The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-28
CENTENNIAL CORRESPOND
EN(E.
R0tceI's Newspaper Pavilion = Printing
Fresses-Serioms Mistakes Of the No
mems Department. Trial of
Reopers and Binders.
NEWSPAPER PAVILION.


n newspaper pavilion, neat wooden structure,
sixty-seven by fcrty-six feet, and thirty-three
feet high, with galleries surrounding the IN
side, furnished with writing desks and writ
ing materials free, to accommodate the men,
bers of the press. On the sides of the hrst
floor arranged in alcoves, in perfect order,
are complete files of all the newspapers pub
lished in the country-eignt thousand one
hundred and twenty-nine-and any visitor
from any part of the United States, can find
any newspaper he asks for, of the latest date
of publication. The number of press repre-
sentatives who resort here daily is large and
constantly increasing. Mr. Moses, the SUI
perintendent, extends cordial welcome to
all visitors, and makes them all feel at home.
Placards are conspicuouslyposted "Free to
the Press" Ask for any newspaper you
want to see." This is the first time and place
in our history when collection of all the
newspapers published in this country could
be seen at any day of the week or month.
The press owes Mr.. ROwell unstinted thanks
for this magnificent exhibition.
PRINTING PRESSES.
There is a very great number and variety
of printing presses in machinery hall. The
principle ones being the Bullock, the Wal
ter, English Hoes and the Potter. Some
of the large newspaper press run daily edl-
ton here. The New York Times ships its
plates here by express, after its edition is
worked off in New York and, at stated hours
through the day, works off large number OF
copies and distributes them gratuitously to
the crowd. 1t use the Walter press, which,
at ordinary speed, prints fourteen thousand
copies an hours.
The New York Herald does the same
thing, on the Bullock press, which prints
| twenty thousand, and at a forced speed has
| printed twenty-eight thousand eight hundred
an hour. IT sells its morning issue TO protect
| ITS large local trade here, but gives them
| away in the afternoon.
| The Philadelphia Times has quite recently
/ adopted the same plan. So that we now
| have three daily papers with the complete
news of the day issued IN machinery hall.
SOME SERIOUS MISTAKES.
The dlrectresses of the women pavilion
| have made some blunders which greatly de-
| tract from the interest of their exhibition
| Mrs. Maxwell. the huntress of Colorado
wrote them, more than a year ago, asking
permission to exhibit in their department,
her collection of two hundred animals, in
Guiding all the native fauna of Colorado, eX-
! cept the stone marten, and perhaps one or
two others-and six hundred stuffed birds in
| cases, birds nests, &c, all prepared, and
most of them gatherd by her own hand.
But they never answered her application
until about a month before the time for
starting, and until after she had arranged
| with the Colorado commission TO exhibit in
| the Colorado department. And then they
wrote her that her letter had been
overlooked and that they would like TO hear
from her again. They did not offer her a
place in their department 1t is no dIspar-
agement to other exhibitors to say, that there
is nothing exhibited in the wnmen's depart
ment that excites half the interest or atten-
ton that Mrs. MaxwelI's exhibit does.
Perhaps they regard her practical studies
in natural history, as they did the efforts of
another woman to improve women's dress
whom they refused space to exhibit samples
of dress reform garments, as being without
the proper sphere of woman, or not cOnso-
nant with womanly prOpriety.
Mrs. Ella Halter, inventor of the best fruit
jar ever made, having a reservoir top which
supplies syrup so that the upper part OF the
fruit is never uneoyered-which every fruit
preserver, lady or gentleman, can see, at a
glance, must supercede all others now in use,
| because it preserves the fruit absolutely free
forever from mould or faint, was refused
space to exhibit in the wOmen's pavilion, and
when she begged for "iust a little spot s." thew
had mot an inch," and she was sent tosec-
ton J. 81, agricultural hall. And now that
thousands flock to Mrs. HaIler's stand, and
she has become a celebrity, the women have
invited her to exhibit in their pavilion.
