The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-27
IHE SPLENDID EXHIBITS
In the Machinery Palace at the
Paris Exposition,
WHAT AMERICA HAS THERE.
Her Electrical MISUNDERSTANDING
Presses-The Countries Repre-
sented-The United States
Ahead In Some Things.

PARIS, May 26.-Tho machinery pal.
ace OF the exposition is the largest build.
ing ever constructed under a single roof.
A remarkable feature OF the building Is
that the roof has no interior support ex.
cept twenty great arches hinged at the
foundation plates and apex SO as to pro-
vide for expansion and contraction
under changes in temperature. Tho
length OF the building is nearly l,4OO
feet, in width $40 feet, and lis helghth
ITO feet, The American machinery ex.
hibit occupies one third OF the entire
space in this building and Is ia all re.
spects but one more imposing than the
exhibit at any previous international
exhibition. The exception is in agri.
cultural machinery, In which 1t does not
show progress corresponding to that
manifested In other lines,
In 1857 there was an exhibit of ma-
chine tools by Brown 4 Sharp, Of Proyl-
dence. They were all sold, To-day
tools made after the Brown 4 Sharp
patterns by Europeans are universal in
the exhibition. When the model OF the
yacht America was shown in the United
States It was rather sCot1ed at. Its su.
|periority was promptly detected by
British builders, and II Is now becoming
a model on the Clyde. Warner & Swa-.
ger, OF Cleveland, and William Sellers &
Co., OF Philadelphia, are conspicuous by
their exhibits OF brass working machin
cry
American exhibit, will be run by elec-
trio power supplied by Pickering Tor the
which are not easily connected with the
shatting. Neither Scott nor Hoe has
any exhibit, but the plant, when ready,
will be considerable. The Campbell and
the Golden companies exhibits are tho
mot important. Several type setting
machines are exhibited including the
Macmillan, the Thorne and the Mahat-
ter machine. The last named presents
the most striking features, as 1t does
away with movable type. Instead 1t
uses matrices and casts q solid bar for
each line, the matrices being then re-
turned automatically 10 their proper
places. This machine Is furnished with
q phonograph, which dictates copy to
the operator, The only other country
exhibiting novel improvements in print
ing machinery, Is Great Britain. We
have a practical monopoly OF writing
machines, there being 0 American ex.
hibitors and only one English, ono
Russian and one Swiss. The machine OF
none OF these compares favorably with
the best American machine.
That electricity constitutes an absorb
ing problem OF mechanical invention
and physical discovery Is shown by tho
prominence Of It's apparatus occupies.
Throughout machinery hall and In va
rious other parts OF the exhibition there
are 500 exhibitors in this branch. The
universally Of the study devoted to 1t Is
shown In the range OF the countries re-
presented by apparatus. These include
France, Germany, Great Britain, Amor.
lea, Belgium, Switzerland, Algeria, Aus
tria, Hungary, China, Denmark, Spain,
Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Russia
and Finland.
The Edison exhibition occupies one:
hall the entire American frontage, cover
ing 5000 square feet. II Is the largest
single exhibit in the exposition. His en-
tire category Of inventions, numbering
403 is presented either completely or by
intelligent suggestion. 1nthe American
development Of electricity and commerce
predOminates; in the French, tho
sciences, especially chemistry and ap-
Dlieu mnthpmALira
Among the most imposing but no less
ingenious machines, which are looked
upon as Yankee notions by Europeans,
arc machines for saltihg and coloring
butter, which Is matched by a French
machine for de.salting and automatic
weighing. An automatic American ma
chine for making CorksCrews out OF wire,
machine for weaving the covering on
rubber hose and Bourbon machine.
America is practically unreprescnted
in machinery appertaining to textiles,
and 10 the manipulation Of skins, leather,
furs, paper and stone.