Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-10

MANUFACTURING CENTER v1sITED-wHAT sESA-
TOR BLAIR SAYS OF THE IMPORTANCE or THE
CONGRESS.
staff oorrespondence Of THE EVENING Stan.
Manchester, Nh, Oct. 49,.
The business men of Manchester, Nh, have
very level heads and this was evidenced today
by the manner in which they treated the mem
bers Of the excursion party. Instead Of drag
ging them all over Q hundred floors and
bewildering them with an incongruous display
of their products, they punched their efforts
and aggregated their dry goods. In place Of
the never-ending tramping up and down stairs,
there was an extended ride alongside Of the
factory buildings and finely concentrated dis
play of what Manchester does for q living.
The greatest business enterprise in Manchester
is conducted by the Amoskeag company and
acres OF ground are worth going many hun
dreds of miles to see. Comparatively but little
time spent in the mills, the most interest
ing and central point being the mammoth new
building in which the Amoskeag company will
put 5000 gingham looms. The building,
which is $50 feet long and 104 feet wide. is as
yet incomplete, but Its upper floor
was scene long to be remembered.
Artisticaily arranged, with broad aisles
between each variety of exhibit were speci-
town. The bulk of it was that contributed by
the Amoskeag company. but there we're other
lines of samples equally meritorious. The
Everett knitting company showed a magnlh-
cent array of ribbed underwear, and it seemed
as though the delegates would never tear them
selves away from it. President Leighton. who
was in charge of the exhibit. took large num-
Der OF orders for samples Of his goods. The
Olzendam display of hosiery was remarkably
good, and SO was the exhibit of tine Manchester
wnrkS-gatInal
lawns. and the famous Manchester prints. The
Manchester mill showed large quantities of the
more delicate fabrics, there being in their ex-
hibit thousands OF yards OF Henrlettas and
nuns yelling. The Stark mills went heavy ON
duck sheeting and drilling, and the Amory
mills had a similar exhibit A good deal of in
terest was felt and exhibited in the showing
made by the P. c. CLANCY paper company.
BUSY CITY BUILT UP IN FEW YEARS.
1t would be hardly possible to find a more
complete creation Of the manufacturing in
dustry than Manchester. Fifty years ago it
was sand bank, and the probabilities are that
it would have been nothing more today had not
the Amoskeag company purchased It, laid out
a town site and erected its mills thereon. Now
the town has $4,000 inhabitants and the capital
invested in its industries aggregates the not in
considerable sum of $4,000. 600. To provide
the buildings with the proper sites, so that the
water power could be most economically used,
immense sums Of money have been spent, in
one case the old bed of the river being filed
up and new channel cut for the stream.
And speaking OF the water power, one Of the
mills last constructed embodies the latest i'm
provements in water wheels, and one Of the
most effective applications OF power to the ma
chinery where it is most needed that has yet
been seen by the party. In place of the ordi-
nary type of turbine wheel. which, by the way,
has been regarded as one of the most efficient
of American Inventions the Amoskeag people
have placed in this mill set of six vertical
turbine wheels all coupled ON to one continuous
shaft. This shaft carries great pulleys which
transmit the two-thousand horse power de-
yeloped to all parts of the six-story mill by
means of some of the largest rubber belts used
III the United States. thus avoiding in large
measure the use OF gearing, with the conse-
quent jarring which in time tells on the stout
est foundations. These belts are Of India rub
Der and the friction caused by their rapid pas
sage over the pulleys generates vast quantities
OF that subtle fluid known as electricity. An
explanation of this fact was made necessary to
allay the alarm experienced by the delegates
when, as they passed through the wheel room
their hair rose on their heads ''like quilts on
the fretful porcupine."
SENATOR BLAIR SAYS THE FOREIGN DELEGATES
ARE BIG BRAINY STATESMEN.
A good many of New Hampshire's most dis
tinguished citizens were at Manchester to re-
ceive the party-Gov. Cheney, ex-Gov. Cur
rier, ex-Gov. JAS A. Weston, ex-Gov Smyth
and Senator Henry ". Blair. They did their
utmost to interest the delegates and they sue
ceeded admirably. Talking with me of the
congress, Senator Blair said: 1.-The impressions
which these representatives produce on us is a
matter of no small importance. If we had any
other idea than that these southern powers had
sent US their ablest men l should expect but
little Of the congress, but the more see of
them the better / like them. They are big,
brainy statesman They comnrehend all Won
show them and will take home with them
large quantity Of very valuable information.
They are undoubtedly able gentlemen and the
congress will be body OF men whose mental
superiors have but rarely assembled in any
diplomatic body in the old world.
They will surprise European statesmen, even
as the Continental Congress surprised those
statesmen's greatgrandfathers.I say this because
l am struck with the evident capacity Of these
gentlemen and it is due to the people of the
United States to be told that they have great
men amongst them. Everybody on the route
of the excursion should be prepared to meet
the visitors. Our people should understand
that this great procession is absorbing all it
sees. We have never had such opportunity
to show ourselves to the sixty millions Of peo-
pie of South America. 1t is a great opportun-
ity for an enormous advertisement and if we
are wise We shall improve it. An expressed
inclination on our part to have the congress
success will make 1t 80. This affair will be
mutually advantageous, for as we become more
friendly we will learn more of the true charac-
ter of our southern neighbors; at present we
are more ignorant Of them than they are Of us.
We have heretofore lived too much among our
selves; let Us now establish q brotherhood of
the hemisphere. only regret that Canada is
not here too; we mustn't forget Canada"
One of the few things that we haven't got on
the train is that bane of creation-the train
boy. II he was here he wouldn't have anything
to do, for anything the passengers want to eat
or drink, to smoke or eat is supplied to them.
Every arrangement is complete and the heart
of the most thoroughly selfish could not desire
more. An electric bell, the button of which is
always within reach, sommons the porter. and
what the porter can't get isn't worth having
G.. H. H.
EXCURSION TICKETS TO RICHMOND, FRED
FRICKsBURa, Pen MAR AND GETTYSBURG VIA
PENNSYLVANIA RAILRoAD.-For the accommoda-
ton of visitors to Washington during the
Knights Templar conclave the Pennsylvania
railroad company will sell excursion tickets on
October s, 3, 10 and IL, valid for return five
days from and including date of issue, to Rich
mond, Fredericksburg, Pen Mar and Gettys-
burg. The round-trip rate to Richmond will be
SIS, to Fredericksburg, Pen Mar and Gettysburg,
az. This liberal arrangement enables visitors
TO see these very interesting points at q nOmi-