The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-06-09

PHILADELPHIA. June ., 1916.
The attendance at the Exposition in
creascs somewhat and has been generally
better than last week. For some days
past the weather has been most delight
ful, and aside from the slight drawback
of "A few unfinished buildings, ETC., thisis
really the plcasantest time TO visit the
Exhibition. The trees, flowers, grounds
and all surroundings look as fresh as a
May Queen, and Fairmount Park is just
now the most attractive place to be found
anywhere. There is nodust and oppres-
sive heat to be encountered, and travel
both on the road and about the city is
not accompanied with many discomforts
which will be inseparable from it in mid
summer. Yet most likely the great rush
of visitors Will come then, for Americans
as rule, select the season of the year for
pleasure trips, when trayel is burden
rather than a pleasure-when it is too
hot to stay at home. There are still peo-
pie who do not realize the discomforts of
two in bed, in a seven by nine room,
in the middle of July, and that is why
the crowd is expected to be the largest
about and after the glorious Fourth.
Last week gave pretty full outline
of the government agricultural display,
but only fooled round the edges of the
United States building proper, which l
think viii, after all, attract as much
notice from the average visitor as any
part of the exhibition. Uncle Sam's
Centennial Branch Post Office" which
occupies space forty by sixty feet in the
southwest wing of the building, is as
complete and wellordered rs any city in
the country possesses. 1t is inclosed by
n walnut partition with glass front, and
has five hundred convenient lock boxes.
There are ten carriers employed, and %
boxes for depoSiting mail stationed at
various points on the grounds. The
clerks speak all languages and the depos-
it boxes are lettered in English, French,
German, Spanish, Italian and japanese.
Hourly trips are made to the main city
post Office by the Centennial mail wagons.
which are handsome vehicles with
drivers in uniforms. One of the carriers
is Il John Chinaman, whose queue hangs
down his back as natural as the curl of a
pigs tail.
The space occupied by the Post Office
Department, proper, is 40X40 feet, and
displays many interesting exhibits. The
little Envelope Machine and nickle plat
ed Baxter Engine, mentioned before,
whichis now turning out $1,000 envelopes
per dav. with the new Centennial Stamp
attracts a constant crowd around the
bronze railing by which it is enclosed.
\ model mail-catcher upon car inside
the building, built on scale OF oneinch
to the foot, and near the envelope-na-
chine. calls forth the admiration OF the
Younger visitors. This car runs on
track twenty feet in length and catches
a miniature mailbag as it passes along
at full speed, illustrating the practice
of the fast mail trains. There are cases
containing specimens of all mail-bags,
pouches, etc, used by the department.
Specimens of all the locks and scales
used, and samples Of making and can
ceiling stamps, together with six highly
ornamental frames containing specimens
of all stamped envelopes, official envel-
opes, postal-cards, and postage stamps
ever used in this country. These are