Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-11-12
sic stand, and it is encircled by the
electric railway.

sic stand, and it is encircled by the
electric railway.
MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.
1t is claimed that this department
is more complete than that of the
centennial in '76. That it contains
many pieces of machinery not then
in existence is true, for inventors
have been exceedingly busy during
the seven years that have gone by;
and in this more than any other de-
partment, this Exposition is nation
al in character and well that it is,
for had there been no exhibits except
from southern manufactures it would
have been on a much less extensive
scale.
To tell you what is not here would
be far easier than to enumerate the
long lists. Everything and more
too" nearly describes it. Expert
enced workmen were brought from
the eastern mills and the visitor can
see the cotton pulled from the boil,
ginned, spun and woven into goods.
On the first day that the great
delegation from Arkansas was in at
tendance, a bale of cotton was
brought from that state and delivered
at Machinery Hall in the morning.
During the day it was spun, dyed,
woven, and a suit of "blue jeans"
cut, made 9nd presented to the Wis
iting Governor in time for him to ap-
pear in them at nine o'clock ban
quet.
Wool is cleansed, dyed, carded,
spun and woven, every day. Bricks
are made in the latest and most i'm
proved method. Farm and planta-
ton machinery, of every description !;
mill machinery of every kind, for
saw-mills, grist-mills, wooden, cotton
and paper mills; printing office
equipments, stereotyping and elec-
trographing apparatus; and so on
through very long list. Of the To-
cal exhibitors to their branch of me-
chanical art no firm makes a better
display than that of B. F. Avery &
Sons, manufacturers of all kinds OF
agricultural implements. This is
the firm for which Willard Dewey,
son of the late Chandler Dewey, OF
Irasburgh, has worked so many years
and where he is still foreman in the
blacksmith department. In conver-
sation with one of the firm | made
inquiries for Mr.. Dewey, and the
gentleman spoke of him as a faithful,
reliable, upright man-good words tc
come from such a source, and | was
glad 10 hear them. In fact a mar
would not retain a position of respon.
sibility for years with any first clas;
establishment, unless he had proven
himself entirely worthy.
Farmers from the north and ives
are entirely at home among the plant
ers, reapers, binders, threshers, etc
but when they get where the planta.
ton implements are, they look wise
guess all around their names anC
uses, then ask someone. Bull-tongues
Twisters, Sweepers and Scooters arr
strangers to them.
The expense of exhibiting so mucl
heavy machinery is very great, bu
so many sales have been made anG
such an extensive and new marke
opened, it has paid the manufacture
ers well. All over the south the
most primitive implements for cult
vation of the soil may be found, anC
very many of the farmers had nC
idea of the vast amount of labor say
ing machinery in use elsewhere
During slavery times everything wa:
, done the hardest possible way. NJ
one thought of economizing strength
or time. Now that work has to bt
paid for, the people are seeing the
necessity of improved machinery
Large numbers of these people have
visited the Exposition and with wide
eyed wonder have seen the machin
cry which ''jist takes an does the
work nigh about better in a man his
SELF
Right here let me say : if the Ex.
position accomplished nothing more,
its value as an educator of the people
is worth all it will cost. 1t has given
many man something to think OF
VINO never had an idea above his little
corn and cotton patch, his hogs, his
guns and dogs, and the price of to,
bacco. The horizon bounded his
world and his ambition never over
ran the boundary and as self-satis-
faction and conceit thrive better on
ignorance than on any other diet.
such people can never get the light
to penetrate the narrow groove IN
which their minds travel until they
get the hard knocks from contact
with new people and new ideas. AT
ter they have learned good dea
they begin to realize how ignorant
they were.
STATE EXHIBITS-FLORIDA.
The Florida exhibit attracts NOR,
general attention than that of any