Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-18
EXPOSITION TRIPLES.
NOTES on MANY INTERESTING TsIEGs
The GENERAL PUBLIC PASS BY.
Large Crowd Of Visitors-Bapqust TO the
Press To-Dsy--Custsr's Massacre and
Battle Of Gettysburg Last Night.

air stirred gently and unobtrusively, while the
temperature was registered nj a pleasant
medium.
Win such weather the result might have been
foretold-;hat the crowd at the Exposition would
be more than Usually large
BstGeeh II aud - o'ciOck people began TO ar
rive In great numbers, and the tuiidng and
grounds bore an animated appearance until the
days attractions had closed.
PRIZE CATTLE.
The Judges OF cattle resumed their work yes
| terday morning and awarded several more
Tho special premium Of s95 gold medal, otier-
ed by the Jersey BUfiefn Of Indianapolis, los tne
| best lve pounds OF Jersey buster, was given AIT
Joseph X. Anderson, Jr. There were nine COM
For the best ten-pound package Of butter from
farm, DAIRY, or individual was awarded
| prize Of $50 TO K. Andrews, who had i've com
| petltOrs.
For the best Tub OF creamery butter the prize
/ was go and was won by Mr.. James X. Branch.
There we're no competitors, but the premium
was awarded on account Of merit
ARREST.
| A negro named Burr Alexander. from Kansas.
was arrested yesterday in the Exposition
| Grounds ~ a suspicious character and common
vagraut It s Thought that he WAS imp.i' 'aled In
| the robbery Of champagne aud cigars from
| Doyle & Keane a few nights ago.
| PRrNTING-PRsssEs.
Tho printing-presses in the bnildlng are sources
/ OF much interest. May visitors WHO have read
| books from the time that pimer was hIst
| given them never before nave seen how the
! printing Is done. In EEorett Waddcy's space
| near tho main entrance is a press printing
| newspaper, and Ia HOen q Co.'S apartment In
| Machinery Hail are other presses which give
specimens OF photographic printing.
sCROLL-wORE.
Near Hoen & Co. Is a msn who does beautiful
/ scroll woodwork. out of a blocs he viii makes
| globe. which IN turn becomes cat up ingeniously
| Ia such q way that 1t will not fan 70 pieces
ELECTRICAL DISPLAY.
| In this part OF the building are also the elec-
| tricai displays. Many people are very much
! shocked when they visit this parc a part ~
| the railing OF the exhibit IL made OF brass and
| II both hands touch this gentlo current u
| electricity strikes through one. Yesterday an
| old lady put her hands on the brasses without
| knowing how they would return the salutauon,
| 50 20 speak. OF course she wasn't hurt because
| the current ~ not sufficiently strong 20 arect
| the most delicate. but sho thought she was muir
| dered and screamed In due proportion.
| In this electrical department there is sew
| ing-mschine run by a small moor and hero can
| also be seen major Blacks idea OF an under
| ground conduit II the electric cars had THIS
I system the boys con dn't yen sinister. your
| troTley's of - any mo-D. The trolley In this
! system IL underground and connects with tho
| car by means 81 a vertical piece which Is CON
| uectcd with tho car AMI runs down into tho
| street aud into the conduit somewhat after tho
way the brakes Of n car grapple tho cable on
| cable-Car road
WHAT THE cOLORED PEOPLE CAN DO.
Tho man who comes from tho part OF the
country whero they heiieyo thai the negro has
| heen reared In superstition and ignorance should
! see thu display made by the colored people m
| the Exposition. At one cad are tno industries
Of the Moore-Street Industrial lns1lDition OF oli
Moore street. this city. This school. for the cdu-
| cation OF the cOlOred youth Of tho city. was Or
| gantzel in 1875 and has three departments. The
| sewing department has eighty girls In H. tho
carpenters department. twenty-five boys, and
| the printing department. twenty-three boys.
! Samples Oi needle work, job printing. &c, are
| on exhibition.
WITHOUT HANDS.
In the apartment adjoining this-also nlled
with the fruits Of cOiored industy-is q colOred
| girl, Mary Butler, who IN her way IL more accom-
| Without Iho use Of hands she sews and dos
| other work that most women require ten hngerS
| g. manipulate. Mary was deprived OF her hauds
| by n sugar-cane MIL during the war and has
| since managed 20 e1ucets herself 10 work with
| on, them.
| The Harsshorn College, q school for colored
rris Just hey ond tho western corpcrato limits OF
| Richmond. aiso Dezes a most credltabie snow
! ing Paintings and drawings. 40 well AZ all sorts
| Of needle- work, executed Win taste con bo seen
In prOfusiOn,
Tho exhibit of st. John the Baptist Institute,
| me pupils Of which are taught by mo Francis
| can sisters also shows tho care with which tho
| schOiarsaro taught
Then there are samples OF good Photography
by COOFod ARTISTS ana OtnoF tfiueucch vi INC h'-
| gro's education and Intelligence.
