The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-06-26
CHICAGO'S EXPOSITION.
An Interesting Letter from Elk
Master Mechanic q. w.
Walshe.
Correspondents of the Bazoo.

Corresponds nee of the Bazoo.
CHICAGO, June IL.
1t would be an utter impossibility to give
anything like an adequate description OF
the many really wonderful Inventions in
the way Of mechanical appliances to be
seen at the great Railway exposition now
being had in this city, and the beholder at
the frs. glance is more overcome with
amazement as its magnitude than any
thing else. Here may be seen all that per-
tains to the railway and manufacturing in
terests of the entire country.
The exposition building itself is espe
cially adapted to the purpose for which it
was designed. The main building. 500
feet in length by 200 in width, has a COM
modious gallery, One-third OF a mile in
length, and is provided with an abundance
of steam power for operating machinery.
RAILWAY TRACKS
have been laid in this building for the
accommodations of cars and locomotives,
and for use in making tests, which are con-
nected with the tracks of the Baltimore &
Ohio, Illinois Central and MICHIGAN Cen
trail roads, running within few feet of its
eastern wall.
The exhibits are classified, and embrace
hundreds upon hundreds of articles novel
and interesting. Brakes of many new de-
signs, car wheels, car couplers, FORCES,
lathes, metallic shingles and siding, loco
motive springs, improved cattle cars, hand
cars, heating, refrigerating and cooling
freight cars, large mOgul car sill and tim
Der dressing machine. engines with i'm
provements Of every Imaginable variety,
and, In fact, everything in the way of
RAILWAY EQUIPMENTS
which human ingenuity could conceive of
or evolute from a crude beginning,
Here also may be seen the
FIRST ENGINE,
built by George Stephenson, at Newcastle,
England, in 1875. Ii commenced being put
to practical use on the stockton & Darling
ing railway, September q, 1925. and at
tanned the then considered wonderful speed
of fifteen miles per hour.
On the trial trip it conveyed $50 passen-
gers and 100 tons of coal and merchandise.
Its wei Ia; IS nine tons and it is said TO be
the
OLDEST ENGINE IN THE WORLD.
1t is interesting, inasmuch as it clearly
the peculiar advance of
painstaking thought, coupled with a dis
tinct desire to achieve perfection. In adj
dition tn the above, the two first engines to
ir w tins in the United States
&c xi Is .eI. They were built by Dyida
Mathews at the West Point foundry, in the
city of New York, for the
Charleston Il Hamburger rail-
way, in South Carolina. Mr.. Mathew
is here in attendance at the exposition and
,ears his years remarkably we'll He is at
present superintendent of the water works |
n San Francisco, Cal. The writer of this |
him we'll as a. friend of his |
arlier years, aud was glad 10 mcet him !
NICE more. /
The city is filed with railroad officials
rom every point in the United States, end
he crowd in attendance at the exposition
md Master Car Builders convention is
imply immense. Among those in attend
nee at the convention may be mentioned
dr- ]. c. Barber, of Sedalia.
In conclusion it may not be invidious to
o mention the stupendous growth and al
most unequalled energy which this great
LAKESIDE CITY OF CHICAGO.
resents to the stranger within her gates"
nd one feels like exclaiming, as it was
IOnt to do with the Partisan capital "See,
'hicago and die" or rather don't die until
on have seen Chicago. g. w. w.