The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-09-11
Pittsburg Letter.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondencel
PITTsBURG, Sep. 3, 1891.
All day long hammers rang and
saws coarscly growled preparing for
the opening of the third season of
the great Pittsburg Exposition.
Twenty thousand visitors attested
their interest in the popular institu-
ton, and expressed their admiration
in words off recommendation and praise
at the brilliant success which at
tended the opening of the third and
finest Exposition of the series. The
Exposition is a great place to study
human nature, and it is not to be
wondered at that exhibitors and
managers alike, We're gratified that
their efforts to please were heartily
appreciated by the throngs of peo-
pie who completely filed the massive
buildings.
1t requires half dozen visits and
much genuine work to get out OF the
Exposition the value there is in it
FOR 7cvery visitor. The displays
should be visited scriatum and in
mcthodical way. As an enthusiastic
individual said last evening: If it
should happen TO night that the
whole civilized world, w. Ia all its ex-
ploits and achievements should perish
by some cosmic catastrophe, like that
which engulfed Atlantis, and out Of
all the work done in the world
nothing should remain but the Ex-
noSitinn huillincS .nl Ill. a1n
tents, it would be possible for future
science to reconstruct the whole of
our civilization. Out of that collec-
ton the antiquarian Of the fiftieth
century could reconstruct the citizen
of the nineteenth, as though he had
lived among us. He could describe
the shoes we wore and the hats where
with we were covered the food We
ate and the couches We slept in; the
carpets upon which We trod and the
kind of houses We built; the pic
tures'we looked at and the books we
read. He could rebuild the writing
machine and the steam pump; the
telephone and the cash register.
These mammoth structures contain
The best expression of what the
American people are and what they
can do 1t is an open book and
every visitor should read it from
cover to cover" The gentleman
stated the facts correctly and we cor.
dially agree with him.
Every department of the Exposi.
tion is full to overflowing with costly
and attractive displays. 1t is difficult
TO suggest how the exhibits could be
improved, either as TO their character
or arrangement, and we do not won
der that the public was more than
satisfied and delighted at what it saw
and heard last night.
The magnificent band of the IA
nous New York Seventh Regiment
seemed to play as players never played
before, and the musicians and their
accomplished leader quickly ingrati-
ated themselves into public favor.
They could not help but do so, for
certainly the music was enchanting,
and encore after encore showed how
highly ii was appreciated by the vast
concourse of people Col. Cappa and
his band have evidently laid them
selves out to please, and his immense
repertoire OF music enables him to
meet the wishes OF all
Then the fine Art Department
loan collection. Words are powerless
to describe its wondrous beauty.
Nothing like it has ever been seen in
Western Pennsylvania; it is indeed
a rare collection of gems, carefully
selected by men of taste and culture
for the embellishments of their homes.
Its value is represented by hundreds
of thousands of dollars; the rooms
are handsomely draped and every
thing which good taste could suggest
has been done to properly display the
magnificent canyases. We have not
space nor time in this letter to go
into details, but will reserve that for
a future time We urge our readers
to personally visit the supurb gal
leries and see for themselves what
has been prepared for them We
are informed that the railroads Gen.
teringin Pittsburg have made liberal
concessions so as to enable our
readers to take in the Exposition.
and we feel sure that they will i'm.
prove the opportunity to do so.
HARRIS.