Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-05-11
Correspondence Gallipolis Journal.
Exposition Topics.
PHILADELPHIA. Nav sd IA


day was the swearing in Of $50 men
to form the centennial Police force"
1t now comprises five companies,
each divided into squads of twelve,
each squad receiving the oath sepa-
rately to fulfill their duties faithfully
for the rest Of the. year, and kissing
the holy book to seal his oath. Near.
ly 5000 car loads of exhibits have
been so far received since the first
of March, and it is now estimated
that three-fourts of all the expected
exhibits are now in the building,
and there remains no doubt but that
the remainder can be attended to
now as fast as it can arrive.
In this respect the managers here
are far in advance Of those at Wen
na, where owing to the blockade
which existed there for weeks, large
quantities of goods were never placed
inside the Exposition Building. The
blockade of few hundred car loads
of exhibits which existed here few
days since, and really looked serious,
has, through the aid of officers of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
been entirely removed, and now more
goods can be unloaded than can ar
rive. The Agricultural Hall is CON-
pletely finished and has been turned
over to the exhibitors. Three hun
dred and ninety exhibitors have al
ready placed their goods on exhibi-
ton, and although it is not the de-
partment in which one expects to find
much "shOw." Some of the exhibits
are arranged most tastily, and some
of the cases are really elegant, among
which the most prominent are those
of the Oswego Starch Company and
the proprietors of Duryea's Baking
Powder. 80 car loads of Agricul,
tural exhibits arrived and were un-
loaded on Sunday last.
A Hunters Camp has been built
in the valley at the lower end of
LansdOwne avenue, below the Music
Pavilion. 1t is reproduction of
hunters cabin out in the Rocky
Mountains where the lonely devotee
of the chase lives in a style almost as
primitive as that of his nearest
neighbors, the savages. The Camp
comprises tent, which is the hunt
er's kitchen and dormitory and log
hut, which will be devoted to an ex-
hibition of furs. birds, and the vari
ous accoutrements of Il hunter and
trapper.. A dam has been built across
near the hut, producing pond upon
which will float q genuine cranky In
dian canoe, which will be at the dis
posal of young America" for
small pecuniary consideration. In
the meantime the representatives of
the nearer west are not idle, for the
grangers are making preparations on
a larger scale for the accommodation
of the patrons who may arrive here
after the first of May. They are
building an encampment at Elm Sta
tion about six miles west of the city.
The office buildings are 492 by 30
feet and framed of chestnut timber
and mill worked plank. Adjoining
this are the dormiturics, containing
100 sleeping apartments, large
kitchen, laundry, dining room and
public hall. The cost of living at
the eucampment will be dollar a
day for room, and fifty cents for each
meal.
Among the most attractive of the
arrivals at Machinery Hall, although
we cannot conceive why they should
be consigned to that department, are
several beautiful paper boats from
Waters factory at Troy, New York.
They range in sizes from the single
and double scul to an eight and
ten cared barge, the latter being forty
feet IN length. They all combine ell
egance and graceful form to the nec-
essary qualities of modern boat ra
cling, lightness, strength, speed and
durability. A locomotive has been
lately placed on exhibition upon the
tender of which the lucid and taking
inscription Estrada de Fcrrode Dom
Pedro H." 1t was built at the Bald
win Locomotive Works for the Bra
lillian Government and will be trans
ported as soon as the exhibition is
ever. The building to be devoted to
the display Of carriages and railway
cars is nearly finished and is consid-
cred an annex to the Main Building,
although at distance from that stru :
ture. It's size is 292x277 feet and is
constructed of corrugated iron sheet
ing between the uprights to form the
walls. Over sixty of the leading
carriage factories in the United States
will be represented, and England,
Germany, Austria, Belgium and TIA
ly, but none Of them can hope to vie
successfully against the light but
firm and durable pleasure carriages
which alone will be admitted, made
of steel and American hickory. Wag-
ons, carts and omnibusses will be ex-
hibited in an addition to the Agricul-
tural building. More than One-fourth
of the space will be devoted to street
cars and railway coaches, amoSg
which the latest designs and patents
of Pullman, Wagner and Woodrun
will be especially prominent for lux
ury and magnifcence. The exhipi-
tion of the brewing industry OF Amer
lea will be very interesting feature
of the show. The building, now near
" completed, is 300 feet long and 100
feet wide, and will cost $50, 900, which
has been raised by subscription. In
the center will be brewery with all
the best arrangements and improved
machinery, while, as Of historical in
terest, a model of brewery Of 80
wears ago will stand by its side. All
apparatus connected with the making
of malt liquors. Specimens Of bar
ley from everywhere, model malt
house where the process Of mating
NAV be examined and hop house