Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-08

As they passed from stand to stand it was
noticed that many of them took notes regard
ing the various industries represented, and
consulted together frequently as they found
some worthy object of interest. The illumi-
nation outside was apparently
OF LESS INTEREST
to them than the thoughts suggested BY the
machinery in operation in the hall. Hhe
exhibit was practically the same as that
shown during the late Exposition. The
pumps worked at the inexhaustible tank
Just as vigorously as ever, and with vim
worthy of the ardor of Prohibitionist CAM
paigner in the same cause, pumping water
into a tank from which it is first drawn and
working in treadmill sort Of way. Among
the principal list of exhibitors were:
Thomson-H Houston Electric CompanY's min
iature plant; Oil Well Supply Company, drill
ing in full operation; Peerless Lead Glass
Chimney Works; the Stott gas automatic gas
governor, Bindley & Co.; Cummings filter;
automatic gas stop off; h. K. Porter Co., min
iature engines and locomotives; Yough steam
Singer & Co., steam pump; Keystone Drilling
Company, Penn Saw Works. Taylor Wire Nail
Company, James Rees & Sons, boilers; Pitts
Safe Company, D. c. Ripley & Co, apparatus
for cutting glass chlmneys by machinery;
Thomson International Welding Company,
West Penn Boiler Works, The w. Baird Ma
chinery Company, Oliver & Roberts Wire Com
pany, Roenigk Piano Cover Company, Hyatt
water filters Pittsburg Reduction Company,
Geometric Wood Carving Company, Tubular
Wheel Carriage Company, Fate q Freeze,
brickmaking.
A DISCREPANCY IN FREIGHTs.
To show the observant qualities of the
South American visitors and the value OF
their inspection of the Pittsburg method of
doing business, it is only necessary to quote
Senor Melchor Obarrio, Consul General of
Bolivia, in his review of the American ship
ping facilities. He said that few years
ago he had occasion to ship an article
to Bolivia from New York and the
freight cost $247. A very short time
after he was asked to have the
order duplicated, but complaints were made
to him that the freights we're excessive. He
investigated the matter, and sent an exactly
similar order, via London and Hamburg, to
Bolivia, almost around the world, at cost
of $50, or about four-fifths less than it cost
to ship direct from New York. This was
something, he said, had to be remedied for
the benefit of American trade, as no country
of the resources and size of this could afford
to have its commerce handled in foreign
bottoms.
j.. Scott stood at the Electric Welding
.
wistful air OF desire that something bigger
should have been shown, although, be said,
he thought on the whole that the exhibition
was a success. "These men," he said, "are
no doubt, al we have learned, leading men
in their own countries. They are men of
comprehension and ability, and will go
back with thorough appreciation of Amer
lean enterprise. There are some points
which have not been taken into con-
sideration in this visit of the
Pan-American delegation, and that
is the Americanizing of our sister
countries on this continent. Now, one gen.
tleman of this delegation has his two boys
with him as fellow travellers. He told me
that he had intended, as most of his COM
patriots in the same social position that he
occupies had done, to send the youths to
Oxford or Cambridge Colleges in England.
He thought the trip to this country would
be good course OF education for the lads,
and in his peregrinations visited our collie
giate institutions.
WHAT is THE RESULT?
He will send his boys to Yale College, and
said he was glad to learn that we could COM
pete favorably with the educational institu-
tions of the old country. This means that
these young men will have liberal Ameri-
eau SUuCdLlOu. 1ucy Will uO uOuDtg ny
cation and descent, which counts a long way
in those countries, attain leading positions
in their native land, and the application of
our principles to the affairs of state cannot
fail to draw our countries closer together.
Mr.. Scott said he was more than pleased
with the results of this visit from every
point of view. The delegates were received
in Pittsburg strictly on a business basis,
and were entertained quietly by the busi-
ness men of the city. They had themselves
requested that no public banquet shouldmark
their advent, and although every possible
effort was made to make them feel comfort
able they were kept in as quiet and at the
same time hospitable manner as possible.
He thought the entertainment and showing
of American work to these people was a
casting of bread upon the waters. which
would be washed up again in shorter time
than the average citizen anticipated.
A feature of yesterdays trip was the COM
pliment paid to William Nicholson, engi-
neer, and Daniel Lynn, conductor of the
special train which brought the delegates
here. They made the run from Bessemer to
Pittsburg, on the Baltimore and Ohio, IL
miles, in II minutes yesterday with three
Last evening the delegates in
sisted on having a special carriage provided
for the engineer and conductor, who made
it possible to attend the Exposition in time,
so they, too, could enjoy the entertainment
provided.