The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-15
Machinery Hall and Agricultural Hall, With
Their Contents, Described.
The LIGHTS AND SHADOWS or TIE SHOW.
The Turnstile Arrangements and
the Admissions.
SAYINGS AND DoINGS ON THE GROUNDS

PHILADELPHIA, May IL, lS70
Iwm glad 70 sec signs OF Russia this morning as
went 70 the department assigned her. Russia 10
missed, and from what Governor Curtin, who was
Minister At the Russian Court says tho display will
De striking Tunis Is also tho ground, and the
workmen have begun to put her department into
shape Egypt is ready, and her show has i'm
proved In interest and Is complete and rep
resentatvs in many ways There IS new
inscription telling the oldest OF nations greets tho
youngest in its morning time Sweden and Norway
grow IN interest You will remember perhaps, TINT
reported these countries ssa ready the opening,
put note that this readiness only partial New
batures added daily and among others life sizo
Hures representing tho manners and customs of tho
leasantry Of the far north lands There is a touch
u humanity about this feature which you 6nd In
he scandinavian nations alone and made the heart
ysat higher to look on these quaint strange
Srms which seemed the instant 10 have Lie There
sas group OF watchmaksrs-a hunting party which
had shot IN elk, and stood around the beast as he
Easped away. There was domestic group, around
which many tears will be shed dead baby lies in
its CRADLE the common black CONN is at It's feet
mother has just leaned over her darling for
brace; the gray haired grandfather bending on his
stan, looks down in sad resignation. The clergyman
reads from the sacred book words Of peace and
comfort and another little nve-year.old trot
uoVos-otauos
the meaning or It ALL Spain rich and in EVIL
dences Of her national wealth, but deficient
in taste and in those articles which show the
Spanish skill But there Is bit Of work
In steel, which fancy from Toledo,
which will attract the curious eye among the
D the show In all departments the work OF improve
ment goes The sound Of the hammer and the
tearing OF the saw heard in all direcuons week
has passed since here. In that week there has
beop complete transformation, and in few more
days there win be a show 1T tor kings to
THE LIGHTS AND SHADOWS THE SHOW
At the Same time for you must be critic well
- historian, there are many gaps. Some sections
jpread out great deal There il space enough unoc.
eupied the complete departments 10 Give
room for new exhibition. Others are poor and mea-
gre In many cases utility and education sacrificed
70 advertising. This is the in the American de-
partment One looks impatiently for France to fall
into shape, although every day shows beauty In
thc exhibit OF that wonderful country. We miss
England in the Machinery Hail. where 1t
seems US II tho other nations had givcn
America conceded supremacy The vast engine
which stands in the centre OF Machinery Hall as
Colossus soems to be emblem in its way Of our
American greatness in this respect Tho Agricultural
Hall 10 not far enough advanced to enable It
.completey, but 1t would surprise If it
are honest qualities OF attraction about corn
and wine and oil, which satisfy the observing
mind, and you walked from gothic
arcade to the other, amid monumental
plies Of food and food substances there a
u comfort and security especially these hard times
which you do feel in the imaginative sections.
The Horticultural Hall, work Of art, Is worth a
mornings study, but the exhibition Of flowers and
ferns and tropical fruits Is crude You through IL
very soon, and find recompense In the wide sweep
ing lawn which spreads toward the Women,s Pavilion
and will be before long, when the gardeners through
whit. OF the most beautiful spots this continent
To-day had glimpse OF what it might become.
The terraced grecnery, running into abrupt
1panned with graceful bridges the cunning adapta-
tons OF and tuberoses and hyacinths the
less plants fresh from the nursery and not yet quito
1t home In the soils the distant fountains spark
ling the sunshine and their spray cooling your face
like o blessing; tho winding its way
around the Paramount hills the throng OF
spectators coming aud going in holiday attire
the sound OF strange tongues OF Spanish French
Chinese and Arabic, Italian and German; odd
tunes from the Mediterranean, the Bosphorus and
Japan; the cheerful cink and thud Of hundred ham,
mers, workmen hurrying about in busy preparation,
further beyond the graceful Of the stupcndous
hail. which enfods within II so much Of tho wealth
and grandeur OF acknowledgements Of flags
The crescent and The cross, the elephant and lie
dragon. The stern, cold emblem OF German unity.
nuttering side by side with the trcoor Of France,
and still beyond, in the misty air,
the spires Of the great city, where joy has reached
Its funess In this centennial pageantry-ccrtaniy
mo other spot In America can present piano.
rama like this, the panorama which you AS you
walk along the serraced lawn In front OF tho Horticu
tural Hall
THE vAsrxEss or rHE SNOW
As ! have said. the prevailing thought IL the vast
ness Of this show. despair OF conveying idea Of
a tn in ha firm ri IA
20 unlike in scale and arrangement approaches aud
surroundings anything OF the kind before attempted
hbitons, such as those Of London Paris and Vienna,
ere utterly amazed at tho grandeur Of tho
tween man his works was scarcely ever
moro grandly illustrated than the Centennial
Grounds We may regard the Egyptian Pyramids "a, as
lofty cathedrals OF the Old World and wonder tho
zeal which built them up; but the Pyramids were the
work Of slaves and prisoners Of war. and every
sss their aides may be said 10 be CO.
mented in its place by the blood and OF
Tpe Cathedral has associations purely distinct
material progress that must regard IL place OF
refuge whore wearied seeks rest in the hope OF
future life Of JOY and peace. But here AZ Pnia-
emancipation Of continent from bondage and the
birth OF new nation, which Is destined 10 lead tho
world into freedom along the way OF progress and
prosperity. Here have slave work TO desccraie
the soil which lbcry was proclaimed 10 the world
unity, equality aud fraternity, guarded by order and
Intelligence In tho great main building we lind
coutylOutou3 from almost every kuOWn peoptc
70 the great Centennial show. England, France.
Spain, Italy, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark,
Turkey Belgium, In iacs every State and Province ~
Europe sends specimens Of its manufactures aud
products Silks from Lyons, carpets from Turkey
81 and wine from SPAN. hardware IRON England So
ehs list until IL nils large volume, The cata
pgue oil exhibits for this building alone In this must
y included OF course the Eastern nations the African
and the South American. Egypt rs the oldest OF tie
worlds family OF nations, the eldest sister Of civil
nzston sends her greetings TO America, the youngest
and most vigorous. Brazil grasps hands with Japan,
and China smiles obiqucIy Costa Rica The same
songregasng togethcr OF representatives OF tho most
WIDELY separated peoples occurs In
TuE GREAT MACHINERY HALL.
whero acres upon OF machinery descrip
Won are SET N motion simultaneously by over seven
miles oi shnHing, which moved by the
great central engine. Could Archimedes revisit this
mundane sphere OF ours and walk through Machinery
Hall for part Of day night he would return TO
hsdes the most astonished ghost that ever srcvsed
tne giinipses Of the moon.n Charon himself would
burst into condition Of amiabc excitement II no could