San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-09
THE FAIR WIDE OPEN.
SUNSHINE REIGNS AND PLACES
AND FACES ARE SEEN
EVERYWHERE.
The Crowd Reasonable for a First
Sunshine Day After SUCH
Storm--The Only Thing
Wanting Is Rapid

rapidly drying and in twenty-four hours
more will be as though the ram was
not. The early morning trains took nut
full loads and the afternoon trains returning
we're full to repletion, There was great dis
content manifested at the transportation SER
vice, and curses both loud and deep were
heaped, and most unjustly upon the Fair
management and the ra lway. The LIGHT
fully appreciates the very exaspei AT
ing condition of affairs and does not
censure the criticisms, but 1t does
say that he service is the very best that the
transportation bureau could render under the
circumstances. That road was built by the
citizens from the s. A. p. track proper to
Main plaza. The railway company could get
no franchise neither could the fair manage
ment. 1t has been constructed very re-
Gently and UNPUBLISHED. The recent rains hav
softened this ground and made it Shiny. The
mud was just sufficiently dried yesterday to
make the ground greasy AID the ties COL
tinually slipped along the ground at times de-
railing an engine. The movement over tn
entire road was necessarily regulated by the
movement over the citizens and trains
could not leave the fair ground station
the track was bl cked. The ground was in
a much worse condition for holding the ties
without ballast yesterday than when the
ground was much softer but when the ground
dries this will be no farther difficulty. The
railway management are doing their best
under very discourageing rcun tances. and
the LIGHT propbesies that the ki0 will be tor
gotten long before the fair closes in the good
service rendered. Rapid transportation will
be more than a name by Monday. Take the
LIGHTS word for that.
position building day. The ball was never
crowded but as there were more than one
Thousand present who left the ground after
O'Clock there must have been fair semi
double today. one regular train yesterday
having brought in more than 300 people.
The visitors at the hall went leisurely
through the building, examining the severa
objects of interest In the exhibits and there
certainly were sufficient among them to make
the day profitable and pleasant. The LIGHT
hibit and to the Atwater exhibit and to some
particulars in the 8. a p. exhibit Today II
will begin with an inspection of the
EDISON EXHIBIT.
This exhibit, placed In the center of the
south front, up stars, is perfect revelation
~ to investigate the phenomena of sound
presentation and TRANSMISSION as thus reveal
ed. The eH hibit is under the charge OF com
petent experts: among them the super
whom all Texas orders will be sur
piled and business transacted The travel I
e'p IT of the co pany, Mr. Cannon is tn
,ne from whom the LIGHT secured its infOr
NATION and which is he, g given in the merest
0utlin The monograph cased. is not um'
like sewing machine in outward appearan'
self is a small machine OF pa ocular nstruc
lion about the size OF the running gear Ut d
Singer ewing ma" hi"e To regist, SOUND
the speaker seats himself before the phone
and D aces his mouth TO the speaking tube
the instrument, u fl Xible rub, er tube not un
Ike nm Old fashioned ear trumpet and speakh
his little piece in an ordinary tone OF voice
he machine registers the words sp Ike
through sound waves upo little cylinder %
wax, about two inches in diameter and six
ncnes in length. This cylinder holds 20Ou
words. The motion nf the is rument can d"
r gulated at will and 1t talks and registers ~
distInctIS Ms the man wuot enunciat,
d st nctIy. 1t is a perfect mirror of the vhte
wi ali its ops ones, Infections hesita nci =.
| ldistinctness, e When the cylinder T. full
i t IL rev. r. ed and another cylinder attach, d.
This cy Under can be then car fully packe
and transmitted by mail thousa de Of miles
put into another phone and 1t will exactly re-
prod ce the words Ms uttered by the distant
speaker. and his cylinder can be put Into the
PHI ne and it will reprod ce the SOUND an IN
d, finite Number of times, thousands OF times
in fact.
Fur receiving sound and writing the matter
tran mitted, tn receiver seats himself before
, e instrument, pla aces flexible rubber tub
about Itree-tighIs OF an inch n a.,
hranched the branches en- ing with horr
ear pieces whIch fit naturally tito the ears
nd hold themselves in place by light ste
ylinder. slowly revOIves. the hands b.iLe
r. eithe pen type writer is called into
nlay and taking down the matter OF the cy lIu-
der wRePu U
runs the D n and releases 1t again III a.
instant when tn. fingers have over.
taken the ears. The LIGHT never saw
me before, but in five minutes f'Om
being introduce sp Ike tie IL CT to b otn-
rr Ferguson of the Times acknowledging the
democratic victory: and, two MINUTES later
heard the phone tell 1t st as IL was. The
instrument can tie REGULATED 7" trans t
'.ither slow or fast az desire the speeches
OF Beecher. the music of the divine Patti, the
wonderful orchestral strains OF Thomas or
ch'.stra, ETC.. are all recorded on p-rchasahl
,'ylIndars which C n be placed III the phom'
a I'd the denRhtful mus listened 10
gain and again. There are other at
tachments toy which these sounds can
b.. increased il volume go Ms to fill room
n hall, a church and thus parlOr COMPANY,
Il | II fami group 'r large aud ence hall
can listen to wha ever the phone tran>mits.
The Mackey port ry exhibit, the rear OF
the crock ry exhIbt, TO the left OF the ex-eu
trance as you come from Machinery hs ] IL
me of t most int"res II q to be found an.
where as the pr &c So ~ making mud pies and
turning them into I'll forms Of pottery before
the e es If the people. The stand 10 thronge,
with interested visitors ALWAYS.
THE DHUMMERs.
Az Monday is Drummers' day, the LIGHT de-
sires to say t l. = ported that gen ral inter
est /" the nroper observance Of their day.
Monday next at tn. fair is on the increase.
G Barthoon ale VIII be the master of cere-
ing will b. ut the Alamo bu'ling al $3.50
IN. = No busters, but II rusters-The Nine
teenth Infantry band will esc'r the drumm RS
10 the depot nrd through the Ia grounds
tn the Riverside Park pavii where grann
lunch will be servef. The folio ing prizes
will then he awarded:
Leather me al 10 the man with the largest
feet
Leather medallion for the man with the
lar. est head. III, Sc artIficially sw' ed being
a red grip for the gripper who can t, |
the most improbab q st ~. and an u tied
balloon to the lat er, that he m+y Use 10 even
grenIer heights than hia Il Ost vivid inag