The New York herald., 1876-11-05

but will continue to make speeches and receive halt
dollars for week or two later. It would be hard
blame the Board for this deter but after the
set OF speeches ready for the closing day
livcred the lite will be knocked out of the Centennial
Exhibition.
tn. PERMANENT pKLUsIoS.
The plan for permanent exhibition in the Main
Building is dclusion as enthusiastic
look Il W. That a few hundred people will
ing to advertise their wares, will apply for space,
put up showcases and keep volube man a
pretty to distribute handbils and take orders,
goes without saying; but 1t will be a collection OF
camille mummies that will attract people less day by
day, until tho vouble will ut last be reduced to
making love TO the pretty women to keep their tongues
from rusting at the roots Philadelphia has had
a great exhibition before II has found the gigantic
animal lively and withal SO profitable that it
cannot make itself believe that tho big creature
is about pay the debt of But to those who
like the writer, have exhibitions expositons and
Weltaussteliungen die the death OF dismantlement
and the signs that the hour is at hand
plain that night will after the aay Tho
glory Of the days at Paramount is the gorgeousness OF
sanset and the and candles of 'permanent
exhibition Will not make sunlight again.
Like the baseless fabric of vision,
The big foghorn. the gorge rus restaurants,
ss UII'1ss al "s L shr.s sTsa. shall
And like this unsubsta tial pageant faded,
Leave not rack behind
The great rush means that the show has been sue
cess, but the talk Of making It eternal s absurd
10 talk OF making permanent wave.
HAS THg QUAKER BENErIrED2
A question, indeed, now agitating the minds Of the
good people of Philadelphia of what the Exhib
lion has been the Quaker Cy2 In the ctys present
hilarious condition IL would hardly bo safe trust
municipal vote OF the matter Philadelphia is un.
questionabiy in the sixth month of the longest
spree In It's existence, and 1t is toss
up whether 1t will taper of into return to sober
provincial habits END in deirium tre-
mems. in which The most dangerous hallucination
will be that is the metropolis OF the nation. II has
certainly tasted the intoxicating liquors of metrupoli-
anism and apparently likes them Chestnut street. after
nghtfaI, has become metropolitan the lower
end OF the Bowery G Saturday night All sorts OF
cheap flourish along that once highly cir
cumspect thoroughiarc. Here man with scissors
silhouette portraits there the shooting gallery
with It's anciful targets flames the pedestrian Al
midnight streets that in the ante-Cen al times
we're dark aud still after nine O'Clock, now y
raksh and garish aspect whilc snatches OF popular
songs shouts OF laughter the air The great
hotels overflow the sidewalks, and the Broadway
statues that the caryatides OF New York's hotels
now support the posts OF the Continental, the
Girard and La Pierre house until ato in the morning.
All this my Quaker friend says the visi-
Not The natives stay up 10 keep The visitors
in counLenancc.
A CHANGE OF HEART.
The effect OF the Centennial spree the minds OF
The citizens is most marked They have met great
many people. Look at the hundreds and hundreds Of
families who have taken boarders who rarely had
strangers their homes The privacy that OF the
fine separate home system the city has been invaded
A blaze OF publicity has been thrown upon homes
where evening prayers and chapter the Bible
regular buck cakes for breakfast Not that
trary robberies have unheard Of and eopements
unknown but u is undsniablc that our boys have be-
iaster and our girls not quite SO prim as six
months ago Here and there some old survival OF the
days OF William Penn mourns IN his back parlor over
the centennial demoralizaiion' while he counts his
profits, much the grocer OF BENJAMIN Franklns
lime got his sugar nicely sanded while his family
assembling for devotionS But to the mass the change
is hailed iiberalizng. City manners must come II
PhiIade phia is ever TO be than big village f
rival New York must have metropolitan
cakes and ale and, oy 81 Ann singer mus. De no.
for Brother Broadbrim and Sister Tabtha to-day to-
morrow the day after, If the Centennial excitement
kceps up, 1t may be the caGcan. / hope not The
danger lies the that Philadelphia convert
metropotanism. and we all know how the prosclyte
rusnes to extremes fortnight or three weeks will
decide the matter. Meanwhile eat drink and be merry
Is the motto. II is we'll carried out
oUTPoURixG.
From early morn the throng which pours out OF the
city by horse steam car is astonishing Phila
delpha itself is pouring out as well as rhadelphas
you are met by multitudes who have come detach-
men,s of 1900 ana 900 from distant points
HUNDRED THOUSAND STRONG.
II would be impossible to describe tho mass OF hu-
manity. They are manly Of The working classes, In
which may be included everybody but the very ricn.
They people who have come for day two
days, and VINO go in Tor quantity In sightseeing.
Here are quantity quality Tor them. sit
bench and look at thousand OF them pass by and try
10 generalize on them. You may be disappointed at
nrst their looks. We not fresh-iaccd people.
Lines of are marked on young countcnances,
and there scale OF color from scky white to
dyspeptc saowness many of those who pass by.
rne majority look healthy enough, aud one-third
robusty built, though nearly third are lank
md narrow shouldered The women look better than
Ihe men. they should, no doubt, but they have
relatively stronger appearance ] am not endeavor-
ing 10 resolve the throng into its parent naiionatics
for native naturazed this is the American people
passing before you.
The farmer. the man OF the fields, Is easily distin-
guispabe by the awkward hanging of his hands and
the heavy tread a of who walks with effort
through soft earth-the camel step; the city work
man. light OF heart and tree Of comment, cynicai aud
wondering by turns, walks easily past the business
map the dapper clerk, s~ft et step and eager eyed;
the m ale student and the schoomarm with hungcnng
elances and no1eoook IN hana a. sKm along WIN hot
Juggling at their parents-good healthy, chubby chill
ircn too bevy OF good looking girls under charge
Of somebody old enough To take care oil them--gig-
rline often but their credit, seldom frting-make
1p norton OF the throng. You tire OF analyzing It.
You are rwheImed with numbers. such a thought
strikes you as that tho young men OF the educated
class who GO round with pencil and notebook are pale
puny looking as though their mind were led al the
expense OF their bodies good many OF the underfcd
md ov or worked attest the srenuousncss OF our civi
rsion The effort 70 smuse themselves seems painful
on oHi
The commonest state OF mind among the visitors is
rapt wondermcnt People walk along In masses
among the exhibits with a dszed expression, over
which sense OF fatigue crevps as the day goes on,
just like the advancing shadow on sun dial man
said 10 IN OF tho side asles OF Machinery Hail,
ssay, can you tell II I'm anywhere near the end OF
this thingfn He looked out, 80 told him he
was and TO go out through certain door Hc went
with smile of relief but " had told him the reverse
he would have gone conscienuously for hours II
people were only frank this would be common cx-
periencc - -.x-.
In tho Art Gallery the s6fonas are unbcsrable.
People move through them sc0mpect mass glancing