THE PIANOS.
Tho spaces OF the piano exhibit arc all within
| hearing distance OF each other and Il is pleas ng
70 notice tho courtesy which they show each
| other II piano - going IN one booth me
pianist la the next will Wait until the selection Is
| over and then the crowd which has gathered
/ will move on 70 the next place until quite va
| riety OF airs a. well ~ qualities OF touch and eX-
| preston Will have been heard
THE INDIANS AND COWBOYS.
While not performing in the via West Show
| the Indians and cowboys stroll around tho tx
| pOsition-(ir0unds and bulldogs In tue build
| ing they arc known 90 most of me girls who OF
nclate IN the booths re-taurants, soda-iouutAln',
| &c and during the time the red men hayo been
here tf,y haye been eminenuy successful IN
getting up a list OF female acquaintance a.
the yeruacular Of the average savage Is limited
| extremely the iniatatOry step usually comes
from the girls, aud whom the Ice
mas once been broken the Indian
pays the young ladies daily 7lsitA IL has be
come quite tho uing for the young girls 20 go
| with the Indians - one OF the humorous photo
graph tents on tho grounds and have their pie
| lures takon In a gr0up. Some of c1e wild I'M
ultored sayages have 50 far progreaseh IN despiie
of tneir ignorance as 80 ask tie girls 20 90 mono
wnh theal. but tho maidens, even n ihey were
thus incl ned (wnich theY are nos. arc foresight
1 Cd sufficiently to imagine Tire tempest that a
white squaw would inako ia a westeTn tepee.
Tho cowboys, with the bro@ sombrero hats,
4 fr'''NreF
magnetism for the young ladies', but they can
talk English and for that reason, paradoxical as
IL may seem. get acquainted with the girls cor
Buck Taylor, the king of tho cowboys, is un-
married
rFIArcLOCE.
There Is large clack just over the entrance 10
the Nusic Hall which is 10 constantly wrong that
| Il should bo taken down. Unless II can Do kopt
right II should not be allowed 70 show its face
PRIZE BrIL
The thrse-year-old Bolstcin bull that got the
first premium the Other day was named Blue
| and Gray, and came from the Soldiers Homo 70
| which II wBs presented BY General digger, OF
| Port Royal. va.
TUE PRESS.
This afternoon at the banquet rendered the
| press will tAze place m the old main building.
Judge NOWlln editor o. the VIM, viii preside,
| and representatives from various parts OF the
Att O'clock Mr.. Logejoy will serve lunch TO the
mem bers Of the press and tbcir friends ~ JOhn
Bowers stove exhibit
cumDREE's DAYs.
| President starke announces that all white
! pubiic-schOOl children with thcH teachers aud
| All inmates Of white eeemOsynary Institutions
will be admitted 10 the Exposition November
6th and TN for ten cents each, and teachers
must accom- pany their scholars list must be
furnished Dr. II. &. Jones drector-generai, Oi
| the number Of teachers and scholars And in
matss ~ eienosenary Institutions desiring q
avail themselves Of lnis concession This will
also apply 70 colored schools, only the day Of
| admission viii be october 5lsL
SALE OF CATTLE.
This morning at lc o'clock there will De a sale
OF registered Jersey cattle nov on exhibition
ia the building recently occupied for the bench
snow. seats will 10 provided for sn persons
who attend
| SINGING.
At Ramoss stand ia the Exposition yesterday
! Mr. Thomas +. McNulty, the campaign-singer
amused the crowd With several songs.
DAIRYMESs CONVENTION.
Some time ago a mau came here from Yer
mont and said that Richmond had been selected
as the place aud tho Hth " October IA the time
| Tor holding q dairymeu's convention. As yester
nay was the i7th the reporters, II nobody else
kept on the lookout for ths dairymen; but ths
Acknowledgement must DO made thai up 10 a Late
hour last night no symptoms or stgns Of tht
meeting could be discover and heior Nenablt
said be knew nothing Of IL
IsCAsDEsCENT LIGHT.
For the first time since the Exposition begar
the incAndescent lamps were lighted last nigh
| ia the Exposition building. and also lent an en-
pazonment % he Art Hail, which has hitherto