The following spicy, racy anu p'quaut
letter has been handed us for puohca-
ton. 1t will be fully appreciated by
those v no have been there and those who
have not will wish they had. Ed
Have you concluded to
90 to the Centennialf You mustn't
miss of it. The moment you get inside
the grounds any misgivings you may
have had will disappear, and you will
long for voice loud enough TO call all
your absent friends together that they
too NAV see Describe it? Don't ask
such a thing. You must see. How can
one give an idea of the vastness of the
buildings, or their beauty How
can one give you a glimpse of their
interior, looking like universe Of
beautiful and wonderful worlds2 How
can one attempt an enumeration of the
thousands of things to be seen2 Howshall
one send to another the sounds of music
from organ, and piano, and trumpet,
and throats of divers things before un,
heard of? How shall one give faint
idea of the sensation produced by ming
ling with the more than ten thousand
times ten thousand barring one of the
thousands How shall one bring be-
fore the eye of another the view of
lawns, and gardens, and winding walks,
and streams, aud showering fountains
How shall one listen for another to the
Ginning of bells, the Earring of gongs,
the singing of the caliope, the shrieking
of the fog-horn? Why, it is impossible.
You must see for yourself There's every
thing there-from steam engine to an
apple-parer; from $4,000 diamond to
a 1000 pound meteorite from $4,000
bed-stead to so cent rocking chair
from pencil head watch to 1870 foot
steel rail from alive eagle to stuffed
hog; from a S72, mass of silver to
nine ton case of alum; from an eight
foot plank to $1,000 mantel from Gen.
Washington's four horse coach to a dog
power velocipede; from Daniel Web
ster's thirteen foot wooden pillow to Howe's
first sewing machine from a $4,000
Battle of Gettysburg" to Dream
ing head in butter; from gorgeous
palace.car to hand chariot at so cents
an hour; just take lease of one and
see for yourself Take a lunch on pop
corn balls, or FIVE cent gingerbread, a
drink of Tufts soda, or sweet cider
ground by dog power, and you will stand
a journey to the tower of the Main
Building, from which to view the Prom
ised Land. Take FIVE cent ride in the
open steam cars and get off near the
New England Kitchen where you may
get your dinner of baked-beans, pump
kin pie and doughnuts,- then follow the
band music and you will find an out
door table at which you might take a
glass of lager if you hadn't signed. Go
and get lost in the Art Annex in the af
ternoon. Follow any one you like best
Of the $4,000 people who have got lost
too, out of the grounds and you viii be
ready to fly at loaded horse-car like q
hen at roost and cling on if you can
till you reach some blissful abode in the
city of Brotherly Love where you may
dream the happy hours away and awake
refreshed for another day like the first,
only very much more so. Try it'll
l had glorious time, drank the Phila
delphia water, went and came when and
where chose, ate well, slept well and
am WELL | rode twenty miles in the
bark, sailed on the Schuylkill, went up
the roofs and towers, and down the
streets and cellars, heard the Thomas
Orchestra in grand centennial music at
the Academy of Music, the wild ami
mails at the Geological" Saw the his
torical old buildings and the elegant
new ones, asked questions, answered
questions, gave it up and guessed again,
wandered, wondered, looked, laughed,
puzzled pondered. Try it'll!