The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-21
GATES SAW THE DEVIL
The Pastor of Grace NJ. E.
Church Tells Of His
Visit to the Chicago
Fair.
AN INSTRUCTIVE DISCOURSE.
Impression Gained Was That Man
Is Certainly Getting Nearer
Gods Thoughts.

Rev. NJ. L. Gates of Grace AZ. e. Church.
Tonne!e avenue, returned last week from
a visit to Chicago. and last evening he
began a series of Sunday night talks TO
HE congregation concerning what he saw
at the Chicago Fair.
"And have dominion over Them" Gen
esis, t., rs. was his text last evening.
His one leading impression after visit
ing the Fair was thai ma is constantly
getting nearer to Gods thoughts when
He made the world. Every discovery
aud invention is a round III the ladder.
"The great Exposition - said Mr.. Gates,
''coyers nearly seven hundred acres. 1t
is two and a half miles long. and has one
aud q half miles frontage on the largest
fresh water lake in the world. The space
allotted TO foreign exhibits alone exceeds
the whole space Of any previous Worlds
Fair.
at is almost asking too much to have
one believe that two year s ago jackson
PARK was looked upon as an unrs deem
able wilderness of swamp. logs. scale
OAKS, frogs and snakes"
Jhs speaker gave his hearers some idea
of tn preseut exterior appearance OF The
Fair, including the midway Plaisance.
and then took up the various features
separately.
TRANSPORTATION BUILDING.
OF the transportation building he said
In it were TO be seen everything devoted
to the purpose Of transportation. from a
baby carriage to the biggest locomotive,
from a carrier pigeon TO a balloon. The
mammoth steam hammer, the largest in
the world, he said. might aptly be called
tie COLOSSUS OF Rhodes" It's weight Is
1875 tons and it is 81 feet high. He also
deserted the Ordnance exhibit. includ-
lug the Alice breech-lcading rifles, 81 feet
long, with a twelve-inch bore. Welgning
iorty-five tons. Liking 425 pounds OF pow
der to prspel 850-pound balls. aud which
can perforatc 22H-inch iron plates.
Speaking of me bicycle exhibit, Mr..
Gates incidentally spokesthus, concpraiug
the bicycls:-"It is tue vehicle OF the
future-ths horse with feet OF velvet,
frame of iron Eand nerve Of steel, which
knows no thirst. hunger nor weariness,
aud night aud day IL always really tie
answer its masters call. l wish l had
IN :"
THE MINERAL EXHIBIT.
With reference 10 the usIuerat exhibit.
incidentally mentioning the fifty tols of
gold from Montana, worth $4,000. the
largest quartz ever mined. Weighing l.TS5
pounds, the Colorado lead exhibit. The
coal aud iron ore exhibit of the Stat tie of
WaShiIEtol, Mr.. L stc5 SHUT
'.rne impression Que gets as he looks
t. the exhibit of the different States is:
What immense wealth we have. When
We take into consideration That the great
wealth and power of England has oesn
almost entirely d out OF her rocks. and
then further remember that the mlnss OF
that great uAIion eau hold no candle to
ours la extent or variety IL fs easy to see
that in The near future tnere will bs not
only thousands bi lpluS of dJllarS
Ii owing from the earGn's bosom Into
every channel OF trade and com
and adding ever increasing weaiua and
power to tnts grand young na.ion, TO-DAY
the greatest aud most prosperous upon
whicn the sun shines"
ELECTRICITY.
The speaker gave II graphical discrtp-
ton of elecuical display, Including The
Theatorium ia which one eau hear or
cues ras PERFORMING in New York III d
Boston. Tine rece; yer" he said, lis
none of your little pocket pieces that you
must huid to your ear. but a mammoth
telephone in the roof Of the BUILDING.
win II large resoustor. Oae q hear as
plain II distance of eleven hundred miles
rs If the sound Came from the SANS
~-.."
Germany, he said, has the largest
sta4ch lIgbp eves made. .IJ would furnish
ample light for u lawn party seveuty-hve
miles away Ih3 speaker said that the
Edison og aph was u most marvel
Gus exhI0tt, a Gamers and phonograpn
continued. Tine camera" he said. pro
ouses forty-six pictures 10 q second. The
pnDnrgrarh IS so deiIcateIy adaptsd &c
eaten an so Inds EN- al tting from Them.
nd t.lns 10Th sound and m3tiou are re.
produced. SO that AS you listsn to a soag
or speech you not only hear what Is said
trsung but you actually see the persons
who sing or speak, their gestures ant
f4sial actions. What a grand thing thi;
will De IN time to come for rainy Sun
lays.
BEAUTIFUL GLASS COLUMN.
1.-The most beautiful and saggeztivt
thing I ever saw was a glass colu nu witt
projecting arms, the olum aud arm
terminating in glass globes about u
feet in diameter. AT regular intervals al
electric current Of light starts ut tn
base of the column, and circltng arount
IL up aud I'D until suddenly The thre
balls of glass are filed with the mos
beautifully colored and subllmelY shape
n1ures thai the most fantastic min
C uld ever conceive The brilliancy !
almost like that of The SUI. In auothe