The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-13
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
CARLIsLE, Pa, July 8, 1876.

CARLISLE, PA, July 9, 1876.
Well, / have visited and "done'
The great "One Hundred Years Elk
hibition," and the more / saw of it
the more | became impressed cf the
inadequacy and folly of an effort to
portray this stupendous show, or any
part of it by mere word sketches. 1t
is simply grand, enormous and i'm
mense, and it would be as tedious as
numbering the sands of the sea to
attempt to write in a newspaper
about the metals, furs, filigree speci-
mems and wax groups, lifelike, in the
Swedish department; the curious
mixture of the exquisite and gro
tesque, seen in the ornamentation of
the Japanese and s4heathen Chinee''
bronzes and carvings; the antiqui-
ties in the Egyptian section; the i'm
posing exhibits of the products and
manufactures of America, England,
Australia, Ireland, Italy, Germany,
Switzerland, France, Spain, Mexico,
and almost every civilized nation on
the earth. 1t couldn't be done short
of a Humboldt and the scope of a cos
mos, and when hundreds of CORES
pondents have laid down the pen
and pencil in despair, it would be
folly for me to make the attempt at
a description. 1 only wish the adj
vantages of the Exhibition could be
placed within the reach of all to en-
joy and transmit, which of course is
impossible, but from present indica-
tions, l believe before its close such
liberal reductions will be made in
railroad fare as to give opportunity
to hundreds of thousands waiting
and anxious to visit this great nat
ural and illustrated pathology. Ho-
tells, restaurants and boarding houses
in Philadelphia, have already made
such liberal reduction, that it is no
more expensive to live there than in
other cities. There are now plenty
of places where good rooms and
board can be obtained, for from six
to ten dollars per week. AL that is
needed is time to find them.
The number of visitors TO the Elk
hibition has not so far come up to
the expectation of the least san
equine. The daily expenses to run
the show are, it is said, about $15,-
600, while the daily receipts up to
the present time have been but little
over half that sum, and it is now
generally admitted that in a merely
pecuniary sense, it will not pay, but
there is still room for it yet to come
out of the kinks, when the railroads
come down to half-fare and the ad
mission fee to the grounds is reduc
ed to twenty-five cents.
visited on the grounds the Ohio
house, to build which the Republi
can reform Legislature oflast win
ter, voted $47, 900 of the taxpayer:
money! 1t is q plain story-and-a
half cottage with a Dayton stons
front, and seems to have been intend
ed more as an advertisement of tina
commodity than any other purpos,
that / could imagine, as prominent
ly on its front is carved "DAYTon
Stoner' 1t is not as showyas eithel
the Indiana or Michigan houses, e
rected close by, and did not cost t.
exceed $4,000 What became of tn,
remainder of the 1000, the tax
payers of Ohio in all human proba
bility will never know, but it is an
other strong evidence of how lovely
it is to be governed by latter-day Re
Epublicanism, and should be a power
full argument to induce the homes
taxpayers to go Tor HAYES and re
fern!
Philadelphia is a beautiful city
and probably as pleasant a one OF
the American continent for a city
residence. Its people r plain, SO
ciable and hospitable, and when yol
"drop i'm you feel like at home. /
possesses more relics of the past ant
more edifices "around which hang {
halo of history calculated to fill the
American citizens with beer and pa
triotism, than any other city in thu
Union, and its people take pride ant
pleasure in pointing them out to Wis
itors. Among the most prominent
visited by the writer was PENIS cot
tage, built in 1920 and now used a.
a tobacco store-the old Swedes
Church erected in 1902 and still usec
as a place of worship-aIndepcnd
ence Hail." completed in 1874, il
which the Declaration of Independ
ence was adopted and read from it:
steps; where Washington read hi:
farewell address to the American
people; the Articles of Confederation
were adopted in ITS and the Con
stitution of the United States framed
= 1907 fEnL TN 80.