The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-27
PARISiS BIG SHOW.
Margaret Sullivan's Last Letter.
She DevoSes Her Space 20 tho Ma
chinery Palace.
1t is tho Largest Building Ever
Constructed.
American Exhibits Occupy Ono
third of the Entire Space.
A Comparison of tho Mechanical
Products OF the United States With
Those of Other Countries Throws
tho Latter In the Shads

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PARIS, May 26.-The machinery palace
OF the Exposition is the largest building
ever constructed under single roof. A
remarkable feature Of the building is that
the roof has no interior support, except
-r>txenty great arches, hinged at the founda-
ton plates and apex SO as to provide for
expansion and contraction under changes
in temperature. Tho roof is glazed. The
lower panels arc decorated with heraldic
designs. The ends Of the building are
filed with toned glass; Light is abundant
and the effect OF the decoration is mag
niiicent The length of the building is
nearly 400 feet, its width $40 feet and its
hight 40 feet. \ gallery thirty feet
from the floor extends the entire length
Of both sides. At the four corners are
steam generators for driving the entire
machinery. The power is communicated
by shaiting placed on four rows OF trelIis
girders lying parallel with the length Of
the building and placed in sub-ways. The
engines are now working and there is
more power than is required. An idea Of
the colossal character OF the exhibition
may be gained from tho fact that the
power available this year is four times rs
great MS that furnished during the cxhibi.
ton OF 1873.
\ The American machinery exhibit occu.
pies one-third Of the entire space and is,
IN all respects but one, more imposing
than the exhibit at any previous inteina-
iional exhibition. The exception is in ag-
riculiural machinery, in which We do not
show progress corresponding TO that man
iiested in other lines. We are, indeed, at
double disadvantage in this, for besides
exhibiting nothing notably new. European
nations have been successfully overtaking
us in the production Of our own machines
This is especially true Of Great Britain,
France, Germany, Austria, and Swiizer.
land. In this respect, rs in Others Of
equal importance, We have supplied Eu-
rope with ideas. Ii will be remembered
that Cyrus Mccormick failed TO secure in
the United States the adoption OF his agri-
cultural machinery until its exhibition in
= london in 1851. That international exhi.
bition inaugurated a new era Ia machn.
cry. In 1867 Thomas X. Pickering, engi-
neer and inventor, who has been superin.
tendent OF machinery for the United
States nj tho successive exhibitions at
Paris. Vienna, Philadelphia, Melbourne
and New Orleans, brought about the exhi.
bition Of one iifty-horso power Corliss
engine in this city. This engine was sold
10 Z Frenchnan. Today Il no American
machinery occupied the space allotted 10
the United States the entire area could be
filed with the notifications of the
Corliss engines manufactured by Europe
ans.
1wo-thirds Of the steam engines exhib.
tied are Of the Corliss pattern. In 1867
there was an exhibit Of machine tools hy
Brown x Sharp, OF Providence. They
were all sold. Today 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 tile United States IL was
rather sooacd ai. Its superiority was
promptly detected by British builders, and
Il Is now becoming model on the Clyde.
When the international Congress Of
Civil. Mechanical aud Mining Engineers
meets here next month Il apparent that
the chief pleasure OF the American delega.
ton, numbering nearly 800, will be 10
point out the dociity with which Amer.
can mechanical ideas have been adopted
by other countries These ideas are para
mount Within obvious limits they relate
chiefly 10 steam engines and comprcsson,
machine tools. machinery for forming
sheet metal, for rolling metals into forms
for making paper bags, machinery for
u. working on rock and stones 10y means Of
compressed air for making wood screws
by rolling instead OF forging aud forcuiting
tie threads and wood working machinery.
A Baldwin gas engine, built by OILS
Bros, attracts attention by employing gas
90 run dynamo for the purpose Of light
ing, by means of incandcscent lamps, the
claim being that the light thus produced
IL more economical than gas itself. Warner
q swaz,y, Of Cleveland, aud William Sell
crs & Co, Of Philadelphia, arc conspicu.
Gus by their exhibits Of bfms working
machinery.
"Piniing House Square" In the Amer.
can exhibit will be run with electric power
rupplicd by Pickering for the special nc.
commodation 81 the presses, which are
not easily connected with the shaiting.
Neither scoitnor Hoe has any exhibit but
tue plant, when ready. will be considera-
bic. The Campbell and the Cooling com.
panics exhibits arc the most important
Several iypc-sctting machines aro OK.
hibitcd, including the Mcmillan, the
Thorne and the Morgcnthaler linotype
machine. The last named presents the
most striking features ~ Il does away with
movable type. Instead i uses matrices
aud casts a solid bar for each line, the
matrices being then returned automatic
ally TO their proper places. This machine
h furnished with a phonograph, which
dictates copy 10 tho operator. The only
other country exhibiting novel improve
mcnts In printing machinery Is Great
Britain. We have q practical monopoly,
also, Of writing machines, there being
nine American exhibitors and only one
English exhibitor, one Russian and one
Swiss. The machine OF none Of these
compare iayoably with the best Amer.
sln machine.
That electricity constitutes an absorbing
problem OF mechanical invention and ply.
steal discovery Is shown by the promi.
ucncc its apparatus occupies Through.
sut Machinery Hall and various o,hcr
parts OF the exhibition there arc 500 ex.
hibiiors In this branch. The universally
oi the study devoted 10 Il Is shown Ia the
range OF countries represented by appara-
ius These countries include France,
GSiuisuy. Great Britain, America. Belgi.