The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-04
oUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER.
The Ceu tennial Grounds and Build
fugs-How the Work Is Progress.
ing-Japanese Style OfDoing Bust
ness-smlathicl Forced 10 Conclude
Throus h Lack OF Wheeling StOgies.

| tDgs-HOw the WORK Is PrOSress
ing-Japanese Style of Doing Bust
ness-smlathieI Forced 10 Conclude
Through Lack OF wheeling StOgies
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20, 1875.
Editors OF the Register:
Wen through trials, tribulations
slush and mud, perambulated the Cen.
tennal grounds today and returned
more or less battered and tired though
happy. 1t took but seven cents and
forty minutes to get there by street car
but it took deal of patience and per-
severance TO wade through the mud and
water on the grounds to see what | did
SEQ 1t has been raining, and as they
are making fills, grading and breaking
ground al over the park, the contlnuou:
going and coming of teams and people
has worked the surface into n good
building mortar; but I'll not complain
rs muds the natural element OF West
! Virginian. But while | succeeded IN ac'
curing for my own satisfaction some
conception of the limitless preparations
I for the show, it were Jolly to
undertake 10 give others the bene-
lit OF that conception. Let your
farmer readers take one Of their % acre
fields. and in their mind, erect over 1t u
harmonious, handsome structure OF iron
and glass. SO that when they enter at one
end. look down through the ever re-
treating, far-stretching corridors, sight
I itself is lost in the distance, and they
NAV catch an idea of the main building,
which is 1850 feet long and AGA feet IN
width. costing over million and halt
/ of dollars. The machinery hall is equally
grand. and covers ii acres OF ground
Then we have grouped about ~ encios-
pre of $50 acres, the horticultural, agrl-
cultural, art, memorial and other build
ings OF the exposition proper, allimmense
in PROPORTIONS and magnificent in arch!-
tsctural beauty. covering in the aggregate
90 acres Of space.
Besides these principal structures erect
ed BY the Centennial authorities, there
Will be many ornamental ediiices put up
bv foreign commissi ms and the different
| States. to be used as offices, parlors, &c
The buildings of Ohio and Indiana are
going up in brotherly proximity, and
assure you Indiana's shanty Is an odd
affair. Plank up four large octagonaI
rooms, SAY thirty feet in diameter, hay
ing spacious halls between, with large
court in the centre; cover IN these by
setting down on top tho cabin
of grand Mississippi steamer
mounted by the texas complete,
and then put On the finishing touches
of sundry verandahs, bay windows, and
the like, and you have the hosier shcbshg,
Ohio is Just laying her granite tounda-
tons firm and strong. Can't see how
she'll build as yet. Couldn't find our
Young West Vrginia's tracks in the mud
| ut all. but as she is young, fresh heller,
| It's hoped shell let her milk down quick
| when she does come up.
One ofthe most striking buildings is
the Southern Club House, queer, airy
highly ornamental, nearly Nil one story
! structure, without single door OF any
| kind-in fact, the whole thing seems to be
pretty much out o doors, and is built toE
/ not weather to keep Southcrners cool.
! One If the features of this resting resort
will be q troupe of original simon pure
/ Georgia niggers. who will with their
bones, banjos and plantation melodies
| entertain visitors during the show. The
Jap carpenters seem to have big share
of attention at present. About score
of them are busy erecting beautiful
cdlfcc. with tools and material complete
/ brought from Japan, Thy are queer r
! of cu>ses certainly. As l stood watch
/ ing their clumsy motions in their blue
/ shirts with tea inscriptions on their backs
| felt like leaping over their bamboo bar
riers. and hosting o few OF them somer
sault TO see If they could mt be made t'
90 about their work right end foremost
The pig-tailed scamps do everything
backwards. and most intolerably slow
/ Whist American would tolerate work
man that used meat cleavcr notched
for a handsaw and cut 10 him; or thai
!, straddlcd a board. ana with chiset ahd
plane chiselrd and PLACED Mt his stomach
instead o! from him? And yet these
chaps are dom. a Job that for neatnes;
and beauty IS not 10 be sneczad at. Ar
Irishman. the other day, couldn't endure
the awkwardness of one OF them shovel
ing some Dirt in basket. Get out
that" shouted Pat, you bald headed
monkey, and let man show yes wha
, shade was made for'and in atwinkling
the basket, Jap and all camo near being
buried. If | had Wheeling stcgic d
worry your readers longer, bat I'm with
on, that consolation and will have TO @
to bed, and just here let me advise Al
West Vircinians to bring their stogies
along. for I've hunted the city over and
they re not in it, be it SAID to PniladeI
rbias everlasting shame and disgrace
How a would he grest city Ike mis-, Cal
ever hope to amount TO anything with
out " hcejing stogies and tips Is beyon'
nv comprehension. SALATHlEL.