Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-08-09
Our Centennial Letter.

er the daily average of visitors to the
exposition does not exceed twenty-five
thousand. Until the cash admissions
number thirty thousand per day, the
returns will not be satisfactory Soon
the resident population will come
home, and there is 10 doubts that the
Autumnal months have been selected
by persons at a distance as the more
agreeable time for visiting the exposi-
tion. The admiss ous on Wednesday
last we're. full fee % S73, half tee SO,
free 1885, total 32,9l6. The total
admissions up to that date were 2.
484 .4O3 and the total cash receipts
$890,Oe4.75. Of the maay ingenius
contrivances employed by the mana
gers to aid in conducting the affair
honestly and to prevent any possibility
of fraud, none is more complete than
that in the Office of the department of
of admissions that serves as perfect
check upon the gate keepers The
wall OF the Office is covered with
shelving containing seventy-six cast
iron boxes, each about four cubic
inches. These represent the seventy
six self.adjusting turostyle through
which visitors enter the ground. A
person 10 any part of this room need
only look at one of these boxes to
learn the number of visitors who have
entered the grounds by the turnstyie
represented by that particular box.
Each box has a slit in front about
three and half inches long and three
tourtbs of an inch wide IN this the
oumber is shown on as many strips of
stiff paper as there are figures in the
number. If it indicates SO another
entrance at that style will cause the
strip bearing the nine to move up.
The uine pops up and disappears and
cipher leaps into its place. and the
Eve hurries out Of sight aud is sue
ceeded by elk. This is done by the
alternate attraction and expulsion of
the armature of an electro magnet,
there being one of these under each
box, having telegraphic connection
with the battery at the turnstyle. The
universally of the use of Tobacco by
all the nations of the earth, civilized
and uncivilized was never more mani.
fest. Every country seems to have
considered an exhibition of its Tobac-
co one of the most important features
and it is curious to notice the varied
appliances provided for its use. The
Turks have brought the art Of smok'
ing to perfection. The Nargueil and
The Chebouk are brought into practi-
cal use at their bazaar, aud crowds of
young men are constantly engaged in
experimenting with the different kinds
| of pipes and the fragrant varieties Q!
tobacco they serve their customers
prove to be source OF great profit to
the obsequious statesmen. The Indian
clay pipes in the Government building
and the wonderful display of meur.
chaums in the Main hall are equally
! curious and interesting. Both show
ornamentation of the most elaborate
character. From these expensive ap-
pliances down to the commonest clay
pipe, We have all sorts Of specimens
and all are interesting tothose who use
the narcotic weed. This ::being so, it is
no wonder that all nationalities should
have considered it advisable to bring
their choicest specimens to the Inter
national Exhibition. Old Virginia not
disposed to take very prominent part,
still had shrewdness enough to aprre.
ciate the fact, that she would make one
of the best exhibits of Tobacco to be
found in the Union. And in Ma
ohinery Hall prominent manufacturer
has the article in every shape, and with
force Of colored men, who sing their
peculisr songs and stem the leaves and
turn cut cigars by tho thousands every
day, does . thriving business in the
way Of sales. Az under the rules, any
article manufactured on the grounds
may be sold, which is not allowable to
manufactured articles brought for ex-
hibition. Spain, Brazil, Turkey and
Porsugess are particularly rich is their