Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-19
THE NATIONAL EXHIBIT.
SOME OF THE SIGHTS TO BE
SEEN AT NEW ORLEANS.

Fibres and Fabrics from the state De-
partment-Implement of War as Dis
played by Secretary Lincoln-Secretary
Chandler's Models of Vessels of War
A Post Office in Operation.
WASHINGTON, May 1S-In conformity
with the Presidents order the Board OF
Representatives of the Department of
State to prepare exhibits and represent
the United States Government at the
Worlds Exposition in New York met at
the State Department Saturday and Or
ganized, with Colonel Lyford as Chair
man and W. A. DeCaindry as Secretary.
The following is an outline of the most
important exhibits to be made bv the
government: The Department of State
will exhibit samples of cotton. wool and
cosmos fibres and of fabrics made from
them III all parts of the world. with sta
tistics of the markets, styles, ruling
prices and demand.
The War Department will exhibit
models illustrating the various work of
the Engineer Bureaus, such as tOrDedOes
models of methods of submarine mining
and all outfits and appurtenances of the
military engineer field service. The Ord
nance Bureau exhibit will include every
variety of artillery and Small arms. of
fuses and prOiectiles, from those in use
before the revolution to the latest imrove-
ment. The manufacture of guns and me-
tallic cartridges will be illustrated by
machinery in operation. The Signal
service work, in war and peace, will be
illustrated by all the apparatus of the
field service and by exhibitions of the
methods Of the Weather Bureau.
The Navy Department will exhibit
every variety of ordnance and small arms
used in the service and those that have
been superseded. Its display of artillery
and machine guns will illustrate the sue
cessiye stages of progress made during
the century. All the tOrpedoes used in
naval warfare, with every kind of prOiec-
tile,will be shown, also farmers DYNAMO
electric machine for 1ring. Models of
war vessels, ancient and modern, and all
things belonging to the supply depart
ment will be exhibited.
The Post Office Department will place
handsomely equipped office in practical
operation at the exposition, and will
exhibit postal railway car, and all the
appliances of the mail service. 1t will
also have machinery in motion making
envelopes and stamps.
The Department of the Interior will
exhibit a great variety of objects col
lected by the agents of the Indian Bureau,
The Patent Office display will consist
of groups of models taken from it's cases.
showing chrOnolOgically the advances in
steam engineering, in cotton spinning.
and other industries due to the ingenuity
of American inventors.
The exhibit of the Geological Survey
will comprise mineral ores and rocks
from every State and Territory, and gi-
gantlc and interesting fossils of extinct
animals and plants discovered in many
sections of the United States.
The Bureau of EthnOlOgy will exhibit
models of the ancient PueblOs and cliff
dwellings still existing in the Southwest,
with a large collection of relics illustrat-
ing the life and condition OF the Indians
and prehistoric inhabitants in that Sec
ton.
The Smithsonian Institution will have
exhibits from several divisions of
the National Museum. The first
will represent every species of
American food fish by life size
casts and by specimens preserved in alco-
hOl. The processes employed by the
United States Fish Commission for seeur-
ing and Matching eggs and transporting
young nsh to various parts of the cOun-
try, with all the implements, apparatus
and transport appliances of this depart
ment Will be shown in detail. Every va
riety of fishing tackle used through
out the world, from the crudest
savage devices to the latest
inventions of civilization will be exhibit
ed. Photographs of fishermen pursuing
their calling, of their homes, of their man.
ifOld methods Of preparing their catch for
the market, Of their boats and fishing
craft, and of everything connected with
their lives and surroundings will be dis
played; together with life-size figures Of
fishermen of all nations clad in their pc
culiar costumes.
The evolution of ships from primitive
crudity to the present perfection will be
illustrated by a collection of handsome
models, to which all nations have con-
tributed. The AlbatrOss, one of the largest
and best of supplied steamers of the Fish
Commission, will be anchored at the EX-
position wharf as an exhibit.