The Republican journal., 1876-05-18
PHILADELPHIA, MAY 13t

$50 horse power to the various machines, oven
a floor room of 510,9G0 square feet. BY the of
fetal arrangement this building is devoted to
motors from steam, gas and air, and to machin-
cry for working metals wood, glass, fibre, stone
clay, paper, &c. Leather machinery is display
cd in an annexed building, as are also pumps
and all hydraulic machinery. The attractions
VIII growwitll the continuance ofthe exhibition.
Entering it, the spectator is beWildered By the
amount of shining, moving, complicated inven-
tons, and the resulting CHATTER and confusion.
But this soon gives place to feeling of admir-
alton and delight, as the beauty, symmetry and
usefulness of the contents make themselves ap-
parent. Here the genius OF our country tri-
umphs, and the Yankee is at home--he from
whose inventive brain have sprung so many
appliances for subduing nature and tightening
toll. The most prominent feature is the great
Corss engine, made at Providence, which is
now daily at work, its huge shining levers and
enormous double walking beams PLAYING as
noselessly is though they We're not armed
with resistless power. This engine rises 40 feet
from the floor. Its cylinders are of Al inches
diameter and 10 feet stroke. The enormous ily
wheel has diameter of 80 feet, n inch face
weighs 56 tons. and makes SO revolutions a
minute. Twenty boilers in separate building
furnish the requisite steam. This engine cost
$500 900, and was furnished gratis hy Mr.. Cor
liss as an advertisement OF his business. 1t is
reported that it has been already sold, to 90 out
of the country at tie close of the exhibition.
From this point northward are six railway
tracks for the exhibition Of locomotives, NJ
which there are about 49, English. French,
Spanish and American, huge machines shining
in steel and brass, and cmbodying the great
massive power that moves the world physically.
There is a great deal in this building which
puzzles the spectator, and the uses of which
the uninitiated cannot guess, for the catalogue
is incomplete, and constant additions are being
made. But there is enough that can be under
stood to interest in intelligent observer for
weeks. Our mother England is very large
contributor to this department, especially in
steam machinery, and other heavy iron and
steel work. Among these are specimens of the
plating of her war ships. At some of this
eight inches thick. heavy concal steel shot from
rilled cannon had been fired without going
through it. Among the hard facts of this de-
partment is a pillar 10 feet high which some
aspiring dealer in grindstones has made of his
Wares-perhaps intended to suggest the grit OF
1.1f;. a very attractive feature of this build
ing to men of maritime pursuits Is that devoted
to ships, yachts, sail and rowing boats &c.
which is very large and interesting. Some ele-
giant ice boats are there, but it didn't appear to
me that an unwary person slat off from them
would alight any easier than from the kind run
ON Waldo county ponds. There are abundant
models of war ships armored and otherwise
row boats &c. One of the latter has a back
action continuance by which the oarsman may
face the bow of the boat, and while apparently
pulling stern first, still go ahead, and see where
of neck twisting. A beautiful little propeller,
60 feet long and with good cabin accommodate
tons, attracted much attention, and raised a
regret in the mind Of the writer that the rev.
enues Of the Journal would not afford it
as an auxiliary to the office force. There is a
very large and elegant show of fire eXtinguisll-
ing apparatus. The Touring interest show mills
had case full of bread, pies, cake and slap
jacks, to show the made up quality of bis pro-
duct. expect that the march Of improvement
will carry him to accompanying maple syrup
and an invitation to free breakfasts before the
show is over. The exhibition of sewing ma
chimes is very large and attractive, and it is a
suggestive fact that the English are showing
q 6f abo
cent. of the cost of those of Americ an make,
but which tariff and patent rights prevent the
introduction of here. A Glasgow machine, for
sail-making, has 4 bed that travels go feet and
seWs 4 seam of that length.
An observer who comes early in the morning
will by the time lie has walked through Ma
chinery Hall begin to think of lunch The
endless travel of these tours of observation is
terribly hungry work. Heading eastward from
the building, celebrating whether to lunch at
French, German, Austrian, English or Amer
lean restaurants, the breeze came laden with
a strangely familiar odor - that waXed and
waned, and came and went until nearer,
unmistakable smell of baked beans. There is
an old and respected motto which says follow
your nose,' and an entirely safe one hen the
question of dinner is up. Pointing that alert
sentinel TO the windWard, it led straight to a
lighthouse of the primitive New England pat
tern. 1t was inwardly decorated with the old
time furniture and fiXings, had the huge Chin
ney, wide fireplace and solid furniture of the
olden time. Adjoining was a Kitchen from
which emanated the alluring odor, while in the
veranda was set table covered with platters
of pork and beans, brown bread boiled dish of
beef, pork and vegetables. 1t was all strongly
suggestive of primitive days except the price OF
the meal, for which one dollar was demanded,
and that smacked strongly of the Mammon of
modern times. L never could eat dollars
worth of beans at one sitting, and never expect
to be able to. They were good but there used
to be an excellent man who controlled the COM
missary department of log fishing camp on
certain interior waters, whose venerable ap-
pearance and bald head were like unto those OF
Elijah the Fishbite-whose beans were better
than these Centennial limitations, and not near
ly so expensive. There is great advancement
is most departments of this Centennial show,
but the departm ent of baked beans has touch
Of degeneracy. w. II. S.
PHILADELPHIA, May 18th.
sojourner within the gates of q stranger city Of
ten hardly knows how to dispose of Sunday, and the
old question returns, whether he was made for the
Sabbath or the Sabbath for him. He does not feel
much as at home the necessity of "sugaring over
with dev otion's visage" the shortcomings of week.
and therefore is apt to keep right on knew that
my associate Nye, who so excellently upholds his
Presbyterian reputation, at home and abroad, would
go to meeting, and suspected that Haskell would Offset
it with Unitarian attendance-so in order that the
latter doctrine should not predominant in Names
delegation. concluded to represent that numerous