New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-02
the ELECTRIC EXPOSITION.
TO BE OPENED IN PHILADELPHIA TO-DAY.
A FINE DISPLAY OF APrIANCEs-AN 1NTrRNA-
TONAL CONFERENCE TO NJ HEIp

A FINE DISPLAY OF APpIIANCES-AN lNILRNA-
TOVAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD.
PROM , SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Or THE TRGBUNE. J
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 1.-Pwparations are now
practically complete for the opening tomorrow If
the International Electrical Exposition, in the
building erected for the purpose at Lancasterave.
and Thrfy-secold-st. opposite the old depot of the
pcnnsvlvania Railroad. This exposition is alto
-ctbcr the enterprise of the Franklin Institute of
tins city. n society which This year celebrates the
siNticth anniversary of it's foundation. NO M
tonal state OF city aid has been given i'm getting mp
the exposition 40. has any been asked oI desired
Various private citizens have however, subscribed
liberal sums Of money in its behalf ~ II expected
that the ovposti1n viii prove not only selipaying
uutn profitable enterprise and, after returning ~
tl,c money advanced. lo1ycp considerable balance
i'm thc uoaury Of the Institute
The building itof good silo. covering souc what
moro thnu au n,.c ot ground. mot including large
n,uc> aud lho ol railroad depot winch viii alao bc
mod an anne, connected with the main building
by "a hrdpr nciots the street. Tho interior of the
t.i hntltiup 4 Il, idrl into tmcr LONGITUDINAL Hor
tuus. tine crntrl one hrmg 100 los 200, nnd thu7"
nt thr aidrl hoinp cnch 80 hy roo feet ina Hi'r. At
onch corner If the bail ling Va tnWor MEty feet
HIGH Tho silo walls arc lihcmly supplied with
windows about one. thnd 0i their area being glass
poorNuys are numerous and tine slulr6uIH leading
10 the galleries about tho main ball are broad and
easy
Probably the bulldinR viii hc tho best lighted
structure i'm tin. world II il estimated that the
1adinncc of the electric lights used in II will be
equal to that of moro than million wax candles
The Edison Company viii furnish $500 mean
descent lamps he United States Company 200
more. aud vniious other companies % complement of
GOO making r 600 i'm ALL besides thcsc there will
ho AT least 800 are huhts The engines employed
to supply the lamps with tho electric current VIII
he many in number and with au hggto slto force
If nearly 1000 horse power, Among the lamps
will hr probably the mort brilliant ARTIFICIAL light
oyci seen ~ tho world. ainpoHfo light oi 100000
candle power of ~ hifong, any, ~ hlOo ordinary
uis flames combined into one, Another ihtrioatihg
feature viii he the great fountain III tho centre OF
the main hall II has u basin thirty feet Ia diane
ter and huge cone of stone Ia the centre twelve
feet high through which lhi go jet of water viii
be thrown upward Al a height OF twenty-five feet
the jet will pass through Il double ring OF electric
lights aud then, striking a central BALL 1all back
over them i'm shower From the circular margin
of the basin dozen smaller jets VIII be thrown up
10 mingle with the larger one, and three Jets Will
rise uunroLtn. almost to the roof of the building
over all viii be reflected constantly changing rays
of colOTcd light.
The exposition will be divided into twcnty-nine
departments, including dynamo machines for yarl-
Gus purposes, lamps materials Tor lamps, DoIIeIs'
steam engines and other motors Tor electrical ma
chncTy. lightning conductors lgnltcls, Noltnc APP
pdratus, storage apparatus, electric Conductors OF
all kinds tecgTaphiC apparatus, telephones, phOnO-
graphic mlcTophOnes. fire and burglar alarms, the
application of electricity to medicine. surgery, den-
tisrf art. music. warfare and many other phases
OF electrical science In all there Will bc about 800
exhibitors and exhibits numbering thousands.
Among them will be an electric incubator, which
set 10 work some time ago and VIII turn out IT'S
first brood Of chicks Oh the opening day ana fresh
brood each day thereafter. There Will be seen side
by side the latest invention IN tcIegaphy-thc
SeNeItE-tNO messages
simultaneously over one wlrc-and the rud imcntarY
apparatus by means OF winch Professor Morse sent
his first message There will be electric rail
road in full operation. big organ has been put up
in one OF the galleries, and will be played from
keyboard hundred feet away, supplied with
electricity from battery more than hundred feet
further away
There will also be a remarkable display of what
nav he termed historical apparatus: primitive tcle-
graph Instruments samples OF the first Atlantic
cable the first telephone old electric light cOntrly-
auces etc. Tho Patent O.icc at Washington viii
send many specimen7 ana nodGs' snoWihs me pro
gross of electrical invention. Many curious mstru-
mcnts will be exhibited by visitors from the Ola
World such as the agiOscOpe and pinakoscope of
Nritmba of Prague. hue CORRECTION oI DoohS on
subie,ts connected with electricity viii also he on
hand and these will, ii IS expected, form the
nucleus of permanent memorial library.
This will be the first electrical exposition ever
held IN America, and the ;ourth IN the world me
preceding ones hay .ng been held IN PARIS III 1851
Munich in $50 and Vienna III loS3, As the lhaIch
of scientific progress has been unchecked, tue APP
paratus shown here Will be in advance OF that
shown at any of the former cXpO-ltOnh and VIII az
tract the interested observation of the whole civil.
lied world. Nearly all European and South Amcri-
can Governments VIII send special commissions 10
it, and official representatives of the British Assocl-
alton. the rench Academy ana similar bodies VIZ
be present Au International conference ol
Electricians will be held during the exposition,
under hedrectOn of commission of which Pro.
fossors Rowland OF Johns Hopkins, Ir0wb bridge OF
Harvard G. A. Young of Princeton, Gibbs OF Yale,
Simon Ncwcomb OF the d" Nautical Almanac" and
Others are nlcnbeTa-