The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-05-25

They pitched their notes on very high scale
Of charges, and frightened away the few who
did come Ih6sc huge affairs have become like
unto so many banquet halls deserted" and the
keepers are seized with despair. 1t looks ~
though they will be ruined if they don't reduce
prices, and ruined if they do. There is some
where, l think, a proverb which declares that
it isn't we'll to make haste to be rich.
A sadder thing than this is the disappoint-
ment Of the crowds of people who come here in
search of employment, only to find the labor
market oyerstockcd, with scarcely chance for
an unemployed man to earn even his board. I
have been personally knowing to some very
hard cases Of this kind. No one should come
here depending upon chance employment to
meet any portion of the expenses.
The printing department of the Exposition
has great interest for newspaper men. or the
many type founders of the country, however,
only one makes an eXhibt-the leading foun-
dry of this city, MckelIar, Smith & jordan
They show the process of type casting in actual
operaton-one of their machines throwing out
ninety perfect type minute. Beside it, for
contrast, is one of the old style moulds, in use
hundred years ago, which can make two type
minute, at most. These are types of the
change in matters and things generally. The
show Of printing presses is very large and fine,
and attracts IL great deal of attention. Th
New York Herald's fast press now prints, at s
o'c!ockrin the morning. tie Herald of that date,
and the prtssmen toss them over the rail gratis
to the crowd. This is done by taking dupH-
Gates Of the stereotype plates, and sending
them by fast train to this city.
Among all this powerful, shining and won
deriully efficient machinery, there stands an
old, battered press, dark, grimy and rusty with
age, in presence of which even the most accom-
plished and successful printer Of to-day has an
impulse TO bow his uncovered head 1t is the
press At whiAh Ben. Franklin worked in Lon
don 40 years ago. Ii was presented by the
owners, HarriId Il Son, of that city, to John b.
Murray Of New York, i'll l,4I, and by him pre-
sented to the United States Government, BY
which il is loaned for this occas ion. Hoe &
Co. are erecting beside it one of their wonder
tui pelfecting presses, which runs like light
ming, prints both sides At once from q CON
nnuous roll Of paper, and delivers the papers,
cut and folded III a heap. These two machines
will represent the elder and latter time, in the
facilities for telling the news of the day.
In an annex TO Muchiucry Hall, opposite the
great Corliss engine, is what may be called the
department Of wind and water, made up Of
fans, blowers, &c, as well As pumps and all Va
rietes of hydraulic machinery. The proprietor
Of blower, the discharge from which comes up
Il huge pipe through the floor, has stretched =
large L. 5. flag some distance above the open
ing, and the current of air never fails to keep
that flag pointing straight at the roof. There is
an immense tank, as biz u4 Hay ford Hall, from
which huge pumps are constantly drawing WA
ter and sending it back in torrents.
To-day | stumbled upon another Exposition
loke. The exhibitor Of q rock drilling machine,
has All immense picture of the world, from the
top Of which lank yankee is engaged in send
ng down drill On the uther side 81 China
man is amazed to see the end Of the drill COM
ng up III his garden patch. You see that even
the Jokes partahe of the magnitude of the occa-
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