, 1890-01-03
A MINIATURE MUSEUM.

a NINA OHG
Such Is the Collection of Souvenirs Held by
the PAn-American Delegates
Every delegate to the Pan-Americau
congress has a trunk packed with the
souvenirs Of his excursion about the
United States. At least, every delegate
could have a collection of that size if he
took as much pains to preserve his col
lection as did Edmund w. p. Smith, an
attache of the congress, who wa one Of
the party of tourists. The collection,
when spread out in museum style, con-
5titutes an exhibit of no mean order, and
testifying to the enterprise of American
cities and American merchants when a
chance to advertise themselves presents
itself.
Two hundred dinner and lunch menus,
fully a hundred and fifty gifts from a
ufacturers and merchants, n over two
dozen presents from cities in the form of
books descriptive of the beauties Of the
places, all deliberately illustrated. Pitts
burg leads the cities in the elaborateness
of its souvenir. OF the size of a double
cabinet photograph album and bound in
morocco, the 400 pages Of the book are
at least half taken up with photo-litho-
graphs of every point OF interest in Pitts
burg. Another book of 500 pages elabor-
ates the business facilities of that city,
each of the volumes being elegantly
bound in morocco.
The city of Milwaukee also presented
the delegates with an elegant souvenir,
it being a book devoted to full page photo
Autographs of objects of interest of that
city. The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany's souvenir is headed by a large
etching, with autograph of President
Harrison, followed by a list of cities Wis
tied by the party, an extract of Secre-
tary Blaine's speech of welcome to them,
and other data of the trip. The same
company also presented each delegate
with a bound tiny volume, containing
fac-similes of every railroad ticket nee
essary to carry them over the route of
their journey.
The menus were as numerous as the
days covered by the trip, and are filed
with original ideas in their design.
Most of the menus and many of the
books of description of the cities were in
Spanish. Springfield, Ills, gave each
delegate n copy of the Life Of Lincoln"
bound in morocco.
Delegates got four OF five dozen of
badges from various sources, of satin,
ornamented with a gold plated log saw,
crossed hand saws and a circular nipple
ment of the same variety. As expensive
MS any of the presents were the gold
watches distributed among the ladies of
the party at Philadelphia, the gcntler
sex during the short time of their stay
with the special train having also re-
ceived an abundant supply of hose made
of the heaviest silk.
A large piece of crude rubber, accom-
panied by a pair of tiny rubber shoes; n
hunting knife of a foot in length, sam
pies of tiles, M tx and n patent sweep
ing machine were presented among the
useful articles. The Pittsburg city
Chamber of Commerce presented large
gold plated medals, and from Holyoke,
Mass, came n full supply of silk flags
of all sizes.
Sioux City's gift was of solid gold,
with an illustration of the corn palace OF
that place in the form of a badge. Kan.
sas City gave silver badges, of the size Of
a one dollar piece.
A lock company of Philadelphia is rep
resented in the collection by a paddock,
nickel plated and date of visit there on
it in relief. From Erie, Pa, is II brass
paper weight in the form of an angle,
a solid silver coffee spoon and after din
ner knife incased in a satin lined box.
There are few brides whose wedding day
brings presents more abundant and cost.
ly than those given the delegates of the
Pan-American congress. - Washington
Poet