Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-09

IDEA of what the visitor can see to day
in Chicago.
We will drop in by the way of the
north entrance and look at the car
riages. What an endless variety! Here
are the old thorough brace carriages
which some of our great statesmen
and the Presidents rode in eighty to a
hundred years ago. They were then
the wonder of the people Of the land !;
but were very uncomfortable things
compared with the carriages of to day.
All about in front of us is an exhibit
made by the American carriage MAX
er, and here is the modern trotting
gig with pneumatic tire and a seat
and fixtures fine enough to delight
those princes of sport, the Prince Of
Wales or young Bennett of the New
York Herald, and over close beside it
is the tally-ho Of immense cost and
most elaborate trimming and finish;
and there in sober contrast is the cost
ly hearse painted white with capari-
soned horses attached, seemingly on
the point Of starting off for the funeral
riages that find use among the rich
and the poor. One is confused by the
names and the styles. The old clumsy,
numbering affairs Of the past have Civ
en- place to the light, beautifully fin
ished, trimmed and painted vehicles of
this remarkable age. Here may be
found the Concord coach, the herdic,
the omnibus, the road cart, the dog
These carriages
are SO inviting that they make the
lazy man fairly ache to get into them.
Passing on we find exhibits of far
away countries where the camel and
dromedary take the place of the loco
motive, and the palanquin, or the Sc
dan chair the place of carriage or
horse. Here are the dusky men in
wax and the stuffed skins of the ami
mails who bear such as go long jour-
neys over deserts and inland countries,
and the trappings which show the
travellers outfit. Here are the Eski-
mo dogs, the reindeers, the sledges,
the snow shoes and all that goes to
make up the travelling outfit of the
Arctic regions.
Then we find erything in the line
of water craft from the rude dugout
Of the most benighted savage to the
yacht of some millionaire who has i
thrown away hundreds, perhaps thou
sands of dollars on a miniature boat.
The small boats used by Indians and
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curiosity. The bark canoe of the |
American Indian is almost as perfect
ly formed for it's uses in the water as
anything that science or experiment |
has devised, while many Of the curl
ously formed and ornamented boats
of other rude people are things that /
the beholder views with much inter
est. The great inter ocean steamship
companies are showing models OF
transportation and passenger ships
that are OF great interest. Some of
these co ompanies show miniature ships
their great ocean steam
ers, giving perfect ship SO far as out
side appearances go in something ten
to twenty feet IN length. Here may
be seen all the great "ocean- grey
hounds" in miniature, and groups of
people examine this and that ship
with much interest. The naval vessels
are also shown to quite an extent The
great English war ship, the Victoria,
which was sunk by the sister ship,
in the Mediterranean is
on exhibition and many are gathered
TO see what is an exact model of the
III lfated ironclad There is just be-
side what we have here been describ-
ng a lofty structure which represents
4 section Of an ocean steamer = the
same as though it was standing in
Try dock and had been cut into cross
wise and one can stand near the
Keel, look into the lower part Of the
ship and climb up from portion to por-
ion, or deck to deck, till he reached
he upper deck Of the ship. This up
per deck is thirty feet above the lower
portion Of the ship. All the parts
If this dummy ship are finished like
he real vessel, and one who has never (
een an ocean steamer can see just
what the modern ocean palace is in
make and finish. Ocean travel loses :
ome Of it's terrors to the landsman ]
Vhen he sees what the great ship of ,
o. day really is.