The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-08
the ONO CBNTENNlAL.
Great Expectations for q. a. II. week-A
Grand Exhibition.

Great Expectations for q. A. Il. Week-A
Grand Exhibition.
Special Correspondence Of he hidlige'eer
COLUMBUS, O., Sept Next week"
is the word in every ones mouth Next
week the theatres will present their
most attractive pieces and Pompeii will
be burned five times over. Next week the
street takers will repeat their oldest and
choicest chestnuts. Next week the ho-
tells and restaurants and boariing-houses
will make their fortunes and the pos
SCISSOR Of cot and piece OF ground to
place it on will find it worth almost ito
weight in silver. Next week at least the
Exposition will be well attended. Next
week, don't you know, the Grand Army
will be here.
If it were not for this one bright star
OF hope shining before them the people
of Columbus would be plunged into the
gloom Of despair. They have lobbied
and labored and looked forward to this
Centennial Exposition for the last two
years and now the time has come and
the people do not. The attendance is
wretchedly small. II the ,urn.s,ile
keepers and ticket agents could be in
duced to tell they would probably rclatc
that the number OF persons adhittcd by
exhibitors and complimentary tickets,
except on opening day, exceeded the
number paying the admission fee.
In one respect, however, this is not
properly SO discOuraging MS it ut first ap.
pears. The fact is the Exposition was
opened week before it could be ready.
This is not an evidence OF mismanagc-
ment on the part OF the officers; it is
merely an evidence OF the tendency OF
exhibitors to proCrastinate till the last
moment the work of arrangement. Now
that the show is on, the work ofarrangc-
ment is being pushed with viSor; the
sound OF hammer and saw is heard in
nearly every hall. And while this pro-
cess Of getting ready for housekeeping
continues it is perhaps better that visit
Ors should be few. Next week all will
be arranged and ready, and nObOdyCom-
ing will be disappointed.
Concerning the exhibits there is mole
to be said than can be spoken in Il few
words. OF the fifteen departments into
which the Exposition is sdivided, all but
two or three are represented The Art
Gallery was long since crowded and pic
lures are being sent away or hunG in
other halls Uncle Sam has not yet con-
sentcd to send his exhibit to tho public
service and charities department, and
his neglect is keenly felt; but the eXhi-
bition of the work OF public charities by
the State will not leave it altogether
vacant.
Every one, it is believed, who eau be
interested in material things will find
something here to draw and hold his at-
tention. a very wilderness OF agricuI-
tural machinery mowers, binders,
rakes, drills, Cultivators, thrcshers and
clover pullers, plows and harrows,
spades and shOvels and such tritles-wili
close in around the farmer us he enters
the grounds. Further on he will find
the beef breeds OF cattle, Devons, Here
tords, Red-polled, Angus, Galloway,
Short.horns and ShOrt-h6rns without
horns ii. c. with the horns bred oily in
large numbers.
. In the horticultural department every
county in the State has been preferred
space and invited to display the products
OF its fields and orchards. Many OF
them have responded to the invitation
and there may be seen tastefully ar
ranged fruits, grains, vegetables wool,
cheese and honey. Some of the Couu-
ties break the menotony by placing
here and there on their shelves stuffed
birds and animals. "Molly Stark"
stands guard over one exhibit dressed
out in products OF the field. Her dress il
composed Of heads Of wheat, rye and
barley and the buttons down the front
are our own buckeyes. II Clarke county
is to be judged by its exhibit, one OF its
principle products is antiquarian arti-
Cles--mammOth bones, Indian relics oi
the stone age, old books and plOws with
wooden mold boards. In this competi-
ton OF the counties even Hamilton, not
withstanding the fact OF the Cincinnati
Exposition, brings her exhibit to Col
umbus.
A good-sized building is devoted to
the products of the apiary. Another
large hall is almost filled with light har-
ness vehicles. Columbus is pretty wide
ly known us the centre OF buggy manu-
featuring in the United States. All three
of her large buggy companies have made
considerable exhibits. Asan interesting
object lesson in the progress of civiliza-
ton, in corner OF this hall may be seen
the carriage or stage coach formerly be-
longing to George Washington. Though
its iinery has disappeared its curtains
and hangings, its lining aud cushions,
one hundred years ago it was doubtless
an uncommOnly elegant eQuipage. But
it is scarcely more like the handsome
modern carriage adjacent than an cle-
phant like Il thoroughbred horse, The
wheels and running gears are MS heavy
as those Of a common farm wagon and
the door opens three feet from tho
ground, and there are no steps. Ii the
people OF the coming century make as
much progress in the arts OF making life
comfortable and travelling easy they are
certainly to be cnvied The carriage is
the property Of Capt. Ben Richardson,
OF New York. The wooden parts are
still sound and hard and bid fair 10 at
tract the eyes OF the visitors to the next
centennial.
To the department Of commerce and
transportation articles are still bcilg sent
daily. The locomotive Arabian. the
first believe to be used on the Baiti-
more Il Ohio railroad, is one OF the prin
ciplc objects Of interest.
The womcn's department and the de-
partment Of education are worthy OF
more particular mention than can give
Mt this time. MAC.
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