Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-11
SPLENDID EXHIBITS.
The Exposition is Beginning to As
sumo Permanent Form.
A ACOSMOCHRONTROPE NOW ON DECK
Names of Those Who Have Completed Their
Handsome Displays.
DESCRIPTION OF GENERAL FEATURES

The Exposition was visited by several
thousand people yesterday. Main Hall is
now in splendid shape. Everything is
maintained in apple pie order, and there is
not an exhibit which is not interesting to
the visitor. Some of the latest arrivals are
very pretty and attractive. In the display
by Groetzinger is an immense tiger skin
with the head attached. The eyes in the
head are illuminated by electric light,
which gives the head peculiarly ferocious
appearance.
In jewelers. display near the center of
the hall is shown a peculiar astronomical
apparatus, made by James f. Surratt, of
Steubenville, o. 1t is called a cosmochron-
trope which NAV be interpreted as a uni
yerse-time-measurer. This complicated
mechanism required eight years of labor by
Mr. Surratt. 1t not only keeps the local
time, but shows sidereal time, the move
mentS of the sun and moon, and the relations
of the earth to the consultations. A globe
is fixed at the proper angle to the plane of
the ecliptie, and it revolves on its axis once
in "A hours. The situation of the sun rela-
tive to the esrth's revolving inclination is
also shown, as the seasons pass. The equi-
noxes are indicated and once in year the
earth returns to the same position
in relation to the sun. The
globe is surrounded by large network,
representing the heavens, and on this are
fixed the principal stars and consultations.
These are but few of the features OF this
marvellous piece of mechanism, which VIII
prove of great interest to all students OF as
tronomy.
MECHANICAL HALL GETTING THERE.
Mechanical Hall is rapidly assuming
shape. About two-thirds OF the exhibits
are in position. The James Rees' engine,
which runs the northern line OF shafting, is
in operation, and some of the machines on
that line are running. The south line of
shafting will be operated by a huge West
inghouse engine, which will be ready for
work to-day.
The following are the principal exhibits
already in place:
Barnes Safe and Lock Company; Plttsburg
Scale Company and Buffalo Scale Company;
the W. +. and John Barnes Company lathe |
manufacturers, of Rockford, Ill; the Johnston
Harvester Company, of Buffalo n. Y; J. Pra- |
ger, knitting machines, Pittsburg; the ]. 1.
Case Threshing Machine Company, Racine,
Bend, Ind; the Standard Oil Company; |
Ripley Co., glassware, Pittsburg; |
Richie Brothers, mill scales, Philadelphia: |
the Oil Well Supply Company, of Oil City; |
Mast, Foos Co., windmills and pumps, |
Springfield, o.; J. c. Bartlett, ranges and fur |
naces, Pltrsburg; Mccormick Agricultural |
Machine Company, of Chicago; D. N. Osborne |
& Co. harvesting machines, Auburn, N. Y; B. |
F. Sturtevant, heating furnaces, Boston. Mass; |
the Ward Plow Company. Batavia, n. Y; |
Hughes & Gawthrop, electric dynamos Pitts |
burg; Dick Agricultural Works. Canton, o.; |
Bucher & Gibbs Plow Company. Canton, O.; |
Adriance, Platt & Co.. harvesting machines, |
Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
A DIFFICULTY SETTLED.
Uncle Sam is now doing business in the |
Exposition from A. NJ. to P. NJ, and any |
letters to exhibitors or others will be |
promptly handled. Visitors from distance |
are assured OF accuracy and dispatch in the |
transmission of mails.
Chief J. o. Brown and the Exposition |
managers have settled the policemen tangle |
by Chief Browns appointment of the fol- |
lowing men, leaving only four more to be |
added later on:
John II. Mccormick H. S. Peny, Patrick |
Pender. John B. White, Charles ID. Mackey
Terrence DAILY, H A kirkpatrick. Samuel
10y. James Grady, Thomas Flaherty James h.
Long, Henry Crispens, John ]. Davis, John A.
Kirkpatrick. James ]. Graham, John Hood |
and Robert Moore.