Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-09-14
Correspondence.
FILADELFI, Cep. ", '76.


himself by skinnin' Under a circus
tent, | can exclaim s'Here [ am, Sir, !"
in Philadelphia. at the great birth
day party of the nation,-the city of
brotherly love. [ realized the fact
that this is the city of brotherly love
most perfectly IN passing from the de-
pot upon my arrival to my boarding
place, upon hearing a ''brother' tell
how he ''put head on i'm" alluding
to little ssonpleasantness," [ pre-
sumo, which had undoubtedly occurred
between the aforesaid aud another
"brother.
| must call this "hash" letter.
1t will be in pieces very fine pieces,
for the Centennial is too big thing
to administer III any other way. A
person may take it all in-.-may swal-
low it absolutely in day. but he can t
digest it in twelvemonth therefore
[ shall hash. it up, and let ncne of my
readers be qualmish in partaking for
the bits of meat are all from my dish,
and not gathered from the leavings Of
the national bearing house. | pro-
pose to scribble in my own style, and
will endeaver that the lid bits be pala-
table. A paper of weekly issue can
contain but few letters from any point,
written as artists take their pictures
con the spot, without the writer re-
main a much longer period than [ pcs
sibly can remain at the Centennial, so,
if [ play write from Philadelphia, let
me ask ''whose business is it?' You
solve the conundrum before I ask an
other.
The Centennial is 50 big thing
that even its minutia is immense, and
to say anything about coming hither
seems foolish, if not wicked when SO
much grander an idol is before us to
receive our btmage, but l did have a
most glorious trip hither and SO [ am
just going to hack a silver or two off
the main trunk (excuse my smile
and non observance of rhetorical rules J
before | sit down in my sanctum to
aorite from Philadelphia. [ reached
fittsburg or rather Allegheny, at 2:10
A. NJ, and stopped at the Girard
House, capital place for smoking
hams and starting an chronological
museum: The mercury stood at 105
and would have gone higher; but [
was in the attic, and there was no
scuttle. With early daylight [ crawl
ed out-the bugs having crawlcd out
much sutherland found my sisters
residence with little trouble. From
Friday to Monday morning, [ remain
ed in the Iron City receiving a much
more favorable impression OF the
smoking city than four years ago,
when it seemed a miniature hell, aud
not SO much of miniature hell eth
er. The depression in business has
closed many of the heavy iron and
glass works, besides other industries
which hitherto draped this busy COM
mercial centre with pals of blackness,
| saw Pittsburg no t through a glass,
darkly, now, but face to face, and am
ready to take back all the hasty words
uttered when under q cloud.
[ visited several glass manufacto-
ries and rolling mills, and under most
favorable circumstances slid up the
elevated railway seven hundred feet
almost vertically.
Allegheny City is picturesque and
beautiful. Her magnificent park can
not be too highly praised. In form I
think it is 9uadrilateral, but in this [
may be mistaken. At any rate it is
park everywhere; the city seems fenc-
ed in, SO to speak. by the most lovely
ground picture interspersed with foun-
tains, statuary, flowers in profusion
and lovely glens and gro ttos. [ am
ready to "gig" on what [ said to the
disparagement of Allegheny four years
ago. I visited the Pittsburg exposi-
ton which, though comparatively in
significant when the greater exposition
is considered, yet it is a model of beau
ty, [ enjoyed it hugely.
Monday morning after leaving home,
[ left the city of Pittsburg via. Phila-
delphia road for the larger city OF
Philadelphia, passing the Allegheny
mountains with all their wild and aw-
full beauty, in the day season. The