The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-14
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OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER.

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The IMMENSELY OF THE EXHIBITION
NEW SIGHTS AND New SOUNDS
The GRAND ORGANS SPLENDID Ex-
H1BIT-AMER1cAN MANUFAcrUREhs
-DIxoN's CRUCIBLEs--PLUMBAGo
AND PENcILs--PEAcE DALE's SHAwLs
AND CAssIMEREs, &C., &C. al.at s,s
Special Correspondence Of the anderson Intelgencer.
PHILADELPHIA, 'Sep.'8, 1876.
1t is constant exclamation from yisi-
tors to the great Exhibition, II never
thought it was SO great" And the rea-
son thatIitSso far exceeds their anticipa-
ton is because there has been nothing IN
this country before with which we could
reasonably compare it. The grandest
exhibition by any State in this Union
has been covered by single roof. Here
are one hundred and seyenty-one build
ings,. covering nearly eighty acres of
ground, exhibiting every style of archi-
lecture, from an Esquimaux hut to the
gilded halls of the Alhambra No better
idea of its immensity can, be given than
by the statement of a single fact. For
more that three months have every day
taken walk through the Main Hall, and
there has not been day in all that time
but I have discovered something new,
and every hour ! find myself walking in
alleys and lanes lined with rich and costly
cases that am sure I never saw before.
The grand organ at the eastern entrance
of the Main Hall has got to be an old
friend. Each morning as enter itgreets
me with its splendid melody, and at
evening when I depart the grand anthem
of "Home, Sweet Home" is my pleasant
good night In the Main Building there
are two grand organs, one by Roosevelt,
and the other by E. G. Hook Hastings,
They are immense instruments think
the largest 1 have ever seen-giying
every graduation of sound, from the
deep roar of the rolling. thunder, to the
tiniest piping of the cricket; and yet so
immense is, the Main Building, that both
might be playing at the same time
and the deepest diapason of one would
never disturb the lightest harmony of
the other.
Near the eastern entrance is a case of
goods that would be an honor to any
manufacturer in the world. 1t is the
exhibit of the Peace Dale Manufacturing
Co., of Rhode Island. This may be a
name we'll known to established manu-
facturers, but let me ask how many of
the million of consumers throughout the
United States ever heard the name of
Peace Dale before? Blessed emblems of
peace are the beautiful shawls, which
speak to us of home; not dirty camel
hair shawls, costing anywhere from eight
hundred to FIVE thousand dollars piece,
but nice, decent, wholesome, home-like
looking garments, just such as any sensi-
BILE man would be glad to see on his
wife's shoulders of cold winters day.
Asrespectable covering, within the reach
of any ordinary mechanic, and more in
keeping with our republican institutions
than the costly gewgaws of Persia and
Cashmere. Besides the exhibit shawls,
tbeys have ?. lot e9f the; finest worsted
coatings, which are unsurpassed. There
are no French goods that compare with
them, and i sincerely rejoiceiat the great
advance that has been made in the Uni.
ted States in this branch of manufactures.
There is another exhibit which is
worthy of especial <mertion, mot simply
because it represents one of the oldest
and staunchest business firms in the
United States, but because it has intro
duced in this country comparatively
new manufacture, which is destined to
become one of the leading industries of
Union. i refer to the Joseph Dixon
Crucible Company, Of New Jersey The
fame of the crucibles manufactured by
this great house has been known for half
century in all the mining andismelting
districts in ths world But, it remained
for the Hon. Orestes Cleveland, the pres
ent president and chief manager of the
company, to create new industry which
has grown with such rapidity as to real.
ize the story of Jonah's Gourd. A few
years ago and'th name Of an American
lead pencil was reproach, to-day the
finest lead pencils in the world are. man
ufactured in Jersey City; not only are
they manufactured, but they are manu-
factured with rapidity and excellence
that challenges admiration and defes
competition. The history of no Ameri-
can manufacture shows such rapid ad-
vance. - In, FIVE years from, being COM
paratively nnkno2n,t these pencils have
reached the farthest- ends of the earth,
and now, in point of commercial excel
lence, stands second to- noneoin the
world.
Schuyler, Hartley and Graham, of New
York have one Of the finest cases in the
whole of the Main Hallf e Ehe diSplay; l;of If
Masonic regalia, Knights TemplaF swords,
&C., is exceedingly beautiful. In one
end of the case is a life size figure Of
King william, Of Prussia, and III the
other, President MacMahon, of the
French Republic. The heads are mag
nificent and the dressing superb, and in
o,,orv resnect the exhibit of this firm is