Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-25

kind, will not have been equaled IN al
history. This exhibit will be that maoe "
the coal producers and coal mining ana coa1
handling machinery manufacturers OF sns
country. This interest, which has atIalne9
such enormous proportions in the onl:eu
States, has become awake to the opportunity
and will improve 1t TO the utmost Ihe ca
hibit promises to be something stupendous,
embracing specimens of coal from thousanuD 10
OF mines, possible representation OF one ~ u
more modern coal mines equipped with tne
latest and most approved machinery IN al al
tive operation, and such a display OF coaI
mining, coal handling and coal ira nsportlInIg II
machinery as has never yet been seen. 1ne
Black Diamond, of Chicago and New VOTE,
the great organ of the coal trade IN tnls
country, first suggested, and has for some
months earnestly advocated, such an e. xhlDll'
and the great coal mining and handling Or
CARNATIONS of the country have been q hlce
to recognize the chance which will be AZ
forded them,
Some striking and original designs on q
grand scale are already under way, This de-.
partment will probably be under the dlrec-
tion of H. A. Bischoff, of the Black DsG,
1lond. Mr.. Bischof, who has long supplied
the coalmen of the country with weekly sta
tistics and who is to them what CommiS-
sioner Fink was for long time to the rail-
roads, is probably the best-informed man IN
his line in the United States. There is PROB
ably no coal producing district in the coun-
try that has not been personally visited Dy
Mr.. Bischoff, and he has examined more
mines than any other man. He is an author
ity at the coal dealers conventions and
man of boundless tact and energy and good
business sense.
A GREAT DISPLAY.
The endless variety of such display as
can be made in coal and its cognate indus
tries, from the fancy articles made from an
thracite up to the great electrical plants now
being introduced in the mines, will, 1t must
be readily seen, enable the making OF this
great department one of the most striking In
the great Fair of 1892. 1t has the merit OF
being the first vast exhibit yet outlined.
was discussing its possibilities few days
ago with Stanley Waterloo, recently editor
of the Washington CGDitGt who is a JOINT
owner. with Mr., Bischoff in the Black
Diamond.
''When it is considered that the produc-
tion of coal in this country of every KIND
and grade has attained the enormous total
of 140, ,000, 900 tons per annum," said Mr..
Waterloo, "some idea can be formed as to
the magnitude of this industry. An exhibit
in all its branches of this industry, together
with the various manufacturing interests
directly connected with it, will form one OF
most prominent features of the exposition.
Specimens of the coal alone that will form
part of this exhibit and compromising all
varieties from the Ignite to the anthracite,
contains vast field for study. The erection
of a coal palace is among the things that
suggest themselves; coal mines in full oper-
alton, will no doubt heighten the general
interest in the exhibit, in fact, coal mining
in all its branches, already demonstrating
the wonderful progress made in this field by
science and inventive genius, may be prac-
tically illustrated.
Side by side may be shown the pick and
the mining machine, the latter worked by
compressed air or electricity; the stanch
old miners lamp will shed its Pickering
ray beside the incandescent electric light;
the interested visitor will have the oppor-
tunity to study the various systems of wire
rope haulage as we'll as the successful opera
tions of electric motors; the different de-
signs of pit cars, automatic cages, hoisting
apparatus, fans, and so forth. 1t will be one
OF the grandest exposits the world has ever
seen, and certainly nothing OF the kind, so
complete in all its detail as this, can and
will be made is on record"
O'BRIEN-BAIN.