The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-20
CENTENNIALITIES.

Fifty -two thousand five hundred and
sixty-tw persons visited the grounds on
the 9th, the receipts being $23, 025.5O.
One of the most life-likc pictures to
be seen in Memorial Hall is full-sized
portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which
stands at the right of the main en-
| trance.
The United States Marine Band is to
receive $1,000 for one months services in
the Exposition. 1t will give two enter
tainments each day at the pavilion in
Landsdowne Valley.
The Michigan State building was for
mally opened on the 9th, Gov. Bagley de-
livcring the address. But as the building
had been open to visitors for some weeks,
the formal opening was of little moment.
There is a display of potatoes and
onions from Bermuda in Agricultural
Hall worth looking at. The vegetables
are of the largest size and the finest quail
ty, showing the productiveness of the soil
in that fertile little island. A good many
of the potatoes would weigh ton, while
the largest of the onions is so immense
that sixteen persons could stand around it
and shed tears together.
The commissioners had another very
knotty question on hand the other morn
ing. 1t was proposed to thank Vice
President Ferry for attending the Fourth
of July ceremonies, but the feeling against
it was SO evident that the motion was with
| drawn. One of the members said that it
was simply in the line of his duty to at
tend, and that he was paid to be there, Just
as much as the band or the policemen.
The Centennial lodging house agencies
are on the verge of starvation. They say
that they never expected any business
until the overcrowded hotels swept a
myriad of sleepy victims into their hands,
but as the hotels have not been full their
business has been minus. The largest of
them is about to move its office into an
obscure street, from which it can step
gracefully down and out without attract
ing any attention.
The bust of Abraham Lincoln, has
arrived at the Illinois Headquarters, and
has been placed on a handsome pedestal,
eight feet high, in front of the State Build
ing, and a few yards from the main
entrance. 1t is a large, handsome bust,
made Of galvanized iron, and remarka-
bly, fine representation of the head and
face of the murdered President. A hand
some bronze eagle has also been placed
over the main entrance of the building.
The contest between the military
bands for prize and immortal glory, that
was to have been played in the Lands
downe ravine on the 9th was given up. OF
the six entries in the musical race, four
were such unimportant and unheard- of
bands that the other two did not care to
compete with them. Late in the afternoon
the West Point band and the United States
Marine band blew themselves quietly over
the course, without opposition, judges OF
prizes.
I'm Agricultural Hall there is a wind
mill, said to be a fac smile of an old mill
still standing on Long Island, at East
Hampton, about eighty miles from New
York, which was representative Touring
mill for that period-1OO years ago. The
mill had capacity for grinding out eight
barrels of flour per day, when the wind
happened to be favorable. The fac smile
is exhibited by New York milling firm
whose steam Touring mill in that metrop
oils has a capacity of 1850 barrels pei
day.
A new style of refrigerator is on ex.
hibition in the United States Government,
Building. The sides are principally OF
glass, and through them may be seen sew
eral large fresh fish zone of them being a
sturgeon nearly four feet long,, some
strawberries frozen into the ice, cake OF
ice from which not a drop of water is
seen to run, and several other objects in
dicating that the temperature within the
cabinet is very cold. Indeed, there is
a large thermometer showing the mercury
to be twenty degrees below zero, notwith-
standing that it. is from ninety five to loo
outside. IF sweltering visitors could be
permitted to crawl into that refrigerator
only for few moments, they would soon
sigh for summer again. s,
AT the crossing of the narrow-gauge
railroad near the north center of Ma
chinery Hall, Geographic alarm has been
constructed, similar to the alarms used in
the "block system on the Pennsylvania
Railroad. A Geographic wire laid under
the track, and extending about hundred
Yards in each direction from the station
communicates with gong bell at the
station platform. Whenever train is ap.
preaching, from either direction, the
alarm is thus rung automatically, and kept
ringing till the train stops. If, with this
rafting and jingling Of the alarm, any
person persists in being run over and
killed, his or her death will not be a
but clear case of inexcusable reckless.
ness. 'ss. S~N 49,
PRIOR to 1917 there had been three
Congregational churches built in Lyme
Conn.,, and they were all struck by light.
ming and burned down. Then the church
now standing in the center was built. AT
that time every one was taxed to support
| the rfsnn1 and If ho did not pa1y b;o