Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-25
HURRY! HURRY !
PUT YOUR rxsIBIT IN PLACE As SOON
AS POSSIBLE.
who Moved in Ysstsrdsy-Griddle-Cakes
and Buttermilk-hanufAetur OF
Pottery-Eight Days More.

Pottery-Eight Days More.
1T Is conspicuous fact that northern
exhibitors are showing much more en-
ergy and alacrity in placing their dis
plays in the Exposition Hall than Rich
mond men. For some unaccountable
reason the latter are dilatory to fault,
and unless they begin rushing in their
stun at once their spaces will be bare and
dnsightly when the Exposition opens.
EfgM days from to-ttaU Me crhfbi-
fiOn bogins.
What lot Of work will have TO be done
in that little time II is hard to believe
that all that is necessary can be done in
that period. The Exposition building is
tremendous structure, and yesterday it
appeared empty in comparison with the
way 1t will be expected TO look on the 3D.
OF October.
The average exhibitor doesn't seem to
realize what little time he has to make
ready. lie loses sight of the fact, too,
that the receiving clerks will not be able
to enter everybodys goods in three or
four days.
Commence to put your "house in or
der " Immediately. 1t will be better to
have everything completed three days
beforehand than half an hour after the
doors arc opened to the public.
YESTERDAYS WORKERS.
Some few Richmond merchants began
preparations yesterday.
Vaughan a Sarvey. tobaccOnists, are
at work on their exhibit.
Sanders & Stayman, piano and organ
dealers, are putting in their instruments.
The Virginia Paper Company is be-
ginning t. display specimens OF its stock.
$. :. Coitrel's Sons are bringing out
hArness-ware. &c.
4. G. HOckecharlie is erecting q soda
fountain in Machinery Hall.
T. II. Mayo a. Brother Will have fino
display.
John B. Hart is building a stall for the
exhibit of stencil goods.
c. V. Clash has prettily-painted
house in which to show his tobacco and
cigarettes
M. S. Valentines meat-iuice booth is
carpeted and surrounded by bronze
railing.
II. q. Bettys stock of carriages, light
wagons, and sulkies have begun to ar
rive.
Baldwin & Brown are putting in their
agricultural implements This exhibit
will be on both floors OF the building.
West q Branch have placed in Ma
chincry Hall hotalr drying-machine,
such as are used in drying tobacco.
William Mitchell has decorated his
stand for the display of gentemen's
furnishings
II. J.. Pelouze will exhibit in his dis
play of printing materials his self-spacing
type.
POTTERY.
An interesting feature on the main
floor will be the manufacture of pottery
by George W. Barker, of Connecticut.
This will be instructive to ali persons
who never saw pottery made.
BISCUITS, CAKES, AND BUTTERNILK.
The Rumford Chemical Company's ex-
bibit has been set up by their Mr.. Hall.
A stove will cook biscuits every day, and
they will be given to visitors hot.
Hecker's Bread-Powder Company will
cook griddle cakes III their stall, and
give them TO passers-hy. who can take
them to the Vermont Machine Churn
Company, where butter just made will be
furnished. After you have eaten the
cakes YOU have only to turn to Ashton
Starke's log cabin to get 3 glass of but
ter-milk Just from tue churn.
TOBACCO HALL.
While one wing (the eastcrn) OF the build
ing IS termed Machinery Hall, the other
WESTERN should be called Tobacco Hall.
Most OF the tobacco exhibits will be
there, and besides, large space has
been rallied in for a tobacco exchange,
where will be sales of fine tobacco.
SMOKE.
One fifty-foot smoke-stack has been
erected over one Of the engines. There
will be three Of these for the three en-
gines.
Two of these engines are 1OO-horse
power each, and the other one is an 80
horse.
The first smokepufred forth yesterday.
OLD sORREL.
General Thomas J. Jackson's cold
Sorrel," which died at the Soldiers
Home several years ago, has been re-
ceived through Captain George a. Aims
lie. who has had The animal in his car
iage-factory since it came from the
hands Of the Washington taXidermist.
ELECTRIC PLANT.
The electric plant is being put in.
Some of the dynamos have already ar
rived.
Morrison, Allen & Co., of New York,
will exhibit their water-flter.
The water that comes from the city
will pass through this filter before it
goes into the boilers.
MORE RELICS.
Among the relics received yesterday
were a clay kettle taken from the noun
tains near Tuscaloosa, a scraper used by
the Aztecs in dressing hides, and piece
of the mill in which Stonewau jackson
worked when boy. This collection is
assuming good proportions and will be
an attractive feature.
NAMES on RELICS.
Mr.. ]. A. Wolf, who has charge of
the Relic Department, requests the Dts
patch to ask all persons who send in
relics to attach their names and ad-
dresses and also to write as complete an
account of each article as possible.
RACE-TRACK.
Secretary Venable has so far finished
the track that horses can be trotted now
in the afternoon after 2 o'clock The
opd rollipcy &c stil1 IN Yorooracs