Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-05-31
Philadelphia Letter.
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 21tl

I
From our regular corresI ondent'
PHILADELPHIA, May 9th.
| In the Main Centennial Building. which
| IS the one Of most general attraction. the
visitor will be impressed and, perhaps
pleased to see the comparatively large
space covered with the excellent exhibits of
hat kingdom or empire (Which is it?) to
which we are most nearly related in Ian
guage. institutions and laws. Next to the
United States. Great Britain and her colo
mics occupy the largest space, or about one
sixth of the entire area of twenty acres
By her almost complete withdrawal from
competition in Machinery Hall. she tacitlv
confesses her infcroitv to the United
States in mechanical devices, but. know
INC her strength in manufactures Of every
| description. she has made Il superb display
If textile fabrics, pottery and cutlery. In
| thcse rs we'll us in house furniture She cX-
cells any thing that we have produced,
| ] he arrangement of the British colonial
| department is systematic. an excellence
which distinguishes it from almost every
pthcr country. Exhibitors sending their
goods We're compelled to cntru>t them t.
| heir commissioners. hence the exhibits
| nave been arranged, not * our Own, to
tlvcrti>e certain firms. but to illustrate
| he resources natural and industrial of
| australia, India. Canada, etc. Canada al
though less remote from Philadelphia than
some of the States has followed the
same excellent plan. Her exhibits
have been arranged by Il board of commits
>ioners consisting of three from the Do
mnion at large, and one from each PROV
nee. Our nearest neighbor has appeared
in this arena full panOpllcd. Those who
/ know her from the school Biographies on
IL Us a numbering, ship-building. mining,
and trapping region Will be surprised to
find that she has thrown down the gaze to
Boston and New York in the manufacture
of pianos; that her slei@hs and skates cx-
eel those made in the states; that she i
not far. if at all. behind in the manuftc-
turc Of shoes and boots and that She has
4 very cr"ditabIe display Of furniture, pot
terry and marble work. In the Canadian
/ department of Machinery Hall there is Il
very clever display of the results of lnHen-
| tive and labor saving genius. WIS par
tcularlv pleased with the merit, Of Hawks
wroth'S spiral spark arrcstcr and draft i'm
proven, exhibited by Henry Colford Esq,
| Of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1t consists of Il
cvlinder with triangular plates arranged
~pirallv on the inside and is like Il winding
stair with what carpenters, believe. e.alI
the "vi>cr." that is the vertical board re-
moved. This simple and cheap device fit
led to any fine, chimney. ove-pipe or
mokt-~ttck of a locomotive. increases the
! heat. economies fuel. makes the escape
IF sparks an utter impo~~ibillitV. and s.
improves the draft that il * only ncce>>l-
" to fix it upon the most incorligab!c
chimney to cur, that evil which the PROV
The display of Canadian Tow and peas
are boats i very iur' bu; i'll TINS drl"'t-
mrht 'h' dominion : r'I'l'>'.'' - ~ an
h iI'; I,r tW,,nr. * Son. If rrnv \ y
rhrv are miracles Of lighJno>-. Strength
AMI f,..,I1t1 ()u,. man can easily carry