The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-23
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
The Comforts OF the Centennial City-The
Catalogue Observation-Disclosures
From Our Special Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, June 10:-Many people
speak of the intense heat of Philadelphia, as
is supposed to be the case in all large cities;
hence, feel deferred from visiting the exhi-
bition during the heated term. The follow
ing is the average for the last ten years ::
May sixty-three, July seventy-eight, October
ifty-six degrees Fahrenheit. There are
few warm days in all cities in our country in
July and August The area of the city is
immense, one hundred and twenty-nine
SQUARE miles. This added to a magnificent
water power that showers and coOls the air
of many squares, and is used freely in lakes,
pools and fountains on the exhibition
grounds and in the buildings. This power
fills the reservoirs, which hold 45,672, ,07S
gallons, machinery of turbines and two
breast wheels. Then we have the largest
park in the world. Hyde park, SS9 acres
Regent, $50 acres; Windsor Great park,
1900 acres, London; Bias ae BOulOgre,
Paris 2, ,15S; Prater ENle>.ua, $500 acres;
Richmond Hill, England, 2,458 acres;
Phenix park Dublin, 1852 acres; st. Louis,
275 acres; Shaw's Garden, st. Louis, 276;
Fairmount park, Philadelphia, 2,740 acres,
to which add the beauties of the exhibition,
and it will pay man from the most remote
spot on earth to pick up his "kit'' and come.
THE CATALOGUE DEPARTMENT.
The catalogue is now undergoing a thor
Ough supervision, and when completed, will
be a splendid work of reference. This i'm
portant branch of the service is in charge of
the competent assistant secretary of the COM
mission, Professor Dorsey Gardner, whose
reputation as scholar has eminently fitted
him for the position he holds. His two
valuable aids, Messrs. Lombard and Long,
with an efficient corps of assistants, will soon
accomplish the difficult and aIduous task
of placing each article on exhibition in its
appropriate place, arranged in seven depart
ments, which are divided into seven hundred
and thirty-four classes, occupying five build
ings main, art, machinery, agricultural and
horticultural. The difficulty those gentle
men have to surmount may be conceived
when one considers the technicalities in the
different languages, and the various changes
each fabric has in foreign make up. 1 am
indebted to these gentlemen for a thorough
examination of their work, and pronounce
them the right men in the right place!
MISCELLANY.
The most superior blanket in the exhibit
ton, astonishing as it may seem, is the EtOile
du Nord, manufactured in Minnesota. This
speaks well for the west. Massachusetts ex-
hibts flannel of superior finish. The art de-
partment is classified as follows Sculpture,
painting, engraving, and TYPOGRAPHY, photo
graphy, industrial and architectural designs,
medals and decorations, and vitreOus mate
rial, Mosaic and inlaid work. There are
fifteen hundred and eleven works of art on
exhibition from the following countries:
Mexico, sixty-six; Brazil, nineteen; United
States, two hundred and fifty-two; Canada,
eighty; France taking the lead with five hun
dred and seventy-eight; Germany, ,forty-eight;
Netherlands, one hundred and seventeen
Denmark, fifteen; Sweden, ninety-fve
Norway, fOrty-seven; Italy, eighty; Argen-
tine Republic, forty-fOur; loan collection,
seventy. If the west exhibits the best
blanket, so she does the most beautiful bed |
stead, being one from Grand Rapids, Michi- |
gan. A very neat patent on exhibition is an
automatic window shade. Also an attrac- |
tive exhibit is a working model of Pennsyl- |
vania oil works. model railroad ticket |
office is shown. Rhode Island makes an ex-
tensive exhibit of silver-plated goods. Phil |
makes the finest pharmaceutical |
display in the world. A valuable article is
an extension ladder. Egypt presents among |
other valuables an antique case, $1,000 gold |
Corn from Egypt looks like the nubbin from |
a western stalk. On the corn question, the |
old world is behind. When | say corn / |
Americanize this. Cereal as corn in the old !
world, corresponds to our-small grain, and |
corn with them is accepted in commercial |
parlance as maize. The home of the Pha- !
raOhs have sent us large variety of seeds,
beans, lentils, gum arabic, etc. The Rus |
sians who have been delayed are opening |
and make grand display. Their collection |
is divided into seven hundred and forty |
nine exhibits, embracing articles in the va |
rious fields of art and industry. They show |
rare goods in malachite lapis Jasper, RhOd- |
onite Nephrite and Labrador, with bronze |
fittings. One malachite center-table, $6,0OO |
a Mexican onyx mantel, spoken of previous
ly, worth $1,000. In speaking of the art !
exhibition / have only given those III the art |
buildings. There are in the main building |
works from New South Wales, Victoria, |
South Australia, New Zealand, Cape of
Good Hope, Egypt, China, Japan, Hawaii, |
Switzerland. The British department is not
officially cataiOgUed. Russia exhibits a tel |
ementre an instrument for measuring dis |
tance without chain or rod.
The shipping interests are varied and very
attractive to those who are fond of nautical |
manners, from the tiny boat of ones boy |
hood, to the leviathans of transatlantic !
lines. And models can he seen in all shapes |
embracing boats and sailing vessels, yachts !
and pleasure-boats, row and life-bOats, fishing |
smacks, Sandman Zebecs, and Genoese fel- |
lucas, with Chinese iunks in appearance,
blue noses, clippers, galliots, gondOlas, flats,
pirogues, batteaux, and the celebrated ice |
yacht, the whif that makes sixty miles per
hour. In connection is seen submarine ar
NOR, diving-bells, dredging machines, sal
wage apparatus, etc. A meeting of the '76
club, an organization of women journalists,
had a reunion, and addresses by Miss Susan |
b. Anthony, Mrs. Heron Foster, of Pitts |
burg and Miss Maxwell, of Colorado. This |
lady, who is in charge of Colorado geological
department, claims that she has killed two |
hundred bears. More than fifty carloads of
arrivals of exhibits this week. The Austrian !
legation warn the public against an iudiUd- |
ual who claims to be a commissioner of the !
Hungarians. They say "hc is an escaped |
convict" Three trims of Thirty cars, con- !
tanning fourteen hundred New York bank |
clerks, made an excursion to the centennial. |
This was succeeded by an excursion OF pres
idents, managers and directors. On Wednes-
day the bankers opened their building with
dedicatOry services-oratOr, Hon. Elbridge
Gerry Spaulding, OfGBuffalo, \. Y. There is
a pig of iron exhibited made in 177O. A glass
of pure milk can be had on the centennial
grounds FOR five cents, pies ten cents; oaien
grits, with a bowl of milk, fifteen cents; good
sandwiches, ten cents; good roast diunerfor
fifty cents yet people grOwl at extortiOn.
The jewelry of the French department is
valued at 100000. One Italian exhibitor
has a collection of gems, onyx, sapphire,
carved and antique, valued at $250,OOO. A
chandelier made of amber and meerschaum
in the German department. is valued at
$4,000. The National Agric ultural congress
which meets September 18th, 18th and 18th,
will be addressed by Lewis Fallen, of Buffa-
10, n. Y. on live stock, and Joseph Harris
on the outlook of American agriculture.
JOSEPH BARBIERE