! | could cite other instances hut let these
! suffice. | make these criticisms reluctantly,
and shall be happy to hear any extenuating
explanations of these grave mistakes. That
these women arc engaged in noble work,
and that they mean TO do Justice to all, | do
| not dot BIT That they should make some
mistakes, with their lack of experience in
/ this field, was inevitable. That there could
be satisfaction with their decisions on the
part of all exhibitors could not be expected.
| That they should have declined MANY things
Offered was doubtless praiseworthy, but that
they should do so without inquiring into the
merits of the articles proposed to be exhib-
tied, is not to their credit. They certainly
| should, If possible, have made place for the
best things, those which reflect most credit
upon the sex And that it was possible, any
one, who has examined the women's exhibit
ton knows. a great opportunity, s1ch as
the world has never before seen, is here open
to women to show what she is and what She
| can 30. And the managers of this pavilion
/ stand as the represen .ativeS of their sex be-
! fore all the world and what thew do Is not
done in corner. The highest praise that
can be awarded them at the close of their
| labOrs, would be, that they were equal to
their great opportunities.
TRIAL OF REAPERs AND B1NDEPs
was held the past week at Schenck's station.
some twenty miles al owe here, on the line of
the road to New York, and a large
| number of machines on exhibition here
participated in the trial. Director General
Goshorh. by published hand-bill. had an
! ordered
some time ago, would not be held for reason
not given, but that a voluntary trial by ex
hibitors might be made. And superintend-
ent landreth gave notice that such trial
would be held on Thursday, Friday and Sat
! urday OF last week. | was there to see on
my own responsibility, and on my own ex-
pense, and followed the machines for some
five hours, under blazing hot spu, and at
another time shall give the result of nv OBJ
servations. AT present | wish to speak of
and 80 IL
competitive trials, my matured conviction
after long observation, is that usually they
| are great sham. Almost always a major
ity of the judges are composed of men in
competent to determine the real merits of
| the competing machines. They are not ex-
| judge justly as a majority of the farmers who
use these machines. 1t IS rare that even one
expert can be found upon any committee. or
that the award made at such trials command
general confluence Apropos of this subject,
story Is told, which, if not true at least
represents truly the popular belief 1t is
SAID that Mr.. Landreth, the Superintendent
OF agricultural hall, wrote to Mr. REYNOLDS.
! OF Chicago, secretary of the great American
industrial exposition company there. asking
him what he thought would be the effect of
holding competitive trials of agricultural
machinery, and bestowing awards Mr.
Reynolds, 1t IS said, replied that il would
work great injury but for one reason. and
that Was, tndt NOBODY now was fool enough
to care anything for such awards
In addition to the Incompetence of the
Judges, there is the liability to be influenced
70 render partial judgment to favorites
Wealthy machine makers have had long ex-
Perience in this business with medals and
stars emil IzoHed all over their banners. as
the trophies of former RESTS ENTER the fie n
determined to win new laureIs and are not
always over scrupulous as to the means of
obtaining the victory. Indeed the renowned |
commanders of welEdisciplined armies might |
take lessons in strategetic tactics, and in the 1
art of mining and sapping, of these veteran
knights of the harvest field. And the /
Judges, sometimes in the innocence of their
souls, aud sometimes with sinister motives
scarcely concealed, walk right into the tran |
set Tor them, and often render verdict thai /
has no more relation TO the facts of the trial
than proposition in Euclid has to the fables
OF 4Esop. These judges are often appointed
by the influence OF prominent manufacturers
and there is often much partisansbip
manifested ut these trials, as in a poIiticaI
caucus. 'eak of what | have seen and
what l now, anu
The heiu selected for the trial was very
large one, and the grain on the south sid
stood upright, but that on the north and west
part was quite crimpled with heads inter.
locked, and some of it was badly LODGED
ana the grain was too ripe and the straw
very brittle. Any fair reaper can cut and
lay decently upright grain but the test Is
VIII II do the work well in grain in bad con.