Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-16
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
Last of the Exposition Series of
Letters.
New ORLEANS, April 8, 1885.


lated to interest the visitor at the Expo
lsition, not the least of which is the
CBAUTAUoUA DAY,
The celebration of which, was held in
Music Hall, on the 2sth uIt The aud
lience which assembled formed to some
leAtent an index to the far reaching in
iueuce of that educational system ordin-
arily known as "Chautauqua." The hall
was well filed with people wearing the
crimson badge of the institution.
| The ceremonies were opened with an
overture by the Mexican band, the Rev.
A. II. Gillett, who acted as president OF
the meeting, addressed the audience in a
few explanatory words and then intro
duced the Rev. Mr.. Hall, of Pittsburgh,
who offered an eloquent prayer, after
which Mr.. Gi!lett made few additional
remarks expressing the gratitude OF all
those connected with the Chautauqua
celebration, for the assistance rendered
them in many ways by the board of man
agement; to the Mexican band, too, be
paid high tribute. He then introduced
Bishop Mallalieu, of the NJ. Z. church.
The Bishop made grand speech. He
started out by alluding to the wonderful
and grand Exp0sition-to the whirr and
hum of the great wheels, driving every
Imaginable kind of machinery. And then
said, We only need to look about US,
and to listen, to understand that we are
living now iD different age from any
that has preceded u.s." He then spoke
of the wonderful improvements that
have been made during the last half CEN
tury-of the marvellous inventions in
machinery, and how great the progress
that has been made by these means for
the development of the country. And
then said that 1T is grave question,
however, whether the age shall be purely
materialistic; whether machines should
dominate, or whether attention should
be paid to the education and the morals
of the people" This led, very naturally,
to "Chautauqua;" that it furnishes con-
densed information, reliable and cons
plete on all subjects in which the public
is interested. That Chautauqua is for
busy men and busy women in busy age.
That the object of Chautauqua is to
make strong, pure christian homes.
where children can be trained not only
in morals, but in science and patriotism.
He dwelt at some length here. His pc
roration was grand. Everybody listened
with marked attention to the Bishops
admirable address, which was heartily
and frequently applauded. We were de-
lighted in bearing him, and think the M.
E. church has just cause to be proud of
their new Bishop. At the conclusion Of
Bishop Mellalieu's address, DR.. Gi.lett
called for the "Chautauqua salute, to be
given in honor of the Mexican band. as
well as to the Bishop, whose eloquent
address had been just heard, which was
given by the whole audience waving
vigorously their handkerchiefs, produc
ing an effect similar to a snow storm of
large flakes. To those who have visited
Chautauqua it looked very familiar. But
to those who never had seen before such
salute by SO vast an audience, it had
wonderful effect. The spectators on
the outskirts of the seats cheered. The
Mexican band could not contain them
selves, so delighted were they. They
first arose to their feet, then jerked off
their plumed hats and waved them, and
as though that was not still enough, each
pulled out his handkerchief and waved
it with Que hand and his hat with the
other.
Prof. Sherwis, of the New England
Conservatory of Music, whose face IS
familiar TO all who visit Chautauqua,
then made very fine address in his
usually happy style, full of many hut
-norouS hits, in which he explained the
objects of the Chautauqua system, and
gave in detail its development.
MIR Wallace Bruce, of Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, spoke briefly of the location and
plans of the Florida ChautaUqua at Lake
de Funiak He complimented Director
General E. A. Burke, "the man whose
energy, skill and mental requirements
and pluck had made the great Worlds
Exposition"
The exercises were concluded with
Uhautauqua vesper service.
Chautauqua is represented by nicely
arranged alcove in the south gallery of
the government building in which are
specimens of all the text books, period
icals, charts, works of art and various
other matters and things connected with
tbat institution,
IMPROVEMENT AND INVENTION.
There has been most wonderful i'm
provement in machinery, especially dur
ing the past decade, adapting it more
perfectly to the accomplishment of the
work for which it is intended, as we'll as
in the invention of new machines. 1t
seems that In this remarkable age of
improvement, that whatever is needed
to be made by machinery, the ingenuity
of man will produce the machine to
make it. There are some machines
which perform their work so ingeDiouSly
"A Darfanflu o1n fn
possess intelligence. Why, there is an
automatic machine exhibited here, with
many others, by the manufacturers OF
Clark's D. n. 7. spool cotton, employed
for spooling the thread. This machine
will pick up the spool, put it on its spin
die, which revolyes rapidly, winds on
the spool exactly 200 yards to the frac
ton OF an inch; then cuts the little nick
on tue rim aud draws the thread into It,
which keeps it from unwinding; then
cuts the thread and drops the full spool
into box and picks up another, which
is filed in like manner. With its eight
sets of hands, so to speak, it will fill a
like number of spools (S) in less than one
minute. continuing right on for hours
without any attention, save the keeping
of the hopper supplied with empty spools
And another little automatic machine
for making braid, exhibited also by the
Clarks, which is a little show in itself
and attracts great attention. Each thread
composing the braid is contained on IA
bobbin and they, about 81 in number, go
waltZing around in circle, half of them
going one way and the other half the
opposite direction. and as they wheel
around each other in passing. cut figure
20 S as they go, and in the doing of
which the thread is plated or woven
into nicely Yariegated braid.
The Willimantic Co. has also fine ex-
hibit of improved machinery in operation
lshuwing the Is or 20 processes that the
raw cotton passes through, until it ar
rives at the one for spooling, descrip+
tion of which Ihave given.
Aud here let me say for the benefit of