Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-05-26
by THE wAYSIDE
CENTENNIAL NOTES.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1s, 18i

IhlLADELFhlAt may TO- lotO.
ED. JoURNAL:-Since long before the
opening day of this great Exhibition, rail-
road trains of visitors have constantly and
daily poured into the Quaker City. Every
thing of course is ornamented for this Cen.
tennial Jubilee with flags and bunting.
Not place in the whole city is free from
it-from the most elegant residences to the
humblest tenements, flags of all nations
and sizes are flung 10 the breeze. Old In
dependence Hall is decorated at cost of
$4,000.
On the 10th inst, opening day, tens OF
thousands stood for three long hours in the
scorching rays Of the sun, waiting the irll-
some ceremonies. This living mass is what
| call perfect jam-yes, jamboree. They
swayed to and fro like the billows of
heavy sea.
Where shall I commence to describe the
contents of the buildings? There are so
many interesting things to be seen, they
fairly bewilder me in the attempt to begin
to comprehend them, much more to de
scribe.
First, let us look at the mighty Corlcss
Engine, built in Providence, r. l., at a
cost of S2,000,000, which runs hundreds of
miles of shaftinS ann betting, and as many
different machines. One can spend hours
looking at this king of engines, and not
then comprehend its beauty, power and
perfect working. Looms Of all kinds were
at work. Some were weaving cotton cloth,
fine plaid wooden goods, ingram and brus-
sells carpets, ribons, damask goods, corsets
and one on Centennial suspenders, makes
them to order with your own name woven
in. The carpet and embroidery looms
seemed to work with the ingenuity of hu-
man hands, taking or letting down the
shuttle with the exact colored thread to
| produce the beautiful patterns.
A machine engaged making envelopes
from long strips of paper wound on small
cylinder, cuts, folds, 81 ues, dries and leaves
them in packs at the rate OF 100 per minute.
THE TYPE WRITER
was kept busy printing letters for the by
islanders, for FIVE cents each. The operator
would simply touch key, which would
spring the desired letter to the paper, spell
ing words and punctuating correctly, as fast
as he could spell and touch the various
keys.
THE LONDON "wALKER PRINTING PRESS.
is printing the New York Times, and at
tracts thousands around the ratings, who
fairly stand on tip-toe, and gaze in utter
astonishment at the workings of this won.
derful machine, as it neatly prints on both
sides 250 copies per minute. We see the
huge roll OF pure, white paper, thousands
of yards in length, rapidly unrolled from
a cylinder and passing between others like
lightning, making noise almost deafening
The papers soon as dropped are handed
out by attendants to the eager crowd. A
little further alongthe aisle, the " Bullock
Press is grinding out the New York Herald
with all its descriptions and sensations,
while courteous attendants are distributing
the papers, and explaining the working Of
the machine.
THE GLASS BLOWERS,
too, attract a crowd of curiosity seekers
All kinds of thin-necked bottles, with va
rious objects in them, such as dogs, babies
&c. These present a query, not only 10 ju-
veniles, but older heads are curious to know
how these little specimens get into the bot
ties They soon learn when they see the
operators melt the glass, draw the neck,
and then insert the little images, then melt
and mold together the large end.
In another enclosure those TO the ladies
indispensable little articles (pins) were
dropped into hopper, and came out stuck
on paper and neatly put up in rolls ready
for the tiny fingers to use in adjusting their
toilet. At another place powerful ma.
chine, with many twisting and turning
of bar oil iron, would bite off and spit
out nails of all sizes Unto box spittoon
for the purpose) hundreds per minute.
THE wALTHAM WATCH co.
had about dozen operatives at work on
the internal arrangements of those cele
brated American watches. Their machines
were delicate little affairs, and nearly all
the workmen at times examined the pro
gress in making the small wheels, &C., b,
a magnilying glass or lens. Crowds wer'
anxiously watching every movement o
these watch makers
To be continued by
RAMBLER.