Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-06-03
LETTER FROM MIR. WATSON.
The Grand ExpOsitiOn-Gener Re-
view OF what now In and what
will be on ExhtbitiOn-PhIIa
phia taking care of the Visitors
well and at Reasonable Charges.

well and at Reasonable Charges
PHILADELPHIA, May 1.-THE tele
graph has already given THE CITIZEN
readers an idea of the grand opening
of the international exhibition; jus
how full, l can't tell, but, judging by
the importance of the occasion ant
the attention given TO IT by the leading
newspapers of the country, a concise
and intelligent statement should have
been sent to the Arizona papers,
The display in variety of industrial
and fine arts and of the various pro.
ducts of the soil, mines, and | may say
of the brain of man and woman, will
equal and many competent judges
think surpass that of all former worlds
exhibitions. Hundreds of car loads
of articles are yet to be unlocked and
put IN place in the Main Building,
Machinery Hall and Agricultural
Hall and some in other buildings yet
the present display far exceeds that of
the Vienna Exposition so near the open
ing day, and the most intelligent and
industrious observer could not nearly
make, in six months, a careful exami-
nation of the articles now in place
And right here it may as well be said
that all my comparisons with foreign
are made upon the judg-
ment of men who were present at and
close observers of those at London,
Paris and Vienna. Over twenty ma
lions have of their best and most ornate
now open to view IN the Main
Building; and less number, but still
the most learned and skill
ed countries, have thousands of curl
Gus, beautiful and useful objects in the
Art Gallery, Machinery, Agricultural
and Horticultural Halls. China, ia
pan, India, Egypt and other of the
old countries, have brought and ex-
hibited for our curiosity and instruc-
ton, thousands of specimens of their
industry and genius. Shrewd traders
Of the Holy Land are present with
articles manufactured in Jerusalem,
and it would not surprise me to dis
cover in Horticultural Hall shrubs and
lowers and fruits of the Garden of
Eden. Representatives of the worlds
natural, mechanical and scientific pro-
auctions are here. In Machinery Hall,
thread, carpets and oloths-includIng
;ilk-Ot many grades of excellence
md beauty are made from the original
lotion, wool and cOcoons-of course
Ill by the latest and best machinery;
sewing and other machines to
make articles of clothing including
)ins, buttons, etc; the Waltham Watch
jO.'s machinery IS making watches ,
rom original materials; the lightning
Walter and Bullock printing presses
re throwing off Times and Heralds ,
" ten o'clock in the morning, from 7
be same plates on which the regular
,ew York editions were printed in =
Jew York for the same day; and nu- =
lerous other interesting and instruct 7
re mechanical operations are in pro- !
reSs now, and in two weeks more.
more will be. Wheat, corn
nd other grains are ground into -four ;
nd the flour converted into the best
bread and pastry in Machinery Hall. ;,
ere are machines for making the
nallest and largest artIcles-from the .
ny needle and pin and for putting T
em in papers before your eyes, to the .,
ost powerful FORCES, lathes, punches, 8,
Tvs, &c. In Agricultural Hall, the -
are more backward, but :
en- there the most energetic and intel p
gent farmer, or manufacturer Of farm 4,
lplements, packer and preseryer of o,
eats, fruits. vegetables, etc, and y,
Orker and dealer in woods, could .,
end months and then not know very g
UGH of many things. The lover of %
auhful and wonderful pictures-and III
10 is not?-can now find thousands od
on thousands IN the art Gallery and its 4,
'ge annex, and thousands are yet to
me. The Statuary and bronze works
in the same buildings and are very jo
merous and attractive. The Histor IN
i department viii be in the Art ~ -
llery but Is not yet perfected and vi
II not be till about June 10. In it H
Il be thousands of relics of the rev. ca
Itionary times from 1775 and for -
rd several years. Then there is the or
rlage building IN which all the Al
les of home and foreign Especially
glish) carriages, buggies. coaches
steam and horses, are TO be seen IN
leather manufacturers have a very ae
&c building with an immense display dr
everything in their line; so with the vo
and others. ne
But perhaps as Interesting a display =
any is inside the very large building
cted by the United States, in which :
make an exhibit of the several de
rtments of the Interior, Postal, Ma
. War, Agricultural, and Smith
nan Institution. This building and
play will cost the public one million
liars, but all that l have heard ex.
'ss an opinion in this connection,
almpst in IN Dt,,,o- -. :. rey