Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-10-04

/ MAY every power tQdt TuleS my 1dbc
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! And tuneful lines of cordial hate .,'
49, III daily dedicate to thee "''
- Our Centennial Letter.
Special CORRESPONDENCE Bismarck TRIBUNE: -
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.-This is New
York Day-that is, the day set apart
for the Empire State to enthuse on es.
pecially. l am not New Yorker, but
Ienthused all the same, in fact l would
just as soon EN- thuse every day if my
head and pocket book would stand the
strain. From casual glance oEer the
grounds [ should say there must be
about $4,000 people, big and little,
here to-day, and Gov. Tilden is holding
reception in the New j York State
Building. ..-:..,. ~-~,.,..-, .~., .
The entennial is getting to be so
immense in regard to attendance, that
the mind fails-utterly fails to grasp t..
During May and June twenty thousand
was considered good days attendance
but now the average has run up to nearly
one hundred thousand and still increas.
ing: On Saturdays, when the price of
admission is only twenty-five cents, the
number Of visitors run up to 115 1000,
and on Sept. %: Pennsylvania day, it
is estimated full 100000 people will
cross the turnstile:: 1t makes me sad
when I think what I could do with the
daily receipts if had the lingering Of
them. I spoke to Gen.. Hawley about
it but he said he didn't think it would
do. He's rascal. ~ ...-'
TO- day visited the show with q
"gurl." She had never been to the
Centennial. We entered the main bull
ding and after pausing contemplatively
before pyramid of muslin and towels
and women's fxings for an hour or so,
suggested that time few and that there
we're some million odd things to see yet
and finally lured her on to the soda
water fountain, where we quaffed the
Intoxicating cordial for an hour or SO
more. Then we visited the Swedish
group representing the clock mender. 80
"How lifelike,"' said |, with what
fidelity is represented the acute and half
pompous look upon, the visage of the
artzan. Observe the awe that rests
upon the face of the woman who stands
"Yes," said the girl, "and just look
at that girl yonder What fright of
hat she has on. Why, tha's last years
style J." y>.
Then we looked at the magnificent
exhibit Of French cerawic ware, guard
ed upon either side by an immense Sew
res vase. l was explaining the process
Of Manufacture when she remarked in
an audible tone that tho woman who
kept the photograph stand evidently
pencilled her eyebrows or they never
would be so finely arched as all that.
Then we looked at the jewelry exhib
! it and she was lost in rapture over the
$25, 900 diamond necklack and the su-
perb amethyst bracelets; remarking in.
cidentAly that the woman who had just
passed US had no arms for bracelets, and
the ruby brooch she had on never cost
more tn an four dollars. ST. 81 '..... ~
We went and imbibed some more
soda. Under it's potent influence she
thawed out sufficiently to observe that
Rose D'Erina, who was to sing at 2 p,
p. in the centre of the building, was
hfty-two it she was a day. l said |
was glad to hear it, and she frowned
and said had no taste. ...
We passed the next fifteen minutes
looking through Australia and New
Zealand and Mexico. She said she
though the solid mass Of silver (40001b)
in Mexico, was pewter and she would
like to see the man who could convince
her it was not The slab of onyx,
weighing three tons, she viewed with :
critical eye under the idea that it We
soapstone inquired if she would Ii /
to Inspect the cereals and fruits fr ~
New South Wales, and especially { ,or
mended to her the specimens of II al;
woods from Japan, but she Sc il ,
things considered, she thought sh' ,rue,,
rather take some ice cream at tb Az
can Restaurant.
We wandered to the Am. RIOS 8,
after devouring nearly eve gth;n.
the place she said she thouf A. she w
now prepared to 60 and + aar '.hs f; :
Regt. Band play. We lis aeT,ea ta +,
band until dinner time AVID ~, 80,
and cleaned out the ] A,syaxrant 4,
~ 1ro.s nre'ss' W. W. tne VI a :grahpled al
hof'lcul'ufai 1'a''' " II sshe said Hs {